Lindy’s Magpie Reads | Friday Reads August 23: Bizarre stories & wondrous possibilities; whales, sharks & people in exile @lindysmagpiereads | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
In this booktube episode, I talk about 8 books including 1 for #WITmonth & 3 by #LGBTQ authors. Three are in audiobook format, 1 is a graphic novel, 2 are memoirs, 2 are short stories & 1 is on the Booker longlist.

00:00 intro: covid recovery; capsize experience; knitting and embroidery

04:53 🇺🇸🎧 This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud; audiobook read by Cassandra Campbell; published by Recorded Books

10:22 🇩🇪 Anna by Mia Oberländer; translated from German by Nika Knight; published by Fantagraphics

12:49 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 How It Works Out by Miriam Lacroix; published by Doubleday Canada

15:57 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 Fruiting Bodies by Kathryn Harlan; published by WW Norton

18:33 🇳🇿 Dawn Raid by Pauline Vaeluaga Smith; published by Levine Querido

24:00 🇬🇧🎧 Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor; audiobook read by Gwyneth Keyworth and others; published by Macmillan

27:18 🇺🇸🎧 Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist by Jasmin Graham; audiobook read by the author; published by Books on Tape

30:40 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen by Suzanne Scanlon; published by Vintage

34:55 Outro

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Other mentions:

Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan

My Friends by Hisham Matar

Swan Suit by Katherine Fawcett

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

The Colony by Audrey Magee

Minorities in Shark Sciences: misselasmo.org

@shawnbreathesbooks Shawn’s standalone review of Committed by Suzanne Scanlon: youtu.be/fKvOGD-PBdk?si=VuzsRPe7L0ClZnhq