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Reading the End Bookcast, BONUS: A Roundtable on Genderbent Twilight

Published 10 Oct 2018 by Gin Jenny

Today is a very blessed Wednesday, because we are bringing you a bonus episode with not one! but two! special guests. Friends of the podcast Ashley and Robert came to Louisiana along with Whiskey Jenny, and we somehow talked them into reading Genderbent Twilight, AKA Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, by Stephenie Meyer, for our September bonus episode.

Genderbent Twilight

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Bonus Episode 4

Note: We kept saying genderswapped about this book, and I’m annoyed with myself because I actually greatly prefer genderbent, which does not carry the connotation of there being only two genders. So, bother. I am sorry about that, and I will be more attentive to language hygiene next time. Discontented-mouth emoji from me.

Thanks so much to our Patreon subscribers for making this possible!

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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 the End Bookcast, BONUS: The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society: The Movie!

Published 19 Sep 2018 by Gin Jenny

WELP that was an absurdly long subject line, and I must say that I side with Juliet’s editor, played by the delightful Matthew Goode:

image description: Matthew Goode makes a face and says "Crikey, that's quite a mouthful."

TRUER WORDS, Matthew Goode! Listeners should know that I asked Whiskey Jenny if she felt we could wrap up our thoughts on the Netflix movie of The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society in a cool 30 minutes of recording, and she said, “I don’t think that’s realistic.” We are not masters of terseness.

You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Bonus Episode 3

Thanks so much to our Patreon subscribers for making this possible!

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 the End Bookcast, Ep. 107 – Fall Book Preview and Vanessa Hua’s A River of Stars

Published 12 Sep 2018 by Gin Jenny

Friends in the Carolinas and Virginias, the thoughts of this podcast are with you. Please stock up on flashlights and batteries, don’t store important documents in the dishwasher, and buy plenty of good booze to see you through. Or if you’re in an evacuation zone, please please evacuate. Meanwhile, here’s some stormy day podcast listening for everyone. We’re doing a seasonal book preview — always one of my favorite types of episodes to record! — and reviewed Vanessa Hua’s debut novel A River of Stars.

River of Stars

You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 107

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

1:56 – What we’re reading
3:30 – What we’re cooking/eating
5:40 – LOTR Reread: The Two Towers, Book 3, Chapters 6-11
20:54 – Summer book preview check-in
22:23 – Fall book preview
31:22 – River of Stars, Vanessa Hua
42:09 – What we’re reading next time

Here are the books we mentioned.

A Duke by Default, Alyssa Cole
The Girl from Everywhere, Heidi Heilig
The Two Towers, Chapters 6-11 of Book 3
Armistice, Lara Elena Donnelly (fanfic post!)
Witchmark, CL Polk
The Poppy War, RF Kuang
Temper, Nicky Drayden
Undead Girl Gang, Lily Anderson (podcast!)
On the Come-Up, Angie Thomas
Number One Chinese Restaurant, Lillian Li
The Ensemble, Aja Gabel
Washington Black, Esi Edugyan
Half-Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan (podcast!)
Transcript, Kate Atkinson
Life after Life, Kate Atkinson
A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson (podcast!)
The Best Bad Things, Katrina Carrasco
Zero Sum Game, SL Huang
“The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist,” SL Huang
Waiting for Eden, Elliot Ackerman
Hearts Unbroken, Cynthia Leitich Smith
Retablos: Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border, Octavio Solis
Exit Strategy, Martha Wells
All Systems Red, Martha Wells
The Royal Runaway, Lindsay Emory
Eternity Girl, Magdalene Visaggio
River of Stars, Vanessa Hua
One Red Paperclip blog
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
“The Kite Maker,” Brenda Peynado link

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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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 106 – Historical Fiction and Jordy Rosenberg’s Confessions of the Fox

Published 29 Aug 2018 by Gin Jenny

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.

Confessions of the Fox

You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 106

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

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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Reading the End Bookcast BONUS: The Saddest Children’s Books

Published 1 Aug 2018 by Gin Jenny

I’m going to say right up front that Whiskey Jenny only cries once in this episode, and I hope all y’all are impressed about that. For this month’s bonus episode (thank y’all again so much for your support), we decided to talk about the saddest books we read as kids, and Whiskey Jenny ONLY CRIES ONCE. (YES we included Where the Red Fern Grows. Come on.) (Gin Jenny, an automaton, cries zero times. She did get teary on Twitter today thinking about the characters in new Star Wars, though.) You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below,…

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 105 – Great American Novelists and Lily Anderson’s Undead Girl Gang

Published 18 Jul 2018 by Gin Jenny

Listeners, I got my first electricity bill since summer began in earnest, and I am delighted to report that it is NOT THAT BAD. My central air and heat has caused me some stress and dismay over the last year, but it’s all proving worth it. If you are in a place where central air comes standard, I congratulate you and rejoice in our shared happiness. If not, I hope that you are finding other ways to keep cool, and I commend to your ears this, our latest podcast. We read Lily Anderson’s YA horror novel Undead Girl Gang and suggest some candidates for Great American Authorship who aren’t white dudes. Plus, what we’re reading, what we’re listening to, and what we’ll be reading for next time. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 105

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

1:43 – What we’re reading
6:09 – What we’re listening to
8:17 – LOTR Reread: Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2, Chapters 6-10
23:44 – Great American Novelists (who aren’t white dudes)
38:17 – Undead Girl Gang, Lily Anderson
51:06 – What we’re reading next time

Here’s the Jonathan Franzen profile that Whiskey Jenny is talking about. It’s magical.

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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Reading the End Bookcast BONUS: The Man from UNCLE

Published 27 Jun 2018 by Gin Jenny

In one and the same week there have dropped a profile of Jonathan Franzen that was everything I wanted it to be and our VERY FIRST BONUS PODCAST EPISODE, made possible by our wonderful Patreon patrons. So, I mean, those are two things making me happy, even though there’s a lot that sucks about this week. And I hope those things can make you happy, too.

This time around, we’re discussing The Man from U.N.C.L.E., one of the greatest movies of our time and a top candidate for me to donate to a Kickstarter for a sequel to. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Bonus 1

There are no time signatures because we literally only talk about one thing this week, and it’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and everything we love about it. Please enjoy. Here is Henry Cavill’s face half in shadow.

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 the End Bookcast, Ep. 104 – Attacking the Summer TBR and Naima Coster’s Halsey Street

Published 20 Jun 2018 by Gin Jenny

It’s Wednesday, and I am running out of ways to say that the world feels more on fire than usual. But I hope that our podcast can be a small escape from the news. Call your reps, then hunker down under a weighted blanket with some chocolate cake and join in with our extremely high level of enthusiasm for Lord of the Rings and the books we already own and are determined to read at last — plus a literary fiction book that was really really not in our wheelhouse.

You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 104

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

0:21 – What we’re reading
3:05 – What we’re learning
9:01 – LOTR Reread: Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2, Chapters 1-5
26:10 – Summer TBR Piles
39:47 – Halsey Street, Naima Coster
49:31 – What we’re reading next time

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 cut!

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 103 – Summer Book Preview and The Nakano Thrift Shop

Published 6 Jun 2018 by Gin Jenny

Come my own ones, come my fair ones, come now unto me, would you fancy a new podcast that has just come from WELL NOT REALLY THE SEA but for the sake of the rhyme. It’s Podcast Wednesday, and Whiskey Jenny is back and y’all maybe (maaaaaaaaaaaaybe) missed her almost as much as I did! We resume rereading Lord of the Rings, get slightly heated on the topic of Goldberry, chat about the summer books we’re looking forward to, and review (kinda) Hiromi Kawakami’s The Nakano Thrift Shop. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or…

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 102 – Book Clubs and Aminatta Forna’s Happiness

Published 23 May 2018 by Gin Jenny

We have been trying to get our friend Alexis on the podcast and it finally succeeded, but because destiny opposes our works and ways, Whiskey Jenny was too sick to join us. Luckily Alexis and I still have lots of opinions between the two of us, and we had a grand time (though not as grand as it would have been if Whiskey Jenny had been there with us) chatting about book clubs and book swaps, and what we’re reading and listening to, and Aminatta Forna’s latest book, Happiness.

You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 102

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

1:48 – What we’re reading
6:25 – What we’re listening to
12:19 – Book clubs and book groups and book swaps
29:38 – Happiness, Aminatta Forna

Alexis is listening to The West Wing Weekly and My Dad Wrote a Porno! And I’m listening to songs from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and the Dear Prudence podcast, with Daniel Mallory Ortberg FORMERLY OF THE TOAST. (Watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend if you’re not already.)

Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour

Transcript is available under the jump!

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