Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on What We're Reading
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Hello Beautiful
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano is an acclaimed contemporary novel that explores complex family dynamics, Sisterhood, and emotional resilience.
Discussed“on the cover of the book review is Hello beautiful and napolitano's followup to her best-selling novel dear Edward hello beautiful a book in part about Sisterhood and basketball and marriage has been in the air recently because it was the 100th pick of Oprah's Book Club”
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The Appeal
The Appeal by Janice Hallett is a clever and engaging mystery novel that presents its puzzling narrative through an epistolary format involving emails, text messages, and legal documents.
Recommended“so I'd like to recommend a book called The Appeal By Janice Hallet which came out last year it's a mystery and it was recommended to me by Sarah Lyle our Thrillers columnist”
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The expedition of Humphry Clinker
Discussed“and I've Loved pistol novels ever since I was in college when I read the expedition of Humphrey clinker by to buy a smallet although in retrospect it's perhaps not quite as fun as I think it was”
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I Capture the Castle
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith is a beloved 1948 British coming-of-age novel told through diary entries that follows a seventeen-year-old girl growing up in a dilapidated castle alongside her sister, stepmother, and father.
Recommended“I think possibly my all-time favorite is Dodie Smith's ey capture the castle a Coming of Age novel I think it turned 75 this year and it's told through diary entries”
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Dracula
Dracula by Bram Stoker is a classic 1897 epistolary horror novel that established the modern literary vampire and the archetype of Count Dracula.
Discussed“even Dracula which is an epistolary novel published in 1897 makes use of everything from newspaper clippings to telegrams”
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My Ántonia
My Ántonia by Willa Cather is a celebrated 1918 novel that captures the immigrant experience and the sweeping landscape of the American Nebraska frontier.
Recommended“which is will cather's my Antonia it came out in 1918 over a hundred years ago but it feels like it could have been written last year”
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Field guide
Field Guide by Robert Hass is the acclaimed debut poetry collection by the esteemed American poet, which originally earned the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets prize.
Recommended“his first book which won the Yale younger poets prize it's called Field Guide um was on the Shelf there and I plucked it off and started reading it and I was really captivated”
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Lunch poems
Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara is a classic poetry collection that reflects the author's experiences working at the Museum of Modern Art and spending his lunch breaks eating at Midtown eateries.
Recommended“his book lunch poems is just what it sounds like from the title he worked at MoMA he went out on his lunch breaks eating at kind of Midtown eateries”
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Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“on the cover of the book review is Hello beautiful and napolitano's followup to her best-selling novel dear Edward”
“more recently you have everything from The Color Purple to Bridget Jones's Diary to Andy wear's the Martian”
“ocean vongs on earth were briefly gorgeous is told through letters”
“more recently you have everything from The Color Purple to Bridget Jones's Diary to Andy wear's the Martian”
“to Andy wear's the Martian which for those of you who haven't read it it's told entirely through the logs of an astronaut who's stranded”