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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.109 – Bookish Skeletons and Forcening Boat Squad John

Published 28 Nov 2018 by Gin Jenny

The holidays are in full swing chez Jennys, and we are back with many exciting holiday newses. Chief amongst our pieces of news is that we are bringing back the Holiday Gift Guide, wherein we suggest books for you to buy your loved ones. Fill out the form here! (Your deadline for submissions is December 7th.) Meanwhile, we are also finishing The Two Towers, admitting to bookish skeletons in our closets, and reading Suzanne Brockmann’s Ready to Roll, AKA, Boat Squad John.

Ready to Roll

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Episode 109

Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around.

1:34 – What we’re reading
4:00 – What we’re listening to
6:48 – Lord of the Rings Readalong – The Two Towers, Book 4, Chapters 6-10
15:19 – Bookish skeletons in our closet
29:48 – The Forcening, Part Two: Ready to Roll, Suzanne Brockmann
43:42 – What we’re reading next time!
44:30 – Preview of holiday programming

And here are the things we discussed on this podcast!

Jane Doe, Victoria Helen Stone
Number One Chinese Restaurant, Lillian Li
Pandora Christmas station
the Roches – We Three Kings
Peter, Paul, and Mary – A Holiday Celebration
Table Manners (a podcast)
The Two Towers, JRR Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
Rafe, the Buff Male Nanny, Rebekah Weatherspoon
The Count of Monte Cristo
YOU CAN WATCH THE WISHBONE VERSION ON YOUTUBE
A Genius for Deception, Nicholas Rankin
Sourcery, Terry Pratchett
Greensleeves, Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
Ready to Roll, Suzanne Brockmann
Washington Black, Esi Edugyan
Holiday gift guide submission form, once more
The Princess Switch (Netflix movie)
All the holiday movies, a list compiled by Vulture

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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 below the jump!

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Reading along

Published 2 Apr 2010 by Gin Jenny

I just barely squeaked in under the wire with this one. I finished The Two Towers at 11:30 on the night of the 31st. IT WAS EXCITING. When, you know, when the gates closed? And Sam? And Frodo? You know what I’m talking about? Well, anyway. Teresa is done hosting The Two Towers and Maree is taking over. So here we go. The last half of The Two Towers covers fewer characters than the first half. For some, this makes Book 4 slower than the rest of the book; others love the intense focus on Frodo, Gollum, and Sam. Where…

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Fellowship, Finished

Published 8 Mar 2010 by Gin Jenny

I am so late writing this post! But the Lord of the Rings Readalong is continuing, and I am combining the end-of-Fellowship questions from Clare and the start-of-Towers questions from Teresa all in one post. I can do that. Since we’re dealing with the first third of a novel, instead of the first novel in a series, do you find anything different? The pacing would be sort of whack if this were the first novel in the series. Book 1 of Fellowship spends all this time being hobbits and getting the hobbits out of the Shire, and then in Book…

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Update on Fellowship

Published 15 Feb 2010 by Gin Jenny

It is now the middle of the month – tell us all how Tolkien is treating you over at The Literary Omnivore: (omnivore = all standards) If you’ve been with us since the beginning, how do you feel about the narrator compared to the narrator in The Hobbit? BETTER. I didn’t hate the narrating style of The Hobbit or anything, but it didn’t feel like the Middle Earth world. Reading Fellowship is nice – it starts out sounding rather cheerful and hobbity, like The Hobbit, but more Lord of the Ringsy, and then it slowly gets darker and darker. By…

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Beginning Fellowship

Published 3 Feb 2010 by Gin Jenny

Wow, it has been a long time since I read Lord of the Rings. I own a shiny hardback box set of them, which I got on sale at Bongs & Noodles for $15, and which I now discover are the editions with fold-out maps in the back. I want to snip the maps out with careful snips and hang them around my room – except I know my snips would not be tidy, and even if they were, the maps would get all Blue-Tac-y in the corners and need to be folded up and stored next time I move,…

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Half(ish)way through The Hobbit

Published 20 Jan 2010 by Gin Jenny

Eva wants to know how we are all faring with The Hobbit, and I must say I am enjoying it a moderate amount, which is a moderate amount more than I was expecting to enjoy it. At the start of chapter 9, these are my thoughts: 1. When I started out, my reaction was exactly the same as it was when I was eight: I was so indignant on Bilbo’s behalf! How dare those nasty dwarves come in, and mess up his nice house, and eat all his food, and then be all snotty and dismissive of him when he…

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