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Friday Reads: Bandwidths and jagged, perfect words


*The week in review on my channel:*

Zooming In: Who’s the bigger bibliomaniac? - Jolene of Bookworm Adventure Girl & Shawn duke it out: youtu.be/bGdWGu6b7EI?si=XuwSZo7ybeUcIOuP

Wee Book Haul: youtu.be/-1HedZAzM5M?si=Py8jW3m8q249I776



I’m now going to put mystery guest webpages and books they’ve written near the bottom of my show notes, so you might better resist the temptation to peek. 😜 (This also means that books authored by mystery guests will not be in the regular book list or time stamps but in a separate section farther down.)


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Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):

00:00 Introduction

02:00 Mystery guest

25:38 Week in Review

26:30 Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? By Jenny Diski

29:05 Jokes for the Apocalypse by David Carpenter

30:10 A Free-Spirited Woman: The London Diaries of Gladys Langford, 1936-1940

31:31 How We Named the Stars by Andrés N. Ordorica


Books mentioned:

Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon
goodreads.com/book/show/55286387-suppose-a-sentence

Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Brian Dillon
goodreads.com/book/show/62214100-affinities

Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction by Brian Dillon
goodreads.com/book/show/41121514-essayism

Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye
Jordan Stump (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/112974898-vengeance-is-mine

Self-Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye
Jordan Stump (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/20893797-self-portrait-in-green

That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye
Jordan Stump (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/51243985-that-time-of-year

My Heart Hemmed In by Marie NDiaye
Jordan Stump (Translator)
goodreads.com/book/show/32073144-my-heart-hemmed-in

Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen by Suzanne Scanlon
goodreads.com/book/show/191746769

Promising Young Women by Suzanne Scanlon
goodreads.com/book/show/15759676-promising-young-women

Her 37th Year, An Index by Suzanne Scanlon
goodreads.com/book/show/25115141-her-37th-year-an-index

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? By Jenny Diski
goodreads.com/book/show/54486819-why-didn-t-you-just-do-what-you-were-told?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_11

Jokes for the Apocalypse by David Carpenter
goodreads.com/book/show/4610132-jokes-for-the-apocalypse?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_26

A Free-Spirited Woman: The London Diaries of Gladys Langford, 1936-1940 by Patricia Malcolmson (Editor), Robert Malcolmson (Editor)
goodreads.com/book/show/21481729-a-free-spirited-woman?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=LlCdussVS3&rank=1

How We Named the Stars by Andrés N. Ordorica
goodreads.com/book/show/174070471-how-we-named-the-stars




Amina Cain’s website: aminacain.com
Follow Amina on Instagram : @amina_memory


Indelicacy by Amina Cain
goodreads.com/book/show/52115847-indelicacy

Creature by Amina Cain
goodreads.com/book/show/18213279-creature

A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain
goodreads.com/book/show/60065627-a-horse-at-night

I Go To Some Hollow by Amina Cain
goodreads.com/book/show/135377620-by-amina-cain-i-go-to-some-hollow-trenchart-tracer-series-trenchart-1



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