Episode · The Book Review · 2017-08-11
Books mentioned on New Books About Parenting
Pamela Paul recommended Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, and discussed Ignore It! How Selectively Looking the Other Way Can Decrease Behavioral Problems and Increase Parenting Satisfaction by Catherine Pearlman, The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans by Josh Shipp, Gentle Discipline by Sarah Ockwell-Smith, The Myth of the A.D.D Child:50 Ways to Improve Your Child's Behavior and Attention Span Without Drugs, Labels, or Coercion by Thomas Armstrong, The teenage brain by Frances E. Jensen, and NW by Zadie Smith and others. Bill Goldstein discussed Not Under Forty by Willa Cather, Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf, A Passage to India by E. M. Forster, The Waste Land and other poems by T.S. Eliot, Ulysses by James Joyce, In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, and Kangaroo by D. H. Lawrence. Greg Cowles recommended Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen and others, and discussed Life by Keith Richards. John Williams recommended My private property by Mary Ruefle and Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle. Parul Sehgal recommended The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
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“the first is ignore it how selectively looking the other way can decrease behavioral problems and increase parenting Satisfaction by Katherine Pearlman”
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The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans
Discussed“the next one is the grown-ups guide to teenage humans how to decode their behavior develop unshakable trust and raise a respectable adult by Josh ship”
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Gentle Discipline
Discussed“the next is gentle discipline using emotional connection not punishment to raise confident capable kids by Sarah aquell Smith”
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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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Not Under Forty
Discussed“no no it's uh will a Cather wrote in 1936 in a a collection of essays called not under 40 which was about changes in literary fashion”
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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 is E.
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
T.S.
Discussed“he too had an amazing year because the Wasteland was published at the end of the year”
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Ulysses
James Joyce's landmark modernist novel Ulysses chronicles an ordinary day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mapping human consciousness and daily existence through a revolutionary stream-of-consciousness technique.
Discussed“and also James Joyce because was published at the beginning of 1922 in February”
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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, art, and the profound meaning of human existence through an immersive blend of narrative and philosophical essay.
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
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 by Bruce Springsteen and Michael Morpurgo is an introspective and critically acclaimed memoir that chronicles the legendary musician's working-class upbringing, struggles with mental health, and path to rock superstardom.
Recommended“Bruce Springsteen's memoir BN to run”
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Life
Life by Keith Richards is an autobiography chronicling the legendary musician's decades with the Rolling Stones and his experiences with rock and roll excess.
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 collection of prose poetry and flash fiction known for its whimsical, poignant, and darkly humorous observations on life, loss, and everyday objects.
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 celebrated collection of lectures on poetry and writing by poet and essayist Mary Ruefle.
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 work of children's literature that follows the pastoral adventures of Mole, Ratty, Toad, and Badger in the English countryside.
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 is a non-fiction book 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 novel that follows four generations of a Korean immigrant 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”
Where to get it
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”