A friend recently mentioned that quarantine lets you discover what everyone’s fail state is, which I thought was incredibly smart. Mine is definitely Control Freak, often manifest in the subcategory Resource Hoarding. One way in which this has manifested during quarantine is that I’ve spent all my travel money on books. Ordinarily I am quite frugal about buying things, but this year I have acquired an undue number of books — though admittedly that’s partly because I’m trying to support independent bookstores. So it was a thrill that Whiskey Jenny agreed to devote this podcast to the books we’ve acquired in quarantine. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go!
Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around!
1:20 – What we’re reading
4:05 – What we’re cooking
9:40 – Books we acquired in quarantine
32:33 – Talia Hibbert’s Take a Hint, Dani Brown
And here’s a list of everything we talked about!
The Hidden Scrolls, Neil Silberman
Making Oscar Wilde, Michele Mendolssohn
Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty
Cal Cunningham (candidate for NC Senator)
recipe for Trinbagonion doubles (with video!)
Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
The Changeling, Victor Lavalle
Milkman, Anna Burns
Girl Gone Viral, Alisha Rai
A Gentleman Undone, Cecilia Grant
A Woman Untangled, Cecilia Grant
A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong, Cecilia Grant
The Kraken King, Meljean Brook
Pansies, Alexis Hall
Glitterland, Alexis Hall
Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Talia Hibbert
Tubby and Coo’s
The City We Became, NK Jemisin
The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo
Thorn, Intisar Khanani
In West Mills, De’Shawn Charles Winslow
Network Effect, Martha Wells
The House on the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune
Giant Days, John Allison
The Heir Affair, Heather Cocks
The Rock and the River, Kekla Magoon
The War that Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Good Night Mr Tom, Michelle Magorian
The War I Finally Won, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace
Pretty as a Picture, Elizabeth Little
Night Film, Marisha Pessl
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
VERSO BOOK CLUB
War in the Age of Trump: The Defeat of ISIS, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran, Patrick Cockburn
Feminist City, Leslie Kern
Sensoria, ed. McKenzie Wark
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
The Mothers, Brit Bennett
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
two Les Mis fics:
this one goes out to, by knight_tracer and novembersmith
World Ain’t Ready, by idiopathicsmile
Take a Hint, Dani Brown, Talia Hibbert
Girl Gone Viral, Alisha Rai
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Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcripts by: Sharon of Library Hungry
Transcript is coming soon!