Hi friends! If you’ve been worrying about what you’re going to watch when Game of Thrones comes to an end, I hope that I have already told you to watch Black Sails. But in case you’re on the fence, I am recapping it with Jodie of Lady Business, and our latest post is live now! Come sail the high squees with us! I’m also at Lady Business to share (belatedly) some YA unreliable narrators for the April edition of the YA Agenda. In podcast crossovering, me and Whiskey Jenny are over at the Spectology podcast to talk about Ann Leckie,…
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Happy April! I have a belated March YA Agenda column up at Lady Business today — go check it out!
Leave a CommentHappy Thursday! I’m over at Lady Business talking about YA books with NO ROMANCE AT ALL, plus chattering about some February releases that I’m excited for. Stop by and say hi!
Leave a CommentIt’s one of our three favorite times of year: Seasonal book preview time! With very great difficulty, we intrepid Jennies have sallied forth into the world of publisher catalogs and selected the five-or-six best books coming out between January and April 2019. It’s a good season for books, my friends. Then we chat about the first play we’ve ever read for podcast, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!
Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around.
1:36 – What we’re reading
3:38 – The best of what we listened to in 2018
5:53 – Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Book 5, Chapters 5-10
21:47 – Update on Fall 2018 Book Preview
23:07 – Spring 2019 Book Preview
33:22 – We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915, by Jackie Sibblies Drury
45:11 – What we’re reading next time
What we talked about:
The Vela, Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon, SL Huang https://www.serialbox.com/serials/vela
The Book of M, Peng Shepherd
Live from Here with Chris Thile
“My Oh My”
Jesus Christ Superstar Live
Return of the King
Gin Jenny’s Fall 18 Books:
Washington Black, Esi Edugyan
Transcription, Kate Atkinson
Zero Sum Game, SL Huang
Hearts Unbroken, Cynthia Leitich Smith
Exit Strategy, Martha Wells
Eternity Girl, Magdalene Visaggio
Whiskey Jenny’s Fall 18 Books:
The Royal Runaway, Lindsay Emory
The Best Bad Things, Katrina Colasco
Waiting for Eden, Elliot Ackerman
Retablos, Octavio Solas
Gin Jenny’s Spring 19 Books:
The Kingdom of Copper, by SA Chakraborty
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, by David Treuer
A People’s Future of the United States, edited by Victor Lavalle and John Joseph Adams
The True Queen, Zen Cho
Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi
Return of the Thief, Megan Whalen Turner
Whiskey Jenny’s Spring 19 Books:
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James
The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders
The Night Tiger, Yangsze Choo
American Spy, Lauren Wilkinson
Walking on the Ceiling, Aysegül Savas
We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915, by Jackie Sibblies Drury
Interview with Jackie Sibblies Drury
Insurrecto, Gina Apostol
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!
Leave a CommentHappy last Monday in January! Today I’m over at Lady Business chattering about the best YA sequels in 2018, plus a run-down of the best YA that came out this month. Hop on over and say hi!
Leave a CommentWow, you guys, it’s a new week of Elinor Glyn, and the revolver from Dmitry has already made its second appearance. So much sooner than I had expected! The idyll (???) that Paul and the lady are living in faces its first obstacle when she finds the revolver on Paul’s person. She divines that Dmitry would only have handed it over to Paul if there had been IMMINENT DANGER, which in turn means that she and Paul have to get out of dodge. Paul finds this extremely sexy and has no follow-up questions. She decides to go to a secondary…
Leave a CommentChristmas celebrators amongst us, I hope you had a wonderful day yesterday! Today is the day for reading books and relaxing and perhaps listening to podcasts? In service of that end, the Jennys bring you a bonus episode in which we watch the Netflix original movie The Princess Switch and recap every glorious moment of it for you. Enjoy!
Thanks so much to our Patreon subscribers for making this possible!
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!
Leave a CommentHappy podcast day, and strap in for what Whiskey Jenny described as a “very English lit class” recording. We’re chatting about the tone of books and when it works for us and doesn’t, and then we dive into Esi Edugyan’s latest novel, Washington Black. (We loved it.) You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!
Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around.
0:57 – What we’re reading
2:19 – What we’re listening to
4:40 – Tone in books
24:15 – Washington Black, Esi Edugyan
42:51 – What we’re reading next time!
And here are the things we discussed on this podcast!
“Brothers in Arms,” copperbadge
Miranda in Milan, Katherine Duckett
How Did This Get Made podcast
Limetown podcast
Limetown is actually being adapted for Facebook Watch? which is apparently a streaming service that exists?
Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh
Salman Rushdie
HHhH, Laurent Binet
The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
Chime, Franny Billingsley
Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg
Kate Atkinson
Vladimir Nabokov
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
the Coen Brothers movies
Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
Patsy Walker, AKA Hellcat, Kate Leth and Brittney Williams
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Ryan North and Erica Henderson
The Woman Next Door, Yewande Omotoso
Notwithstanding, Louis de Bernieres
Undead Girl Gang, Lily Anderson
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
“Yellow Eyes,” Rayland Baxter
Rayland Baxter’s interview about the song
The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater, Alanna Okun
Washington Black, Esi Edugyan
We Are Proud to Present a Presentation about the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915, Jackie Sibblies Drury
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!
Continue readingReading the End Bookcast, Ep. 111 – Tone in Books and Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black
Leave a Comment The holidays are upon us! As a Christmas celebrator and the godmother/aunt of a two-year-old, I have never had quite as much Christmas spirit as I have this year. Unfortunately, I got too enthusiastic over the break and did basically all of my shopping in one go. Oops! Now I have lots of present energy and no more presents to buy. Also, I have a podcast. So! Me and Whiskey Jenny are doing our annual holiday thing where we help you choose book presents for your loved ones! Just go to our Holiday Gift Guide form, tell us your name…
Leave a CommentHappy Monday! October is three-quarters over, and I am once again over at Lady Business to talk about young adult fiction I love and am excited for. To nobody’s surprise, I have seized this opportunity to talk about an actually completely middle-grade book that I already talked about in this space but I’m not over it yet. Pop on by and check it out!
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