Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Robert Kolker Discusses 'Hidden Valley Road'
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Hidden Valley Road
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker is a harrowing and deeply reported non-fiction work that chronicles the Galvin family of Colorado, where six of the twelve children were diagnosed with schizophrenia, offering a fascinating window into the history of psychiatric medicine and genetic research.
Discussed“Robert kker will be here to talk about his new book Hidden Valley Road”
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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
Discussed“I Never Promised You a Rose Garden the the general idea there is that there's a little girl who's trapped”
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Writers & Lovers
Writers & Lovers by Lily King is a contemporary novel about a young woman grieving her mother's sudden death while trying to finish a novel and navigating complicated romantic feelings for two very different men.
Recommended“this one is a big departure from Euphoria and I think and I may be in the minority on this I don't know I love this one even more than I loved Euphoria”
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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Unworthy Republic by Claudio Saunt is a historical nonfiction book detailing the forced removal and dispossession of Native Americans along the road to Indian Territory.
Recommended“so a book that I reviewed recently that I wanted to draw attention to is called unworthy Republic and the subtitle is the dispossession of Native Americans in the road to Indian Territory and it's by a historian at the University of Georgia named Claudio SA”
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Severance
Severance is a satirical post-apocalyptic novel by Ling Ma that explores the mundane routines of office life set against the backdrop of a global pandemic.
Recommended“which is Ling m Severance have either of you oh I love that book I love love love that book talks about this future where or not future it's actually I think said in the past”
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The egg and I
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald is a humorous and enduring memoir chronicling the author's chaotic experiences running a chicken ranch in the remote mountains of Washington State.
Recommended“but the book that does is the plague and which was recently reissued by the University of Washington press”
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The plague and I.
Betty MacDonald’s memoir The Plague and I recounts the author’s harrowing yet humorous experiences recovering from tuberculosis in a Washington state sanitarium.
Recommended“but the book that does is the plague and which was recently reissued by the University of Washington press”
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Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“we were last here for your previous book Lost Girl I want to talk about that a little bit later”
“I know her as the author of euphoria which was one of our 10 best books of the year a few years back”
“I ask about how good an introduction to the subject it is because I wonder if someone for example enjoyed David Gran's killers of the flower Moon and left that book feeling like okay now I know about this very specific incident”
“she wrote a number of Memoirs and the most famous of them is probably the egg and ie which was turned into movies”
“and I reviewed unworthy Republic the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian Territory by Claudio Sant”
“and I reviewed unworthy Republic the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian Territory by Claudio Sant”
“and just in case people want to take notes the other book Jen recommended was Ling ma Severance”
“and I blathered on about Betty McDonald's the plague”
“and I blathered on about Betty McDonald's the plague”