Bookbabble Episode 55: Christmas Gifts!

Posted by Donny on Dec 7, 2009 in Episodes | 2 comments

Bookbabble Episode 55: Christmas Gifts!

Recorded 30 Nov 2009
Babblers: Lone, Marcel, Renee, Donny

Synopsis:

The group talks about Christmas gifts – books we’d like to give people, and what we’d like to receive.  We covered Black Friday and Cyber Monday, many books, and a toaster.  Also, find out what Doraemon and Renee’s handbag have in common (hint: it’s not the colour).

Show Length: 1:35:20 mins

Mentioned

• Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
• Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol 1, Virginia Woolf
• Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi
• Invisible, Paul Auster
• Lars Saabye Christensen
• Heiner Müller
• PG Wodehouse
• The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940, Samuel Beckett
• Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails: From the Alamagoozlum to the Zombie:100 Rediscovered Recipes and the Stories Behind Them, Ted Haigh
• Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody, Michael Gerber
• Die Reise, Bernward Vesper
• Cromwell, Victor Hugo
• The Passport, Herta Muller
• An Equal Music, Vikram Seth
• A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
• Collected Poem, Paul Auster
• Beautiful Days, Franz Innerhofer
• Raven (Raabe Baikal), Thomas Strittmatter
• The Magicians, Lev Grossman (and the article of Grossman’s that Marcel found)
• The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The Sorrows of An American, Siri Hustvedt
• The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy: Only You Can Save Mankind, Johnny and the Dead, and Johnny and the Bomb (Johnny Maxwell, Vol. 1, 2, 3), Terry Pratchett
• I like you: Hospitality under the Influence, Amy Sedaris

Links

• The Last Poem, Sophie Auster (Youtube)
• Sophie Auster (music)
• Foyles

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