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  • Reading Envy 246: Unsettling Endings with Yanira

    Reading Envy 246: Unsettling Endings with Yanira
    Apr 26 2022
    Yanira shares why she deleted Goodreads and how it's improved her reading life, and we talk about rereading books before we dig into books we've read and liked lately. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 246: Unsettling Endings Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Very Cold People by Sarah MangusoEnd of the World House by Adrienne CeltA Very Nice Girl by Imogen CrimpThe Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe, Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, and Sheree Renee ThomasJoan is Okay by Weike WangOther mentions:  A House of My Own: Stories from My Life by Sandra CisnerosThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Hating Game by Sally ThorneThe Hating Game (film)Normal People by Sally RooneyConversations with Friends (tv adaptation)Bridgerton (Netflix)Leave the World Behind by Rumaan AlamThe Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth JaquetteThe Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn JohnsonDirty Computer (album)Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture]Chemistry by Weike WangEither/Or by Elif BatumanThe Idiot by Elif BatumanThe Possessed by Elif BatumanLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, read by Miranda RaisonRelated episodes: Episode 070 - Words Like Weapons with Yanira Ramirez Episode 096 - Not Without Hope with Yanira Ramirez Episode 108 - Venn Diagram with Yanira Ramirez  Episode 141 - Profound and Tedious Work with Yanira RamirezEpisode 181 - An Awkward Woman with Yanira Ramirez Stalk us online:Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.
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  • Reading Envy 245: Looking Back at the Russian Novel

    Reading Envy 245: Looking Back at the Russian Novel
    Apr 19 2022
    At the end of March, a handful of us gathered to discuss what we had read for the Russian novel quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We also discuss the works we abandoned, some dips into Ukrainian literature, and talked more about what makes a novel quintessentially Russian. Thanks to all who joined in during this chat, in Goodreads, and in social media!Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 245: Looking Back at the Russian Novel  Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them by Elif BatumanThe Anna Karenina Fix by Viv GroskopDead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa VolkhonskyA Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, translated by Paul FooteThe Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Lisa C. HaydenLaurus by Eugene VodolazkinFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesThe Mountain and the Wall by Alisa Ganieva, translated by Carol ApollonioThe Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew BromfieldWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo TolstoyPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovLolita by Vladimir NabokovInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceZuleikha by Guzel Yakhina, translated by Lisa C. HaydenI Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani PickhartBrisbane by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Marian SchwarzThe Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse WheelerLucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets, translated by Eugene OstahevskyLife Went on Anyway: Stories by Oleg Sentsov, translated by Uilleam Blacker Other mentions:Ted ChiangKen LiuHanya Yanagihara"Men Who Explain Lolita to Me" by Rebecca Solnit on LitHub"Dead Soul" by Masha Gessen in Vanity FairSt. Michael's bells ringing in 2013Related episodes:Episode 237 - Reading Goals 2022Episode 241 - Feral Pigeons with LaurieEpisode 243 - Russian Novel Speed Date Stalk us online:Reading Envy Readers on Goodreads (home of Reading Envy Russia)Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. You can see the full collection for Reading Envy Russia 2022 on Bookshop.org.
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  • Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction

    Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction
    Apr 5 2022
    Lauren W. will be co-hosting this non-fiction quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We share books we have already read and freely recommend, and also chat about the piles and shelves of books we are considering. Let us know your recommendations and where you hope to start in the comments, or join the conversation in Goodreads.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  Or listen through Google Podcasts Books we can recommend: Memories from Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi by TeffiSecondhand Time by Svetlana AlexievichThe Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana AlexievichLast Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Pevear & VolokhonskyZinky Boys by Svetlana AlexievichVoices of Chernobyl (also titled Chernobyl Prayer) by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith GessenOther Russias by Victoria Lomasko, translated by Thomas CampbellThe Future is History by Masha Gessen Never Remember by Masha Gessen, photography by Misha FriedmanWhere the Jews Aren’t by Masha Gessen Pushkin’s Children by Tatyana Tolstaya The Slynx by Tatyana TolstayaImperium by Ryszard Kapucinski, translated by Klara Glowczewska A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy by Deborah McDonald and Jeremy DronfieldPutin Country by Anne GarrelsLetters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke Sovietistan by Erika Fatland The Commissar Vanishes by David King Gulag by Anne Applebaum The Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum The Magical Chorus by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina Bouis  Shostaskovich and Stalin by Solomon Volkov The Tiger by John Vaillant Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaght How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut Please to the Table by Anya von Bremzen Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen Books we are considering: All Lara’s Wars by Wojchiech Jagielski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Eric Ericson (there is a unabridged 1800+ pg, and an author approved abridged version, 400-some pages) Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg, translated by Paul Stevenson, Max Hayward Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov, translated by John GladRiot Days by Maria AlyokhinaSpeak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov The Life Written by Himself by Avvakum Petrov My Childhood by Maxim Gorky Teffi: A Life of Letters and Laughter by Edythe Haber Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam, tr. Max Hayward The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin Putin's Russia: life in a failing democracy by Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Arch Tait. A Russian diary: a journalist's final account of life, corruption, and death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya Notes on Russian Literature by F.M. DostoevskyThe Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece by Kevin Birmingham The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin BirminghamLess than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky Tolstoy Together by Yiyun Li The Border by Erika Fatland Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson Red Plenty by Francis Spufford Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder The Last Empire: Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii PlokhyThe Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii PlokhyChernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii PlokhyNuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii PlokhyMan with the Poison Gun: a Cold War Spy Story by Serhii PlokhyBabi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel by Anatoly Kuznetsov, tr. David Floyd Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster by Kate Brown Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate BrownA Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland by Kate BrownOctober: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev Across the Ussuri Kray by Vladimir Arsenyev, translated by Slaght An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army by Vasily GrossmanThe Road by Vasily GrossmanStalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and Depraved of Chernobyl by Markiyan Kamysh Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of...
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  • Reading Envy 243: Russian Novel Speed Date

    Reading Envy 243: Russian Novel Speed Date
    Mar 29 2022
    It's been a while since I've done a speed dating bonus episode, and this one is all about Russian novels for the Reading Envy Russia novel quarter. I discuss books I tried, what I think of them, and books I read previously. We might be moving on to non-fiction officially, but that doesn't mean we have to leave Russian literature behind forever. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 243: Russian Novel Speed Date Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:An Evening with Claire by Gaito Gazdanov, translated by Bryan KaretnykThe Sentence by Louise ErdrichFirst Love by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard FreebornEugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Leo TolstoyOblomov by Ivan Goncherov, translated by Stephen PearlLolita by Vladimir NabokovZuleikha by Guzel Yakhina, translated by Lisa C. HaydenThe Time of Women by Elena Chizhova, translated by Simon Patterson and Nina ChordasUntraceable by Sergei Lebedev, translated by Antonina W. BouisOblivion by Sergei Lebedev, translated by Antonina W. BouisBrisbane by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Marian SchwartzLaurus by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Lisa C. HaydenAnna K.: A Love Story by Jenny LeeAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Constance GarrettThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by David McDuffThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyA Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony MarraThe Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony MarraCity of Thieves by David BenioffA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesThe Bookworm by Mitch SilverA Terrible Country by Keith GessenFardwor, Russia! by Oleg Kashin, translated by Will EvansRelated episodes:  Episode 228 - Full of Secrets with Audrey Episode 135 - Speed Dating 2018, Round 5 Episode 113 - Speed Dating 2018, round 1 Episode 117 - Speed Dating 2018, round 2 Episode 120 - Summer Reading; Speed Dating 2018, round 3    Episode 128 - Poetry and Whale Guts (Bonus episode; Speed Dating 2018, round 4) Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief) Episode 059 - Are you Inspired Yet? bonus book speed dating Episode 047 - Sex with Elvis: Bonus Book Speed Dating Episode Episode 035 - Speed Dating Books    Stalk us online:Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.
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  • Reading Envy 242: Dark and Gloomy with Claire

    Reading Envy 242: Dark and Gloomy with Claire
    Mar 22 2022

    I was happy to sit down and talk to Claire, a reader from the upcoming generation. She likes dark and gloomy books! Jenny also took the opportunity to read a few YA books she had not yet gotten to, and went dark and gloomy too.

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    Reading Envy 242: Dark and Gloomy

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    Books discussed:

     

    Took by Mary Downing Hahn
    Truly, Devious     by Maureen Johnson
    Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
    Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

    Other mentions: 

    Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
    Maus by Art Spiegelman
    The Hunger Games series
    Divergent series
    Maze Runner series
    Dangerous by Shannon Hale
    A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs
    Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

    Related episodes: 

    Episode 010 - YA Literature: Death and Mayhem with guests Alex and Carissa
    Episode 022 - Gods and Cannibals with guest Chris
    Episode 173     - Expecting a Lot from a Book with Sarah Tittle
     

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    Jenny at Goodreads
    Jenny on Twitter
    Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy


    All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.
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  • Reading Envy 241: Feral Pigeons with Laurie

    Reading Envy 241: Feral Pigeons with Laurie
    Mar 8 2022
    Laurie is back and we talk about book challenges, even one in French! Since she is a biologist, science comes up as a theme in multiple ways. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 241: Feral Pigeons Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:Cat's Cradle by Kurt VonnegutThe Trees by Percival EverettA Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching by Rosemary MoscoBroken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems by Aaiún NinThe Unwinding and Other Dreams by Jackie MorrisOther mentions:  Think Again by Adam GrantThe Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew BromfieldThe Possessed by Elif BatumanPutin's Russia by Darryl CunninghamLilly Library - Kurt Vonnegut collectionTelephone by Percival EverettThe American Pigeon MuseumThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExuperyPigeoneticsUnbound PublisherThe Silent Unwinding by Jackie MorrisMy Year of Meats by Ruth OzekiRhythm of War by Brandon SandersonGreat Plains by Ian FrazierEcho by Thomas Olde Heuvelt  by Ali HazelwoodThe Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodThe Three Robbers by Tomi UngererRelated episodes: Episode 065 - Creeping through the Uncanny Valley with guest Bryan Alexander Episode 069 - Evil Librarian/SFBRP Crossover Episode with Luke and Juliane Episode 201 - Wrestling with Complexity with Elizabeth and LaurieEpisode 216 - Eloquent and Elegant with KalaEpisode 231 - Psychological Terrorism with Reggie Episode 233 - Get Into Trouble with Ruth  Stalk us online:Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Laurie on TwitterLaurie is @dryapyapi on InstagramLaurie at GoodreadsAll links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.
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  • Reading Envy 240: Air Quotes with Chris Carey

    Reading Envy 240: Air Quotes with Chris Carey
    Feb 22 2022
    Chris visits the podcast for the first time, where we discuss web comics and where they live, book clubs and book goals, book slumps and book challenges. We also manage to discuss several debut novels across a wide range of genres, but all with strong representation!Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 240: Air Quotes Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:The Wolf at the Door by Charlie AdharaHow High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia NagamatsuThe Charm Offensive by Alison CochrunIslands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, performed by Tantoo CardinalSummer Sons by Lee MandeloOther mentions:  Gotham OutsidersThirsty on ToonTalking ComicsMy Gentle GiantWEBTOONBatman: Wayne Family AdventuresWattpadReading Glasses PodcastReading Glasses ChallengeHeaving Bosoms PodcastHeaving Bosoms' Reading EmbraceBig Bad Wolf Series by Charlie AdharaGail CarrigerNagamatsu playlist at Largehearted BoyStiff by Mary RoachSmoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin DoughtySunshine Cleaning (film)The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah KrasnosteinromIndigenous Reading Circle in PatreonNoopiming by Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonBojack Horseman (tv show)Horrorstör by Grady HendrixThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady HendrixWe Sold Our Souls by Grady HendrixWoman Eating by Claire KohdaThe Final Girl Support Group by Grady HendrixThe Employees by Olga Gavn, translated by Martin AitkenRelated episodes: Episode 060 - A Good Era for Communists with Rose Davis Episode 148 - Multiple Lives with JeffEpisode 191 - Stealthy yet Sparkly with Gail CarrigerEpisode 231 - Psychological Terrorism with Reggie Stalk us online:Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Chris on TwitterAll links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.
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  • Reading Envy 239: Gross but Subtle with Katie

    Reading Envy 239: Gross but Subtle with Katie
    Feb 8 2022
    Katie joins me for the first time from the far north to discuss her own reading, plus one very creative solution for reading short stories with a book club. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 239: Gross but Subtle Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:Salt Slow by Julia ArmfieldThe Sentence by Louise ErdrichSufferance by Thomas KingSeek You: A Journey through American Loneliness by Kristen RadtkeGutter Child by Jael RichardsonOther mentions: Well-Read BooksColes Books"The Great Awake" by Julia ArmfieldWayward Children series by Seanan McGuireTournament of BooksLove Medicine by Louise ErdrichThe Night Watchman by Louise ErdrichGreen Grass, Running Water by Thomas KingIndian Horse by Richard WagameseThe Marrow Thieves by Cherie DimalineThe Break by Katherena VermetteThe Strangers by Katherena Vermette (forthcoming, hopefully)Drawing Loneliness with Kristen Radtke (video)Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories by Kathleen CollinsHalf-Blood Blues by Esi EdugyanIn Concrete by Anne Garrétta, translated by Emma RamadanRelated episodes: Episode 077 - No One Messes With a Wolf with Shawn MooneyEpisode 181 - An Awkward Woman with Yanira RamirezEpisode 190 - The Good Life with AlexEpisode 202 - Jacket Flap with Chris and Emily Stalk us online:Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Katie is @katie_sikkes on InstagramAll links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.
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