Reading the End Posts

It’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!

Episode 113

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

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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 available under the jump!

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