Bookbabble Episode 54: A Family Affair

Dec 5, 2009 by donny

Bookbabble Episode 54: A Family Affair

Recorded 23 Nov 2009
Babblers: Lone, Marcel, Renee, Donny, with guests Nicole and Rosemary

Synopsis:

Marcel’s sister Nicole joins us for a chitchat about nothing much in particular (well, if you consider almost 2 hours of chitchat ‘nothing much’).  We did talk about the new Twilight movie, New Moon (where Renee’s teenage daughter Rosemary made a cameo on the show to tell us the word on the street on this phenomenon), manga, Auster and the National Book Award.  Also, Lone’s foray into the Copenhagen Book festival, Bogforum, and was excited to tell her tale.

 

Show Length:  1:41:45 mins

 

Mentioned

• A Wizard of Earthsea, Le Guin
• HP Lovecraft
• Per Olav Enquist
• Monica Ali
  The Dresden Files
• Discworld – Rincewind
• Jayne Anne Philips
• Marcel Theroux – http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/and-voila-marcel-theroux-far-north/
• Marcel Proust
• Roddy Doyle
• Ditte Birkemose
• Erling Jepsen
• Kim Leine

 

Links

• Bogforum
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_a_Cyborg,_But_That%27s_OK
• National Book Award http://www.nationalbook.org/
• http://fricfracclub.com/spip/spip.php?article498
• http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/waldrop-wins/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suehiro_Maruo

 

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Bookbabble Episode 50: Desert Island Reads

Nov 1, 2009 by donny

Bookbabble Episode 50: Desert Island Reads 
Recorded 26 October 2009
Babblers: Bjorn, Lone, Marcel, Donny, with guest Umapagan Ampikaipakan

Synopsis:

Uma leads the group in listing each of our 5 desert island reads – books that we’d like to take with us when we get stranded in a desert island.  Some of us took some liberties on the topic and decided to list books they haven’t read that they’d like to bring, for whatever practical reasons. 

 

Show Length: 1:26:50 mins

 

Bjorn’s 5

• The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails, Robert Musil 
• Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
• Life: A User’s Manual, Georges Perec
• Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
• The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson

Lone’s 5

• The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster
• La Commedia Divina (The Divine Comedy), Dante Alighieri
• The Red Book, Carl Gustav Jung
• Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
• Intimacy, Hanif Kureshi

 

Donny’s 5

• Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake
• The Once and Future King, TH White
• Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
• The Complete Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Wizard of Earthsea,  Ursula Le Guin

 

 Uma’s 5

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, Michael Chabon
• Hopscotch, Julio Cortazar
• The Princess Bride, William Goldman
• Don Quixote, Cervantes
• The Man on the Moon, Andrew Chaikin

 

Marcel’s 5

• The Recognitions, William Gaddis
• Fluß ohne Ufer, Hans Henny Jahnn
• Pierre, Herman Melville
• Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
• The Changing Lights at Sandover, James Merrill

 

Mentioned

• Intimacy, the movie
• Maus, Art Spielgelman
• The Secret History, Donna Tartt
• What you really should have in a desert island:
  • Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction, Howard Irving Chapelle
  • Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants, Lewis S Nelson

 

Links

• Alternative view of German politics: http://www.classless.org/

 

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