Episode · The Book Review · 2020-04-03
Books mentioned on Parenting When the Family Is Locked Inside
Pamela Paul discussed Untangled by Lisa K. Damour, Life, Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates and others, and Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers. John Williams recommended A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence. Greg Cowles discussed Sum by David Eagleman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Untangled
Untangled by Lisa K.
Discussed“tell us a little bit about your clinical practice and how you came to write your first book untangled”
Where to get it
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Life
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an emotionally devastating contemporary novel that traces the decades-long bond between four college classmates in New York City while deeply exploring trauma, friendship, and endurance.
Discussed“I actually read a book that you got me to read through one of your reviews which is clar tomlin's Memoir a life of my own which came out in 2018”
Where to get it
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A Jest of God
A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence is a celebrated mid-century Canadian novel that follows a lonely, introspective schoolteacher living in a small prairie town as she confronts her unfulfilled desires and family obligations.
Recommended“it's a novel called a g of God by a Canadian writer named Margaret Lawrence and Lawrence is spelled l Au rinse not law”
Where to get it
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Sum
Sum by David Eagleman is a short, thought-provoking work of speculative fiction comprising forty imaginative tales from various afterlives.
Discussed“it's called sum suu M it's got a subtitle 40 Tales from the after lives”
Where to get it
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Stony the Road
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Discussed“Henry Lewis Gates's most recent book Stony the road which is a book that came out in 2019”
Where to get it
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Strong Poison
Discussed“I picked up a book called strong poison that calls Dorothy sers the Mistress of the Golden Age mystery and it's a Lord Peter Whimsy mystery”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“she is the author of two books untangled guiding teenage girls through the seven transitions into adulthood and more recently Under Pressure confronting the epidemic of stress and anxiety in girls”
“she is the author of two books untangled guiding teenage girls through the seven transitions into adulthood and more recently Under Pressure”