Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Sheryl Sandberg on Life After Tragedy
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Option B Facing Adversity Building Resilience and Finding Joy
Option B is a book about facing adversity, building resilience, and finding joy in the wake of unimaginable personal tragedy.
Discussed“joining us now is Cheryl sanberg and Adam Grant co-authors of the new book option b facing adversity building resilience and finding Joy”
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The Pentagon's Brain
Discussed“your third book the one that you wrote immediately before this was a Pulitzer Prize finalist the pentagon's brain”
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Lincoln in the Bardo
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders is an experimental historical novel that imagines the grief of Abraham Lincoln visiting his deceased son in a cemetery populated by a chorus of ghosts.
Recommended“I'm finally reading Lincoln in the Bardo which is the first novel by George Saunders”
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Hallelujah Anyway
Discussed“I've been thinking a little bit about Ann Lamont because she's back on the non-fiction hard cover bestseller list with another kind of Christian celebration called Hallelujah anyway”
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All new people
Discussed“but I I went back and I've been reading her 1989 novel all new people which is very much to the point of a book as kind of a a frozen moment in time”
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How to do things with books in Victorian Britain
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price is an insightful work of cultural history that examines how nineteenth-century readers interacted physically with books, moving beyond mere reading to explore books as objects, gifts, and tools.
Recommended“Leah Price another um scholar at Harvard wrote this great book called how to do things with Victorian books which just all about”
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So many books
Discussed“it was published I think in the early 2000s by in Translation it's by this Mexican literary critic named Gabriel Zed it was called so many books”
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Other mentions in this episode (10) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Give and Take
“Cheryl Samberg is is of course also the author of lean in and the COO of Facebook and Adam Grant best-selling author of originals and give and take”
Passing Lean In
“Cheryl Samberg is is of course also the author of lean in and the COO of Facebook and Adam Grant best-selling author of originals and give and take”
Passing Originals
“Cheryl Samberg is is of course also the author of lean in and the COO of Facebook and Adam Grant best-selling author of originals and give and take”
Passing Give and Take
“Cheryl Samberg is is of course also the author of lean in and the COO of Facebook and Adam Grant best-selling author of originals and give and take”
Passing Bird by Bird
“people forget that back before she did the Christian books back even before she did operating instructions and bird by bird her her writing manual”
Passing Operating instructions
“people forget that back before she did the Christian books back even before she did operating instructions and bird by bird her her writing manual”
Passing Unpacking my library
“it made me think about Walter benyamine wrote this famous essay called unpacking my library and I've been going around joking like I want to write an essay called de accommodating my library”
Passing The Humanure Handbook
“I found weird things like this book called the humanure handbook which was this kind of hippie how-to book about composting human waste”
“and then there was this book which I was going to toss and then I'm like no I have to keep this called The Accidental diarist a history of the daily planner in America”
“there was also this great book I haven't read it so I can't say it's a great book greatl looking book by Anthony Grafton the Renaissance or the early modern historian at Princeton called the culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe”