Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on S.A. Cosby on 'Razorblade Tears'
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Vanishing Half
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett is a compelling contemporary novel that examines family, racial identity, and the choices that shape our lives through the lives of twin sisters who choose to live in very different worlds.
Discussed“and like I said and I I love the vanish in half it's such a great book and it's talking about very similar issues from a different perspective”
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A thousand acres
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley is a celebrated contemporary novel that reimagines King Lear on a sprawling farm in rural Iowa, exploring deep family fractures, dark secrets, and rural life.
Recommended“one of my favorite books of all times is a book called A Thousand Acres by James M I love that book”
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a classic psychological novel that examines the heavy moral burdens, intense guilt, and philosophical dilemmas faced by a desperate student in Saint Petersburg who commits a heinous crime.
Discussed“I mean one of the greatest books ever written is crime and punishment”
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Illustrated)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Illustrated) is a monumental psychological masterpiece that delves into the tormented mind of a young man who commits a desperate crime and grapples with crushing guilt and moral redemption.
Discussed“I mean one of the greatest books ever written is crime and punishment”
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Winter's Bone
Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell is a gritty, atmospheric Ozark noir novel about a young woman named Ree Dolly who searches for her missing, drug-dealing father to save her family from eviction.
Recommended“I defy anyone to read Winter's Bone by Daniel woodrell and tell me that's not a great piece of literature”
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The Stand
The Stand by Stephen King is an epic post-apocalyptic horror novel that chronicles the devastation of human civilization by a weaponized influenza strain and the subsequent battle between survivors aligned with forces of good and evil.
Recommended“Tina Stephen King's The Stand”
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 14th century, detailing a diverse group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury.
Recommended“it has me wanting to turn back to the Canterbury Tales and I think that if I brought the canbury tales that possibly I could teach myself Middle English”
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Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream
Discussed“joining me today is Dean job the author of The Case of the murderous Dr cream the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer”
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Deacon King Kong
Deacon King Kong by James McBride is a vibrant novel set in a 1960s Brooklyn housing project, following the colorful fallout after an aging church deacon inexplicably shoots a local drug dealer.
Discussed“and uh the other thing I I just started Deacon King Kong which came out last year like two weeks before the world shut down”
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Don't erase me
Discussed“well don't erase me the stories in it were sort of bright young underachieving but street smart young people largely in and around New York City”
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Dear Miss Metropolitan
Discussed“it's a novel called Dear Miss Metropolitan and boy it's a hard thing to read”
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Democracy Rules
Discussed“so this week I read democracy Rules by a political theorist at Princeton named Yan Verner Müller”
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Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a historical novel by Rivka Galchen that offers a fictionalized account of the persecution of Katharina Kepler, the mother of astronomer Johannes Kepler, during a seventeenth-century witchcraft trial.
Recommended“but I started reading recently a book that I'm very much enjoying by Rifka gin it's a novel called everyone knows your mother is a witch and it's actually a fictionalized version of the story of Johan Kepler's mother”
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Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Dean job will talk to my colleague Tina Jordan about his new book The Case of the murderous Dr Cream”
“specifically he is the author of the new book razorblade tear also black top Wasteland and a few other books”
“but both this novel and your immediate predecessor black top Wasteland are very much about fathers”
“I read Dear Miss Metropolitan a novel by Carolyn Ferell”
“and I read democracy rules a book by Yan Verner Muller”