Comments on: Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.6: Defying Genre; We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves; and J. J. Abrams’s Book Trailer

By: We Love You, Charlie Freeman, Kaitlyn Greenidge - Reading the End

We Love You, Charlie Freeman, Kaitlyn Greenidge - Reading the End — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:01:36 +0000

[…] thing, ever since I listened to the Lucy episode of RadioLab in 2010. And I lovety-love-loved a book that it’s a spoiler to tell you is about chimp language research even though that’… (don’t click the link if you are uptight about spoilers), and what with one thing and […]

By: Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.22: Books for Travel and Marissa Meyer’s Cinder and Scarlet | Reading the End

Wed, 21 May 2014 09:02:58 +0000

[…] Starting at 1:06 – We discuss literary happenings! Penny Dreadful (watch it here!) is great so far, and I’m very psyched to watch the second episode. The team behind the Lizzie Bennet Diaries has announced a new series for the fall, in partnership with PBS, and it’s Frankenstein MD, in which scientist Victoria Frankenstein works to prove herself in a male-dominated field (squeeeeee!). And last but very much not least, Karen Joy Fowler won the PEN/Faulkner Prize for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, a book Whiskey Jenny and I raved about in an earlier podcast. […]

By: Review: Wit’s End, Karen Joy Fowler | Reading the End

Review: Wit’s End, Karen Joy Fowler | Reading the End — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:02:54 +0000

[…] right? As in We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Fowler is fantastic at depicting the space between people, both the closeness and the inescapable […]

By: The superlatives of an outstanding reading year | Reading the End

The superlatives of an outstanding reading year | Reading the End — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:03:41 +0000

[…] We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, by Karen Joy Fowler. This book! So good! Karen Joy Fowler does not invent a premise and coast on it. She follows through all the way. She commits. I loved the writing, I loved the jokes, and I loved the sadness. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves gets additional credit for reminding me to care about James Tiptree Jr., an author I now really like. […]

By: Anastasia @ Here There Be Books

Anastasia @ Here There Be Books — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 05:17:47 +0000

I totally want to read We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves BECAUSE of the “my sister is a monkey” thing, so in that case the spoiler-ish thing worked!

Also! ALSO! I feel that a lot of my genres would overlap with Gin Jenny’s (BOARDING SCHOOLS OMG, and more specifically WWII era boarding schools with plucky heroines?) but I have these ones, too:

– interwar mysteries featuring aristocratic people and their servants
– Napoleonic Era high seas adventures with brooding men
– mid-to-late-20th century children being freaked out by things that could be coincidences and thus harmless but might ALSO be demons/ghosts/witches/etc.

By: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Necromancy Never Pays

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Necromancy Never Pays — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:53:50 +0000

[…] Ourselves. Perhaps I heard about it on one of the few podcasts I’ve ever tried to listen to, at Reading the End. Although I will listen to audiobooks while driving, I have little patience for getting information […]

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Sun, 15 Dec 2013 02:51:25 +0000

I just read We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. It is very good, as you said.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:22:18 +0000

In reply to litlove. Yay! I think you will like it. It's a very odd little book but very good.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:22:02 +0000

In reply to NWK (@MumsyNancy). Truly, it's not SO sad. It's really funny in a lot of places. I could bring it home next time I visit? Along with the eleventy trillion other books I've promised to bring home? :p

By: litlove

litlove — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:42:01 +0000

I am so very glad you enjoyed We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, as I wanted to read it very much before I heard you endorse it, and now I want to read it even more, though I’d doubted such a thing would be possible. Yay to the power of the Jennies!