Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W23

“And I think since becoming Christian, I am learning in my choices to recognize that as Rick Warren says in the first four words of his book: it’s not about you. It's not about you.”

“Richard Feynman tells the story in his work; he wrote a lot, of course, about physics, about this conversation that he had with John Wheeler about the one-electron universe. But I need you to tell it because...”

“That's the theme in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, where the protagonist is in his backyard and he's lifted up by aliens—which I always want to have happen to me when I go to anybody's backyard at night and I look up!”

“He's a theoretical physicist, best-selling author, futurist, and his most recent book is called Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Revolution Will Change Everything.”

“I couldn't believe it's from the book; this is not the New York Times writer trying to slam you He's actually accurately representing portions of the book It reads as follows: 'Glenn Loury's new book, Late Admissions, is unlike any economist memoir I have ever read Most don't mention picking up streetwalkers or smoking crack in a faculty office at”

“He left after Ronald Reagan was reelected in November of 1984 to join the second Reagan Administration and became Chief of Staff to William Bennett, Bill Bennett, author of The Book of Virtues, and at that time Secretary of Education.”

“Those things became clear to me, as I said, with that little book in my hand.”

“Lunden Roberts is set to release a tell-all book later this summer titled 'Out of the Shadows: My Life Inside the Wild World of Hunter Biden,' which is available for pre-order now, and it's riveting.”

“Ramin Setoodeh, who is co-editor-in-chief of Variety, is the author of the new book; it's called Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass.”

“Thanks to the audio book of his own memoir, remember we talked about this when he released it, saying this is not going to be good for him? He’s potentially facing charges, and this won't be good.”

“When I wrote about this in my second book, I talked about the alien—remember the original Alien movie with Sigourney Weaver?”

“she's the author of the book give people money”

“I had a sociologist uh on a couple months ago Caitlyn Collins who did this great book looking at parenting and work in a bunch of different countries”

“I recently read the best political book that I've ever read which is called a place of Greater safety”

“Like I mentioned before, she did a TED Talk, and she wrote a book called 'Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.'”

“He wrote a book before Duckworth did, back in 2012, called "How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character."”

“and "The Rise and Fall of Anglo America," among others.”

“And that's really where, I mean, Hania's book on affirmative action in the United States moving to this idea of well, it starts out as we want equal treatment; that's what affirmative action meant.”

“They want— you know how Virginia Woolf said, 'The job of the writer is to put the severed parts together'? I think she wrote that in 'Three Guineas', one of my favorite books.”

“So, you know, if people were supposed to be trying to worry about how they're going to get their next meal, shelter for the night, and all these kinds of things, who has time to sit down and write these incredible works of art like the Epic of Gilgamesh? For example, yeah. So when you're reading things like the Epic”

“Um, and he cataloged it, and it inspired him to write a complete translation of the Enuma Elish and the Seven Tablets of Creation.”

“Did you ever read the Dead Sea Scrolls?”

“So they decided to go to war against Enki and Enlil and Anu because their demands had not been met! So they went to meet them in the Epic of Atrahasis!”

“In the Emerald Tablet of Thoth, he actually says that he has achieved the ability to incarnate at will on any plane he desires.”

“Well, that's the Sumerian Kings list located in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England!”

“For more information on Leonard Peltier, you can listen to Margaret's podcast, Looda Nation, and read In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen.”

“In 'American Sphinx,' Ellis describes Jefferson as turning into kind of a fundamentalist on this point.”

“From Plutarch's 'Life of Cato the Elder,' quote, 'A slave of his was expected to either be busy about the house or to be asleep, and he was very partial to the sleepy ones.'”

“Thank you for joining me for today's discussion with Dr. Mary Claire Haver. To learn more about her work, please see the link to her website in the show notes, as well as the link to her excellent book, 'The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts.'”

“You know, when I first wrote the Galveston diet, to be honest and transparent, it was for weight loss. And, you know, I was frustrated with my weight gain and that was the pain point my patients had—and that was my pain point—but I didn't realize it represented something much more sinister than just the way I looked.”

“Karen Tang just published a book titled 'It's Not Hysteria,' and she is a gynecologic surgeon who does a lot of work around PCOS, containing huge chapters on how to advocate for yourself and understand the disease process.”

“Which one? Big River! And I was supposed to come out and surprise my son, Huckleberry Finn!”

“Oh, it's the same. I have this book, Five Minutes a Day.”