Comments on: Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.3: J. K. Rowling, Standing in Line, and Americanah https://readingtheend.com/2013/07/24/reading-the-end-bookcast-ep-j-k-rowling-standing-in-line-and-americanah/ before I read the middle Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:29:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Gin Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/07/24/reading-the-end-bookcast-ep-j-k-rowling-standing-in-line-and-americanah/#comment-15740 Sat, 03 Aug 2013 12:36:14 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4644#comment-15740 In reply to shelikespie.

Awesome, thank you! I will check it out. 🙂

]]> By: shelikespie https://readingtheend.com/2013/07/24/reading-the-end-bookcast-ep-j-k-rowling-standing-in-line-and-americanah/#comment-15721 Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:45:52 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4644#comment-15721 Ooh, I have a book set in Afghanistan to recommend! The Places In Between, in which a young Scottish man walks across Afghanistan in the winter of 2002. Everyone tells him he is crazy and will probably die, but (spoiler) he doesn’t. OK, not a spoiler, since he wrote the book. Anyway, I very much enjoyed it.

]]> By: Nat https://readingtheend.com/2013/07/24/reading-the-end-bookcast-ep-j-k-rowling-standing-in-line-and-americanah/#comment-15689 Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:01:36 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4644#comment-15689 I love Snape! But yeah, Umbridge is the worst. I don’t believe in the death penalty, but man, every time I read about Umbridge I start screaming TO THE GALLOWS…

ANYway, have any of you listened to the Caustic Soda Podcast’s episodes on Doomed Expeditions? They include a few examples of polar explorers (and they’re all awful)
http://www.causticsodapodcast.com/2011/11/28/doomed-expeditions-part-1/
http://www.causticsodapodcast.com/2011/12/04/doomed-expeditions-part-2/

]]> By: Christie https://readingtheend.com/2013/07/24/reading-the-end-bookcast-ep-j-k-rowling-standing-in-line-and-americanah/#comment-15682 Fri, 26 Jul 2013 02:55:36 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4644#comment-15682 You just have to read _The Worst Journey in the World_ by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. It’s about a (fairly unsuccessful) journey to reach the South Pole and it is really one of the best books ever. If Robert Peary is the Ben Roethlisberger of polar exploration, this guy is the Drew Brees.

]]> By: Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness) https://readingtheend.com/2013/07/24/reading-the-end-bookcast-ep-j-k-rowling-standing-in-line-and-americanah/#comment-15679 Fri, 26 Jul 2013 01:50:34 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4644#comment-15679 I haven’t listened, just skimmed the outline, and I must say that I truly and utterly loathe Rita Skeeter. I can’t decide on the worse than Snape thing since I actually sort of feel for him… but I wish she would stay a bug!

]]> By: NWK (@MumsyNancy) https://readingtheend.com/2013/07/24/reading-the-end-bookcast-ep-j-k-rowling-standing-in-line-and-americanah/#comment-15673 Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:46:00 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4644#comment-15673 Okay, now I am VERY interested in Americanah. Was not expecting funny, somehow, from an African author (I think of them as very very serious. Who knew that Nigerians are NEVER serious? Clearly, I need to get out more.)

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