Bookbabble Episode 55: Christmas Gifts!
Bookbabble Episode 55: Christmas Gifts!
Recorded 30 Nov 2009
Babblers: Lone, Marcel, Renee, Donny
Synopsis:
The group talks about Christmas gifts – books we’d like to give people, and what we’d like to receive. We covered Black Friday and Cyber Monday, many books, and a toaster. Also, find out what Doraemon and Renee’s handbag have in common (hint: it’s not the colour).
Show Length: 1:35:20 mins
Mentioned
- Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
- Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol 1, Virginia Woolf
- Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi
- Invisible, Paul Auster
- Lars Saabye Christensen
- Heiner Müller
- PG Wodehouse
- The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940, Samuel Beckett
- Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails: From the Alamagoozlum to the Zombie:100 Rediscovered Recipes and the Stories Behind Them, Ted Haigh
- Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody, Michael Gerber
- Die Reise, Bernward Vesper
- Cromwell, Victor Hugo
- The Passport, Herta Muller
- An Equal Music, Vikram Seth
- A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
- Collected Poem, Paul Auster
- Beautiful Days, Franz Innerhofer
- Raven (Raabe Baikal), Thomas Strittmatter
- The Magicians, Lev Grossman (and the article of Grossman’s that Marcel found)
- The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- The Sorrows of An American, Siri Hustvedt
- The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy: Only You Can Save Mankind, Johnny and the Dead, and Johnny and the Bomb (Johnny Maxwell, Vol. 1, 2, 3), Terry Pratchett
- I like you: Hospitality under the Influence, Amy Sedaris
Links
[audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/17719/episodes/201614/bookbabbletheshow-201614-12-06-2009.mp3]Download the show here.
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