Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on New Books About Parenting
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Ignore It! How Selectively Looking the Other Way Can Decrease Behavioral Problems and Increase Parenting Satisfaction
Discussed“how selectively looking the other way can decrease behavioral problems and increase parenting Satisfaction by Katherine Pearlman”
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The Myth of the A.D.D Child:50 Ways to Improve Your Child's Behavior and Attention Span Without Drugs, Labels, or Coercion
Discussed“and then finally the myth of the ADHD child 101 ways to improve your child's behavior and attention span without drugs labels or coercion by Thomas Armstrong”
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Jacob's Room
Discussed“she was about to finish uh a really great novel Jacob's room which was her first kind modernist novel”
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A Passage to India
A Passage to India by E.M.
Discussed“he had abandoned the novel that became a Passage to India before the war”
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The Waste Land and other poems
Discussed“that his interpretation the poet's interpretation was no more valid in a certain sense than the readers and he in in the Wasteland gave what his friends”
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Ulysses
Ulysses by James Joyce is a monumental modernist novel that chronicles a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mirroring the structure of Homer's Odyssey.
Discussed“and also as I say the impact that ulyses had on these other writers because Virginia wolf read Ulisses”
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In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust is a monumental multi-volume modernist novel that explores memory, time, and human consciousness.
Discussed“so I decided to focus on is the effect that Ulisses and Marcel PR's In Search of Lost Time had on this array of writers”
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf's classic novel Mrs.
Discussed“and then in the end called her novel Mrs dooway a novel about a woman scene from the inside”
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Kangaroo
Discussed“Lawrence also wrote a novel that year called kangaroo which was a very autobiographical novel”
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Born to Run
Born to Run is a deeply personal and acclaimed memoir by legendary musician Bruce Springsteen that chronicles his journey from a young guitar player in New Jersey to a global rock icon.
Recommended“Bruce Springsteen's memoir BN to run”
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Life
Life by Keith Richards is a candid rock-and-roll memoir detailing the legendary guitarist's extraordinary years with the Rolling Stones and his infamous lifestyle.
Discussed“Memoirs that really kicked off with Keith Richard's life a book I also read and liked a lot”
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My private property
My Private Property by Mary Ruefle is a unique collection of prose poems and micro-essays characterized by their sharp wit, dark humor, and deeply philosophical observations on everyday life.
Recommended“um and so the one thing that I that I brought that I kind of dipped into um is Mary ruel's book called my private property”
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Madness, Rack, and Honey
Madness, Rack, and Honey is a brilliant collection of lectures and essays by poet and writer Mary Ruefle that explores art, creativity, and the human condition.
Recommended“she has a previous book of essays called madness rack and honey brilliant which so one of my favorite books of essay is ever probably”
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The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame is a classic children's novel celebrating the pastoral adventures of anthropomorphic animals like Mole, Ratty, Toad, and Badger along the riverbank.
Recommended“but the book that I'm reading uh in the evenings is The Wind in the Willows with my daughter”
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The teenage brain
The Teenage Brain by Frances E.
Discussed“I read almost all of a book called the teenage brain by Francis Jensen and Amy Ellis just terrifying”
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NW
NW is a critically acclaimed contemporary novel by Zadie Smith that follows the intertwined lives and experiences of four individuals growing up together in a diverse section of London.
Discussed“and and then I started reading NW by Zade Smith which I um have wanted to read for a long time”
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Pachinko
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is a sweeping historical fiction novel that follows four generations of a Korean family living in Japan.
Recommended“so I felt like the issues that she was getting at in that book from you know drug addiction to um class issues and income inequality I just felt like it was too close um so I choose instead to read about unhappiness um in uh turn of the last century Korea and have picked up Pachinko by Menin Lee”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I think you've seen a lot of backlist titles doing well because of TV shows like the handmaid's tale and things like that”
“Game of Thrones”
“and then Patty Smith's two Memoirs just kids and M”
“and M I think she's working on a third even”