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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.38: The Royal We and a Royalty-and-Rebels Game

Today, as a pairing to our earlier podcast about books that intimidate us, we’re talking about topics that intimidate us. Whiskey Jenny can’t abide eye stuff, I can’t read anything about floods–share yours in the comments! You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 38 Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin Jenny) and Whiskey Jenny on Goodreads. Or if you wish, you can find us on iTunes (and if you enjoy the podcast, give us a good rating!…

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.37: Kanae Minato’s Confessions and Revenge of the Games!

Today’s pod kinda has two games! Because it’s been so long since we did any. One of them is a copy of a game Randon plays every year with his students, and the other is about REVENGE! You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 37 Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin Jenny) and Whiskey Jenny on Goodreads. Or if you wish, you can find us on iTunes (and if you enjoy the podcast, give us a good…

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.36: Books that Scare Us & a Kiran Desai Book that Didn’t Wow Us

This was supposed to be the episode we recorded together in India, but tragically, my microphone broke down in transit. Now I am saving up for a new one, and borrowing microphones off of other people in the meantime. (Woe.) Anyway, we’re here to talk about intimidating books (we have a taxonomy) and Kiran Desai’s book Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 36 Here are the contents of the podcast if you want to skip around: 1:09 –…

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.35: Animals in Books and Molly Gloss’s Falling from Horses

Mea maxima culpa! My hibiscus expanded to comprehend podcast as well, and moreover my microphone broke down. You should have seen Whiskey Jenny’s and my faces when the microphone broke down. We were so excited to record podcast together in India. ANYWAY. This week, we want to tell you about a dear pal’s new book, Mort(e), recently the subject of io9’s Book Club. After that, we’re talking about animals in books (particularly, dogs dying in books), a somewhat truncated discussion as Whiskey Jenny cannot speak of fictional animal deaths without breaking down (that is hyperbole but barely). And we wrap…

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.34: Best and Worst of 2014 and Elena Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend”

This week, we’re doing a round-up of some superlatives from 2014 and reviewing the first book in Elena Ferrante’s famed Neapolitan series (mm, can’t see that name without thinking of ice cream). You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 34 Or if you wish, you can find us on iTunes (and if you enjoy the podcast, give us a good rating! We appreciate it very very much). Credits Producer: Captain Hammer Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee Song is by Jeff MacDougall and comes…

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.33: Fictional Workplaces, Mandel’s The Singer’s Gun and a Transportation Game

The podcast says Happy New Year!! Whiskey Jenny and I are back once again to talk about fictional workplaces (we have a small taxonomy of how to do these) and The Singer’s Gun, a book from Emily St. John Mandel’s backlist. We also play a game with Randon that deals with modes of transportation. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 33 Or if you wish, you can find us on iTunes (and if you enjoy the podcast, give us a good rating!…

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.32: Serial Books, a Book about a Serialized Game, and a Game about Games

Did you miss us? Our podcast hiatus went longer than we intended, due to some technical difficulties on Whiskey Jenny’s end. But at last we have struggled through those problems to bring you a new episode! In this one we talk about serial writing and why it’s so great; we review John Darnielle’s Wolf in White Van; and we play a game about games, invented by Randon! You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 32 Or if you wish, you can find us…

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.31: The Children’s Canon, The Pushcart War, and a Newbery Award Game

This week, we welcome special guest star Robyn (my sister!!) to talk about the books we’d add or subtract from the canon of children’s literature. We review Jean Merrill’s wonderful book The Pushcart War on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, and we play a way-too-hard game about Newbery winners. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 31 Or if you wish, you can find us on iTunes (and if you enjoy the podcast, give us a good rating! We appreciate it very very…

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.30: Correcting the Canon, The Buccaneers, and a Peerage Game

We welcome back special guest star Ashley to talk about authors we’d promote or demote from the Canon of Great Literature! Our book this week is Edith Wharton’s unfinished novel The Buccaneers, which is about rich American girls going to England to marry nobility, and Whiskey Jenny accordingly provided a game about the peerage to go along with! You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 30 An important note: Whiskey Jenny at one point mentions Roland Barthes’s book Camera Obscura, but she meant…

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.29 – National Book Awards and Bite-Sized Discussions

We go insane in this podcast and have a discussion topic for each essay in Michelle Orange’s This Is Running for Your Life. This time, we recorded without Randon on the line, and he reports that this episode had more “Sorry Randons!” per minute than any previous episode. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 29 Or if you wish, you can find us on iTunes (and if you enjoy the podcast, give us a good rating! We appreciate it very very much).…

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