Episode · The Book Review · 2024-05-31
Books mentioned on Let's Talk About Percival Everett's 'James'
Gilbert Cruz discussed James by Percival L. Everett. MJ Franklin recommended To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, and discussed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Greg Cowles recommended Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, and Middlemarch by George Eliot, and discussed My Jim by Nancy Rawles and Was Huck Black? by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Joumana Khatib recommended The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, A Passage to India by E. M. Forster, and MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE by Herman Melville, and discussed Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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James
James by Percival L.
Discussed“this week though is the novel James by perel Everett leading the discuss as always is MJ Franklin”
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a classic American novel chronicling a journey down the Mississippi River and exploring deep moral questions through the relationship between Huck and the runaway slave Jim.
Discussed“James is personal effort's latest novel and it's a retelling of Huckleberry Finn this time told from Jim's perspective or I should say James as the character specifies a lot of the Beats of Twain's original are here”
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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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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert's classic 19th-century novel tells the tragic story of Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife who engages in extramarital affairs to escape the banalities of her daily 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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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is a monumental masterpiece of nineteenth-century literature exploring themes of love, family, societal hypocrisy, and tragic fate.
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 celebrated as a masterwork of Victorian literature, chronicling the lives and aspirations of provincial society in the fictional town of Middlemarch.
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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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 is E.
Recommended“A Passage to India I mean I like all Forester”
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Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen's classic autobiographical memoir recounts the author's years living and running a coffee plantation in British East Africa, offering vivid observations of the landscape and its people.
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 by Herman Melville is an epic American novel that chronicles the obsessive, self-destructive quest of Captain Ahab to hunt down the giant white whale that maimed him.
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
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is a modernist novel exploring themes of art, time, family, and the human condition through the experiences of the Ramsay family.
Recommended“so my favorite class classic is to the lighthouse by Virginia wolf”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“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”