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Books podcasts were talking about in February 2017
Books podcasts were talking about in February 2017 featured an array of historical, cultural, and personal recommendations across various shows. On The Book Review, guests and hosts explored historical and literary works, including Ibram X. Kendi recommending Samuel George Morton's Crania Americana during a discussion on the history of race and racism in America. Maria Russo discussed fan culture surrounding Little House on the Prairie, recommending Wendy McClure's The Wilder Life along with Louise Erdrich's The Birchbark House series for younger readers. Also on The Book Review, Carl Seidman shared his annual ritual of rereading Alison Bechdel's collected comic strips, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For, and Pamela Paul concluded an interview by reminding listeners of Bill Schutt's Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History. Meanwhile, on The Joe Rogan Experience, guests and hosts recommended titles spanning fiction and non-fiction. Steven Crowder brought up John Eldredge's Wild at Heart during a conversation about public education and how boys learn, while Ryan Callaghan recommended James Michener's Chesapeake for its description of market hunting. Additionally, on ChooseFI, the host mentioned reading Mark Goodman's Future Crimes, describing it as a frightening look at cyber terrorism and hackers.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Minority Report
Discussed“cuz remember the Minority Report the Tom Cruz movie which is like a Philip K dick book and like Fox had just bought”
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Wild at Heart Revised and Updated
Recommended“there's actually a great book called Wild at Heart I think by John eldrich that talks about that”
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The True Story of the Bilderberg Group
Discussed“well I read that book recently and it's been out for about 10 years you you probably I know your boy Alex Jones has mentioned thousand times in it uh the you know the truth about the Bilderberg Group It Was Written like 10 years ago they keep updating it I I'll never vote again it really is like 40”
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Chesapeake
Recommended“read Mitchner'ss chesapeake that there's a great description on market hunting in the Chesapeake Bay.”
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The Vegetarian Myth
Discussed“There's a book called The vegetarian myth you ever read that um yes there's a woman who was a vegan for 20 years”
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Recommended“there's a great book called at play in the fields of the Lord by Peter mat I've heard of it I've never read it it's a beautiful book”
The Book Review
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Poems on various subjects, religious and moral
Discussed“you picked poems on various subjects religious and moral by Phyllis Wheatley tell us about this book”
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Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Discussed“the interesting Narrative of the life of alaa aquano which I think is relatively well known as a slave narrative but for those who haven't read this book tell us about that”
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An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species
Discussed“what was the book an essay on the causes a variety of complexion and figure in the human species and why did you choose that”
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The principles of biology
Discussed“the principles of biology by Herbert Spencer and hereditary genius by Sir Francis gton tell us about those two books”
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Dark Banquet
Discussed“and your first book was on bloodfeeding was it a natural progression into like well let's look at eating other parts of the body I don't know about eating other parts of the body but dark banquet was about demystifying the whole concept of blood feeding”
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This Life I Live
Discussed“in non-fiction there's just one new title this week it is by the country singer and songwriter Rory Fe who just won a Grammy last week uh his Memoir is called this life I live”
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Crania americana
Recommended“I would say crania America but it's not necessarily a fluid read many of these other books but I think that was published in 1839 by Samuel MO”
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Cannibalism
Recommended“the book again is cannibalism a Perfectly Natural History by Bill shut”
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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
Recommended“well every year I reread and it's usually in January I read the collected comic strips of Alison beell that are collected as the essential dkes to watch out for”
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The myths of the Norsemen
Discussed“so the time there was an English writer named Roger leling green and he had done myths of the Norse men and I had a friend who had a copy so I grabbed it read it fell in love with it”
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Norse Mythology
Discussed“yes um you have on the cover of the book Thor's hammer was this your choice”
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How to Be Both
Discussed“you profiled Ali Smith last year when her previous book came out how to be both”
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The Hellfire Club
Discussed“his debut novel it's a political thriller titled the hellfire club which takes place in Washington DC in 1954”
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
Discussed“and you know I'm a big fan of Harold in the Purple Crayon and one my favorite books of all time”
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The Runaway Bunny
Discussed“because Runaway Bunny is kind of diabolical um and that's very distressing book”
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Little Fur Family
Discussed“which ones like not little fur family little fur family”
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A Walk in the Woods
Discussed“and I then picked up a walk in the woods which was just sitting on my shelf rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail”
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Heat and light
Discussed“and then at home I started a book that came out last year by Jennifer hay called heat and light which which is about fracking”
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Why time flies
Discussed“Alan berck will be here to tell us about his book why time flies”
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The blood of Emmett Till
Discussed“um it's Timothy B Tyson's the blood of EMT till which made some news uh for its Revelation”
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The Wilder life
Recommended“a great book by Wendy McClure a few years ago the Wilder life where she you know talks about her Obsession”
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The birchbark house
Recommended“in the interum we have a great series by the the novelist Lise erdrich called birchbark house also for middle grade you know 8 to 12 readers”
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My Utmost
Discussed“I'm reading a new Memoir by a woman named Macy hord called My Utmost a devotional memoir”
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My Utmost for His Highest
Discussed“and she grew up reading regularly this Daily Devotional book called My Utmost For His Highest which is by a Scottish writer named Oswald Chambers”
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Siblings without rivalry
Discussed“I finished the mie condo um and I moved swiftly on to siblings without rivalry”
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Give me everything you have
Discussed“then I got sidetracked into James Len's Memoir um uh give me everything you have which I that's the stalker Memoir that's the stalker Memoir”
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The examined life
Discussed“um I also read the examined life which was one of your recommendations John”
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This Close to Happy
Recommended“Daphney mkin will join us to talk about her new Memoir this close to happy a Reckoning with depression”
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Such, Such Were the Joys
Recommended“such such were the joys which is my one of my favorite Orwell essays have you ever read it about his boarding school days”
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You learn by living
Recommended“it's a book by Elanor Rosevelt um from 1960 called You Learn by living”
ChooseFI
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Blue Crimes and International Criminal Law
Discussed“and you know I read this book that we'll link to in the show notes it's called future Crimes by Mark Goodman I believe it is uh he was a FBI uh cyber terrorism and you know dealing with with all these hackers essentially and it is the most frightening book you will ever read in your entire life essentially”
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VJ
Recommended“and you know I read this book that we'll link to in the show notes it's called future Crimes by Mark Goodman I believe it is uh he was a FBI uh cyber terrorism and you know dealing with with all these hackers essentially and it is the most frightening book you will ever read in your entire life”
Freakonomics Radio
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Big Coal
Discussed“I happened to come across a book. It was written by a journalist, Jeff Goodell, called Big Coal. And he was doing stories about the important and kind of quiet role that coal played in American life.”
Conversations with Tyler
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David
Discussed“So, your latest book, it's called David, the Divided Heart, and the Book of Samuel is probably the greatest political biography of all time, one of the most significant books on politics.”
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The first book of Samuel [ed.] by F. Marshall
Discussed“So, your latest book, it's called David, the Divided Heart, and the Book of Samuel is probably the greatest political biography of all time, one of the most significant books on politics.”
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Essays on ethics
Discussed“Now, I'm sure you know Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in his new book, Essay on Ethics, he wrote the following. And I quote, "The entire burden of the Torah from the beginning of Exodus to the end of Deuteronomy is about what it is to create a free society as opposed to the slavery the Israelites experienced in Egypt."”
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The Kuzari
Discussed“Uh speaking of that era, the book The Kuzari, which you've written about, you mentioned the author before, Halevi, uh it's from the 12th century. Why is that an important book for Judaism?”
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Mishneh Torah
Discussed“So, what Maimonides wanted to do was take all of this messy, giant Talmudic and other tradition and and make it simple. And one of the things that he did that he later said he regretted, but didn't have the chance to fix, was he didn't add footnotes.”
