Lindy’s Magpie Reads | Recent bails, recent audio and graphic memoir reads, and lots of chat about genre categories @lindysmagpiereads | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 50 minutes ago.
In this booktube episode: Is it fiction or nonfiction?? And other genre quandaries; historical fiction in audiobook format; lesbian memoir in graphic format; trees in bloom
00:00 intro: genre categorization
02:26 The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys - publisher categorization as nonfiction
04:14 Bail: Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin; artwork by Torkwase Dyson
09:59 Bail: Alphabetical Diaries audio read by comedian Kate Berlant
15:11 🇦🇺🇬🇧🎧 Weyward by Emelia Hart; audiobook read by Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley, Nell Barlow; published by Macmillan
19:22 🇮🇳🇺🇸🎧 Loot by Tania James; audiobook read by Shawn K Jain; published by Books on Tape
23:05 The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
24:14 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Portrait of a Body by Julie Delporte; translated by Helge Dascher and Karen Houle; published by Drawn & Quarterly
29:54 Outro: blue skies and blooming trees
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Other mentions:
Sarah @sarah-roadworthy talks about genre categories and readerly expectations: youtu.be/o0-svmjqImE?si=39QfdZRmpI1Jlm78
Voodoo Hypothesis by Canisia Lubrin
The Dyzgraphxst by Canisia Lubrin
Jess @stalkingkafka talks about categorization of Alphabetical Diaries in her reaction to the Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist: youtu.be/un5sGapDbhg?si=eRuDtr6PspZ5lJFL
The Tranquillusionist by Helen Zaltzman: theallusionist.org/tranquillusionist
Listen to an excerpt of Alphabetical Diaries on the Macmillan website: us.macmillan.com/books/9781250334718/alphabeticaldiaries
Scott @GunpowderFictionPlot 23 Best Books of 2023: youtu.be/DmoNYFgtJPQ?si=_hZHbSa8dYiEXgNY
The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James - 2015 review on my blog: lindypratch.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-tusk-that-did-damage-by-tania-james.
Carol Shields Prize longlist: carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/2024-longlist
Everywhere Antennas by Julie Delporte
In this booktube episode: Is it fiction or nonfiction?? And other genre quandaries; historical fiction in audiobook format; lesbian memoir in graphic format; trees in bloom
00:00 intro: genre categorization
02:26 The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys - publisher categorization as nonfiction
04:14 Bail: Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin; artwork by Torkwase Dyson
09:59 Bail: Alphabetical Diaries audio read by comedian Kate Berlant
15:11 🇦🇺🇬🇧🎧 Weyward by Emelia Hart; audiobook read by Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley, Nell Barlow; published by Macmillan
19:22 🇮🇳🇺🇸🎧 Loot by Tania James; audiobook read by Shawn K Jain; published by Books on Tape
23:05 The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
24:14 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Portrait of a Body by Julie Delporte; translated by Helge Dascher and Karen Houle; published by Drawn & Quarterly
29:54 Outro: blue skies and blooming trees
—————————-
Other mentions:
Sarah @sarah-roadworthy talks about genre categories and readerly expectations: youtu.be/o0-svmjqImE?si=39QfdZRmpI1Jlm78
Voodoo Hypothesis by Canisia Lubrin
The Dyzgraphxst by Canisia Lubrin
Jess @stalkingkafka talks about categorization of Alphabetical Diaries in her reaction to the Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist: youtu.be/un5sGapDbhg?si=eRuDtr6PspZ5lJFL
The Tranquillusionist by Helen Zaltzman: theallusionist.org/tranquillusionist
Listen to an excerpt of Alphabetical Diaries on the Macmillan website: us.macmillan.com/books/9781250334718/alphabeticaldiaries
Scott @GunpowderFictionPlot 23 Best Books of 2023: youtu.be/DmoNYFgtJPQ?si=_hZHbSa8dYiEXgNY
The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James - 2015 review on my blog: lindypratch.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-tusk-that-did-damage-by-tania-james.
Carol Shields Prize longlist: carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/2024-longlist
Everywhere Antennas by Julie Delporte
