Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on What We're Reading
Gilbert Cruz discussed Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. Tina Jordan recommended The Appeal by Janice Hallett and I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, and discussed The expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett and Dracula by Bram Stoker and others. Greg Cowles recommended My Ántonia by Willa Cather, Field guide by Robert Hass, Lunch poems by Frank O'Hara, Collected Poems by Ellen Bryant Voigt, and From From by Monica Youn, and discussed Animals are Passing from Our Lives by Philip Levine.
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 is an epistolary mystery novel by Janice Hallett that uses a collection of emails, text messages, and documents to challenge readers to solve a puzzling crime within a local amateur dramatic society.
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 is a beloved 1948 coming-of-age novel by Dodie Smith that follows a seventeen-year-old girl named Cassandra Mortmain as she chronicles her eccentric family's impoverished life in a dilapidated English castle through her diary entries.
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 is an 1897 epistolary novel by Bram Stoker that chronicles the vampire's attempt to move from Transylvania to England and his subsequent conflict with Abraham Van Helsing.
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
Willa Cather's classic novel My Ántonia portrays life on the Nebraska frontier through the perspective of an immigrant family and their neighbors.
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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Animals are Passing from Our Lives
Discussed“class read a poem by Philip LaVine called animals are passing from our lives wellknown poem I I don't know if you're familiar with it it is about a pig going to slaughter”
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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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Collected Poems
Collected Poems by Ellen Bryant Voigt is a rich and expansive volume showcasing decades of lyrical mastery from a celebrated American poet known for her deep engagement with the natural world and rural life.
Recommended“one that's in the more pastoral vein is Ellen Bryant voit's big collected poems Ellen Bryant voy grew up in the South and has lived in Northern New England for for a long time now”
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From From
From From by Monica Youn is a sharp, provocative poetry collection that examines anti-Asian racism and the complexities of cultural identity through the lens of a familiar and loaded microaggression.
Recommended“a poet named Monica Yun Yu n has a new book called from from as in well sure but where are you from from and and as you can tell from that title it takes racism very much in its view”
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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”
“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”
“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”