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BOTNS #387: Podcasts to Keep Your Nightstand Full
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We recommend tons of podcasts, then rave about Anatomy of a Solder by Harry Parker, and The Girls by Emma Cline.
The Summer reading packet came home from Ann’s daughters’ school. In addition to reading David Copperfield, the students must choose one of the following contemporary books: The Handmaid’s Tale, The Interestings, or The Poisonwood Bible. They also must read selected chapters from How to Read Literature Like a Professor, and also must keep a reading journal using the prompts included in the handout.
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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, narrated by George Newbern, is Ann’s pick for this week’s Audiobooks.com Audiobook of the Week.
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Podcasts to Keep Your Nightstand Full (14:07)
When we announced the end of BOTNS, a common cry from listeners was, “What will I listen to now?” This podcast is your resource. Here are many bookish podcasts for you to check out! (Keep in mind, what’s included here is just the list. For descriptions of the podcasts, be sure to listen to this episode.)
- Checkout the Podcasts – Books & Authors thread at the BOTNS Goodreads Group for an existing list of podcasts
- The Readers
- Literary Disco
- Literally Unplanned
- Adventures with Words
- Book Riot has several podcasts, including The Book Riot Podcast and All the Books
- Mashreads
- Drunk Booksellers
- Overdue
- What Should I Read Next?
- The New York Times Book Review Podcast
- Spoiler (the new podcast from the hosts of The Reading Room)
- PW More to Come
- A few Penguin Random House podcasts: Beaks & Geeks, This is the Author, and Book Club Appetizer
Lastly, we recommend several non-bookish podcasts:
- Good Job, Brain
- Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!
- Invisibilia
- Mystery Show
- Startup
- Reply All
- Boy vs. Girl
- The Archers
Two Books We Can’t Wait For You to Read (39:55)
Ann recommends Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker. The novel follows British soldier Captain Tom Barnes, but, in a unique twist, the story is told from the points of view of objects that interact with Barnes: dog tags, boots, medical instruments used to keep him alive after an explosion powered in part by another “narrator” – a bag of fertilizer.
I wholeheartedly recommend The Girls by Emma Cline. This debut novel follows a young teen in Northern California of the late 1960s, who gets pulled into a Charles Manson-like cult. The writing is astonishingly good and it will surely be one of my favorite books of 2016.
Ann also loved The Girls, and mentions listening to You Must Remember This, a podcast about old Hollywood, that did several episodes about the Manson murders.
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