Episode 55

Books/Links Discussed (in order of appearance)

Hamilton crushed it, of course, at the Grammys. As if there was ever any doubt. Also, because it’s charming, a Got Milk? Hamilton spoof for you to enjoy.

What We’re Reading

Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
The Mother Hunt, Rex Stout
We Love You Charlie Freeman, Kaitlyn Greenidge
The Silkworm and Career of Evil, Robert Galbraith (AKA JK Rowling)

Favorite Literary Couples

Clare and Henry from The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger (Whiskey Jenny)
Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey from Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, Gaudy Night, and Busman’s Honeymoon, by Dorothy Sayers (Gin Jenny)
SPOILERS from Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters (Whiskey Jenny)
Alexander and Hephaestion in Fire from Heaven, by Mary Renault (Gin Jenny)
Eponine and Marius (but mostly Eponine) in Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo (Whiskey Jenny)
Whiskey Jenny never names the two characters in A Tale of Two Cities that she likes. You’ll never know, and neither do I because I never read it.
Celie and Shug Avery from The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (Gin Jenny)
Ifemelu and Obinze from Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Whiskey Jenny)
Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning from their letters (Gin Jenny)¹
Dickon & Mary from The Secret Garden (Whiskey Jenny)

The Hatening, Part 2

Planetfall, Emma Newman

Anxiety and the First Person Narrator in Planetfall (from Lady Business)

The Forcening, Part 1

The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach

(The others Whiskey Jenny nearly chose were The Night Manager, by John Le Carre and Fool, by Christopher Moore.)

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Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Song is by Jeff MacDougall

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To keep it extra positive, I’m doing a giveaway! My birthday was this week, and I’ve decided to celebrate it hobbit-style. One of my all-time favorite books, Eloise Jarvis McGraw’s Greensleeves, was recently put back into print by Nancy Pearl. It’s a dear of a book, as I raved here, and it taught me useful stuff when I was a dumb new adult, and I am offering it up to one lucky winner! The giveaway is open worldwide as I’ll be sending it via Book Depository. Just leave a note in the comments saying you want it, along with a way to contact you, and I will pick a winner on 15 May (next Friday).

This is a lovely article about the flaws and wonders of Anne of Green Gables, and about how we don’t have to choose between Anne and Emily. But I’m going to choose anyway and I choose Emily. Not because of feminism. I just love the Emily books more.

In praise of Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane.

Viola Davis will play Harriet Tubman in an upcoming HBO movie. Yes, thank you, I will watch that.

“Don’t keep finishing your sentences,” he said. “I’m not a bloody fool.”

Feminist romance novel recommendations from Maya Rodale, featuring several of my very favorite romance writers, as well as a book whose title I cannot stop reading as Asses in the Wind, no matter how many times I look at it.

The marvelous Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on African literature, over at the Wall Street Journal.

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