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In case you haven't heard, we have a series of webinars happening with our library service called Library Through the Lens. Find out more about it and book in here: https://www.marion.sa.gov.au/library-through-the-lens
If you miss out or can't make the webinars, we will be recording some sessions and making them available for you here on the podcast!
Listen to author Ashley Kalagian Blunt in conversation with Katherine Arguile as she discusses her wonderfully eccentric account of how an exemplary Canadian does her very best to be a better Australian.
When Ashley persuades her new husband Steve to leave snowy Canada and join her for a year Down Under, she looks forward to an easy transition. After all, Australia’s just Canada with more sunshine and strange animals, right? But they soon discover things aren’t so simple.
For the sake of her marriage and her happiness, Ashley must find an Australia she can belong to: she decides to travel the country, learn its history, decode its cultural quirks and connect with as many residents as she can meet. How to Be Australian is a remarkable memoir, at once familiar and faraway, that shines a fresh, funny and fascinating light onto the country we think we know. -
Iain Reid's I'm Thinking of Ending Things blew Paula's mind so she insisted she and Jayne feature it for this month's episode. But does Jayne feel the same way? And does the Netflix movie version live up to the book? The ladies dive into this mind bending and divisive book!
Books they mention:
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
The Guilty Feminist by Deborah Frances- White
The F Generation by Virginia Trioli
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L Trump
Untwisted: The Story of My Life by Paul Jennings
The Godmothers by Monica McInerney
The Survivors by Jane Harper
The Two Lost Monuments by Matthew Reilly
Fire of Joy by Clive James
The Sentinel by Lee Child
Killing Time by Jimmy Barnes
Channel Kindness by Born This Way Foundation Reporters with Lady Gaga
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
Other media mentioned:
I'm Thinking of Ending Things movie on Netflix
Round the Twist TV series
Driven Crazy TV series
Links:
Perth bookshop's Facebook post about not stocking JK Rowling books:
https://www.facebook.com/rabblebg/posts/3283659218376819
Next month's books is Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi. It's not on Libby but I'm Thinking of Ending Things is as an audiobook so have a look for that! -
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On 10 September 2020 we welcomed the public back to the Marion Cultural Centre for our first in person author event since the beginning of the year. We were delighted to host Victoria Purman to discuss her historical fiction novel, The Women's Pages.
From the bestselling author of The Land Girls comes a beautifully realised novel that speaks to the true history and real experiences of post-war Australian women.
We hope you enjoy this recording of our live event. -
Jayne has some terrific insights into this month's book which, though written in 1994, is surprisingly relevant today. Paula is super excited for next month's scary selection.
Books they discuss:
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
1984 by George Orwell
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Nodding Off by Alice Gregory
From Boys to Men by Maggie Dent
How I Built This by Guy Raz
Happiness by Turia Pitt
Just Like You by Nick Hornby
All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein
A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu
Movies they mention:
The Babadook
It Follows
Our book for October is I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid. There are copies in the library and on Libby so grab yours and read along! Don't forget to subscribe and join our Literary Anything Facebook group. Happy reading! -
In case you haven't heard, we have a series of webinars happening with our library service called Library Through the Lens. Find out more about it and book in here: https://www.marion.sa.gov.au/library-through-the-lens
If you miss out or can't make the webinars, we will be recording some sessions and making them available for you here on the podcast!
Listen to debut novelist and winner of the 2019 Penguin Literary Prize Imbi Neeme as she discusses her book The Spill, an exploration of the moments - small and large - upon which our lives can pivot.
In 1982, a car overturns on a remote West Australian road. Nobody is hurt, but the impact is felt for decades. For sisters Nicole and Samantha this moment will echo through their lives and continually affect their responses to individual experiences and to each other.
The Spill is a captivating depiction of the bond between sisters and a family that find its way back to one another. -
Jayne and Paula were not prepared for the enormity of the themes tackled in this month's pick, winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Award, Too Much Lip.
*Trigger warning. Themes of physical and sexual abuse discussed. Please skip to the 30 minute mark if you would rather avoid these topics.
What Jayne had last month anticipated as a fun read the ladies find out is a complicated, fast paced, unflinching look at an Aboriginal family plagued by inter-generational trauma and abuse. There is lots to discuss and learn.
Books discussed:
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
The Yield by Tara June Winch
Maybe the Horse Will Talk by Elliot Perlman
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
You by Caroline Kepnes
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump
The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg
Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand
Our book for September is The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. Happy reading! -
In case you haven't heard, we have a series of webinars happening with our library service called Library Through the Lens. Find out more about it and book in here: https://www.marion.sa.gov.au/library-through-the-lens
If you miss out or can't make the webinars, we will be recording some sessions and making them available for you here on the podcast!
Drawing from Katherine's own cross-cultural experience lived between Tokyo, London, and now Adelaide, Katherine's book explores the weight of intergenerational trauma through the eyes of a mother and daughter on a tortuous path to forgiveness.
Unfolding in vivid Japanese settings, this story illuminates how different cultures navigate grief and memory, and what happens when we rediscover our ancestral roots. -
This month's book has been described as "Sex in the City" meets "Catch Me If You Can" with Instagram filters. Jayne and Paula could barely wait to record the podcast so they could talk about the unbelievable grifter who is Anna Delvey and her one time BFF who wrote about her in My Friend Anna. Later, they dish about yet two more Trump books due out (one of them they decide they might actually read), and more.
Books they mention:
My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
wow, no thank you by Samantha Irby
The Things She Owned by Katherine Tamiko Arguile
The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump
Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan
Death by Shakespeare by Kathryn Harkup
Movies they mention:
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Netflix)
Inventing Anna (Netflix)
Links to articles:
The New York Times review of My Friend Anna:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/books/review/my-friend-anna-rachel-deloache-williams.html?smid=em-share
The Guardian article:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/31/anna-sorokin-delvey-new-york-socialite-scammer-criminal-case?CMP=share_btn_link
Katherine Tamiko Arguile Library Through the Lens webinar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv-VGL0iNZE&list=PL2LeDvdThJyJYa4epr4REnNuVpqdq1iir&index=12
Next month they will be discussing Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko. Reserve your copy here:
https://onecard.network/client/en_AU/marion/search/results?qu=too+much+lip+Melissa+lucashenko&te=&lm=LIB_MARION -
In case you haven't heard, we have a series of webinars happening with our library service called Library Through the Lens. Find out more about it and book in here: https://www.marion.sa.gov.au/library-through-the-lens
If you miss out or can't make the webinars, we will be recording some sessions and making them available for you here on the podcast!
Join the author who became a global sensation even before her debut novel was published, following an international rights frenzy that has not been seen for an Australian book since Markus Zusak's, The Book Thief.
Set when the women’s suffrage movement was at its height and the Great War loomed, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. It’s a delightful, lyrical and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words, and the power of language to shape our experience of the world. -
You know Jayne's gotta be happy because this episode is jam packed with historical fiction! Paula breaks her habit of only reading books set in the modern era with not one, not two, but three of her reads this month. Find out how the ladies think the bubonic plague epidemic compares to our current COVID-19 situation when they discuss Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. As always, you'll get the goss on the books everyone's talking about this month.
Books they mention:
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
The Lost Jewels by Kirsty Manning
Missing William Tyrell by Caroline Overington
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
The Spill by Imbi Neeme
Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The Ickabog by JK Rowling
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Stranger Country by Monica Tan
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
The Motion of Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
The Kennedy Curse by James Patterson
Sorry For Your Trouble by Richard Ford
Links:
Register for our Library Through the Lens webinar with Imbi Neeme, author of The Spill:
https://www.facebook.com/events/304094390584152/
Recording of our Library Through the Lens book talk with Pip Williams, author of Dictionary of Lost Words:
https://tinyurl.com/yaqtq27s
Sign up for our Library Loop eNewsletter to see other book reviews (including Suman's) and more:
https://tinyurl.com/ydbnoar3
Our book for next month is My Friend Anna by Rachel Deloache Williams. Happy reading! -
Jayne deems our May pick Bridget Jones's Diary meets Muriel's Wedding and Paula wholeheartedly agrees. Tune in to hear the trials of Maggie Cotton that actually did make the ladies laugh out loud in Adelaide author Rose Hartley's debut novel, Maggie's Going Nowhere.
Books they mention:
Maggie's Going Nowhere by Rose Hartley
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Paris or Die by Jayne Tuttle
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Help by Katherine Stockett
A Family Guide to Waste Free Living by Lauren and Oberon Carter
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaimen
Missing William Tyrell by Caroline Overington
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The Inner Self by Hugh Mackay
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy by Kathy Lette
Puberty Blues by Kathy Lette
TV & Movies they mention:
Muriel's Wedding
Good Omens
Next month's book is Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks and you can place a hold on the ebook or eaudiobook here: https://tinyurl.com/yakgyxjr
Hope you join us next month and happy reading! -
In case you haven't heard, we have a series of webinars happening with our library service called Library Through the Lens. Find out more about it and book in here: https://www.marion.sa.gov.au/library-through-the-lens
If you miss out or can't make the webinars, we will be recording some sessions and making them available for you here on the podcast!
Here is award-winning poet, novelist and former ABC radio broadcaster Annette Marner in conversation with author Jo Case, as she talks about her stunning new literary crime novel.
A New Name for the Colour Blue is influenced by Annette's decades of reporting on male violence towards women and girls as a former current affairs broadcaster. Set between Adelaide and the southern Flinders Ranges, it won the Adelaide Festival's Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2018.
Imprints Booksellers is taking online, email and phone orders for A New Name for the Colour Blue and offers FREE home-delivery within Adelaide from the foothills to the beach, and from Bedford Park to Port Adelaide. They also deliver FREE all over SA for orders of $50 or more
www.imprints.com.au
books@imprints.com.au
phone: 08 8231 4454 -
Our world has turned upside down since last month and we know that every one of us is grappling, trying to adapt to all the changes.
Jayne and Paula discuss what it's like to still be working at the library without borrowers! Most libraries are currently closed but don't worry, the ladies highlight a list of options for accessing the library online. Then they jump into this month's selection. TRIGGER WARNING! My Dark Vanessa contains themes of abuse, particularly sexual abuse of a minor. Those who wish not to hear this part can still listen to the beginning but then please skip to the 35 minute mark.
Note: at one point Paula mentions Hachette "authors" walking out in protest of Woody Allen's book. She misspoke and should have said "employees."
Find out about all of the online services they discuss via our Facebook post, here:
https://www.facebook.com/CityofMarionLibraries/photos/a.1094125443938847/3972379079446788/?type=3
Books they discuss:
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Excavation: A Memoir by Wendy Ortiz
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Half a Life by Jill Ciment
Dear Girls by Ali Wong
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Educated by Tara Westover
Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen
Funny You Don't Look Autistic by Michael McCreary
The Lost Jewels by Kirsty Manning
Buried by Lynda La Plante
Mum & Dad by Joanna Trollope
More Myself by Alicia Keys
Glide, Taking the panic out of modern living by Lisa Forrest
Gathering Dark by Candice Fox
Sharks in the Time of Saviours by Kawai Strong Washburn
Links:
Wendy Ortiz's article
https://gay.medium.com/adventures-in-publishing-outside-the-gates-a06f089c372e
Variety article about Oprah's book club ditching My Dark Vanessa
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/oprahs-book-club-my-dark-vanessa-american-dirt-controversy-1203525291/
This American Life podcast episode 689, Digging Up the Bones
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/689/digging-up-the-bones
Jayne and Paula announced the books for the next two months to give you lots to read! Both of these are accessible via the Libby app.
May: Maggie's Going Nowhere by Rose Hartley
June: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Stay safe out there everyone! There's never been a better time to stay home and READ. -
Have you read American Dirt? Jayne and Paula decided to find out what all the fuss is about with this book being touted as "defining the migrant experience." They discuss the book, the controversy and more.
Books they mention:
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins
The Crooked Branch by Jeanine Cummins
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Wham! George & Me by Andrew Ridgeley
Grown Ups by Marian Keyes
The Break by Marian Keyes
The Origin of Me by Bernard Gallate
A Very Stable Genius by Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker
She I Dare Not Name by Donna Ward
The Phantom Price by Elizabeth Kendall with a contribution by Molly Kendall
The Salt Madonna by Catherine Noske
Timmy the Ticked Off Pony and the Poo of Excitement by Magda Szubanski
Links:
Myriam Gurba article
https://tropicsofmeta.com/2019/12/12/pendeja-you-aint-steinbeck-my-bronca-with-fake-ass-social-justice-literature/
Buzzfeed article
https://tropicsofmeta.com/2019/12/12/pendeja-you-aint-steinbeck-my-bronca-with-fake-ass-social-justice-literature/
ABC article
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-06/american-dirt-jeanine-cummins-the-controversy-explained/11924192
Goodreads review by David
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3083591534?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1
A Very Stable Genius Parody by Randy Rainbow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-LTRwZb35A
Our book for next month is My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell. -
There's been lots of controversy in Australia surrounding the inaugural Parliamentary Book Club pick, Dark Emu, or more specifically, about its author, Bruce Pascoe. Jayne and Paula dive into this non-fiction work that challenges the prevailing thoughts about pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians as hunter-gatherers.
Links they reference:
The Monthly article by Russell Marks: https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/russell-marks/2020/05/2020/1580868886/taking-sides-over-dark-emu
TED talk by Bruce Pascoe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqgrSSz7Htw&feature=youtu.be
Books they discuss:
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper
The Nature of Things by Charlotte Wood
The Nowhere Child by Christian White
Inside Out by Demi Moore
Happiness As Such by Natalia Ginzburg
North of Normal by Cea Sunrise Person
Bunny by Mona Awad
Grown Ups by Marian Keyes
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Our next book is...American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins! Grab a copy from the library and read along. Join us in March to get in on the discussion. Happy reading! -
It's 2020 and Jayne and Paula are starting the year off discussing The Weekend by Charlotte Wood, a stark and honest look at the decades long friendship of four women, now in their seventies, after one of them dies. Jayne also admits to a personality trait that made a certain book appeal and Paula shares a challenge one book set for her that saw her reevaluating her usual thinking.
Books they discuss:
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
An Edited Life by Anna Newton
The Alcohol Experiment by Annie Grace
Dear Girls by Ali Wong
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
A Murder at Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
I Will Miss You Tomorrow by Heine Bakkeid
Royals by Emma Forrest
The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Netflix specials discussed:
Baby Cobra by Ali Wong
Hard Knock Wife by Ali Wong
Our book for February is Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe. Happy reading! -
Welcome to the end of year wrap up show!
Jayne and Paula talk about their favourite books of the year, which was their favourite Literary Anything book and what they are excited to read over the holidays. They also countdown the most borrowed books of 2019.
Books they discuss:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Fake by Stephanie Wood
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
After the Flood by Kassandra Montag
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
The Fallen by David Baldacci
Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly
The Midnight Line by Lee Child
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
Past Tense by Lee Child
This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
The Fast 800 by Michael Moseley
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
The Best Kind of Beautiful by Frances Whiting
Wearing Paper Dresses by Anne Brinsden
The Bee and the Orange Tree by Melissa Ashley
See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
In the Clearing by J.P. Pomare
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
Enjoy the holidays and tune in again in 2020! -
Best selling author, Fiona McIntosh, delights the crowd at the Marion Cultural Centre Domain Theatre with the inside story about her latest book, The Diamond Hunter, as well as her writing process, meticulous research and international travels, and hilarious personal stories and anecdotes. Fans of Fiona will definitely not want to miss this engaging talk.
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Jayne and Paula dive into the latest Gladwellian social science non-fiction novel, Talking to Strangers, which looks at the "assumptions and mistakes we make when dealing with people we don't know."
They also discuss what novel they should choose for the new year...and they want your opinion! Have a listen then join us on our Literary Anything Facebook group to let us know what you think should be January 2020's book choice.
Books they discuss:
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Chain by Adrian McKinty
Impossible Causes by Julie Mayhew
Fake by Stephanie Wood
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
Happiness, As Such by Natalia Ginzburg
Book possibilities for January 2020:
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
Penny Wong by Margaret Simons
Vote on our Literary Anything Facebook group! Don't forget to subscribe and rate the podcast. -
The year is 2130 and rising floodwaters have overtaken land masses leaving Myra and her daughter Pearl to try and navigate around mountaintops on their small boat. Listen in as Jayne and Paula discuss After the Flood by Kassandra Montag, a book that has burst onto the literary scene after its publishing and TV rights were snapped up in the same week.
Books they mention:
After the Flood by Kassandra Montag
Body Tourists by Jane Rogers
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
The Arrangement by Robyn Harding
Witches: What Women Do Together by Sam George-Allen
Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love by Naomi Wolf
The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
Acid for the Children by Flea
Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
Impossible Causes by Julie Mayhew
Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
Dead Man Switch by Tara Moss
And our book for next month is... Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell! Happy reading and thanks for listening. - Vis mere
