Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on O Pioneers!
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Little House on the Prairie Series 7 Books Collection by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Discussed“yes I mean I've I've been writing about Wilder for a while but the thing that really sparked this biography was when I edited the library of America's edition of the Little House books which gave me the opportunity to to revisit the books”
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Little House on the Prairie
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a classic semi-autobiographical children's novel that depicts pioneer life on the American frontier during the late nineteenth century.
Discussed“when we talk about the Little House books the one that I think most people think of is Little House in the prairie which of course then became the name of a television show in America in the 19 1970s”
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Little House in the Big Woods
Discussed“the series was eight volumes which were published during her life and they began with a book that was designed really for somewhat younger children called Little House in the Big Woods”
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Farmer Boy
Discussed“and there's one volume Farmer Boy that was about her husband Almanzo Wilder in his childhood”
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The First Four Years
Discussed“it's called the first four years and it was published in the 1970s”
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Stay with me
Stay with Me by Ayòbámi Adébáyò is a deeply emotional and gripping novel set in Nigeria that explores marriage, tradition, fertility pressures, and the complex dynamics of love and loyalty.
Recommended“it was published by knoff in the US and her name is ayobami Edo and her novel stay with me I think got a ton of critical praise when it came out here”
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Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika is a vibrant and compassionate novel that follows an aging Nigerian woman living in San Francisco, capturing her daily interactions, independence, and reflections on life.
Recommended“one that covo Republic published in the US this year was called like a mule bringing ice cream to the sun which is such a great title and that was by Sarah laido mana and it's about an older Nigerian woman living in San Francisco”
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Every day is for the thief
Discussed“she was the first person to publish T Cole for example she published every day for the thief and he's gone on to become”
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu is a powerful novel exploring the immigrant experience, displacement, and isolation in America through the eyes of an African-born man running a store in a gentrifying Washington, D.C.
Recommended“I don't know if it's seasonal though I I think the part that I'm uh in the book right now is actually like around a holiday but I'm reading the Beautiful Things That Heaven bears by now mangusu”
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In Praise of Shadows
Discussed“gave me this to read and it's called In Praise of Shadows and it's basically like a long essay on in Praise of Shadows and also on Japanese Aesthetics”
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The Idiot
The Idiot by Elif Batuman is a brilliant coming-of-age novel that follows a young woman navigating her freshman year at Harvard and her nascent, epistolary romance with an older student.
Recommended“um so I did get a little distracted but I am reading still El Batum man's book The Idiot which is really enjoyable”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“so last last week we I I was talking about devils in Daylight by junichiro tanaki and as it turns out I didn't realize it but when my husband saw I was reading that he said that he had read a book of tanizaki in one of his aesthetic classes in college”