I have to say, the Poetry Foundation really came for me with one of their recent poems, and I can’t be alone with it so I’m going to quote it for y’all here as a run-up to this actually very chipper and non-insane podcast. I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane, The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories, The news would pour out of various devices Interrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen. I would call my friends on other devices; They would be more or…
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Happy holidays, podworld! The Jennys are here to suggest gifts for you to buy for your loved ones — not just those who love books but those who love books slightly less than infinity! Wow such variety, we are podcast geniuses.
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.
1:04 – What we’re reading
2:40 – Jennys’ Holiday Gift Guide
3:30 – Gifts for listeners’ loved ones
What We’re Reading
World War Z, Max Brooks
Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey, Edna Bay
Whiskey Jenny’s Gift Ideas
A subscription to The Second Shelf
Prints from The Great British Baking Show (by Tom Hovey)
Gmorning, Gnight: Little Pep Talks for Me & You, by Lin-Manuel Miranda
the cast recordings of Hadestown and Six: The Musical
Gin Jenny’s Gift Ideas
postcards by Paul Lewin and the Public Domain Review
Castle Hangnail, by Ursula Vernon
a mulled wine kit!
book embossers from The Print Mint
Book Gifts for Listeners
Ellen’s 11-year-old:
Escape to Witch Mountain, Alexander Key
Dactyl Hill Squad, Daniel Jose Older
Larklight, Philip Reeve
Book of Enchantments, Patricia C. Wrede
Ellen’s older kid:
Archer’s Goon or The Dark Lord of Derkholm, Diana Wynne Jones
The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, Mackenzi Lee
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (novel), Shannon Hale and Dean Hale
Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple (with the spoiler that Whiskey Jenny recommends)
Ellen’s mom:
A Curious Beginning, Deanna Raybourn
Vanessa and Her Sister, Priya Parmar
The Sirens Sang of Murder, Sarah Caudwell
Magpie Murders, Anthony Horowitz
Chelsea:
Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly
Lonely Werewolf Girl, Martin Millar
The Ensemble, Aja Gabel
I’ll Give You the Sun, Jandy Nelson
Good and Mad, Rebecca Traister
Renay’s mom:
The Convenient Marriage, Georgette Heyer
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson
Overturned, Lamar Giles
Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty
Renay’s partner:
The Liminal People, Ayize Jama-Everett
The Rook, Daniel O’Malley
(The Hot Ones on YouTube)
Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey
Endurance, Alfred Lansing
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
Renay’s friend:
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
White Tears, Hari Kunzru
Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg
Jane Doe, Victoria Helen Stone
I Can’t Date Jesus, Michael Arceneaux
Glynis’s husband:
Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear
Patsy Walker, AKA Hellcat
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (comics)
The Vela, Yoon-Ha Lee, Rivers Solomon, S. L. Huang, and Becky Chambers
Endurance, Alfred Lansing
Mars Evacuees, Sophia MacDougall
Glynis:
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Holly Black
Pyromantic, Lish McBride
Zero Sun Game, S. L. Huang
Borderline, Mishell Baker
Maureen’s mom:
Love Walked In, Marisa de los Santos
The Beautiful Ones, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A Curious Beginning, Deanna Raybourn
All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
The Camelot Caper, Elizabeth Peters
David’s wife:
The Spellman Files, Lisa Lutz
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, Hannah Tinti
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
Free-floating recs from Whiskey Jenny:
The Mothers, Brit Bennett
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
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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!
Leave a CommentSorry this is so late! I somehow completely blanked on running final filters on our podcast last night, even though it was completely edited and ready to go, so it had to wait until this evening. HAPPY HOLIDAYS ANYWAY, and I hope that those of you who wrote to use via our Holiday Gift Guide can get a few ideas from amongst our many recommendations. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!
Our Own Personal Gift Guides
Gin Jenny: Eyeglasses chain from Leslie’s Lanyards on Etsy
Whiskey Jenny: Litographs temporary tattoos
Gin Jenny: Black Sails on DVD (greatest show of our time)
Whiskey Jenny: P. much anything from Out of Print
Gin Jenny: Milk Makeup Ubame mascara
Whiskey Jenny: some kind of local CSA!
Gin Jenny: About: Blanks notebooks
Whiskey Jenny: Adorable salt and pepper shakers like these boat ones
Gin Jenny: Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey
Whiskey Jenny: Tombow markers
Holiday Gift Guide Recs
Claire’s dad
In the Woods (first in Dublin Murder Squad series), by Tana French
Fearless Jones series by Walter Mosley
The Bat (first in Harry Hole series), by Jo Nesbo
Sea of Poppies (first in Ibis Trilogy), by Amitav Ghosh
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
Ellen’s older daughter
The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
Ray Bradbury short stories
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
Ellen’s younger daughter
Mars Evacuees, Sophia MacDougall
Dealing with Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede
Greenglass House, Kate Milford
Danny the Champion of the World, Roald Dahl
Cinder, Marissa Meyer
Ellen herself!
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty
The Passage, Justin Cronin
Sorcery and Cecelia, Caroline Stevermer and Patricia Wrede
Glynis’s husband
A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
“Fandom for Robots,” A GIFT BUT NOT THE KIND YOU CAN WRAP by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
Chelsea!
Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear
You’re Welcome, Universe, Whitney Gardner
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Sunbolt and Memories of Ash Intisar Khanani
A Hundred Thousand Worlds by Bob Proehl
Caroline’s mum
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice (first of the Mary Russell mysteries), Laurie King
Lost Among the Living, Simone St. James
Crocodile on the Sandbank (first of the Amelia Peabody series), Elizabeth Peters
The Strangler Vine, M.J. Carter
The Shape of Water, Andrea Camilleri
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, John le Carré
Erica’s partner’s mother
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson
Vanessa and Her Sister, Priya Parmar
Our transcript for this episode is under the jump!
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