Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on The Chinese Language Revolution
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Being Wrong
Discussed“per my last book about being wrong it feels like familiar terrain to kind of wrestle with these abstract categories”
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Lost & Found
Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz is a reflective and deeply philosophical memoir-essay that explores the universal human experiences of losing physical objects, cherished relationships, and profound grief, while discovering what those losses reveal about our lives.
Discussed“okay with this book it started also with an essay and that essay was about losing things talk about that this book grew out of a piece I wrote in 2017 for the New Yorker”
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H Is for Hawk
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald is a critically acclaimed memoir that chronicles the author's harrowing journey through grief following the sudden death of her father, which she processes by training a notoriously aggressive goshawk.
Recommended“what an enormous admirer I am of Helen McDonald's HS for Hawk a truly beautiful and unusual book about her grief over her father's death”
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Notes on Grief
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a deeply personal and reflective book documenting the author's experience following the death of her father.
Recommended“I really admired Chim manda's book notes on Grief about the death of her father”
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Fun
Fun Home is a critically acclaimed graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel that explores the author's complex relationship with her closeted father, her own coming out, and the literary allusions that shaped her upbringing.
Recommended“I was devastated by wave by Fun home”
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A Grief Observed
A Grief Observed by C.S.
Discussed“but but I think if there's one book that this book is sort of obliquely in conversation with it's probably CS Lewis's a grief observed which is about the death of a partner not the death of a parent and which is a profoundly Christian Reckoning with grief”
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Middlemarch
Middlemarch by George Eliot is widely regarded as a masterwork of Victorian literature, brilliantly capturing the complex social fabric, political undercurrents, and psychological depths of provincial English life.
Discussed“I think that my version of Middle March doesn't have that character tree in the front of it that you're talking about Pamela”
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Small Things Like These
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan is a poignant and concise novella set in Ireland during the weeks leading up to Christmas, focusing on a coal merchant named Bill Furlong who confronts local complicity in the Magdalene laundries.
Recommended“uh and there're small Pages short little book called small things like these by CLA Keegan”
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2666
2666 is a massive, complex novel by Roberto Bolaño that explores a wide range of themes, most famously centering on the unsolved femicides in a fictional Mexican border city.
Discussed“and 2666 is something that I have a one volume paperback of it so I'm a little jealous of Greg's now in the slip case”
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Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens stands as a sweeping Victorian masterpiece that examines money, morality, and social pretense in nineteenth-century London through a complex web of intersecting lives.
Discussed“so the book I am actually reading and I'm not going to talk about it for a few weeks is our mutual friend by Dickens”
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Other mentions in this episode (15) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Katherine Schultz will join us to talk about her Memoir lost and found”
“Katherine Schultz will join us to talk about her Memoir lost and found”
“her new book is called Lost and Found”
“her new book is called Lost and Found”
“for listeners frantically taking notes about some of those books wave is sonali dagala”
“Katherine Schultz's new book is called Lost and Found”
“Katherine Schultz's new book is called Lost and Found”
“well partly inspired by John in your reading of Middle March”
“and then like I remember I did that with Warren piece originally and you know speaking of a large cast of characters”
“and then like I remember I did that with Warren piece originally and you know speaking of a large cast of characters”
“I did that with bring up the bodies the H did Hall the first I'm sorry Wolf Hall is what I mean”
“I did that with bring up the bodies the H did Hall the first I'm sorry Wolf Hall is what I mean”
“I remember at the beginning of the pandemic the book book I first picked up I'm pretty sure was Ian Frasier in Siberia”
“I read small things like these by CLA Keegan”
“I'm reading 2666 by Roberto Balan”