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Friday Reads: Gratitude and rest—with a book or two squeezed in around the edges


*The week in review on my channel:*

Ericka and Shawn discuss William Corlett’s masterful 1995 gay boarding school novel, Now and Then: youtu.be/jGLrjaF8H6w?si=FkpwcLqUxEtk_c12

Kate, Yuki, and Shawn discuss Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai on The Book Club Review podcast: youtu.be/Mun0wLw0oKI?si=hH0KIo5xoKBgTfA2

The Book Club Review podcast: thebookclubreview.co.uk

Link to this episode’s more extensive show notes: thebookclubreview.co.uk/portfolio/items/mild-vertigo-and-japanese-literature



I’m now putting mystery guest webpages and books they’ve written near the bottom of my show notes, so that 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 that separate section farther down.)



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If you don’t want to do a regular monthly thing, but would like to make a one-time contribution, here is my PayPal-registered email address: shawnmooneyinjapan@gmail.com



Time stamps (scroll down for Goodreads links):

00:00 Introduction

02:19 Mystery guest

18:44 Week in Review

19:38 Patreon announcements

21:01 Jokes for the Apocalypse by David Carpenter

24:12 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1 by Beth Brower



Books mentioned:

An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey Into the Magic of Rewilding by Eoghan Daltun
goodreads.com/book/show/62678715-an-irish-atlantic-rainforest?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_10

Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession
goodreads.com/book/show/200331592-ghost-mountain
(My ‘mystery guest’ chat with him starts at 7:24 here: youtu.be/I7rOqorMUzo?si=2vzRnm9iKZ00Jb60)

Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession
goodreads.com/book/show/48595115-leonard-and-hungry-paul

Panenka by Rónán Hession
goodreads.com/book/show/55410610-panenka
My chat with Rónán about Panenka: youtu.be/zSB4vqgHTjA?si=wFNMbC0LeYfmYUrn

Christ on a Bike by Orla Owen
goodreads.com/book/show/200745697-christ-on-a-bike?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_11

The Museum of Failures: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar
goodreads.com/book/show/75593884-the-museum-of-failures?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_15

Egg/Shell by Victoria Kennefick
goodreads.com/book/show/203453033-egg-shell?ref=nav_sb_ss_4_10

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

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1 by Beth Brower
goodreads.com/book/show/52085140-the-unselected-journals-of-emma-m-lion-vol-1?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=BceYLyiOVm&rank=1
I talk about and read an excerpt from this book beginning at the 7 minute mark on this book haul video: youtu.be/QwxlANrTZQc?si=sjD4qWAdSKNR3dML




Cauvery Madhavan on Twitter: @CauveryMadhavan
Cauvery’s tweet about the giveaway of signed copies of The Tainted: https://x.com/cauverymadhavan/status/1768205688264650854?s=61&t=9QN2vUfeojrFts92uUc8uQ
Cauvery’s website: cauverymadhavan.com

The Inheritance by Cauvery Madhavan
goodreads.com/book/show/209307675-the-inheritance

The Tainted by Cauvery Madhavan
goodreads.com/book/show/51108839-the-tainted
My chat with Cauvery about The Tainted: youtube.com/watch?v=h5FK3JsAbwY


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