Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Let's Talk About Percival Everett's 'James'
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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James
James by Percival L.
Discussed“so sna from New Jersey writes James works because of its sharp contrast”
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a foundational American classic that follows a young boy's journey down the Mississippi River alongside an escaped slave named Jim.
Discussed“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is maybe the original Avatar of the white savior narrative who is Huck”
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My Jim
Discussed“yeah that a novelist named Nancy RS did a book called my gym published in 2005”
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Was Huck Black?
Discussed“in the 9s there was a book of literary criticism by a woman named Shelley Fisher fishkin called was Huck black”
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The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a classic 1881 novel following the spirited young American heiress Isabel Archer as she navigates European society, independence, and a disastrous marriage.
Recommended“portrait of a lady Forever and Ever A Passage to India”
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A Passage to India
A Passage to India by E.M.
Recommended“A Passage to India I mean I like all Forester”
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Out of Africa
Discussed“and Karen Bixon my girl ISC Dennison I haven't read out of Africa in at least 10 years”
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MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville is a classic American novel detailing Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for revenge against the giant white sperm whale.
Recommended“I also have to put a word in for Moy dick which is not just a great adventure story but a weird encyclopedic just like cram it Allin novel that I love and and return to in Parts”
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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse explores the complex dynamics of the Ramsay family during two visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland before and after the First World War.
Recommended“so my favorite class classic is to the lighthouse by Virginia wolf”
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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is a sweeping nineteenth-century masterpiece examining love, infidelity, and societal norms in imperial Russia.
Recommended“before this year I think I would have said Madam bovery or Anna kenina kind of the the great adultery novels of the 19th century”
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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert is a classic nineteenth-century French novel that tells the tragic story of a provincial doctor's wife who engages in extra-marital affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities of her provincial life.
Recommended“before this year I think I would have said Madam bovery or Anna kenina kind of the the great adultery novels of the 19th century”
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Middlemarch
Middlemarch by George Eliot is widely regarded as a masterwork of Victorian literature, brilliantly capturing the complex social fabric, political undercurrents, and psychological depths of provincial English life.
Recommended“but this year I read Middle March by George Elliot and also a great 19th century novel and it enclosed what Madam B and and Karenina both did”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I believe you were last on the show for our best of 2023 episode where you spoke so eloquently about the fraud”
“we may have spoken about this in our demon Copperhead episode but like there is a tricky work with reimaginings with retellings”
“that was MJ Franklin jum man and Greg Kohl's and our book club conversation about James by perel Everett”