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Jessica and I are superfans of the Morning News Tournament of Books, and have participated as readers for several years. We are not official partners of the Tournament, nor does it belong to us, but we are hopeful that all involved will take this as a fancast and that readers who haven't heard of it will participate next time. Both of us have encountered books through the Tournament we would never have read otherwise. In this bonus episode, we focus on the books from this year's Tournament (both the long and shortlist) but also end up talking about some highlights from previous years. Ready your brackets, this is the only madness happening in March!Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 183: Birthing Rabbits with Jessica.Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via StitcherListen through Spotify Books discussed:Most books will be best viewed here on the Tournament of Books site2020 bracketToB 2020 ShortlistToB 2020 Longlist (this is your 2020 reading list!)Other mentions:Cantoras by Carolina di RobertisThe Museum of Modern Love by Heather RoseCity of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth GilbertA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganThe Orphan Master's Son by Adam JohnsonThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWittWhite Tears by Hari KunzruMay We Be Forgiven by A.M. HomesHill William by Scott McClanahanCrapalachia by Scott McClanahanThe Sarah Book by Scott McClanahanExit West by Mohsin HamidStephen Florida by Gabe HabashThe Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadRed at the Bone by Jacqueline WoodsonBangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya SudbanthadA Girl Returned by Donatella di PietrantonioSabrina & Corina: Stories by Kaji Fajardo-AnstineOlive Kitteridge by Elizabeth StroutOlive, Again by Elizabeth StroutMy Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth StroutVery Nice by Marcy DermanskyPatsy by Nicole Dennis-BennDucks, Newburyport by Lucy EllmanA Woman is No Man by Etaf RumSave Me the Plums by Ruth ReichlThe Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenThe Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine ArdenThe Dutch House by Ann Patchett Related episodes:Episode 110 - The Accidental Love Episode with Casey StepaniukEpisode 150 - Rife with Storytelling with SaraEpisode 163 - Fainting Goats with LaurenEpisode 166 - On Brand with KarenEpisode 167 - Book Pendulum with ReggieEpisode 175 - Reading on Impulse with Marion HillEpisode 178 - Precarious Pile with Ruth(iella)Stalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJessica at Goodreads Jenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and LitsyJessica is @the bluestocking on Litsy

To celebrate the end of 2019, we've re-released our highest rating fiction interviews of the year: #2 is Claire Coleman, Krissy Kneen, Pitchaya Sudbanthad and Michelle Tanmizi live at Ubud Writers and Readers Festival. Speculative fiction has lurked in the shadows of the literary scene for years while realism hogged the limelight. Now, as the natural and political spheres crumble around us, speculative fiction's dystopian worlds don't seem so different from our own. In this timely conversation, our panelists ask whether we're now at the point where all contemporary fiction is in fact speculative fiction. Claire G. Coleman is a Wirlomin Noongar woman whose ancestral Country is in South Coast Western Australia. Her novel Terra Nullius won a Black&Write! Fellowship and a Norma K Hemming Award, and has been shortlisted for The Stella Prize and an Aurealis Award. The Old Lie is her second novel. Krissy Kneen is the award-winning author of the memoir Affection and five novels including Stella Prize shortlisted An Uncertain Grace. She is also the author of Thomas Shapcott Award-winning poetry collection Eating My Grandmother. She has written and directed documentaries for Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Special Broadcasting Service television.  Pitchaya Sudbanthad is the author of the novel Bangkok Wakes to Rain, published by Riverhead Books (US) and Sceptre (UK). He has received fellowships in fiction writing from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony, and currently splits time between Bangkok, Thailand and Brooklyn, USA.  Michelle Tanmizi is Chinese-Indonesian and international. She is an author, leadership coach and trainer, and a motivational speaker. Michelle's first work was a poetry book, Truth. Late Dawn is her first speculative science fiction novel inspired by the conservation crisis we face today.  About The Garret You can also follow The Garret on Twitter and Facebook, or follow our host Astrid Edwards on Twitter or Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode, we discuss our Books and Boba April 2019 book club pick, Bangkok Wakes to Rain, by Pitchaya Sudbanthad, a book featuring stories of a myriad of characters, all connected through time and space to a single building in the city of Bangkok. We discuss the book's musings on the cycles of history, and the tensions between memory,culture, and technological progress. For additional thoughts and discussion on the monthly pick, visit the Books & Boba Goodreads forums. This Month's Book Club Panelists: Reera Yoo (@reeraboo) Marvin Yueh (@marvinyueh) Follow us: Facebook Twitter Goodreads Group The Books & Boba May 2019 pick is This is Paradise: Stories by Kristiana Kahakauwila This podcast is part of Potluck: An Asian American Podcast Collective

On this episode, we chat with Henry Lien, the author of The Peasprout Chen Series, a middle grade series about Peasprout Chen, a new student and immigrant to an academy that teaches wu liu, the art of martial arts figure skating. Henry shares about his journey of going from a career in law to writing fiction for youth, as well as what he's learned about himself through the process. For additional thoughts and discussion visit the Books & Boba Goodreads forums This Episode's Hosts: Reera Yoo (@reeraboo) Marvin Yueh (@marvinyueh) This Episode's Guest: Henry Lien, Author of The Peasprout Chen Series The Books & Boba April 2019 pick is Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad This podcast is part of Potluck: An Asian American Podcast Collective

It's the April Books & Boba mid-month news roundup. On this episode, we check in with the latest publishing announcements and news out of the world of Asian American literature. For additional thoughts and discussion on the monthly pick, visit the Books & Boba Goodreads forums. This Month's Book Club Panelists: Reera Yoo (@reeraboo) Marvin Yueh (@marvinyueh) Follow us: Facebook Twitter Goodreads Group The Books & Boba April 2019 pick is Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad This podcast is part of Potluck: An Asian American Podcast Collective

On this episode, we discuss our Books and Boba March 2019 book club pick, Darius the Great Is Not Okay, by Adib Khorram, the story of Darius, a teenage kid who loves Star Trek and Tolkien, and his trip to his mother's home country of Iran to visit his ailing grandfather for the first time. We discuss Darius' journey of finding his inner strength in Iran while dealing with clinical depression (CW: discussion of depression) and his anxieties of never really feeling like he fits in. For additional thoughts and discussion on the monthly pick, visit the Books & Boba Goodreads forums. This Month's Book Club Panelists: Reera Yoo (@reeraboo) Marvin Yueh (@marvinyueh) Follow us: Facebook Twitter Goodreads Group The Books & Boba April 2019 pick is Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad This podcast is part of Potluck: An Asian American Podcast Collective

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Pitchaya (pitch eye a) Sudbanthad (soot banth odd) author of Bangkok Wakes To Rain, published this month by Riverhead. Bangkok Wakes To Rain is Pitchaya’s first novel. He has received Fellowships in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the McDowell Colony and is the fiction editor for The Conundrum Engine Literary Review. He spends time in both Bangkok and Brooklyn. _______________________________________ Bangkok Wakes To Rain is a difficult novel to explain. It has no epigraph but if it did, it would be “It is only so”. Those words describe not only the book’s thematic course but they also give us a good idea of what our hustling and bustling, our hither and yon amount to in our everyday waking lives. “It is only so”. Back to the book itself, it weaves, it dances, it describes a city in its past, present and future incarnations. While our chief narrator is Jee, from time to time the protagonist becomes a flock of birds, or an aging jazz musician who is tied to Krunthemp, the name of the city we call Bangkok. The prose is much as in The Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, something I thought of early on and then was satisfied to read it compared to that book in many of the reviews. It’s the collapse of time, illusory or not that draws us in, awaiting the next course, the next tense, the next world.

This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Bangkok Wakes to Rain, The White Book, The Study of Animal Languages, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Audible and Blinkist. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray The Source of Self Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison Bangkok Wakes to Rain: A Novel by Pitchaya Sudbanthad The Study of Animal Languages: A Novel by Lindsay Stern The White Book by Han Kang Darwin: An Exceptional Voyage by Fabien Grolleau and Jéremie Royer Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig The City In the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders What we're reading: Wanderers by Chuck Wendig The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker More books out this week: Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu Trump Sky Alpha: A Novel by Mark Doten Nobody's Looking at You: Essays by Janet Malcolm For the Killing of Kings (The Ring-Sworn Trilogy) by Howard Andrew Jones Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II by Adam Makos The Moon Sister: A Novel (The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley The (Half) Truth by Leddy Harper Letter to Survivors by Gebe and Edward Gauvin The Elegant Lie by Sam Eastland The Familiars: A Novel by Stacey Halls Aerialists: Stories by Mark Mayer Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire by Elaine Shannon  Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark Miodownik The Nocilla Trilogy: Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience, Nocilla Lab by Agustín Fernández Mallo, Thomas Bunstead (Translator) Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism New Edition by Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman Arturo's Island: A Novel by Elsa Morante, Ann Goldstein (translator) How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr Tarot by Marissa Kennerson The Afterward by E.K. Johnston The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark The Art of Losing by Lizzy Mason The Secrets of Clouds by Alyson Richman The Next to Die: A Novel by Sophie Hannah The Birds That Stay by Ann Lambert The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman Immoral Code by Lillian Clark American Heroin by Melissa Scrivner Love Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe by Bob Berman Chamber Music: Wu-Tang and America (in 36 Pieces) by Will Ashon Death in Provence: A Novel by Serena Kent The Vanishing Man: A Prequel to the Charles Lenox Series by Charles Finch The Stranger from the Sea: A Novel by Paul Binding Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce Where Oblivion Lives (Los Nefilim Book 1) by T. Frohock