2. The Penelopiad / Circe / The Lonesome Bodybuilder.
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English - February 01, 2019 20:48 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Emily and Michael talk about The Penelopiad (Margaret Atwood), Circe (Madeline Miller), The Lonesome Bodybuilder (Yukiko Motoya), and what books not to bring to the hospital.
Emily found Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad to
be a missed opportunity, especially when compared to Madeline Miller’s
Circe, while Michael was delighted by Yukiko
Motoya’s unsettling and strange short stories in The Lonesome
Bodybuilder. They talk about the characters on the
margins of great stories, what book to bring to the hospital, adaptating the
classics, and what to do with novellas. Emily’s new baby (hooray!) makes a
brief cameo.
Show Notes.
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.
Circe by Madeline Miller.
The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya.
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg.
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.
Persuasion by Jane Austen.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Middlemarch by George Eliot.