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Bookbabble Episode 38: He’s Still Not Crying

Posted by Donny on Jul 20, 2009 in Episodes | 0 comments

Bookbabble Episode 38: He’s Still Not Crying
Recorded 13 July 2009
Babblers: Gem, Renee, Marcel, Donny

Synopsis:
You probably won’t know who Marcel is, who joined us a couple of episodes back.  But as we’re time traveling at the moment with Donny being behind on a couple episodes, suffice it to know that Marcel is *one of us*, and as with the other babblers, will dazzle you with his profound knowledge and book geekiness.  The group discusses what was read in the Bookbabble hiatus period, and goes from classics to accidental forays into fantasy to anime and other good stuff.

Show Length: 70:29 mins

Books Mentioned:

• Moby Dick, Herman Melville
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy
• Hardboiled and Hard Luck, Banana Yoshimoto
• A Late Divorce, A.B. Yehoshua
• A Drifting Life, Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Review by Marcel)
• Batman: The Resurrection of Ra’s Al Ghul (Review by Marcel)
• Arkham Asylum, Grant Morrison
• Bill Sienkiewicz
• Gloriana, the Unfulfilled Queen, Michael Moorcock
• Mother London, Michael Moorcock
• Electra, Frank Miller

Links:

• Shigekuni

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Bookbabble Episode 27: Abandoning Books!

Posted by Donny on Feb 28, 2009 in Episodes | 0 comments

Bookbabble Episode 27: Abandoning Books!

Recorded 1 March 2009

Babblers: Bjorn, Gem, Renee aka Irene Wilde, Donny

Synopsis:

Today the group talks about the cardinal sin (not the Philippine archbishop) of book lovers, the act of abandoning books without completing them.  What would compel one to drop these books unread?  The babblers share books that has been abandoned, what precipitated the drop.  Also, why Bjorn feels a little tentative about the upcoming Watchmen movie.

And, we kept it below 1 hour.  Shocking.

Show Length: 54:05 mins

Links:

• Moby Dick – Herman Melville
• Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Magicians’ Guild – Trudy Canavan
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
• Animal People – Indra Sinha
• Watchmen – Alan Moore

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