Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Last Flight of Poxl West’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The last flight of Poxl West
The last flight of Poxl West by Daniel Torday is a novel that follows the life and experiences of a Jewish World War II fighter pilot.
Recommended“um the book again is the last flight of poxel West by Daniel Tor Daniel”
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird explores racial injustice and moral growth in the American South through the eyes of young Scout Finch.
Discussed“and it's apparently you know the book that she wrote before To Kill a Mocking Bird has many of the same character Scout and attacus”
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Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner is a monumental modernist masterpiece that delves into themes of race, class, ambition, and generational trauma through the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen in the American South.
Discussed“I love Marilyn Robinson's housekeeping and William fauler absam absam”
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Housekeeping
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson is a celebrated novel that examines themes of transience, grief, and the profound ripples of family trauma through a distinctively poetic lens.
Discussed“I love Marilyn Robinson's housekeeping and William fauler absam absam”
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The Fifth Gospel
Discussed“so now Caldwell joins him as a standalone author with another Da Vinci Code type book um called The Fifth Gospel which centers on the Vatican and the Shroud of Turin and is new at number 14”
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Leaving Berlin
Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon is a historical espionage novel set in the tense, divided landscape of post-World War II Germany, following a writer who is forced into a dangerous game of intelligence reporting.
Discussed“um now he has his seventh novel leaving Berlin New at number 11”
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Dead heat
Discussed“Patricia Briggs who's best known for her mercy Thompson Series of urban fantasy novels has the fourth book in her Alpha and Omega series not a Mercy Thompson book um they're said a little bit earlier in that same fictional Universe um this book is called Dead Heat and it's new at number8”
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The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro's atmospheric and evocative novel The Buried Giant examines memory, love, vengeance, and the fragile peace of a mythical post-Arthurian Britain.
Discussed“it's called the buried Giant and it is a sort of fable set in post Arthurian uh Britain and reviewed two weeks ago on our cover by Neil giman”
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Live right and find happiness (although beer is much faster)
Discussed“another familiar Nam Dave Barry has a book called live right and find happiness although beer is much faster”
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Data and Goliath
Discussed“at number six uh we have a cyber security expert uh named Bruce schne and his book is called data and Goliath it's kind of the same thing it's looking at the surveillance State uh and corporate surveillance and offering consumers tips on protecting their privacy”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Joseph Cannon who I just found out was formerly a president of Dutton but um who has been on the list since 1997 with his debut novel Los alos”
“kazuo ishiguro the British novelist who has made the list a couple of times he's uh the author of the remains of the day he's the author of never let me go”
“kazuo ishiguro the British novelist who has made the list a couple of times he's uh the author of the remains of the day”
“there is another new cyber security book um joining future Crimes by Mark Goodman which is at number nine in its second week on the list”