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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.40: Secondary Characters, Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins, and a Summer Book Preview

It’s time for podcast once again! (Sorry we’re late, technical difficulties.) We discuss secondary characters, which gives me the chance to praise Diana Wynne Jones. We review Kate Atkinson’s new novel A God in Ruins (we received copies from the publisher for review consideration), and we preview some books we’re excited for this summer. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 40 1:32 – Secondary characters 17:09 – Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins 32:22 – Summer book preview! The books we mentioned in the summer book…

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My most anticipated books of 2015 (so far)

I love publisher catalogs, y’all. I can’t describe how much I love them. It’s because I judge books by their covers, and publishers’ catalogs offer me the opportunity to do that on a grand scale. So here are a few of the books from 2015 for which I am excited, in no particular order. Flood of Fire, the last in Amitav Ghosh’s wonderful Ibis trilogy, appears in August, and then I can at last set about getting matching copies of all three. Sea of Poppies was one of my favorite books of its year, and while River of Smoke was…

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Life after Life, Kate Atkinson

The beginning: In Life after Life, a woman called Ursula takes out a gun to shoot Hitler. At once we are flashed back to the day of her birth, when she dies from having the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. But Ursula is not a regular child. She gets to try again. The second time around, the doctor arrives in time to save her with a pair of surgical scissors, and she survives to live a regular life. Again and again throughout her childhood, Ursula dies, and dies, and dies again. Always she gets another try at life. She…

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Reviews: Case Histories, Kate Atkinson / The Invisible Ones, Stef Penney

Okay, my enthusiasm for my TBR shelf has cooled observably. The problem is that when I finish a book on my TBR shelf, I don’t have anywhere else to put it. It just goes back on my TBR shelf because that’s the only available storage. I need to move on selling discarded books to the Strand. I am hoping the Strand will agree to give me store credit instead of cash — they should want to, right? That would be beneficial to them as well as to me? Anyway, a TBR shelf is fun insofar as reading books off of…

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