Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Ruta Sepetys Talks About 'I Must Betray You'
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Between Shades of Gray
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys is a historical young adult novel that follows a young Lithuanian girl deported to a Soviet labor camp in Siberia during World War II.
Recommended“and for our listeners rud's books are most recently I must betray you but also her first book Between Shades of Gray as well as Fountains of Silence salt to the Sea”
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I Must Betray You
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys is a historical fiction novel set in 1989 communist Romania under the oppressive regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, following a young boy coerced into becoming an informant.
Recommended“and for our listeners rud's books are most recently I must betray you but also her first book Between Shades of Gray as well as Fountains of Silence salt to the Sea”
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Salt to the Sea
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys is a historical young adult novel that interweaves the perspectives of four refugees fleeing the advancing Soviet army in East Prussia during the closing months of World War II, culminating in the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff.
Recommended“and for our listeners rud's books are most recently I must betray you but also her first book Between Shades of Gray as well as Fountains of Silence salt to the Sea”
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The Fountains of Silence
The Fountains of Silence is a historical novel by Ruta Sepetys set in Madrid during the Franco regime, exploring secrets, danger, and the scars of the Spanish Civil War.
Recommended“and for our listeners rud's books are most recently I must betray you but also her first book Between Shades of Gray as well as Fountains of Silence salt to the Sea”
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Out of the Easy
Out of the Easy is a historical fiction novel by Ruta Sepetys that follows a young woman in 1950s New Orleans navigating family secrets, crime, and personal ambition.
Recommended“and out of the easy”
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Goodnight Moon 60th Anniversary Edition
Goodnight Moon 60th Anniversary Edition by Margaret Wise Brown is a classic bedtime picture book featuring a little bunny bidding goodnight to everything in the great green room.
Discussed“and apparently good night Moon which she deemed unbearably sentimental did not appear in City libraries until 1972 11 years after Moore's death”
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The Black Prince
The Black Prince is a 1973 novel by Iris Murdoch that examines art, truth, and obsessive love through the complex framing of multiple conflicting narrative perspectives.
Recommended“I cheated on George this last time with another I think pretty giant not maybe quite as giant writer Iris Murdoch and I read her 1973 novel the black prince”
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The Bell
Discussed“and in fact the Bell another novel of hers is one of my favorite books but it's the Bell is very very serious and in fact I wouldn't say that it's humorless”
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Death be not proud
Why people recommend it: John Gunther's heartbreaking memoir chronicles the courageous life and tragic premature death of his young son, Johnny, who succumbed to a brain tumor while studying at Harvard.
Recommended“but I'm going to talk about the book that I read right before this which is a memoir Called Death be not proud by John Gunther and this is a book that is really so deeply sad”
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The Emperor of All Maladies
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee is a sweeping biography of cancer that details humanity's millennia-long efforts to understand, treat, and ultimately cure the disease.
Recommended“it made me want to go back and reread sidarta mukerji's incredible the Emperor of all maladies a biography of cancer”
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Other mentions in this episode (12) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and her latest I must betray you can writing actually save your life”
“really the inspiration for I must betray you came when I was on tour in Romania for my first novel Between Shades of Gray”
“one of the interesting things about this book is that it deals with similar themes that you had in Salt of the sea in the fountain of Silence in Between Shades of Gray”
“one of the interesting things about this book is that it deals with similar themes that you had in Salt of the sea in the fountain of Silence in Between Shades of Gray”
“one of the interesting things about this book is that it deals with similar themes that you had in Salt of the sea in the fountain of Silence in Between Shades of Gray”
“it could be they're concerned about a book being sexually explicit or maybe they're concerned about the treatment of race in Of Mice and Men”
“it could be they're concerned about a book being sexually explicit or maybe they're concerned about the treatment of race in Of Mice and Men”
“all I'll say about 2666 I'm still not up to the femicide part and I'll talk about it once I finally do reach there”
“what I'm reading right now in all honesty is our mutual Friend by Charles Dickens of course and things are really picking up”
“and that's because it's a memoir by John Gunther who is known primarily for his bestselling books inside USA and inside Asia inside Europe”
“and that's because it's a memoir by John Gunther who is known primarily for his bestselling books inside USA and inside Asia inside Europe”
“and that's because it's a memoir by John Gunther who is known primarily for his bestselling books inside USA and inside Asia inside Europe”