Lindy’s Magpie Reads | July 20: NYT Best Books; Persian cookery; Shakespeare under a tent; a Canadian feminist classic etc @lindysmagpiereads | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
In this booktube episode my cat makes herself into a scarf while I talk about two Shakespeare productions; Italian jets; Iranian groceries; what’s a best book?; art; philosophy; two Puerto Rican books; Canadian hopepunk; and a classic
00:00 intro: knitting mishap
01:58 Bard on the Beach (Hamlet & Comedy of Errors)
06:47 Frecce Tricolori aerobatic demonstration team of Italian airforce flyover
07:49 🇴🇲🇬🇧 Bahari: Recipes from an Omani Kitchen and Beyond by Dina Macki; published by DK AND Persian cookery ingredients
10:50 NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
18:38 🏳️🌈🇺🇸 Bluets by Maggie Nelson; published by Wave Books
23:20 Framed! In September (an art readathon)
24:00 🇨🇦🇬🇧🎧 Parade by Rachel Cusk; audiobook read by Genevieve Gaunt; published by Harper Perennial
28:26 🇨🇦🎧 We Speak Through the Mountain by Premee Mohamed; audiobook read by Eva Tavares; published by ECW Press
30:50 🇵🇷🇺🇸 Nilda by Nicholasa Mohr; published by Piñata Books
33:44 🇵🇷 The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History by John Vasquez Mejias; published by Union Square
36:00 🇨🇦 The Diviners by Margaret Laurence; published by McClelland and Stewart
38:35 Outro
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Other Mentions (booktubers and links):
Shelly Swearingen @Shellyish runs through the NYT’s top 100 books of the 21st century: youtu.be/0y65IUtMwHY?si=G-tSxQCi7VIyofo1
Book Riot podcast episode: Building the 100 Best Books of the Century with Gilbert Cruz, Editor of the New York Times Book Review: bookriot.com/listen/building-the-100-best-books-of-the-century-with-gilbert-cruz-editor-of-the-new-york-times-book-review
My 10 Favourite Books (as of 2013): lindypratch.blogspot.com/2013/11/my-10-favourite-books.html
My book blog review of How to Be Both: lindypratch.blogspot.com/2014/11/how-to-be-both-by-ali-smith.html
My blog review of All My Puny Sorrows: lindypratch.blogspot.com/2014/05/all-my-puny-sorrows-by-miriam-toews.html
@MarilynMayaMendoza
PW More to Come podcast episode talking about The Puerto Rican War publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1316
Sarah @sarah-roadworthy (talking about The Diviners by Margaret Laurence) youtu.be/FYQ2ZqXuH7w?si=saersRUwWRymZFzJ
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Other Mentions (books):
My vest’s pattern was in this book: The Knitchick’s Guide to Sweaters by Marcelle and Pauline Wall
Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen by Suzanne Scanlon
Bahari by Dina Macki
Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies by Najmieh Batmanglij
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Machine Without Horses by Helen Humphreys
Noopiming by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Runaway by Alice Munro
No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani, translated by Omid Tofighian
Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Blue Postcards by Douglas Bruton
On Freedom by Maggie Nelson
Outline by Rachel Cusk
The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed
A Hero Ain’t Nothin But a Sandwich by Alice Childress
In this booktube episode my cat makes herself into a scarf while I talk about two Shakespeare productions; Italian jets; Iranian groceries; what’s a best book?; art; philosophy; two Puerto Rican books; Canadian hopepunk; and a classic
00:00 intro: knitting mishap
01:58 Bard on the Beach (Hamlet & Comedy of Errors)
06:47 Frecce Tricolori aerobatic demonstration team of Italian airforce flyover
07:49 🇴🇲🇬🇧 Bahari: Recipes from an Omani Kitchen and Beyond by Dina Macki; published by DK AND Persian cookery ingredients
10:50 NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
18:38 🏳️🌈🇺🇸 Bluets by Maggie Nelson; published by Wave Books
23:20 Framed! In September (an art readathon)
24:00 🇨🇦🇬🇧🎧 Parade by Rachel Cusk; audiobook read by Genevieve Gaunt; published by Harper Perennial
28:26 🇨🇦🎧 We Speak Through the Mountain by Premee Mohamed; audiobook read by Eva Tavares; published by ECW Press
30:50 🇵🇷🇺🇸 Nilda by Nicholasa Mohr; published by Piñata Books
33:44 🇵🇷 The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History by John Vasquez Mejias; published by Union Square
36:00 🇨🇦 The Diviners by Margaret Laurence; published by McClelland and Stewart
38:35 Outro
———————-
Other Mentions (booktubers and links):
Shelly Swearingen @Shellyish runs through the NYT’s top 100 books of the 21st century: youtu.be/0y65IUtMwHY?si=G-tSxQCi7VIyofo1
Book Riot podcast episode: Building the 100 Best Books of the Century with Gilbert Cruz, Editor of the New York Times Book Review: bookriot.com/listen/building-the-100-best-books-of-the-century-with-gilbert-cruz-editor-of-the-new-york-times-book-review
My 10 Favourite Books (as of 2013): lindypratch.blogspot.com/2013/11/my-10-favourite-books.html
My book blog review of How to Be Both: lindypratch.blogspot.com/2014/11/how-to-be-both-by-ali-smith.html
My blog review of All My Puny Sorrows: lindypratch.blogspot.com/2014/05/all-my-puny-sorrows-by-miriam-toews.html
@MarilynMayaMendoza
PW More to Come podcast episode talking about The Puerto Rican War publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1316
Sarah @sarah-roadworthy (talking about The Diviners by Margaret Laurence) youtu.be/FYQ2ZqXuH7w?si=saersRUwWRymZFzJ
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Other Mentions (books):
My vest’s pattern was in this book: The Knitchick’s Guide to Sweaters by Marcelle and Pauline Wall
Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen by Suzanne Scanlon
Bahari by Dina Macki
Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies by Najmieh Batmanglij
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Machine Without Horses by Helen Humphreys
Noopiming by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Runaway by Alice Munro
No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani, translated by Omid Tofighian
Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Blue Postcards by Douglas Bruton
On Freedom by Maggie Nelson
Outline by Rachel Cusk
The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed
A Hero Ain’t Nothin But a Sandwich by Alice Childress
