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On Christmas Day, we bring our year-end tradition to a close by counting down our top five books of 2025. From beloved classics to unexpected discoveries, these final picks reflect a reading year shaped by curiosity, challenge, and joy. Settle in with us for a reflective conversation about the books that defined 2025 . . . and the anticipation of new reading adventures waiting in 2026!2026 Novella Book ClubWe have announced the four novellas we will be reading for The Mookse and Gripes Novella Book Club in 2026!* January: Daisy Miller, by Henry James* April: An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter, by César Aira* July: The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector* September: Prelude, by Katherine MansfieldDiscussions will be hosted at The Mookse and the Gripes Discord (see below!).We've got some fantastic author-focused episodes lined up for the foreseeable future, and we want to give you plenty of time to dive in if you'd like to read along with us. These episodes come around every ten episodes, and with our bi-weekly release schedule, you'll have a few months to get ready for each. Here's what we have in store:* Episode 125: Flannery O'Connor* Episode 135: William Faulkner* Episode 145: Elizabeth Taylor* Episode 155: Naguib MahfouzThere's no rush—take your time, and grab a book (or two, or three) so you're prepared for these as they come!Shownotes* The Secret of Secrets, by Dan Brown* The Melancholy of Resistance, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes* Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust, translated by C K Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, and D.J. Enright* Dr Chizhevsky's Chandelier: The Decline of the USSR and other Heresies of the Twentieth Century, by Dan Elkind* The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan* Palinuro of Mexico, by Fernando del Paso, translated by Elisabeth Plaister* The Tunnel, by William Gass* A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry* The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest, by Aubrey Hartman* Free Day, by Inès Cagnati, translated by Liesl Schillinger* Crazy Genie, by Inès Cagnati, translated by Liesl Schillinger* The Motion of the Body Through Space, by Lionel Shriver* Ultramarine, by Mariette Navarro, translated by Eve Hill-Agnus* North Sun, by Ethan Rutherford* We Are Green and Trembling, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers * The Adventures of China Iron, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre* Slum Virgin, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Frances Riddle* Skylark, by Dezső Kosztolányi, translated by Richard Aczel* Memoirs from Beyond the Grave, by François-Réne de Chateaubriand, translated by Alex Andriesse* Effingers, by Gabriele Tergit, translated by Sophie Duvernoy* Bomarzo, by Manuel Mujica Lainez, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa* Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, translated by Jenny McPhee* Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf* The Sweet Dove Died, by Barbara Pym* The Bear, by Andrew Krivak* Bear, by Marian Engel* Small Reckonings, by Karin Melberg Schwier* The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, by Beth Brower* The City and Its Uncertain Walls, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel* The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin* A Strange and Sublime Address, by Amit Chaudhuri* A New World, by Amit Chaudhuri* The Immortals, by Amit Chaudhuri* Incompleteness, by Amit Chaudhuri* Sojourn, by Amit Chaudhuri* Friend of My Youth, by Amit Chaudhuri* Afternoon Raag, by Amit Chaudhuri* The Pursuit of Love, by Nancy Mitford* Anima: A Wild Pastoral, by Kapka Kassabova* Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, by Kapka Kassabova* Käsebier Takes Berlin, by Gabriele Tergit, translated by Sophie Duvernoy* The Story of a Life, by Konstantin Paustovsky, translated by Douglas Smith* Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler* Stalingrad, by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler* The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton* Sea, Poison, by Caren Beilin* The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio* The Stronghold, by Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti* A Love Affair, by Dino Buzzati, translated by Joseph Green* The Singularity, by Dino Buzzati, translated by Anne Milano Appel* The Bewitched Bourgeoisie: Fifty Stories, by Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti* Waiting for the Barbarians, by J.M. Coetzee* The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James* Daisy Miller, by Henry James* The Ambassadors, by Henry James* The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James* Washington Square, by Henry James* The Coxon Fund, by Henry JamesOther* Shawn's Review of Small ReckoningsJoin the Mookse and the Gripes on DiscordWant to share your thoughts on these upcoming authors or anything else we're discussing? Join us over on Discord! It's the perfect place to dive deeper into the conversation—whether you're reading along with our author-focused episodes or just want to chat about the books that are on your mind.We're also just now in our third novella book club, where we're reading The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark. It's a fantastic book, and we'd love to have you join the discussion. It's a great space to engage with fellow listeners, share your insights, and discover new perspectives on the books you're reading.The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a bookish conversation hosted by Paul and Trevor. Every other week, we explore a bookish topic and celebrate our love of reading. We're glad you're here, and we hope you'll continue to join us on this literary journey!A huge thank you to those who help make this podcast possible! If you'd like to support us, you can do so via Substack or Patreon. Subscribers receive access to periodic bonus episodes and early access to all new episodes. Plus, each supporter gets their own dedicated feed, allowing them to download episodes a few days before they're released to the public. We'd love for you to check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

It won't take long, maybe a few pages, before ardent Haruki Murakami fans experience a sense of deja vu reading The City and Its Uncertain Walls, as if they've visited this place before. Which should be expected as his latest novel reworks not just 1985's ‘Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World', but also ‘The Town and Its Uncertain Wall', a 1980 novella that remains untranslated from the original Japanese (and likely will, given Murakami's dissatisfaction with it).

Well we managed to take a break from 14 straight days of dancing to tell you about what we've been reading in the past month. It's a mix of good and bad. Plus author Joel Geiderman (joelgeiderman.com) surprises us with a call in! Books discussed include:- The Plasma Cell Report (Joel Geiderman, 2024)- The Memoir Of Barry Lyndon Esq (WM Thackeray, 1844)- El Olvido Que Seremos / Memories Of My Father (Héctor Abad, 2006)- No Culpes Al Karma / Don't Blame Karma (Laura Norton, 2014)- Everything Is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer, 2002)- The Royal Graybox (Jaurice Smiley, 2023)- Build Your Confidence With CBT (Manja De Neef, 2015)- Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847)- Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End Of The World (Haruki Murakami, 1985)For links to all out shows, merch, music on spotify, etc, check out booksboys.comFor all our bonus shows like Animation Adventurers, Playboys Extra, and Darkplace Dreamers series 5, head to patreon.com/booksboys Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you enjoyed our discussion, please check out the following media we talked about:Films/TV: We Live In Public (2009; dir. Ondi Timoner)Music: Satan Is Real by The Louvin BrothersBooks: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami“Postmodern Syllabus” (mentioned in My Dinner With Will and Kate): https://tildes.net/~books/rf7/if_you_had_to_teach_a_class_on_literature_what_books_would_you_put_on_your_syllabusAs always, thanks so much for listening!Email: ⁠mappingthezonepod@gmail.com⁠Twitter: https://twitter.com/pynchonpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mappingthezonepodcast/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D

Haruki Murakami hat die Geschichte vom Hard-Boiled Wonderland weitergestrickt. "Der eiserne Marquis" erzählt aus Wien 1753. Bernhard Schlink schaut ans Lebensende. Katrin Schumacher stellt die Bücher vor.

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Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949. He grew up in Kobe and then moved to Tokyo, where he attended Waseda University. After college, Murakami opened a small jazz bar, which he and his wife ran for seven years. His first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won the Gunzou Literature Prize for budding writers in 1979. He followed this success with two sequels, Pinball, 1973 and A Wild Sheep Chase, which all together form “The Trilogy of the Rat.”Murakami is also the author of the novels Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World; Norwegian Wood; Dance Dance Dance; South of the Border, West of the Sun; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Sputnik Sweetheart; Kafka on the Shore; After Dark; 1Q84; and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. He has written three short story collections: The Elephant Vanishes; After the Quake; and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman; and an illustrated novella, The Strange Library.Additionally, Murakami has written several works of nonfiction. After the Hanshin earthquake and the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack in 1995, he interviewed surviving victims, as well as members of the religious cult responsible. From these interviews, he published two nonfiction books in Japan, which were selectively combined to form Underground. He also wrote a series of personal essays on running, entitled What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. The most recent of his many international literary honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul. Murakami's work has been translated into more than fifty languages.From https://www.harukimurakami.com/author. For more information about Haruki Murakami:Norwegian Wood: https://www.harukimurakami.com/book/norwegian-wood“Haruki Murakami, The Art of Fiction No. 182”: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2/the-art-of-fiction-no-182-haruki-murakami“The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami”: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-underground-worlds-of-haruki-murakamiPhoto by Elena Seibert.

We have another new book friend! Welcome Mark to the Keep It Fictional family. Let us introduce you to Mark by telling you about one of his favourite books..with very strong feelings. Books mentioned on this episode: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/keepitfictional/message

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949. He grew up in Kobe and then moved to Tokyo, where he attended Waseda University. After college, Murakami opened a small jazz bar, which he and his wife ran for seven years. His first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won the Gunzou Literature Prize for budding writers in 1979. He followed this success with two sequels, Pinball, 1973 and A Wild Sheep Chase, which all together form “The Trilogy of the Rat.”Murakami is also the author of the novels Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World; Norwegian Wood; Dance Dance Dance; South of the Border, West of the Sun; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Sputnik Sweetheart; Kafka on the Shore; After Dark; 1Q84; and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. He has written three short story collections: The Elephant Vanishes; After the Quake; and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman; and an illustrated novella, The Strange Library.Additionally, Murakami has written several works of nonfiction. After the Hanshin earthquake and the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack in 1995, he interviewed surviving victims, as well as members of the religious cult responsible. From these interviews, he published two nonfiction books in Japan, which were selectively combined to form Underground. He also wrote a series of personal essays on running, entitled What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. The most recent of his many international literary honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul. Murakami's work has been translated into more than fifty languages.From https://www.harukimurakami.com/author. For more information about Haruki Murakami:Kafka on the Shore: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/118718/kafka-on-the-shore-by-haruki-murakami/“Haruki Murakami, The Art of Fiction No. 182”: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2/the-art-of-fiction-no-182-haruki-murakami“The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami”: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-underground-worlds-of-haruki-murakamiPhoto by Elena Seibert.

One of my all-time favorite writers is Haruki Murakami, and my personal favorite among his many excellent works is the imaginative and underrated "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World." In this book is a fantastic line, which just so happens to be the title of this episode: a good craftsman has one scar. Why might this be the case? In this episode, I'll break down the surprising wisdom contained within such a simple phrase.

Hey hey it's Episode 14 of Books Boys! TheDean! & PJ catch up and chat about the books they've read in the past month. We also have a surprise call in from the author Juliet Rose (authorjulietrose.com)Books discussed include: - A Clergyman's Daughter (George Orwell, 1935)- The Histories (Herodotus, 430 B.C.)- Relato de Un Naufrago (Gabriel García Márquez, 1955)- Hard Boiled Wonderland & The End Of The World (Haruki Murakami, 1985)- Daredevil comics- Do Over (Juliet Rose, 2021)- La Garza y La Violeta (Rafael Arozarena, 1998)Don't forget you can get the show early, ad-free, and also get all our bonus shows (including Play Boys, Caper Captains, Forensic Friends, Film Fellows, Darkplace Dreamers, and more!) at patreon.com.booksboys See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hey hey it's Episode 14 of Books Boys! TheDean! & PJ catch up and chat about the books they've read in the past month. We also have a surprise call in from the author Juliet Rose (authorjulietrose.com)Books discussed include: - A Clergyman's Daughter (George Orwell, 1935)- The Histories (Herodotus, 430 B.C.)- Relato de Un Naufrago (Gabriel García Márquez, 1955)- Hard Boiled Wonderland & The End Of The World (Haruki Murakami, 1985)- Daredevil comics- Do Over (Juliet Rose, 2021)- La Garza y La Violeta (Rafael Arozarena, 1998)Don't forget you can get the show early, ad-free, and also get all our bonus shows (including Play Boys, Caper Captains, Forensic Friends, Film Fellows, Darkplace Dreamers, and more!) at patreon.com.booksboys See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Season 1 - Episode 1/10 Daniel Morales is a writer, translator and former association professional based in Chicago. He writes the website HowtoJapanese.com and is a regular contributor to the Japan Times Bilingual page. Daniel chose to chat about Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, translated by Alfred Birnbaum and edited by Elmer Luke. "A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy." Additional Information You can read Daniel's collection of blog posts breaking down the translation of Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World on Daniel's blog, the Hard-boiled Wonderland Project. Daniel also mentioned the book Who We Are Reading When We Are Reading Haruki Murakami by David Karashima which you can find in paperback and Kindle on Amazon. Daniel Morales Twitter: @howtojapanese How to Japanese Website How to Japanese Podcast (Apple Podcasts) Translation Chat A podcast where professional Japanese to English translators and editors chat about their favorite translations. Hosted by Jennifer O'Donnell Music by Alex Valles Logo by Katherine Soldevilla

Mark is an NHS palliative care consultant and honorary professor at Cardiff University School of Medicine. He founded TalkCPR.wales and has a national lead role to improve public understanding on topics relevant to care in the last years of life and at the extreme ends of medicine. He has given a Ted Talk on why subtleties in language are critical in modern healthcare and writes for international newspapers like the Washington Post. Mark has also done extensive television, theatre and radio media work and even talked about medical topics at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Hay Literary Festival.We chat to Mark about conversations about end-of-life care, do-not-resuscitate decisions and Benedict Cumberbatch. This week's discussion is themed around the use of patients' medicines at home (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/59/1/3). Marks ‘Thanks You Letter to David Bowie' can be found at https://blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2016/01/15/a-thank-you-letter-to-david-bowie-from-a-palliative-care-doctor/. His book choices are The Plague by Albert Camus and Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami. His music choice is, of course, Changes by David Bowie. You can view the Aural Apothecary Library here; https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/31270100-paul-gimson?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=the-aural-apothecaryYou can listen to the aural apothecary playlist here; https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3OsWj4w8sxsvuwR9zMXgn5?si=tiHXrQI7QsGtSQwPyz1KBg To get in touch follow us on Twitter @auralapothecary or email us at auralapothecarypod@gmail.com.

Don't miss out on the next #womenintech podcast episode, get notified by signing up here http://womenintechshow.comWomen in Tech: Milena Milic“Business-Oriented Foundation For International Development Cooperation”#womenintech Show is a WeAreTech.fm production.This episode is powered by the Swiss Entrepreneurship Program - https://www.entrepreneur-in-residence.net/ - creating jobs by strengthening the entrepreneurship ecosystem in six target countries.To be featured on the podcast go to http://womenintechshow.com/featureHost, Espree Devorahttps://twitter.com/espreedevorahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/espreeGuest,Milena Milić of Swisscontacthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/milena-mili%C4%87-4762b258/milena.milic@swisscontact.orgIn LA? Here’s some awesome resources for you to become immersed in the LA Tech scene -For a calendar of all LA Startup events go to, http://WeAreLATech.comTo further immerse yourself into the LA Tech community go to http://wearelatech.com/vipBe featured in the Women in Tech Community by creating your profile here http://womenintech.co/Links Mentioned:Swisscontact, https://www.swisscontact.org/AIESEC Serbia, https://aiesec.org.rs/Impact Hub Belgrade, https://belgrade.impacthub.net/Favorite Book:Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10374.Hard_Boiled_Wonderland_and_the_End_of_the_WorldCredits:Produced and Hosted by Espree Devora, http://espreedevora.comStory produced, Edited and Mastered by Adam Carroll, http://www.ariacreative.ca/Show Notes by Karl Marty, http://karlmarty.comMusic by Jay Huffman, https://soundcloud.com/jayhuffmanShort Title: International Development Cooperation

This is bilingual reading of Haruki Murakami.

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Join me and Steph (Time to Read!) as we discuss Out by Natsuo Kirino (translated by Stephen Snyder) Podcast Transcript Mentioned in this episode; Elena Ferrante Haruki Murakami Daunt Books Leo Tolstoy Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori) Powell's Indie Bookstore Day Open Letter Coffee House Press Fitzcarraldo Editions The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold The Faculty of Dreamsby Sara Stridsberg (translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner) The Dinnerby Herman Koch (translated by Sam Garrett) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon  Paprika by Yasutaka Tsutsui (translated by Andrew Driver) Paprika (2006) Slow Boat by Hideo Furukawa (translated by David Boyd) Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami (translated by Lucy North) In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami (translated by Ralph McCarthy) Auditions by Ryū Murakami (translated by Ralph McCarthy) Auditions (1999) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (translated by Alfred Birnbaum) Stephen King James Patterson Anne Rice Neapolitan Novels Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein) The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein) Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein) Karl Ove Knausgård My Struggle 1 by Karl Ove Knausgård (translated by Don Bartlett) New York Review of Books Podcast New York Review of Books The New Sorrows of Young W by Ulrich Plenzdorf (translated by Romy Fursland) The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (translated by David Constantine) Man Booker International Prize BTBA Prize Transparent City by Ondjaki (translated by Stephen Henighan) The Little Girl in the Ice Floeby Adelaïde Bon (translated by Tina A. Kover) The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt (translated by Nick Caistor) The Linden Tree by César Aira (translated by Chris Andrews) Wordstock Three Percent Podcast Haymarket Books Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming by Winona LaDuke The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk (translated by Christopher Moseley)  Find Steph online Booktube: Time to Read! Twitter: timetoread___ Goodreads: Stephanie   Support the show via Patreon Social Media links Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.com Twitter: @translationspod Instagram: translationspod Litsy: @translationspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/ Produced by Mccauliflower.

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In which Meghan is joined again by Emily Bennett and Ollie Brady of Best Acquaintances, and they discussed Haruki Murakami’s Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, a beautiful and weird book from the 1980s. Meghan apparently doesn’t know what “magical realism” is and keeps trying to apply it to all books, Ollie rants that he doesn’t want unicorns mixing in his science, and Emily explains how badass you can be even at 17 and when you’re considered “pink and chubby.” We all discuss what we would do on our last day on earth, more about unicorns, and how much boys think about food and sex.    Books discussed in this podcast:  Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Kafka on the Shore The Metamorphosis  What I Talk About When I Talk About Running 1Q84 My Cousin Rachel Lamb Find us on the web: Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Goodreads | Email: judgingcoverspodcast@gmail.com Find our host and guest(s): Meghan's Twitter | Best Acquaintances' Twitter | Best Acquaintances' Facebook

Andrew Campbell is an American rower who won the lightweight double sculls at the 2016 Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials. He also won the lightweight double sculls at the 2015 National Selection Regatta 1and the lightweight single sculls at the 2014 World Championship Trials. Andrew is a graduate of Harvard University and works full time as Data Scientist at Citadel. 10 THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR: 1. Why is it important to have smaller attainable goals 2. What steps he took to become one of the best rowers 3. What kept him motivated for years when he was working full time and training for the Olympics 4. Difference between Talent and skill 5. Pre- race ritual and what he does to prepare for the competition 6. Meeting with Barack Obama and Joe Biden 7. Advice to an athlete who wants to make it to the Olympics 8. Why he went to Harvard 9. Being a sponsored athlete for red bull 10 Andrew’s definition of courage Books Recommended by Andrew: 1. Hard- Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: Haruki Murakami 2. Active Portfolio Management: Richard Grinold and Ronald Kahn Andrew’s Favorite TV Show : 1. The Wire Connect With Andrew: Twitter: https://twitter.com/theandycamps?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theandycamps/?hl=en Connect with Shristi: Limitlessgrit.com Instagram: @shristigajurel Twitter: @shristigajurel Facebook: limitless grit podcast and Shristi Gajurel Email: limitlessgrit@gmail.com

This month Trish and Jess challenge each other to "Judge a Book  by it's Title" and both fail miserably. Their review of "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami encompasses Bob Dylan, Danny Boy, and loneliness. Jess cites the most New England way to kill yourself and Trish finds a book where people turn into furniture. Next month, "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon. (Musical credit: Danny Boy by Bing Crosby)

Krunk's weekly podcast / radio show showcasing the best electronic music from the subcontinent. Hosted by Su Real. KrunkCast 006 Track List 006: 1. Sid Vashi - "Count & Provide" 2. Rudoh - "Summer's Gone" 3. Aqua Dominatrix - "Shrue" 4. Iyer (Bangalore / Toronto) - "The Brightest Star in the Sky (For Rashad)" 5. Pippin - "Sea of Gold" 6. Midland Sparks & Blent - "Hinder" 7. Frame / Frame & Madboy - "Hard Boiled Wonderland" 8. When Pandas Attack - "Good Night to Bite" 9. B.R.E.E.D - "Telemiscommunications - Deadmau5 x Imogen Heap" (Unofficial Remix) 10. Kumail - "Whatever" - Exclusive preview of forthcoming EP

The Nerd Machine crew start 2015 off with their dear friend and actress Tricia Helfer. They’ll talk about greens, avocado, different kinds of pizza, how Tricia has never had PB&J, The First Stone, Ready Player One, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Y2K, and more as they pick their favorite food, book, and New Year’s eve experience.