It’s Wednesday, and we’ve missed you! This week we’re nattering about historical fiction as a prelude to talking about a wonderful new historical novel, Jordy Rosenberg’s deeply strange and painstakingly researched Confessions of the Fox. Plus, we pick up the Lord of the Rings readalong with some more complaints about racial coding and some very noisy opinions about Treebeard and his greatness.
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.
2:21 – What we’re reading
6:31 – LOTR Reread: The Two Towers, Book 3, Chapters 1-5
22:20 – Historical fiction dos and don’ts
34:00 – Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg
48:44 – What we’re reading next time
Here’s a list of books we mentioned!
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin
A Curious Beginning, Deanna Raybourne
The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara
The Seagulls Woke Me, Mary Stolz
Master and Commander, Patrick O’Brian (PS here’s a tweet from the author of Check Please that is SPOT FORKING ON about Master and Commander)
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
On Sal Mal Lane, Ru Freeman
Birds without Wings, Louis de Bernieres
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (streaming on Netflix)
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert
Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh (first book in the Ibis Trilogy)
The Last Brother, Natacha Appanah
Jane Austen and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, Stephanie Barron
Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg
A River of Stars, Vanessa Hua
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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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