Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Rethinking the 'Tangled Tree' of Life
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Beautiful Animals
Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne is a contemporary novel exploring tourism, morality, and desperation on a Greek island.
Recommended“it's called beautiful animals by Lawrence Osborne and he wrote a piece for us recently and it made me realize”
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The Ballad of a Small Player
Discussed“I read a a short is novel of his called ballot of a small player a few years ago because it's partly about gambling which is a pet theme of Mine”
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Winter
Winter by Ali Smith is a contemporary novel that serves as the second installment in the author's ambitious quartet exploring the four seasons.
Recommended“the book I've most recently started reading is um Winter by Ali Smith”
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Autumn
Autumn by Ali Smith is a reflective contemporary novel that captures the shifting political and cultural landscape of Great Britain.
Recommended“because the book I most recently finished reading is her Autumn”
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How to Be Both
How to Be Both by Ali Smith is a structurally inventive and critically acclaimed novel that explores identity, art, and time through two distinct narratives that readers can experience in either order.
Discussed“the previous book of hers I had read is a wonderful kind of strange hybrid essay novel called how to be both”
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Better Living Through Criticism
Better Living Through Criticism by A.
Recommended“he is the author of Better Living Through criticism which I neglected to mention his great book about the art of criticism”
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Juliet, naked
Discussed“the other was Juliet naked by Nick horn be and there's an interesting contrast”
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Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell is a classic autobiographical account of the author's experiences and observations fighting for the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War.
Recommended“so I read um Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell which I had never gotten to which was you know completely brilliant”
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A backward glance
A Backward Glance is the autobiography of the celebrated American author Edith Wharton, offering a detailed and reflective look into her long life, literary career, and high society upbringing.
Recommended“well I just finished reading Edith Wharton's a backward glance her autobiography”
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The Hunting of the Snark
Discussed“well I am glad to Welcome to the White House someone to whom I can quote the hunting of the snark without being asked what I mean”
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Through the Looking-Glass
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll is a classic Victorian children's novel and the celebrated sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, featuring a narrative structured around a game of chess.
Recommended“and you know the nice thing about this is I'm actually reading through the Looking Glass right now allowed to my youngest child”
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Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“you know Common's work from his previous books the song of the dodo The Reluctant Mr Darwin and spillover among many others”
“you know Common's work from his previous books the song of the dodo The Reluctant Mr Darwin and spillover among many others”
“you know Common's work from his previous books the song of the dodo The Reluctant Mr Darwin and spillover among many others”
“so I mean recently back in the spring there was an adaptation of Ian mccuin on chz Beach and it was a pretty good movie”
“for example of BOS lurman Great Gatsby you know which is a fascinating kind of crazy interpretation of that book”
“I'm going to bring with me two books about Barcelona in particular column Tobin's sort of thin one called homage to Barcelona”
“and her efforts to capture it in two novels summer and of course in Ethan F”
“and her efforts to capture it in two novels summer and of course in Ethan F”