Episode · The Book Review · 2023-02-17
Books mentioned on Public Libraries, and Profiling Paul Harding
Gilbert Cruz discussed The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe, This Other Eden by Paul Harding, and Tinkers by Paul Harding and others. Erica Akerberg discussed Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng and others. Elisabeth Egan discussed Matilda by Roald Dahl. MJ Franklin discussed Enon by Paul Harding.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Bells
Discussed“he wrote The Bells there which is the first piece of writing in which I ever came across the word tin tabulation which is not a word I use very often”
Where to get it
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Annabel Lee
Discussed“he wrote Annabelle Lee there which is the poem that starts it was many and many a year ago in a kingdom by the sea I love that poem I was young and I was emotional”
Where to get it
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Our Missing Hearts
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng is a dystopian novel set in a United States where state-sanctioned censorship destroys specific books, Asian Americans face pervasive violence, and children are forcibly separated from parents who openly criticize the government.
Discussed“Liz and I started talking about this in the fall and we wanted to do a project together a visual project and I was reading Celeste 's book our missing Hearts which the librarian is the hero of the story”
Where to get it
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Matilda
Matilda by Roald Dahl is a classic children's novel about a gifted young girl who loves reading, overcomes neglectful parents, and uses her intellect and telekinetic powers to outwit the cruel adults around her, notably the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull.
Discussed“I just finished reading Matilda to my son which I had never read before and he had never read before and early in that book Matilda makes a friend with the local librarian who discovers that Matilda lives in a household that does not care about books”
Where to get it
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This Other Eden
This Other Eden by Paul Harding is a historical novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an integrated community of outcasts off the coast of Maine that was forcibly evicted by state authorities.
Discussed“what's he been doing is writing and what's he doing now is writing and probably taking a Victory lap for this book this other Eden which just came out this January”
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Tinkers
Tinkers by Paul Harding is a critically acclaimed debut novel that explores memory, mortality, and the life of a dying clockmaker.
Discussed“You may know Paul Harden cuz in 20 he won the Pitzer prize for fiction for his book Tinkers and he kind of came out of nowhere actually that was his debut novel”
Where to get it
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Enon
Discussed“he was on the hook for a second book after he wrote Enon cuz he had this two book contract and he finished his book tour and he was just playing around with a scene where he was imagining some side characters from Enon”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“in 2013 he had a second book Enon which came out and then he's been kind of quiet for the past 10 years and now 10 years later he has a novel this other Eden”