Bookbabble Episode 57: 2009’s Great and Not So Great Reads
Bookbabble Episode 57: 2009’s Great and Not So Great Reads
Recorded 14 Dec 2009
Babblers: Bjorn, Renee, Marcel, Donny
Synopsis:
The group discusses their best reads of the year, plus some not-so-great reads as well. Also, what books best defined the past decade, given all that has happened in the past 10 years? Plus, Renee treats us to a wonderful rendition of bad sex prose, courtesy of this year’s winner of Literary Review’s 2009 bad sex in fiction award.
Show Length: 1:41:42 mins
Mentioned
- The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell
- Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1, Marcel Proust
- My Uncle Oswald, Roald Dahl
- Doctor Glas, Hjalmar Söderberg
- Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
- Code of the Woosters, PG Wodehouse
- 2666, Roberto Bolaño
- Atemschaukel, Herta Müller
- The Land of Green Plums, Herta Müller
- The Passport, Herta Müller
- Landscape Painted with Tea, Milorad Pavic
- Song of Lawino & Song of Okol, Okot p’Bitek
- Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
- The Restless Supermarket, Ivan Vladislavic
- Reine Pokou, Véronique Tadjo
- Sleepwalking Land, Mia Couto
- Leo Africanus, Amin Maalouf
- Replay, Ken Grimwood
- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon
- Naked, David Sedaris
- The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy
- The Death of Bunny Munro, Nick Cave
- The Walking Dead Vol1: The Days Gone By, Robert Kirkman
- Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
- No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
- The Abstinence Teacher, Tom Perotta
- Left Behind, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
- Against The Day, Thomas Pynchon
- The collector of worlds, Ilya Troyanov
- When Gravity Fails, George Alec Effinger
- Colson Whitehead
Links
- Bad sex award goes to Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (Literary Review)
- Véronique Tadjo
- “Den danske oversættelse af Atemschaukel udkommer på Gyldendal medio 2010.”
- Bjorn’s Review of Tom Perotta’s The Abstinence Teacher (forum)
- Shigekuni: Field Work: Ilija Trojanow’s “Der Weltensammler”
- Shigekuni: Gotham City: Colson Whitehead’s ”The Intuitionist”
- Shigekuni: Rotter: Colson Whitehead’s “Apex Hides The Hurt”
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