Well this was just a delight. It was such a delight that I was reading it, I wanted to propose it for podcast. We are supposed to propose books for podcast that we haven’t actually read yet, so I was considering perpetrating a teeny, tiny fraud* on Whiskey Jenny. But the book was such a delight, and we were stuck in a car in Agra because some VIP’s visit to the Taj Mahal had shut down the roads our driver needed to use to get us to Jaipur, that I could not resist reporting bits of it to her as I was reading. Here…
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It’s a book preview podcast! We’re talking about the books we’re excited to read in Spring 2018 — slightly belatedly, because I had a medical incident — and reviewing Mohsin Hamid’s book Exit West, which gave us a lot to think and talk about.
You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!
Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around.
1:44 – What we’re reading
5:26 – Polar explorer update #1
6:21 – Polar explorer update #2
8:41 – Update on our fall 2017 book preview
14:16– Spring 2018 Book Preview
26:17 – Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
41:55 – Our first Hatening read
Learn more about teenage explorer Jade Hameister here. You can watch Ernest Shackleton Loves Me at Broadway HD if you are curious!
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Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcript is coming soon and will be available under the jump.
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Leave a CommentHappy (?) New Year, friends! We are not sure what kind of year to say we hope you’re having, because the events of this year so far have been… really shit! But at least there is a new president in office who actually cares about solving the pandemic and getting all our shit back together, and at least there is such things as dogs and cats, both of which continue to be extremely good species. We Jennys will be coming at you with a joint podcast soon! But first, I had the wonderful Renay of Lady Business on the pod,…
Leave a CommentI have to say, the Poetry Foundation really came for me with one of their recent poems, and I can’t be alone with it so I’m going to quote it for y’all here as a run-up to this actually very chipper and non-insane podcast. I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane, The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories, The news would pour out of various devices Interrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen. I would call my friends on other devices; They would be more or…
Leave a CommentIt’s our second-ever group podcast, and we are punchy, and also we’re using a brand new microphone and we, meaning I, meaning Gin Jenny, did not calibrate it altogether correctly perhaps. Slash, there was a loud train in the background. So. We are talking at length about A Hope Divided, which is Robert Repino’s first romance novel and Whiskey Jenny’s first Alyssa Cole novel, and we had a grand old time. We hope you will forgive the imperfections in the sound quality. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with…
Leave a CommentIt’s podcast time! We wrap up our read of Lord of the Rings, chat about our most anticipated books for summer, and review Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress. (Trigger warning for brief, non-graphic discussion of child sex abuse.) You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go! Episode 119 Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around. 1:26 – What we’re reading 3:09 – What we’re listening to 5:30 – Lord of the Rings Readalong – Return of the King (conclusion!) 24:32…
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