Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Opposite of Spoiled’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The sick bag song
Discussed“first of all it's only going to be available on a website that he's created called the sick bags song.com that's the title of the of the book and the poem”
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All the Old Knives
Discussed“starting down at number 15 Olen steinhauer has a new spy novel this one's kind of a Cold Case spy novel called all the old knives new at number 15”
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Cold betrayal
Discussed“at number 13 ja a Jance continues her Aly Reynolds series that's about an ex broadcast journalist who was cut loose for aging and now gets involved in various Thriller mystery plots the 10th book of that series is called cold betrayal and it's new at number 13”
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World gone by
Discussed“he's got a new novel called World Gone By also not set in Boston u this I believe concludes a Trilogy it certainly continues a series of historical Thrillers featuring The Gangster and former police officer Joe Coughlin”
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Last one home
Discussed“then at number six um Debbie momer has a standalone novel called last one home it's a standalone but it's still as comforting and cozy as you'd expect”
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Endangered
Discussed“and finally um at number three CJ box continues his Joe picket um series set in Montana with a thriller called endangered”
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Our Kids
Our Kids by Robert D.
Discussed“then at number 10 the social scientist Robert D putam has a book called our kids it's looking specifically at the effect of income inequality on children and how it's creating a gap in Opportunities”
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Bettyville
Discussed“then at number nine um George Hodgman who used to be an editor a book editor at Simon and Schuster also a magazine editor at Vanity Fair um and various other places has a book called bettyville Betty is his mother in Paris Missouri”
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The end of your life book club
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe is a touching memoir that chronicles the author's final months spent reading and discussing books with his terminally ill mother.
Discussed“and in some ways this book calls to mind another an earlier bestseller um will Schwab's end ofy life book club which was also about his relationship with his dying mother”
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Every day I fight
Discussed“then at number three a memoir by Stuart Scott who you may remember was an ESPN anchor he died in January of cancer just before he died he had finished this Memoir about his battle against cancer it's called everyday I fight and it's written with Larry Platt”
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Dead Wake
Dead Wake by Erik Larson is a compelling narrative nonfiction account of the final, fateful voyage of the RMS Lusitania before its torpedoing by a German U-boat in 1915.
Discussed“Eric larsson's new book Dead wake which is a look back at the Lucitania sinking and Eric Larson of course famous for the Devil in the White City and other kind of historical narratives”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Heaven's Bankers
“Harris iron is the author of Heaven's Bankers inside the Hidden World of Islamic Finance reviewed this week in the book reviews money issue”
Passing The Devil In The White City
“Eric larsson's new book Dead wake which is a look back at the Lucitania sinking and Eric Larson of course famous for the Devil in the White City and other kind of historical narratives”