
#051 - Favorite Books Read in 2019
01/31/20 • 155 min
LadyMsGee and The Gribshnobler celebrate the new year by talking about their favorite books they read during the last year. LadyMsGee's top 25 includes lots of history and historical fiction, several works by jewish authors, some classics, and more! The Gribshnobler's top 20 features many works of science fiction, some children's books, a couple of graphic novels, and (guess what) more! Also included in this episode is a bonus clip featuring Professor Gerry Canavan discussing The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and some drone / ambient music by Bodies That Matter, Ocean in a Bottle, and Remora. Check our full lists of books and authors discussed below.
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Yes, Peter Sellers did record a version of this song as Inspector Clouseau: https://youtu.be/IfMMEh3W0ro
LadyMsGee's Top 25 Books read in 2019:
1. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead 2. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford 3. The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick 4. The Essential Langston Hughes: Poetry 5. Everything Under by Daisy Johnson 6. Cheri by Colette 7. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 8. The Woman In White by Wilke Collins 9. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin 10. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter 11. Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame 12. Possession by AS Byatt 13. The Collected Poems of Nelly Sachs 14. The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish 15. Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi 16. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington 17. The Wandering Jews by Josepth Roth 18. Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska 19. Lady Susan by Jane Austen 20. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan 21. Paris 1919: 6 Months That Changed The World by Margret McMillian 22. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 23. The Seven Good Years: A Memoir by Etgar Keret 24. People of The Book by Geraldine Brooks 25. Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford Short Stories: Anything by Julia Liz Elliott
The Gribshnobler's Top 20 Books read in 2019:
20. Harley & Ivy Meet Betty & Veronica – Paul Dini, Marc Andreyko, & Laura Braga (art) 19. 50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior - Annette L. Breaux & Todd Whitaker 18. Philip Jose Farmer - Flesh 17. Acts of Conscience – William Barton 16. One Crazy Summer – Rita Williams-Garcia 15. Knuffle Bunny Trilogy – Mo Willems 14. Robert Silverberg – Nightwings 13. The Einstein Intersection – Samuel R. Delaney 12. Robert Sheckley – Dimension of Miracle 11. My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers - Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – Christine King Farris & Chris K. Soentpiet (Illustrator) 10. Ubik – Philip K. Dick 9. The Seven Good Years – Etgar Keret 8. The Entropy Exhibition – Colin Greenland 7. The Tale of Despereaux – Kate DiCamillo & Timothy Basil Ering (art) 6. The Power – Naomi Alderman 5. The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester 4. They Called Us Enemy - George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, & Harmony Becker (Art) 3. The Testaments – Margaret Atwood 2. An Informal History of the Hugos – Jo Walton 1. The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin
Music in this episode
1. Bodies That Matter: Are We Weird Enough? (7:30)
From the album Are We Weird Enough?
Part of Droneuary 2020
Bodies That Matter on Facebook and BandCamp
2. Ocean in a Bottle: Holding Hands Falling Into Saturn (5:28)
From the album Holding Hands Falling Into Saturn
Part of Droneuary 2020
Ocean in a Bottle on Facebook and Bandcamp
3. Remora: Variations (18:03)
from the album Variations
Remora on Facebook and Silber Media
Silber Media on
LadyMsGee and The Gribshnobler celebrate the new year by talking about their favorite books they read during the last year. LadyMsGee's top 25 includes lots of history and historical fiction, several works by jewish authors, some classics, and more! The Gribshnobler's top 20 features many works of science fiction, some children's books, a couple of graphic novels, and (guess what) more! Also included in this episode is a bonus clip featuring Professor Gerry Canavan discussing The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and some drone / ambient music by Bodies That Matter, Ocean in a Bottle, and Remora. Check our full lists of books and authors discussed below.
https://www.facebook.com/hugogirlpodcast/
Yes, Peter Sellers did record a version of this song as Inspector Clouseau: https://youtu.be/IfMMEh3W0ro
LadyMsGee's Top 25 Books read in 2019:
1. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead 2. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford 3. The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick 4. The Essential Langston Hughes: Poetry 5. Everything Under by Daisy Johnson 6. Cheri by Colette 7. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 8. The Woman In White by Wilke Collins 9. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin 10. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter 11. Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame 12. Possession by AS Byatt 13. The Collected Poems of Nelly Sachs 14. The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish 15. Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi 16. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington 17. The Wandering Jews by Josepth Roth 18. Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska 19. Lady Susan by Jane Austen 20. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan 21. Paris 1919: 6 Months That Changed The World by Margret McMillian 22. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 23. The Seven Good Years: A Memoir by Etgar Keret 24. People of The Book by Geraldine Brooks 25. Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford Short Stories: Anything by Julia Liz Elliott
The Gribshnobler's Top 20 Books read in 2019:
20. Harley & Ivy Meet Betty & Veronica – Paul Dini, Marc Andreyko, & Laura Braga (art) 19. 50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior - Annette L. Breaux & Todd Whitaker 18. Philip Jose Farmer - Flesh 17. Acts of Conscience – William Barton 16. One Crazy Summer – Rita Williams-Garcia 15. Knuffle Bunny Trilogy – Mo Willems 14. Robert Silverberg – Nightwings 13. The Einstein Intersection – Samuel R. Delaney 12. Robert Sheckley – Dimension of Miracle 11. My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers - Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – Christine King Farris & Chris K. Soentpiet (Illustrator) 10. Ubik – Philip K. Dick 9. The Seven Good Years – Etgar Keret 8. The Entropy Exhibition – Colin Greenland 7. The Tale of Despereaux – Kate DiCamillo & Timothy Basil Ering (art) 6. The Power – Naomi Alderman 5. The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester 4. They Called Us Enemy - George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, & Harmony Becker (Art) 3. The Testaments – Margaret Atwood 2. An Informal History of the Hugos – Jo Walton 1. The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin
Music in this episode
1. Bodies That Matter: Are We Weird Enough? (7:30)
From the album Are We Weird Enough?
Part of Droneuary 2020
Bodies That Matter on Facebook and BandCamp
2. Ocean in a Bottle: Holding Hands Falling Into Saturn (5:28)
From the album Holding Hands Falling Into Saturn
Part of Droneuary 2020
Ocean in a Bottle on Facebook and Bandcamp
3. Remora: Variations (18:03)
from the album Variations
Remora on Facebook and Silber Media
Silber Media on
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#050 - Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler (with Prof. Gerry Canavan)
LadyMsGee and The Gribshnobler are joined by special guest Professor Gerry Canavan, author of Masters of Science Fiction: Octavia E. Butler. We discuss Parable of the Talents, sequel to dystopian science fiction novel Parable of the Sower, along with Butler's life and work in general. Stick around until the end for some mentions of Margaret Atwood, Ken Liu, Cixin Liu, and Isaac Asimov. We also feature some Butler inspired music from T. C. Costello and Black Quantum Futurism with MMGZ. Books are great.
Buy Professor Canavan's book, Masters of Science Fiction: Octavia E. Butler on Amazon
Buy Parable of the Talents on Amazon
Read essays about Butler by Canavan and others in Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler
Read more of Canavan's work at The Los Angeles Review of Books: https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Music in this Episode
1. T. C. Costello: Over the Skies
from the album Horizon Songs
T. C. Costello on Facebook and Bandcamp
2. MMGZ, Black Quantum Futurism
from the album Constellation 8/∞
Black Quantum Futurism on Facebook, Instagram, and https://www.blackquantumfuturism.com/
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#052 - Reading Challenge 2020
The Gribshnobler is all by himself, talking about his 2020 Reading challenge. He's gonna tell you about the various categories he came up with, which books he plans on reading, which books he's already read, and some other stuff. Also featured is some new music by Trouble Salad, including another drone entry for Silber Records' Droneuary 2020
Authors mentioned in this episode include A. E. Marling, Michael Swanwick, Cat Rambo, Julia Liz Eliot, Saladin Ahmed, P. Djeli Clark, Theodora Goss, Rich Horton, Frank Herbert, Michael Moorcock, Norman Spinrad, Marlon James, Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Laurel K. Hamilton, Damon Knight, Charlotte Bronte, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, and more.
The Gribshnobler's Goodreads Profile: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/28787654-tony
The Gribshnobler on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gribshnobler
LabyrinthLib on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LabyrinthLib
Music in this episode
1. Trouble Salad: Primordial IV: The Awakening of Matter (6:16)
from the album Conception of the Deities
2. Trouble Salad: Cavity Claw (19:21)
from the album Cavity Claw (Part of Droneuary 2020)
Trouble Salad on Facebook and Bandcamp
Silber Records on Facebook, Bandcamp, and http://silbermedia.com/
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