As we prepare to recommend books for you and your loved ones, Whiskey Jenny and I discuss how and when we recommend books (spoiler alert: enthusiastically and always), as well as how we cope with failed recommendations. Then we review Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 51 You can access our holiday gift guide form here. Be sure to get your entries in soon! Our gift guide podcast will air next week!…
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WAIT WHAT
Published 26 Sep 2012
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Gin Jenny
There’s a movie of Midnight’s Children and that’s happening right now and I never knew? DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS AND DIDN’T TELL ME! I swear to God, bloggy friends. Did you know about this and didn’t tell me? What did I do to you to make you neglect me this way? Was it that time I vanished for the whole summer? Cause…well, no, that’s very fair if so. Salman Rushdie is not my favorite author (very few of his lady characters are interesting), although I like him a lot, and Midnight’s Children is not my favorite of his books,…
18 CommentsReview: Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie
Published 8 Jun 2011
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Gin Jenny
My lovely Legal Sister bought me Shalimar the Clown at a book sale last year and gave it to me when she GRADUATED SISTER GRADUATED WOOOO YAY FOR SISTERS. Legal Sister reports that the family has a policy whereby we all give each other books we got at book sales and do not have to pay each other back. I am not sure this is a real policy, but I’m delighted to acknowledge it as if it were. Shalimar the Clown is one of the two fiction books by Salman Rushdie I had yet to read (not counting Grimus and…
37 CommentsThe Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
Published 27 Jul 2009
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Gin Jenny
The Enchantress of Florence is all about a Florentine stranger who comes to the court of Mughal emperor Akbar the Great (heehee, get it?) with a story to tell. He claims that he is Akbar’s uncle (ish), the son of a great-aunt Akbar never knew existed. It’s a bold claim, but the stranger is a bold man; and in the days that follow, he entrances Akbar with the story of three Italian friends (including Machiavelli because, you know, it’s Salman Rushdie, and why not?), and the parts they played in the tale of the stranger’s purported mother, the “hidden princess”…
13 CommentsBooking Through Thursday
Published 5 Jun 2009
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Gin Jenny
I like this one: This can be a quick one. Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. So here are my fifteen books that will always stick with me, more or less in the order in which they entered my life: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte Emily Climbs, L.M .Montgomery Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card Macbeth, William Shakespeare The Chosen, Chaim Potok The Color Purple, Alice Walker Harry Potter and…
10 CommentsThe Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
Published 16 Jun 2008
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Gin Jenny
I heard about this from um. You know. Everywhere. Before I went to England, I went to the bookstore to pick out three books for myself. They were leaving-home presents to myself, and I was going to read one of them before leaving America, and one of them on the plane to England, and one of them right before I left England. So I got a stack of several books, and I was going to decide which I wanted to buy. I sat down on the chair and read the beginnings of all of them, and The Satanic Verses was…
Leave a CommentKeturah and Lord Death, Martine Leavitt
Published 19 Feb 2008
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Gin Jenny
“Tell me what it is like to die,” I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. “You experience something similar every day,” he said softly. “It is as familiar to you as bread and butter.” “Yes,” I said. “It is like every night when I fall asleep.” “No. It is like every morning when you wake up.” Recommended by: Brooklyn Arden Oh how I liked this book. It’s about a girl called Keturah who goes into the forest after a white hart and meets Lord Death. She doesn’t want to die without having known…
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