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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 105 – Great American Novelists and Lily Anderson’s Undead Girl Gang

Published 18 Jul 2018 by Gin Jenny

Listeners, I got my first electricity bill since summer began in earnest, and I am delighted to report that it is NOT THAT BAD. My central air and heat has caused me some stress and dismay over the last year, but it’s all proving worth it. If you are in a place where central air comes standard, I congratulate you and rejoice in our shared happiness. If not, I hope that you are finding other ways to keep cool, and I commend to your ears this, our latest podcast. We read Lily Anderson’s YA horror novel Undead Girl Gang and suggest some candidates for Great American Authorship who aren’t white dudes. Plus, what we’re reading, what we’re listening to, and what we’ll be reading for next time. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 105

Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around.

1:43 – What we’re reading
6:09 – What we’re listening to
8:17 – LOTR Reread: Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2, Chapters 6-10
23:44 – Great American Novelists (who aren’t white dudes)
38:17 – Undead Girl Gang, Lily Anderson
51:06 – What we’re reading next time

Here’s the Jonathan Franzen profile that Whiskey Jenny is talking about. It’s magical.

Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin Jenny) and Whiskey Jenny on Goodreads. If you like what we do, support us on Patreon. 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
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcripts by: Sharon of Library Hungry

Transcript is available under the jump!

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Reading the End Bookcast BONUS: The Man from UNCLE

Published 27 Jun 2018 by Gin Jenny

In one and the same week there have dropped a profile of Jonathan Franzen that was everything I wanted it to be and our VERY FIRST BONUS PODCAST EPISODE, made possible by our wonderful Patreon patrons. So, I mean, those are two things making me happy, even though there’s a lot that sucks about this week. And I hope those things can make you happy, too.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
how dare this poster make Elizabeth Debicki bigger than Alicia Vikander

This time around, we’re discussing The Man from U.N.C.L.E., one of the greatest movies of our time and a top candidate for me to donate to a Kickstarter for a sequel to. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Bonus 1

There are no time signatures because we literally only talk about one thing this week, and it’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and everything we love about it. Please enjoy. Here is Henry Cavill’s face half in shadow.

Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin Jenny) and Whiskey Jenny on Goodreads. If you like what we do, support us on Patreon. 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
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcripts by: Sharon of Library Hungry

Transcript is available below the jump!

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 104 – Attacking the Summer TBR and Naima Coster’s Halsey Street

Published 20 Jun 2018 by Gin Jenny

It’s Wednesday, and I am running out of ways to say that the world feels more on fire than usual. But I hope that our podcast can be a small escape from the news. Call your reps, then hunker down under a weighted blanket with some chocolate cake and join in with our extremely high level of enthusiasm for Lord of the Rings and the books we already own and are determined to read at last — plus a literary fiction book that was really really not in our wheelhouse.

You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 104

Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around!

0:21 – What we’re reading
3:05 – What we’re learning
9:01 – LOTR Reread: Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2, Chapters 1-5
26:10 – Summer TBR Piles
39:47 – Halsey Street, Naima Coster
49:31 – What we’re reading next time

Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin Jenny) and Whiskey Jenny on Goodreads. If you like what we do, support us on Patreon. 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
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcripts by: Sharon of Library Hungry

Transcript is available below the cut!

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 103 – Summer Book Preview and The Nakano Thrift Shop

Published 6 Jun 2018 by Gin Jenny

Come my own ones, come my fair ones, come now unto me, would you fancy a new podcast that has just come from WELL NOT REALLY THE SEA but for the sake of the rhyme. It’s Podcast Wednesday, and Whiskey Jenny is back and y’all maybe (maaaaaaaaaaaaybe) missed her almost as much as I did! We resume rereading Lord of the Rings, get slightly heated on the topic of Goldberry, chat about the summer books we’re looking forward to, and review (kinda) Hiromi Kawakami’s The Nakano Thrift Shop. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or…

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 102 – Book Clubs and Aminatta Forna’s Happiness

Published 23 May 2018 by Gin Jenny

We have been trying to get our friend Alexis on the podcast and it finally succeeded, but because destiny opposes our works and ways, Whiskey Jenny was too sick to join us. Luckily Alexis and I still have lots of opinions between the two of us, and we had a grand time (though not as grand as it would have been if Whiskey Jenny had been there with us) chatting about book clubs and book swaps, and what we’re reading and listening to, and Aminatta Forna’s latest book, Happiness.

You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 102

Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around!

1:48 – What we’re reading
6:25 – What we’re listening to
12:19 – Book clubs and book groups and book swaps
29:38 – Happiness, Aminatta Forna

Alexis is listening to The West Wing Weekly and My Dad Wrote a Porno! And I’m listening to songs from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and the Dear Prudence podcast, with Daniel Mallory Ortberg FORMERLY OF THE TOAST. (Watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend if you’re not already.)

Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin Jenny) and Whiskey Jenny on Goodreads. If you like what we do, support us on Patreon. 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
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour

Transcript is available under the jump!

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 101 – Fictional Morality and the Hatening, Part 2

Published 9 May 2018 by Gin Jenny

Are you excited for the Lord of the Rings reread to begin? Because I guarantee you that your excitement level does not approach our excitement levels to be starting this reread. That is not even the main point of this episode, but it’s going to be the main point of this introductory paragraph because I want to really convey the excitement that I feel about it. HAPPY WEDNESDAY.

You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Ep 101

Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around!

1:46 – What we’re reading
5:13 – Where we’re traveling!
9:57 – Lord of the Rings readalong
23:51 – Fictional morality
36:13 – The House at the Edge of Night, Catherine Banner
47:23 – What we’re reading for next time

Simon podcasts at Tea or Books! Check out his podcast!

Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin Jenny) and Whiskey Jenny on Goodreads. If you like what we do, support us on Patreon. 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
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour

Transcript is available under the jump!

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.100 – Patreon Launch and Alfred Lansing’s Endurance (and a Giveaway!)

Published 11 Apr 2018 by Gin Jenny

Can you believe it’s been 100 episodes? Whiskey Jenny and I cannot, such that we spent several minutes of our lives exclaiming about the mysterious way in which our podcast seems both new and eternal. But we are celebrating with a Patreon launch (!!!), and you can check that out here. The gist is that if you want to give us a small amount of money each month to help cover podcast costs, we will be delighted and grateful.

We’re also doing a giveaway to celebrate our 100th episode, and it features several items that I wanted to keep so badly I had to wrap them up and hide them from myself. To wit: A set of bookish stationery, two pocket-size journals from the inimitable Rifle Paper Co., some charming page flags, and a copy of Alfred Lansing’s genuinely marvelous book Endurance.

This giveaway is open internationally, and there are many ways to enter.

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After some persistent jokes that we should have the 100th episode just be a clip show, we have made an episode of the podcast that is all the regular qualities of the podcast, intensified. Which is to say there are two games, more giggling than is probably reasonable, and a very deep dive into the Endurance expedition of Ernest Shackleton. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 100

Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around!

3:29 – What we’re reading
8:33 – Podcast announcements
15:56 – Diamond Jubilee games!
36:37 – Endurance, Alfred Lansing
1:12:46 – What we’re reading for next time

Here are some Adelie penguins saying “Clark.” Here are some more Adelie penguins saying “Clark.” Here are some pictures from the Endurance expedition. We urge you, in particular, to look at how heavy these lifeboats are to haul, yet how tiny to contemplate using them to sail upon the infinite seas.

This is a leopard seal. I oppose it and all its works and ways.

photo credit: Paul Nicklen
THIS IS NOT A SEAL THIS IS A DINOSAUR WHY IS THERE A DINOSAUR IN THE OCEAN EATING PENGUINS

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Credits
Champagne sound is by Andi Roselund (Sangwha Comm)
Photo by: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour

Transcript is under the jump.

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.99 – Interview with Alanna Okun, author of The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater

Published 28 Mar 2018 by Gin Jenny

Happy Wednesday! It’s two author interviews in a row — I know y’all are shook. This week, we were delighted to welcome author Alanna Okun to the podcast this week to talk about her new book The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater (out now from Flatiron Books).

The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater

You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 99

You can find Alanna on Twitter or at her website, and the book is available wherever you get your books.

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! We appreciate it very very much).

Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour

Transcript is available under the jump!

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 98: Interview with Andrew Santella, Author of Soon

Published 14 Mar 2018 by Gin Jenny

Happy Wednesday! This week we’re delighted to welcome Andrew Santella, the author of Soon: An Overdue History of Procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to You and Me, which is out now from Dey Street / HarperCollins. He talks to us about procrastination, freelance writing, and coaching a softball team.

Soon

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Episode 98

You can find Andrew Santella on Twitter or at his website, and the book is available wherever you get your books.

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! We appreciate it very very much).

Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour

Transcript is coming soon and will be available under the jump!

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 97: What We Missed in 2017 and the Third Annual Hatening

Published 28 Feb 2018 by Gin Jenny

Happy Wednesday! I am delighted to bring you the first! ever! podcast! that Whiskey Jenny edited like a damn genius. My voice sounds slightly weird on this podcast, for reasons neither of us have been able to figure out, but it is not Whiskey Jenny’s fault. It is weird on the raw audio. I messed up something. Who knows. It’s in God’s hands. This episode, we’re talking about media we missed (and caught up) in 2017, and then we are commencing the Hatening by reading Jenn Ashworth’s book A Kind of Intimacy. Whiskey Jenny hated it.

A Kind of Intimacy

You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 97

Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around.

1:12 – What we’re reading
10:37 – What we missed in 2017
29:39 – What we caught up on in 2017
41:01 – A Kind of Intimacy, Jenn Ashworth

Here is Patrick Stewart answering a question about domestic violence in a way that made me cry. Here is Elsa Sjunneson-Henry on watching the movie The Shape of Water as a deaf-blind person. Here is the wonderful Tiffany Haddish talking about doing a Groupon with Will and Jada Pinkett Smith.

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! We appreciate it very very much).

Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour

Transcript is coming soon and will be available under the jump.

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