Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Silk on a Stick
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The age of insight
The Age of Insight by Eric R.
Recommended“I'm about halfway through Eric Kendall's book the age of insight and I am in love with this book I mean obviously it's brilliant it came out a few years ago”
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Reductionism in Art and Brain Science
Discussed“the title is the age of insight the quest to understand the unconscious in art mind and brain”
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Under the Glacier
Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness is a darkly humorous novel about an emissary sent by the bishop of Iceland to investigate peculiar happenings in a remote small town.
Discussed“So I'm still making my way through hdor laxes under the glacier which I mentioned last week and I'm really enjoying it”
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The end of vandalism
The End of Vandalism by Tom Drury is a celebrated debut novel that captures the quiet complexities, eccentricities, and melancholic humor of life in rural Midwestern America.
Recommended“and his first novel called the end of vandalism is one of my all-time favorite books”
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The Driftless Area
The Driftless Area by Tom Drury is a critically acclaimed novel set in the American Midwest that blends elements of magical realism, crime, and idiosyncratic small-town life.
Recommended“so I picked up a novel of his I hadn't read before from one of those tottering piles called the driftless area from 2006 and this is also set in the midwest”
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The hyphenated family
Discussed“it is a a family Memoir called the hyphenated family it was published in 1960”
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The Woman in White
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is a pioneering Victorian mystery novel celebrated for its intricate plotting, multiple narrators, and atmospheric suspense centering on an eerie encounter with a mysterious woman on a London road.
Recommended“I am reading wilky Collins the woman in this is my favorite book”
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The Moonstone
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a pioneering nineteenth-century epistolary detective novel centering on the dramatic theft of a priceless diamond and the complex web of secrets surrounding its disappearance.
Recommended“then after this you're going to read the Moonstone”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Aaron reica joins us now to talk about his review of a new book called a flag worth dying for for the power and politics of national symbols by Tim Marshall who also wrote a book called prisoners of geography a former New York Times bestseller”
“she talked a lot about being influenced and being inspired by Anthony Mara's book A constellation of vital phenomena and so it sounds like she's interested in really Global voices”