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One Great Book
"mrs darcy" Discussed on One Great Book
"Today marks the end of one great book volume five for more great book content and reading recommendations. Check out our sister show. What should i read next. Where every tuesday we go beyond the bestseller list to help you find your next great read. Listen wherever you get your podcasts readers. When i think of texas i think of cowboys and texas rangers megachurches and small towns. I think of miles and miles of ranch land and all of the incredible stories. I've read or watched that are set in this expanse of state. Classic western novels like lonesome dove and all the pretty horses captured the texas landscape and introduce us to rugged character striking out on their own more recently published novels like attica locks bluebird bluebird and kelsey. Mckinney's god's bear the girls examined various facets of the culture and climate of texas today and the ever popular television show friday night lights captures big state pride wrapped up in a small town story. Stacey swans debut novel olympus texas enters the texas literary canon with a story about a big messy family. Living in the town of olympus. This fictional town is located just outside of houston and aside from turning over a few old businesses. It hasn't changed much over the years. It's small enough that everyone knows everyone else's business and secrets. Don't stay secrets for long. So when prodigal son march briscoe rolls into town word spreads fast and so does the drama on the surface. This new novel slots nicely into the texan literary tradition. It's complete with a family ranch. Age-old rivalries gunslingers and stunning descriptions of the state's natural beauty and wildlife but swan has a few tricks up her sleeve. Olympus texas features characters inspired by larger than life. Greek and roman gods and goddesses mixing their classic stories of infidelity mistakes and consequences with a real small town problems and the result is one great book readers. If you're looking for a way to keep track of your great books. I have a new reading journal coming out in september and it's perfect for collecting your thoughts about what you've read keeping up with your to be read items browsing seasonal booklets for inspiration and reflecting on your reading life right now when you preorder the journal you get a sneak peek at some of those reading lists and a bookmark. That doubles is a reading tracker that you can use to capture those titles until your journal shows up order your copy of my reading life a book journal wherever you buy books and then had to modern mrs darcy dot com slash journal to claim your bonuses. And don't miss our recently added option by yourself or a favourite reader our special my reading life gift box that includes the new reading journal a personalized library stamp and other goodies that ordering info. Is it modern. Mrs darcy dot com slash journal olympus texas opens with a lush description of the texas countryside and slowly zooms in on the white pillared. Briscoe family home there on the banks of the brazos where june peter wake up to an unexpected phone call announcing the arrival of their estranged son march. Peter invites march to lunch while june stews over the news. They haven't seen their youngest son in over two years but june isn't sure she's had enough time to forgive him for what he's done. Whereabout the find out why her son's actions are so hard to forgive. We quickly learn march with caught sleeping with his brother's wife and he skipped town back when word leaked out two years later pretty much. Everyone still hates march. And now he's back in town his volatile temper although the volatile is putting it lightly is evident as ever given the unpredictability of his behavior and his ill-fated affair marches. Presence feels to olympus citizens like a ticking time bomb. Everyone knows it's gonna blow. They just don't know when or who it's going to hurt this time. As marjorie encounters is siblings and the townspeople mixed up in their family business. we learned. there's more to june's anger than a righteous concern for her wrong son infidelity. It seems runs in the family and she can't escape. It's daily reminders. Her husband peter's extramarital affairs have not only cut strife in the couple's marriage they've also produced children who remain in their lives. Some of whom june has mothered and cared for. But that doesn't mean she's forgiven or forgotten. It was easy for me to get caught up in this family story. And as i did. I noted more and more clever references to greek mythology. The first instance is the epigraph from of it. The roman poet it reads but then is everyone not his own. God there on page one. In in the early chapters. I would have deemed that a reference to the huge egos of the briscoe men but as i read and the clues began to pile up. I began to suspect something else was going on. It couldn't be a coincidence. That marches dogs are named romulus and remus that the local watering hole is called turps. Corey's that another set of twins bear names in stories awfully similar to those artists and apollo. I thought to look up. Olympus texas on a map to see if it really is located where swan put it in her book twenty miles east of houston and i found. It's not a real place or that is it's not a real texas town but then i realized in another sense. It is a very real place in the pages of greek mythology. And i could see what's.
One Great Book
"mrs darcy" Discussed on One Great Book
"For more great book contents. Check out our sister show. What should i read next and our patriot community at patriots dot com slash. What should i read next where we share. Patron only bonus episodes on fridays. Today story begins back in twenty fourteen with the publication of natalie. Brazil's novel queen shuker queens sugar. A widow has left. An eight hundred acre sugarcane field in her native louisiana with strict instructions that it must be restored or donated to charity of that novel. brazil rights. I wanted to tell the story of a black farming family like the one from which i descended. The novel was my attempt to stop the clock to remind readers that black people have always had a deep connection to the land. I wanted to celebrate farming as a noble endeavor and encourage readers to continue to pass their families land down through generations. queen sugar is a declaration. That black land matters. It reminds us that if we can remember our history we can reclaim the legacy that our ancestors fought and sacrificed for here in twenty twenty one. The story continues in. We are each other's harvest this time. Brazil has traveled the country the interview black farmers winemakers and culinary experts to tell true stories of the african american landowning and farming experience. Both past and present these wide ranging and richly varied stories make for life giving and community changing reading. Her resulting. Work is a stunning anthology. That embodies the collaborative spirit. It celebrates with a thoughtful assortment of formats gorgeous color photography throughout and coffee table. Heft we are. Each other's harvest is designed to be savored just as the harvest to which it bears witness and it's is one great readers to keep track of your great books. I have a new reading journal coming out in september and it's perfect for collecting your thoughts about what you have read keeping up with the books you want to read browsing seasonal booklets for inspiration and reflecting on your reading life right now preorder the journal and get a sneak peek at some of those reading lists and a bookmark. That doubles is a reading tracker. You can use to capture titles until your journal shows up. Order your copy of my reading life wherever you buy books. And then head to modern. Mrs darcy dot com slash journal declaim your bonuses which include an opportunity to win five books picked out by me for you based on your own reading tastes. That's modern mrs darcy dot com slash journal. Don't miss our recently added option by yourself or a favorite reader or special. My reading life gift box that includes the new reading journal a personalized library stamp and other goodies that ordering info is at modern. Mrs darcy dot com slash journal. We are each other's harvest. We are each other's business. We are each other's magnitude and bond this line from gwendolyn brooks poem serves as the epigraph and guiding spirit of this magnificent collection. The heart of the book is profiles of black farmers. Throughout the american south although several of the featured farmers live and work in other parts of the united states but the scope is as deep as it is wide highlighting historical contributions of black thinkers to agriculture the renaissance of black farming and the resilience of the black community to preserve their connection to the land as well as addressing issues such as food justice the ramifications of slavery and share cropping to share this rich history bazil shares a kaleidoscope of essays poems photographs and conversations from notable contributors like michael twitty joy. Harjo elizabeth alexander margaret wilkerson sexton and rosca it is story history memoir poetry agriculture social justice. And if you are an american it is the story of our land a story. You may find as i did. You don't know as well as you thought you did but you sure enjoy learning about now. I actually included. We are each other's harvest in the you didn't know you wanted to know. Category of the expanded summer reading guide. My knowledge of farming comes almost exclusively from a college roommate who married an illinois soybean farmer many years ago. A few books. I've read over the years and occasional conversations at the farmer's market and while i love to read foodie memoirs and have even been known to sit down and read a cookbook cover to cover. I didn't know. I was missing a book like this in my reading life. I am glad it's here now. Brazil's initial interest in food. Justice began back in college when she was a student at berkeley and she'd bring groceries to her great uncle in oakland. Normally she shop for the groceries in the affluent and predominantly white berkeley where the produce was fresh and lush. But one day. She shopped closer to her uncle's house. In a predominantly black neighborhood the produce was shriveled. Bruised 'em limp. Despite shopping the same chain of grocery stores as she didn't berkeley the store was dimly lit and unkempt a side note. I live a long way. From brazil's california but i really connected with a story because of similar disparities. I've noticed here in my own community in kentucky i shop at two different kroger's located a few miles apart from each other and the difference between the two stores is market the northern california stores brazil visited. Then sit in one of the richest lands for produce and that fresh produce overflowed in her own. Mark it down the road but the black grocery store and its offerings were abysmal. She was enraged and rightfully so that pitiful produce is the end of the line but food injustices go way back up it. Bazil lays out the numbers shares reasons. Why in the book including the striking fact that it's estimated. The black farmers cultivate less than half of one percent of the country's farmlands today. Brazil wants to share the stories of those remaining farmers and how they are striving to change the future for black farmers in america through the stories of these farmers who call themselves. The returning generation..
Best of Both Worlds Podcast
"mrs darcy" Discussed on Best of Both Worlds Podcast
"The best of both worlds. The says laura. This is episode two hundred ten. Which is airing in early to mid august. Twenty twenty one. We'll be talking all good things you can think of this as an all love of the week episode. We've done a few of these in the past but we thought it was time to revisit the concept because we've perhaps been complaining lot recent episodes and we like to keep things upbeat and happy around here so this is going to be a lot of things that are working for us right now that we want to share with you So sarah what's going on in your life right now. Yes so the first one is just the fact that it's so much easier than it used to be to rent a house for a vacation before airbnb got big. I mean i think was around. But i don't think their online interface interface was as robust as it is now and i was just so easy to browse a bunch of full size houses if you want to go somewhere. Which number one is very friendly. Two large families and number two. If you're concerned about any kind of exposure if you wanna go on a vacation that's more isolated somewhere you can have your own house. It's not hard to make that happen. So we are headed off to a vr b. o. Next week and we're very excited about it. Yeah that's exciting. We're renting a house on the jersey shore for a week in august. We printed this house before. I think the first time we did through. Vr oh and then they decided to rent through an agent so we have been going through the agency for that because there's so many rental properties out there in like vacation options. And i know that some people like the idea of having their own vacation home that they go to as there's renting the same place over and over again has some elements of that without all the trouble that comes from second home ownership so then you know when you don't wanna do it anymore you can switch it out without any of the transaction costs that we are. We are a big fan of that too. We've even been able to rent houses overseas at their back in twenty fourteen. We rented a farmhouse in the netherlands for a week for spring break and had the three kids and staying in little tiny european hotel rooms. There aren't as many like gigantic sweets as there are at american hotels at Definitely renting the house way to go but it was just it. Was seamless like here. Our landlord who who you know had put this app and just use a credit card and they verified the house and we get there and sure enough. It's the house that was and they rented it to lots of people. And so i just love. How seamless that vacation option has now become. That was twenty fourteen. I'm sure it's even better now well except it's hard to travel internationally but once you get there the house will be great. Yeah i think few places have gotten a lot better about posting release specific pictures. You can almost feel like you can tore it before going. So it's not known if it's inside so yeah all right. What's your first one spree sunscreen. So i was appreciating that this morning as i was sunscreen Various children for camp drop-offs camps are doing more even if it's an indoor camp. They're doing more outdoors now because a lot of them have people eat lunch outdoors for instance when they're not wearing their masks or when they're taking breaks from or whatever they'll be outside. This needs to be more careful about the sunscreen. You would even if you thought you're like sending our kids to a computer camp. Why why are they gonna need to be sunscreen. But they do. I can't even imagine if i was trying to use a cream to get on every inch of all these children and yes. The ones are capable of sunscreen themselves but sometimes they do less than a stellar job. And you can tell. That's the thing the sun doesn't lie so somebody comes back with a sunburn news than it is time to start supervising bat again but spray. Sunscreen makes it easier. Sometimes the kids even like want to close their eyes through my face this way to just take seconds as opposed to what feels like ours with the creams. Definitely worth loving. I will say the creams do depend on the cream. We have one in house cream. The elta md pure which actually rubs in very quickly and easily. But then if you get the wrong cream like you're white hasty for an hour like never goes away. So but yeah. The good sprays are great. Well on that note might next good item. That i've been playing with. Is the allure beauty box. Okay greg read about this at your life my name in quantico but i might be completely wrong anyway with somebody who had bought it for their child. No you don't was. It was an bogle for modern. Mrs darcy. She bought it for her daughter but then she said she was like stealing. All the stuff and i was like. Oh this does look really really good. And it's the twenty five dollars a month and you don't get to pick anything. They put whatever they want in the box. And you get a variety of full-size in tiny little miniature products with the amount that you get is like a lot for that price point megacity. These companies are using it more to get the word out about their brands. Or who knows. Maybe they too much of some products and they need to get rid of it. Whatever but what. I've gotten has been pretty impressive Have one face cream. This from able skin-care that i really like that like if it retails for much more expensive. I discovered really nice. I gel and i don't necessarily planned even by the full size. Because i just keep getting new samples and stuff and i found that it has actually left my need to buy full price product. So even though it's lik you don't normally think of some surprise box as saving you money in this case it does seem to be great. I'm pretty flexible. I don't mind trying a lot of different things. I don't care if my skin care in july different than october. Because i don't really believe in the power of most of these things anyway is just more just fun in how it feels so yeah. I like it the our duty box. I wonder if i'd ever use the stuff i i now you're talking about. I'm like ooh. Sarah loves it. I need to go get it. But the pondering what it just like stack up on my counter. I don't know it depends. I mean if you if you have a daily skin care routine where every night you put.
One Great Book
"mrs darcy" Discussed on One Great Book
"One great book volume five book nine chasing the thrill. Hey readers i'm am bogle and you're listening to one great book. The short form podcast from the team behind. What should i read next. Where each week. I pull one standout selection off my personal bookshelves and tell you all about it in ten minutes or less. You're listening volume five our summer edition in which i'm sharing new releases from our summer reading guide for more great book contents. Check out our sister show. What should i read next and our patriot community at patriotic dot com slash. What should i read next where we share. Patron only bonus episodes on fridays. Today's book came to me through one of my favorite people to talk books with and that is my husband. Will many listeners. Know him from his two appearances. On what should i read next. I and episode sixty one when the plot comes full circle and then in episode two fourteen deconstructing. Your best reading year yet will is an avid reader and he reads differently from me. No surprise there. Reading his personal he loves outdoorsy fiction military related reading and books. He simply calls dude books. We have regular listeners. Who pay close attention to what will is reading. We had regular messages and emails for modern mrs darcy readers and podcast listeners. That say my reading taste is similar.
One Great Book
"mrs darcy" Discussed on One Great Book
"In laundry richardson shares how he came to make laundry his life's work at a very young age. He was fascinated with close color. And even yes even laundry. His mom and his grandmother indulged his interest by taking him shopping for special close letting her explore other people's laundry rooms when visiting an even buying him his very own pint-size washing machine when he was a toddler later at the university of kentucky which is not that far. Down the road from my own kentucky home. Richardson studied merchandising. Apparel and textiles it was during his time at uk that richardson was introduced to oak tour and became interested in the care and laundering of specialty fabrics. As a student he had access to special collections. Such as that of the countess. Mona von bismarck. The first american voted the best dressed. Woman in the world so enamored with her clothing and story. Richardson went onto name. His high fashion vintage clothing store. Mona williams before opening this store. Richardson further fine tuned. His fashion and textile experience working at high end department. Stores like neiman. Marcus and nordstrom laundry love is the combination of decades of textile expertise spun into a user-friendly reference and folded with an eighth thoroughly engaging personal story. Well back home from camping. The real fund started. I bought new detergent and laundry brush. I went on a shopping spree on the londres website. I feel the spray bottle with vodka. I wanted up aluminum foil for my dryer and read the book. You'll find out why. I experimented with his ways of doing things like washing athletics or even sweaters right in the washing machine which i had never done before and my clothes got really dirty. I found myself flipping to richardson's notes over and over again to figure out what to do gloss over most of the details including the baskets full of garments. I refreshed and rescued since reading this book. But i will say. My laundry successes have been numerous sense with laundry. Love open top my washer. I remove lipstick and a nasty chicken tacoma solace bill from my favorite ivory cashmere sweater i got waterproof mascara out of a child's beloved white hoodie which basically made me a hero and orissa evidence of a nosebleed on a pillowcase. And when i spilled a glass of red wine on a wool throw blanket on the sofa. I didn't panic. I didn't even get up from the couch to treat the stain right away because richardson told me. I didn't have to. But i followed his instructions. The next day and that weinstein was gone and wasn't even hard but that doesn't mean i wasn't proud of myself for it. I never expected to find so much satisfaction in doing laundry but this bright and cheerful book changed my outlook and from that experience. I become a different kind of laundry evangelist. Because i've talked about this book. So dang much and of already gifted several copies. It's a perfect gift for friends. I talk about daily life with for housewarming gifts for new college students. I recommend it to countless friends. In fact my friend. And i are making plans. Have kidding but half not about attending one of richardson's laundry camps at the mall of america one day until then. I'm glad i have the book. And that i can share it with you here in short. If you like the sound of a conversational story driven guide that promises to educate and entertain while providing you with genuinely useful tips. You can put into practice immediately. Transforming its at household chore into an activity. You might actually like and that might elevate you to superhero status. Thanks to your new magical. Seen fighting powers laundry love might just be the next great book. Your looking for visit modern mrs darcy dot com slash one great book to learn more about laundry love and all the great books from this podcast. Be sure you're subscribed in your favorite podcast player. Because we've got more great books coming your way in this you. I'd love to hear what you think about lunch. We love tag on instagram at an bogle. That's an with an e. b. as in books o. g. e. l. and find us there on our all books all the time accounts. What should i read next. Thanks to callum becca chat for his sound design on today's episode readers. That's it for today. Thanks so much for listening. And as reiner maria rocca said how good it is to be.
One Great Book
"mrs darcy" Discussed on One Great Book
"You're listening to volume five our summer edition in which i'm sharing new releases from our summer reading guide to get your free copy goto modern mrs darcy dot com slash s r g. If you want more great book content check at our sister show. What should i read next and our patriot community at patriotic dot com slash. What should i read next where we share. Bonus episodes every friday as a reader. I love it when a talented author is able to make me care about a topic. I didn't think i was interested in reading about when they can reveal the hint fascination of a topic. I don't have any reason to want to know about like barefoot running through the mexican deserts or how researchers measure the world's tallest trees or jellyfish or. And you may recognize these topics from this year's summer reading guide trump louis painting or treasure hunting or bird-watching. I didn't think i was particularly interested in any of these topics until i picked up a book and the author revealed the hidden fascination of their chosen subject. I have a long history of being surprised and delighted with these unexpected forays into niche nonfiction. I know many of you have experienced the thrill of discovering such a book when that you immediately gush about cheerleading friends saying i had no idea i wanted to read about this subject but let me tell you about this book. I loved. I want to tell you about a book. I loved one. That despite being vaguely genre i know i enjoy reading vastly exceeded my expectations. That's because this book is not about an obscure wonder of the world or an unexamined bit of history. But about something. With which. I thought i was all too familiar. It turns out. I didn't know what nearly as much as i thought i did. The book laundry love finding joy in a common chore by patrick richardson with karen. B miller showed me what i was missing while turning this mundane household chore into fascinating. Tell your friends all about reading and equipping me to handle my laundry like a pro and it is one great book readers. If you're looking for a way to keep track of your great books. I have a new reading journal coming out in september. And it's perfect for collecting your thoughts about what you've read keeping up with your tv are browsing seasonal booklets for inspiration and reflecting on your reading life right now. When you're preorder the journal you get a sneak. Peek at some of those reading lists and a bookmark that doubles reading tracker that you can use to capture titles until your journal shows up order your copy of my reading life eight book journal wherever you buy books and then head to modern mrs darcy dot com slash journal to claim your bonuses. That's modern mrs darcy dot com slash journal. I have a long history of reading about domesticity as a small child. I would often pull my mom's alexandra. Stoddard designed books off bookshelf. Verb rainy-day reading all these years later. I distinctly remember her preference for sky-blue ceilings and open windows as ways of bringing the outdoors in and then as an adult i fell down the housekeeping or rather reading about housekeeping rabbit hole when a friend turned me onto home comforts by cheryl mendelson. My friend was shocked to learn. I hadn't heard of it. But i quickly fixed that and was hooked from mendelssohn opening line. I am a working woman with a secret life. I keep house. I find reading about home. Care to be supremely comforting. It feels like escapist reading if you're looking to escape into a tidy orderly kind of world while it offers a nice dose of practicality sometimes even instant gratification because if you're reading these books at home you can often begin. Implementing tips and tricks. You pick up immediately last fall. I i heard about a book in the works called laundry love and discovered to my very great surprise it was being published by flat iron. A division of macmillan. That doesn't usually publish this kind of book. I enthusiastically got my copy and took it with me on a family camping trip. When i started reading i had just finished a tense. Domestic suspense and reading about textile care was so soothing in comparison. But no less absorbing believe it or not. I sat around the fire that night with the book in hand smiling and chuckling richardson stories. Trying to explain to my family. Why reading about laundry was so entertaining. Richardson calls himself the laundry evangelist and his promises that he can. At least make you fall in like with laundry. And i have to say. I found his cheerful enthusiasm contagious. It's obvious from the beginning that he knows what he's talking about and from a book like this. I expected no less than expert advice. But what. I didn't expect from this domestic how to was so much story. The narrative that drives richardson's book comes from a variety of unexpected sources. There's so much drama bound up with laundry who knew. Richardson can't talk about his favorite subject without discussing his kentucky ancestry or the family barbecue sauce legacy or the time he was called to the church to save a bride's wedding gown just minutes before she walked down the aisle after an affectionate toddler had given her a big.
One Great Book
"mrs darcy" Discussed on One Great Book
"What those chapters reveal isn't good for the riva family. Nina thinks of her parents. Doomed relationship is a tragedy. jay sees it as a comedy of errors to hud. It's an origin story to kit. It's always been a mystery. It's seven pm. When the party starts the story lines converge. And it's all party all the time from that moment on. It's a repulsive way of telling the story because you know something is going to go horribly wrong in the present day plot read opens the book with the big teaser about the fire. So you're always anxious to get back to it to see how and when it's going to happen. The backstory has more of a contemporary feel while the party plot is fast. Flashy and frothy in a way that feels right for a summer book. I read the advance review copy of this book and in it read clearly outlines her themes in her author's letter so i'm going to let her speak for herself. It's a story about fame in the objectification of women. It's a story about sibling. Rivalries about parenthood in about marriage and the ways we repeat the mistakes of our parents and is all set against the backdrop of nineteen eighties. Malibu surfers and models actresses and screenwriters tennis pros and tv stars studio execs musicians all coming together to lose control over the course of one evening. Let's talk about that. Nineteen eighties malibu. Setting the details read contains are pitch perfect talk about sense of place. Nina bemoans the tabloid photo. That pictures her coming out of the supermarket. Smoking virginia slim and carrying a six pack of tab at a previous riva party nina's neighbor rob lowe saying all of jack and diane with her other neighbor. Emilio estevez in her kitchen one character dresses for the party wearing a sky. Blue tee-shirt belted at the waist with white shorts and white pumps. She tease her hair at the crown and rimmed her eyes and black eyeliner. She'd stolen the outfit idea from heather. Locklear who'd been wearing the same thing on the cover of los angeles magazine the month before so far. I imagined the sounds like a fun flashy story and it is that but the reason i enjoyed it. So is the emotional. Truth that carries. What do we owe the people we love. What do we owe the people we love. Who led us down how to our families shape us. How'd you siblings form in shape. Each other. are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of our parents or can we find a way to embrace the good while shunning their destructive legacy previously. This wasn't one of the summer reads. I was most looking forward to. But i wouldn't be surprised if it ends up. Being one of my very favorites the characters and there are a lot in this book or well developed and feel authentic. Each sibling is distinct with a unique personality and voice. It's smart and fun. Deep and thought provoking but with a locomotive narrative drive and it sent one of the most famous beaches in the world complete with rockstars and surfers and sent in the nineteen eighties. And while it has all those fun characteristics the writing and character development remains strong and engaging enough to hold readers that tend to slant literary but enjoy the fun of a betrayed. It's also fun and bitchy. Enough to interest a fan of what publishers pitch. As more typical be tweets. I've got to give you a whole bunch of content warnings before we go. There is substantial drug use severe. Alcoholism childhood abandonment infidelity death and violence and destruction and sexual content. That isn't terribly graphic. But i wouldn't call closed-door this book reminded me of siblings stories. I have left in the past like commonwealth and the dutch house. It put me a mind of old. Hollywood books like the stars of sunset boulevard and of course the seven husbands of evelyn hugo. It's got a little bit of a big little lies vibe and my mind kept going back to rob lowe's story. I only tell my friends for that. Malibu connection insurance if you're looking for a page turning family saga. That has everything you could want to be. Treat or you'd like a book that falls under the beechy umbrella of compulsively readable literary fiction. Malibu rising might just be the next great book. Your looking for readers visit modern mrs darcy dot com slash one. Great book to learn more about malibu rising and all of the great books from this podcast and be sure are subscribed in your favorite podcast player minus overcast. Because we've got more great books coming your way. In this volume. I'd love to hear what you think about malibu rising tad me on instagram at an bogle. That's an with an e. b. as in books o. g. e. l. You can also find me there at. What should i read next. That's the title of my long-form podcast. Where each week a reader tells me three books. They love one book. They don't and what they're reading now. And i recommend three titles. They may enjoy meeting next. We've heard time and again from readers that this is the podcast reinvigorated. They're reading life and we think you'll be glad you checked it out. Listen wherever you're listening to one. Grateful thanks to cowan pekka check for his sound design on today's episode readers. That's it for today. Thanks so much for listening. And his reiner maria rocus at how good it is to be among people who are meeting happy reading everyone..
One Great Book
"mrs darcy" Discussed on One Great Book
"Grave readers. If you're looking for a way to keep track of your great books. I have a new reading journal coming out in september and it's perfect for collecting your thoughts about what you've read keeping up with your tr browsing seasonal booklets for inspiration and reflecting on your reading life right now. If you preordered the journal you can get a sneak. Peek at some of those reading lists and bookmark that doubles as a reading tracker that you can use to capture titles until your journal shows up order your copy of my reading life april journal wherever you buy books and then head to modern mrs darcy dot com slash journal to claim your bonuses. That's modern mrs darcy dot com slash journal. The setting is malibu. Nineteen eighty three. The story opens the day of nina rivas annual party nina and her siblings are well known in southern california and their party is the events of the season. It's always an epic bash and the siblings. Themselves are notorious. Everyone wants to bump elbows with the rivas. Nina is a surfer turned supermodel. Her brother jay is a championship surfer. Another brother hud travels the world with jay. Who's photographer and their baby sister. Kit just might be the most talented surfer of them all if anyone paid enough attention to her but people aren't just interested in the riva kits for their own sake. Everyone is interested in their father. The legendary singer mick riva to be connected to him is to be interesting. Speaking of connections there's a subtle connection between allah rising and reads. I historical novel the seven husbands of evelyn hugo which marked a turning point in her career. The character mick. Riva who looms so large in this new release was a minor character and reads last two bucks. He is the third husband of evelyn hugo and he also makes a small appearance in her twenty nineteen novel daisy jones and the six as a guest at one of daisy jones's wild parties back the present day the stories present day of malibu nineteen eighty-three that is the reba families. Fans don't know that make has zero relationship with his kids. He hasn't talked to them a single time since he walked out the door. Wing kit was teeny tiny. The book is about one day and night in the story of one family and read takes us through the days and nights events hour by hour at seven. Am on party morning. When nina is riding the waves dreading the coming party that she's hosting when we find out hud has been keeping an unconscionable secret from his brother. We moved through the events of the day. When nina visits the families restaurants. Check in and the brothers buy beer and booze for their guests and kit invites surprise guest to attend. We see when the party starts at seven pm seemingly already out of control and what happens when it gets really out of control by midnight and how the family mansion ends up burning down by seven. Am when the book ends and lest you think that's a spoiler. We know from the books opening lines that somebody was going to set a fire and walkaway malibu catches fire read writes. It is simply what malibu does from time to time. If the hour by hour timeline tells us what the riva family is like. Now in nineteen eighty three. The second time line tells us how they got there and read. Does that by taking us. Through the years into the family's past beginning in nineteen fifty six. When in june met on a malibu beach they fell for each other hard and fast and though june's parents cautioned her against an aspiring singer with dubious prospects. June.
One Great Book
"mrs darcy" Discussed on One Great Book
"You're listening to volume five our summer edition in which i'm sharing new releases from our summer reading guide so i can deeper into some of my favorite titles of the season plus backless elections that pair beautifully with each recent release. If you haven't yet picked up your copy of the guide visit modern. Mrs darcy dot com slash s. Rg to your copy. Today there are several schools of thoughts when it comes to be treats some readers. Say that any book you read on. The beach is a beach. Read whether that means a spy thriller or a book of philosophy or an unabridged copy of les miserables which is a memorable book. I read on the beach as a nerdy eighth grader. Others vehemently disagree saying a beach. Read is an easy reading. Page turning escapist novel takes you out of your regular life. It might be hard to define they say but they know it when they see it and likely candidates are thrillers romance novels women's fiction especially the ones with the sky blue covers or any book with a summertime setting. I'm loyal to the former definition myself believing a beach read is whatever you want it to be and yet when readers tell me they're on the hunt for a good bg book. Of course. i know exactly what they're talking about. You might be surprised to know that. We haven't always called books. Beach reads the phrase is newer than you might expect and it originated as an industry term according to michelle dean writing for the guardian the term came into usage in the early nineteen nineties and was used by publishers to describe the mega bestsellers published that season. No matter how you define it. Today's great book is undeniably beach. Read material this already a blockbuster. June first released from chart-topping author. Taylor jenkins read. One publishing's most anticipated books of summer. The beautiful ocean blue cover feature surfers relaxing on their boards. It said in malibu. It's characters are actors and rockstars and professional athletes much. Perhaps most of the action takes place on the actual beach. I'll read just about anything on the beach myself. so little. did i know going in that. Servers rockstars eighties pop culture and a mansion. Going up in flames is pretty much. Everything i'd want in a betrayed and malibu. Rising.
One Great Book
"mrs darcy" Discussed on One Great Book
"Readers. We're exploring the summer's great books together in the modern mrs darcy book club are online home for community classes and reading center conversation with people who love books as much as you do. Our july selection is sparks like stars. Were reading it together. Right now and chatting with other naughty hashimi on july twenty eighth author events like these make for even more memorable enrich reading experiences and we'd love for you to join our community of avid readers. For our wonderful season visit members dot. Modern mrs darcy dot com to find out more and join today. This is the story. I have never wholly told our narrator tells us not to the woman who helped me flee country on fire not to the woman who raised me as an american and not to the man i almost loved our narrator is sitara a ten year old girl living in the presidential palace with our family and kabul. Her father serving is the president's most trusted adviser when she doesn't have her nose in a book sitara spencer time with the children of the president. Her most intimate friends in fact her best friend. Neela teases atari that. She should marry her brother so they can be true sisters. one day. The children play in the gardens. Sneak around while important. Banquets are underway. Tease and joke with the palace guards. When she's not with her friends young's at our cooks with her mother by day. And read poetry and kipling stories with her father by night one fateful night though same palace guards. She loves to tease. Turn on the president. And his siege descends on the palace. They assassinate the president and kill his entire family. All of zitar is family is massacred before her young is is. She hides in the drapery. She is finally discovered by one of the guards who whisked her away from the compound. She is unsure whether he is friend or foe when he ultimately passes her off to an american diplomats undercover of darkness what she reaches safety. She begins to process the trauma. She's experienced with help from antonio the diplomat and tilly. The diplomats mother in a book filled with numerous well rounded supporting characters. Tilles stands out as a gem. Readers often ask me her books that feature more mature female characters that go beyond this week grandma art type or that of the curmudgeonly utterly lady with a heart of gold underneath tilles spunky. She has interesting life experiences behind her. And she's not afraid to speak her mind with antonia's diplomatic ties and practical antilles bravery the two women figure out a way to spirits atara out of afghanistan and to the united states. But it's a plan laid him with danger and when that comes at great cost to the young girl who was forced to leave behind her homeland her family even her.
One Great Book
"mrs darcy" Discussed on One Great Book
"Let's talk about the queue line in the book. August refrain is that the queue line represents a time a place and a person to her but it also represents something more when asked interviews why the queue line mcguigan has called it obvious. Q. is for queer of course identifying as queer herself. Mcquillan says that she and heads up. I'm saying she throughout but please no. Mcquillan is not binary and uses any pronouns. She writes the books she wants to read now and book. She wishes she had when she was younger. Showing queer people loving and living in community with each other mcqueen's personal history bear similarities to her heroin. August she's also white and bisexual. She grew up lonely in the deep south and moved to new york city in her twenties where she found people as a reader. It is a joy to watch august. Find her people and brooklyn's lgbtq plus community beginning with the roommates who begin to change our life and the neighbors co workers and friends of friends. She meets throughout the book. This isn't a few incidental queer characters one last stop centers how queer community flocks together and cares for each other and. There's the history. Because jane lived her life in nineteen seventies new york before defying the laws of physics and getting trapped on the subway mic wisdom incorporates queer history into the story like happenings from the music scene jane so loved before she got stuck in time and also historical events. I hadn't heard of before reading one last. Stop like the nineteen seventy-three arson in new orleans. Gay bar called the upstairs lounge because our love interest experienced these events firsthand. This history is not just seamlessly incorporated into the buck but essential to it. Mcquillan may like to sneak in little history lessons but one last operate means an entertaining ride just to continue that subway metaphor. There are a couple of steamy scenes and a good bit swearing which reminds me that a. Psa may be helpful here. Wisden's books are often mistaken for way perhaps because of their cheerful pastel covers. But she would describe them adults or new adult romances. So don't be surprised by the racy. Bits in short if you're looking for a delightful feel-good wrong com with a touch of magical wednesay and a cast of the bestest besties a girl could ever ask for one. Last stop might just be the next book. Your looking for readers visit modern mrs darcy dot com slash one great book to learn more about one last off and all of the great books from this podcast. I'd love to hear what you think about one last. Stop tag me on. Instagram at and bobo and find me there as well at what should i read next. That's the title of my long-form book where each week reader tells me three books. They love one book. They don't and what they're reading now. And i recommend three titles. They should read next. We've heard time and again from readers that this is the podcast that reinvigorated. They're reading life and we think you'll be glad you checked it out. Listen wherever you're listening to one great book. Thanks to kill pack for his sound design on today's episode and readers. That's it for today. Thanks so much for listening. And as reiner maria roka said How good it is to be among people.
One Great Book
"mrs darcy" Discussed on One Great Book
"Readers. Summer reading season is in full. Swing around here and to help you get more out of the season while it lasts. We're inviting you to join us for our readers weekend and spend a full forty eight hours. Investing time in your reading life will kick things off on friday. July twenty third at six. Pm eastern and conclude on sunday july twenty fifth at the same time. The hours between can look. However you'd like choose a book you've been meaning to cross off. Your tb are connect with buddy to read something new take to the trails with an audiobook. You've been longing to listen to just read. Every one is invited to participate. And we'd love to have you join us. There's no charge and you don't need to sign up. But for more info check out our recent blog post modern. Mrs darcy called join us for our readers weekend. We'll share ongoing updates our newsletter and on social media. So make sure your sign up for that newsletter. At what should i read next podcast dot com slash newsletter and follow me on instagram at an bogle in with an e. b. as in books og l. We can't wait to read with you during our special weekend. Beginning friday july. Twenty third many people know casey mcqueen from the massively bestselling new newell novel red white and blue. An enemies delivers romance featuring the son of the american president and his mirror prince across the pond. This new romantic comedy. Also for adult or new adult readers is set and the comparatively ordinary world of new york city and at subway system specifically the queue. Line and yes. There is symbolism there. We'll get to that in a moment in one. Less stop. mcquillan tells the story of a twenty three year old bisexual student named august. She's originally from new orleans where she spent s strange and often sad childhood largely because her mother is obsessed with solving the mystery of what happened to a family member long ago as a young adult august has bounced around a series of schools. None of which have quite worked out. She's adrift lonely and broke and yet in hopes of leaving her troubled past behind and building a new life for herself she transfers to brooklyn college and moves to new york city and to her surprise when she gets new york things start going. Well maybe for the first time in her life she takes a chance on some roommates. She connects with from the internet and strikes gold. Free-spirited artists myla her psychic partner. Nico and eccentric recluse. Wes are the queer found family. That august doesn't know missing and they instantly full her into their community. She gets a job. At a twenty four hour pancake house despite never having waited tables because her new roomies vouch for her and the curmudgeonly staff take a liking to her and then she finds love on the first day of school. August lives on some ice on her way to the subway and spills a full cup of coffee all over her white shirt with skinned knees and a broken spirit. She boards the key line only to feel someone hovering over her on the train. She is not in the mood for a subway creep but when she looks up she shocked to lock eyes with the hottest girl. She's ever seen about her age. Chinese-american with a distinctive retro. Look black leather jacket. Red cons with an edge. That august finds intriguing. The girl produces a scarf rescuing august from her first day. Coffee disaster and when they touch agassi's actual sparks. The train passes through a tunnel. The lights flicker and the girls gone. August thinks she'll never see her again but much to her surprise. The next august boards the q train. There she is august learns. The punk rock lesbian. She's hopelessly crushing on is named jane and she sees her again and again every time. She boards the q train. It turns out. That's because jane is always on the subway because she can't get off she's been stuck there in a time warp for more than four decades despite the slight inconvenience of living in different timelines august and jane spent hours together on the rails sharing stories and food and asking big questions about why and how jane was pulled out of her own time. August is afraid to admit it but she's falling hard and jane well the more time. Jane spends close august the more she seems to remember about who she was before she was thrown into q. Line limbo. it seems like they could go on like this forever. Writing the queue line back and forth and stealing kisses and sharing donuts that weren't invented yet and jane's time but then the city announces that the queue line will be closed and soon which means august and her friends have to figure out how to get jane off the train before the unthinkable happens.
One Great Book
"mrs darcy" Discussed on One Great Book
"Welcomed volume five our summer edition in this volume sharing new releases from our summer reading guide. So i can dig deeper into some of my favorite titles of the season. Plus share backless elections that pair beautifully with each recent release. I hope these episodes help you find great books for your own to be read list or to share with a bookish friend and if you haven't gotten your summer reading guide yet go to modern mrs darcy dot com slash s r g to download that now for myself. I always write about dublin. Because if i can get to the heart of dublin i can get to the heart of all. The cities of the world in particular is contained the universal irish writer. James joyce said this to arthur power in nineteen twenty two and since that time has become a truism of storytelling. How about these more. Recent words from jacqueline woodson about why her book brown girl dreaming resonate so with readers. The more specific we are. She says the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize. It doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates in the particular is contained. The universal the specificity is what resonates in twenty eighteen indie rock star. Honor bend a piece for the new yorker called crying h mart in which she writes with great specificity about losing both her aunt and her mother to cancer in the span of just a few years of the things that trigger her tears years later and of seeking to maintain a connection to the korean heritage. She feared she could lose. In the wake of her mother's death. The new yorker article went viral and although she shared a specific personal experience. It was the emotional journey presented so vulnerably that resonated broadly with readers. The article landed on her a book deal and the book received critical acclaim and high praise from readers since april release just last week and gm label orion pictures announced that it will make the book into a feature film was honor providing the soundtrack in crying in h mart. Many readers myself felt zone. Poignantly captured pieces of their own experience in her lyrical and life-affirming memoir about grief growing up and making amends and it.
One Great Book
"mrs darcy" Discussed on One Great Book
"Today. We're kicking off our fifth volume of one great book our summer edition in this volume sharing new releases from our summer reading guide. So i can dig deeper into some of my favorite titles of the season. Plus we're sharing backless elections the pair beautifully with each recent release. I hope these episodes help you find great books for your to read list whether you're packing books for a beach vacation or enjoying sweater season where you live though. I may sometimes be a reluctant traveller one. Who's not so fond of flying. I'm always her vicarious trip to a far away location in the pages of a great book. I can travel to other times and places be they real or imagined from the comfort. My favourite reading book. And there's never any turbulence years. I've heard from many readers who similarly turn to their bookshelves for exploration and escape and not just during quarantine. Lifelong readers understand the transporter powerbook's whether they're hitting the road taken to the skies or maybe even lying on the beach. I'm hoping to get to the this summer. And according to author. Emily henry the perfect book to pack in my beach. Bag would be something that is so compelling to you that it's going to distract you from all the other stuff going on. That's she puts it. Your ideal betrayed might be a sweeping historical novel. A touching memoir a heart pounding thriller or all of the above one of my favorite books to take to the beach is a contemporary romance with witty banter characters to root for the pining aplenty last year. Emily henry splashing new release literally titled beach. Read held my attention. Not once but twice as i diverted in just a few sittings and then reread it not long. After this summer henry is packed and ready to take you on ten globetrotting vacations in new contemporary romance people. We meet on vacation. It's perfect for readers looking to get away from it all and it is one great book readers. I want to invite you to join me for vicarious trips around the world this summer to croatia new zealand palm springs afghanistan the english coast and more all the pages of the books. Were reading in the modern. Mrs darcy book club are online home for community classes and reading center conversation with people who love books as much as you do. Our june selection is the people we meet on vacation or reading it together. Right now and chatting with other emily henry on june twenty second. We'd love for you to join us in our community of avid readers. For a wonderful season visit members dot. Modern mrs darcy dot com to find out more and join today on vacation. You can be anyone. You want narrates. Poppy you can wear your hair down. Eat lunch at four. Pm and join in a chorus with the band a dive bar and then it starts to rain or your travel companion gets grumpy and you realized that maybe vacationing doesn't solve all of life's problems while readers get to come along for a host of vacations in these pages from budget road trips to fancy international destinations alexan- poppies when harry met sally inspired relationship. Is the real adventure in this will they. Won't they romcom. Henry didn't set out to write an omar. To when harry met sally saying perhaps it was ephron who left this indelible mark on me plans if a seed or appreciation for characters who create an irritate and infuriates. Until the moment they suddenly don't not only because they've changed but because you've begun to see the full picture of who they are and so she set out to write a romance about two people who seemingly don't belong together total opposites who stumble upon fulfilling friendship and then have to navigate what that means for the rest of their lives. Getting the full picture of alexan- poppy is a delight. After an uninspiring and briefing counter at a party at the university of chicago alexan- poppy share ride home from college to their small town in ohio. The ever responsible. Alex wants to focus on the road hands in the ten and two positions. Poppy blessed david bowie and plays drums on the dashboard. While scrolling her playlist alex the stoic responsible firstborn of a widower a rule follower who likes khakis and daily schedules. Poppy is the free spirit. A little sister in allowed rambunctious house who dreams of traveling. The world went day. They're opposites in every sense. But something clicks is the car speeds down the highway and so begins the most relationship of their lives years later alex's teaching english in their hometown longing for a family of his own so we can settle down and begin the picket fence phase of small town life in other words. He wants the kind of life that poppy swore she'd never go back to. Poppy couldn't flee her humdrum hometown. Fast enough for the excitement of new york city. She's working in her dream. Job is a travel writer for a posh magazine circling the globe on the company's dime with one hundred thousand followers watching her every move on social media but lately she's been feeling disillusioned with the world's luxuries at her feet and emptiness is brewing. She's not happy and she's not sure why but when her friend asked to consider when she was left happy she doesn't give it a second thought. It was with alex on vacation about those vacations each summer. These longtime best friends take one epic adventure they spend the whole year planning technically. It's worked for poppy. But with alex along for the ride it just feels like these vacations formed the core of the book over the course of each trip. We see how their relationship ebbs and flows just like carrion sally. They date other people over the years but chemistry together is undeniable. Alexan- poppy tease each other with back and forth banter and share moments of tenderness. That make you think. Just kiss each other already but early in the book. We learned that two summers ago on vacation and croatia. Something went terribly wrong and they haven't spoken since two years later. Poppy though alex doesn't know it poppy wanted to recapture the easing comfort. Which once characterize a relationship decides that only vacation can save them. Things at the magazine are up in the air. So poppy charges a hail. Mary vacation on her credit card and hopes alex say yes to a trip to palm springs. She wants her friend back and maybe she wants more. Though this book it takes. The likely vacation starved reader from palm springs to new zealand and everywhere in between. It's really a book about finding the place where you belong as emily henry puts it. It's about finding your home in person no matter where you go with that person. It's like you're taking this piece of home with you if you've enjoyed the playful tone of enduring romances like the happy ever after playlist by abby jimenez and one day in december by josie silver. This tangerine covered beauty. Full of heart and humor. Might be just right for your summer reading. Though more lighthearted than beach read henry again delivers richly developed characters an intricacies to the plot and structure. That i really enjoy as a reader with its when harry met sally connection memorable starring duo and multiple picturesque settings. Perfect for vicarious vacationers. People.
One Great Book
"mrs darcy" Discussed on One Great Book
"Honor sister show. What should i read next to. Every week i talked to a guest and invite them to share three books. They love one book. They don't and what they've been reading lately. We then do a little literary matchmaking. An i recommend three books. They may enjoy reading next each week. I strive to find the next right reeds for that particular reader and of course for all of the listeners who not along in their cars at their kitchen sinks on the jogging trail saying that book sounds perfect for me as well. What we don't do on. What should i read. Next is talk about my favorite books weekend and week out. in fact i often regret books. I'd love to recommend but find the titles aren't quite right for any particular guest. That's why on each episode of one. Great book i get to share a book i love and if you listen closely when i share why you may find that you'll love it too but if not that's okay not every reader is going to love every great book but every reader can enjoy the conversation readers. Pull out your tr's and get ready to tune in on fridays. Because i have great books. I want to tell you about in this volume. That is what we call seasons around here. In previous volumes shared backless elections but in the coming episodes i'm sharing in-depth looks at newer releases from the modern mrs darcy. Summer reading guide. Listen wherever you listen to. What should i read next. Just search there for one. Great book new book or episodes or short and sweet and evergreen. So if you haven't yet listened to our previous go ahead and download those now while you wait for volume five. Subscribe now to be sure you get the first episode as soon as it comes out on june eleventh and if.
10 Things To Tell You
"mrs darcy" Discussed on 10 Things To Tell You
"Bogle very favorite people to record with because she is one of my very favorite people to talk books with you. Might know an as the blogger behind modern mrs darcy or you might know her as the voice behind the hit. Podcast what should i read next or you might know her as the author of one of her three bucks reading people. I'd rather be reading and don't over. Think it however you know an surely familiar with her annual summer. Reading guide is out now and it is spectacular. This is and tenth annual summer reading guide. I personally believe it's her best one. And y'all free go to modern. Mrs darcy dot com slash s archie to sign up to receive your summer reading guide. It is free. It is amazing on this episode with an we share some of the best books that we've read lately we talk about what are reading habits. Look like this spring and as usual. I came away from our conversation adding way too many books to read pile. But i'm not sorry about it when debt also we both have recent bestsellers that were not five star. Reads for us to put it mildly and we talk about that among other things on my new patriotic that is launching this week called secret stuff. That is a little bonus clip. That i took out of this episode. That will be part of the secret staff. I will put links in the show notes to sign up for the secret. Stuff and to end boggles tenth annual summer reading guide. Because you need both of these things in your life this summer and that my conversation about the best books we've read lately with modern mrs darcy off and bogle and bogo. Welcome back to ten things to tell you. Hi laura thanks for having me again. It's a pleasure. I love love love recording with you. We've recorded together so many times over the years we were on your show. What should i read next back in january now here. We are again together at the beginning of the summer. because guess what. It's every book lovers favorite time of year. The summer reading guide is out lehto sad..