Reading Envy

About Reading Envy

I'll have what you're reading!

Publisher

Jenny Colvin

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Jun 2021

Latest episode

26 Apr 2022

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Apr 2022

   Reading Envy 246: Unsettling Endings with Yanira

   Yanira shares why she deleted Goodreads and how it's improved her reading life, and we talk about rereading books before we dig into books we've read and liked lately. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 246: Unsettling Endings Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso End of the World House by Adrienne Celt A Very Nice Girl by Imogen Crimp The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe, Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, and Sheree Renee Thomas Joan is Okay by Weike Wang Other mentions: A House of My Own: Stories from My Life by Sandra Cisneros The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Hating Game by Sally Thorne The Hating Game (film) Normal People by Sally Rooney Conversations with Friends (tv adaptation) Bridgerton (Netflix) Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson Dirty Computer (album) Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture] Chemistry by Weike Wang Either/Or by Elif Batuman The Idiot by Elif Batuman The Possessed by Elif Batuman Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, read by Miranda Raison Related episodes: Episode 070 - Words Like Weapons with Yanira Ramirez Episode 096 - Not Without Hope with Yanira Ramirez Episode 108 - Venn Diagram with Yanira Ramirez Episode 141 - Profound and Tedious Work with Yanira Ramirez Episode 181 - An Awkward Woman with Yanira Ramirez Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

2. 

   19 Apr 2022

   Reading Envy 245: Looking Back at the Russian Novel

   At the end of March, a handful of us gathered to discuss what we had read for the Russian novel quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We also discuss the works we abandoned, some dips into Ukrainian literature, and talked more about what makes a novel quintessentially Russian. Thanks to all who joined in during this chat, in Goodreads, and in social media! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 245: Looking Back at the Russian Novel Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them by Elif Batuman The Anna Karenina Fix by Viv Groskop Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, translated by Paul Foote The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Lisa C. Hayden Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Mountain and the Wall by Alisa Ganieva, translated by Carol Apollonio The Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina, translated by Lisa C. Hayden I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart Brisbane by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Marian Schwarz The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets, translated by Eugene Ostahevsky Life Went on Anyway: Stories by Oleg Sentsov, translated by Uilleam Blacker Other mentions: Ted Chiang Ken Liu Hanya Yanagihara "Men Who Explain Lolita to Me" by Rebecca Solnit on LitHub "Dead Soul" by Masha Gessen in Vanity Fair St. Michael's bells ringing in 2013 Related episodes: Episode 237 - Reading Goals 2022 Episode 241 - Feral Pigeons with Laurie Episode 243 - Russian Novel Speed Date Stalk us online: Reading Envy Readers on Goodreads (home of Reading Envy Russia) Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. You can see the full collection for Reading Envy Russia 2022 on Bookshop.org.

3. 

   5 Apr 2022

   Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction

   Lauren W. will be co-hosting this non-fiction quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We share books we have already read and freely recommend, and also chat about the piles and shelves of books we are considering. Let us know your recommendations and where you hope to start in the comments, or join the conversation in Goodreads. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books we can recommend: Memories from Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi by Teffi Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Pevear & Volokhonsky Zinky Boys by Svetlana Alexievich Voices of Chernobyl (also titled Chernobyl Prayer) by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith Gessen Other Russias by Victoria Lomasko, translated by Thomas Campbell The Future is History by Masha Gessen Never Remember by Masha Gessen, photography by Misha Friedman Where the Jews Aren’t by Masha Gessen Pushkin’s Children by Tatyana Tolstaya The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya Imperium by Ryszard Kapucinski, translated by Klara Glowczewska A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy by Deborah McDonald and Jeremy Dronfield Putin Country by Anne Garrels Letters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke Sovietistan by Erika Fatland The Commissar Vanishes by David King Gulag by Anne Applebaum The Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum The Magical Chorus by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina Bouis Shostaskovich and Stalin by Solomon Volkov The Tiger by John Vaillant Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaght How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut Please to the Table by Anya von Bremzen Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen Books we are considering: All Lara’s Wars by Wojchiech Jagielski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Eric Ericson (there is a unabridged 1800+ pg, and an author approved abridged version, 400-some pages) Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg, translated by Paul Stevenson, Max Hayward Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov, translated by John Glad Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov The Life Written by Himself by Avvakum Petrov My Childhood by Maxim Gorky Teffi: A Life of Letters and Laughter by Edythe Haber Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam, tr. Max Hayward The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin Putin's Russia: life in a failing democracy by Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Arch Tait. A Russian diary: a journalist's final account of life, corruption, and death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya Notes on Russian Literature by F.M. Dostoevsky The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece by Kevin Birmingham The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin Birmingham Less than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky Tolstoy Together by Yiyun Li The Border by Erika Fatland Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson Red Plenty by Francis Spufford Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder The Last Empire: Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy Man with the Poison Gun: a Cold War Spy Story by Serhii Plokhy Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel by Anatoly Kuznetsov, tr. David Floyd Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster by Kate Brown Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate Brown A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland by Kate Brown October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev Across the Ussuri Kray by Vladimir Arsenyev, translated by Slaght An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army by Vasily Grossman The Road by Vasily Grossman Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and Depraved of Chernobyl by Markiyan Kamysh Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia by David Greene Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine & beyond by Olia Hercules Red Sands by Caroline Eden Black Sea by Caroline Eden Tasting Georgia by Carla Capalbo Other mentions: PEN list of writers against Putin New Yorker article about Gessen siblings Thanksgivukkah 2013 League of Kitchens - Uzbek lesson League of Kitchens - Russian lesson Masha Gessen on Ezra Klein podcast, March 2022 Related episodes: Episode 067 - Rain and Readability with Ruth(iella) Episode 084 - A Worthy Tangent with Bryan Alexander Episode 138 - Shared Landscape with Lauren Weinhold Episode 237 - Reading Goals 2022 Episode 243 - Russian Novel Speed Date Stalk us online: Reading Envy Readers on Goodreads (home of Reading Envy Russia) Lauren at Goodreads Lauren is @end.notes on Instagram Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. You can see the full collection for Reading Envy Russia 2022 on Bookshop.org.

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