Podcasts about Laline Paull

Welcome to Season 6 for Books Broads and Booze! This season is all about award winning books. Join me in our discussion of the novella The Bees by Laline Paull. The Bees won the 2015 Orin Book Award for Fiction. Additionally, it was nominated for 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.Drink responsibly!Questions and comments may be sent to broadsbookandbooze@gmail.comTheme music by Dee Yan-Kay

Buenos dias, Matosinhos! Olha o episódio com o tema mais caótico lá atrás. Não sabemos como é que ainda não tínhamos chegado aqui, mas o que importa é que já cá estamos e prontas para tornar isto numa série. Digam-nos os vossos memes portugueses favoritos e se gostariam de ouvir mais episódios destes! Livros mencionados neste episódio: - Mile High & The Right Move, Liz Tomforde (1:28) - The Perfect Find, Tia Williams (2:42 & 12:07) - Autobiografia Não Autorizada 2, Dulce Maria Cardoso (3:07) - Verity, Colleen Hoover (7:03) - Done and Dusted, Lyla Sage (7:18) - Viradas do Avesso, Joana Kabuki (7:48) - The Unhoneymooners, Christina Lauren (9:07) - The Summer of Broken Rules, K. L. Walther (9:15) - Talking at Night, Claire Daverley (10:16) - ‘Tis the Season for Revenge, Morgan Elizabeth (11:30) - What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty (13:49) - Cult Classic, Sloane Crosley (14:01) - The Pact, Sharon Bolton (14:47) - Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid (15:51) - The Candy House, Jennifer Egan (16:11) - Sinais de Fumo, Alex Couto (16:37) - Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women #1), Evie Dunmore (18:20) - Babel, R. F. Kuang (19:03 & 27:21) - Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan (20:05) - Filhos da Chuva, Álvaro Curia (20:37) - Pod, Laline Paull (20:46) - How to Kill Your Family, Bella Mackie (22:03) - The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai (22:10) - Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield (22:39) - Other People's Clothes, Calla Henkel (23:37) - The Friend Zone, Abby Jimenez (24:05) - You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, Awaeke Emezi (24:19) - We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson (25:57) - Educated, Tara Westover (26:14) - Wild Swans, Jung Chan (27:46) - Once More With Feeling, Elisa Sussman (28:31) - Daisy Jones and the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid (28:48) - Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano (30:24) - Book Lovers, Emily Henry (30:28) - Our Stop, Laura Jane Williams (32:14) - Ghosts, Dolly Alderton (32:36) - As Primas, Aurora Venturini (32:50) - Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason (34:05) - Snowflake, Louise Nealon (34:09) - Depois a Louca Sou Eu, Tati Bernardi (34:15) ________________ Enviem as vossas questões ou sugestões para livratepodcast@gmail.com. Encontrem-nos nas redes sociais: www.instagram.com/julesdsilva www.instagram.com/ritadanova twitter.com/julesxdasilva twitter.com/ritadanova Identidade visual do podcast: da autoria da talentosa Mariana Cardoso, que podem encontrar em marianarfpcardoso@hotmail.com. Genérico do podcast: criado pelo incrível Vitor Carraca Teixeira, que podem encontrar em www.instagram.com/oputovitor.

Os primeiros quatro meses do ano passaram a velocidade relâmpago, tão rápido quanto as reviews que vos trazemos hoje. É o nosso habitual comprar, (ler no) kobo/kindle ou cagar. E estamos muito curiosas com a lista do vosso lado. Partilham connosco? Livros mencionados neste episódio: - The Perfect Find, Tia Williams (1:43) - A Corrente, Filipa Amorim (2:34) - Medusa, Jessie Burton (5:35) - Você nunca mais vai ficar sozinha, Tati Bernardi (6:02) - Yellowface, R. F. Kuang (6:11) - Divine Rivals, Rebeca Ross (6:33) - The Dutch House, Ann Patchett (6:47 & 10:41) - Britt-Marie Was Here, Fredrik Backman (7:20) - I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman (7:42) - Friendaholic - Viciada em Amizade, Elizabeth Day (7:58) - A Cicatriz, Maria Francisca Gama (8:39) - Pardalita, Joana Estrela (8:55) - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse, Charlie Mackesy (8:57) - Maybe in Another Life, Taylor Jenkins Reid (10:00) - Craigslist Confessional, Helena Dea Bala (10:21) - Good Material, Dolly Alderton (10:43) - The Love Wager, Lynn Painter (11:10) - Lei da Gravidade, Gabriela Ruivo (11:28) - So Late in the Day, Claire Keegan (12:05) - Coisas de Loucos, Catarina Gomes (12:42) - Early Morning Riser, Katherine Heiny (12:51) - Love in the Big City, Sang Young Park (13:15) - Tudo Pode Ser Roubado, Giovana Madalosso (13:43) - Mayflies, Andrew O'Hagan (13:58) - Monopolove, Mia Heintzelman (14:11) - Trivialized Pursuit, Mia Heintzelman (14:21) - The Fair Botanists, Sara Sheridan (14:27) - Anatomy, Dana Schwartz (14:45 & 15:19) - Stoner, John Williams (14:46 & 15:17) - All my Friends are Superheroes, Andrew Kaufman (14:49) - Lisboa, Chão Sagrado, Ana Bárbara Pedrosa (15:22) - Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (15:40) - Argylle, Elly Conway (16:14) - True Biz, Sara Novic (16:25) - In Memoriam, Alice Winn (16:37) - The House With the Golden Door, Elodie Harper (16:57) - Sinais de Fumo, Alex Couto (18:06) - A Natureza da Mordida, Carla Madeira (18:24) - A Maldição de Rosas, Diana Pinguicha (18:55) - Boys Don't Cry, Fíona Scarlett (19:33) - Babel, R.F. Kuang (19:40) - Six Days in Rome, Francesca Giacco (20:10) - Intimacies, Katie Kitamura (20:30) - Funny Story, Emily Henry (21:16) - Antarctica, Claire Keegan (21:56) - The Seven-Year Slip, Ashley Poston (22:32) - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Elizabeth Smart (23:29) - The Death of Murat Idrissi, Tommy Wieringa (23:53) - Corte & Costura, Márcia Pedroso (24:02) - The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin (24:10) - Expiration Dates, Rebecca Serle (24:19) - Must I Go, Yiyun Li (24:53) - Pod, Laline Paull (25:01) - Da Meia-Noite às Seis, Patrícia Reis (25:07) - After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz (25:19) - The Pachinko Parlour, Elisa Shua Dusapin (25:45) - Primeiro Eu Tive de Morrer, Lorena Portela (25:56) - Dancer From the Dance, Andrew Holleran (26:01) - Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (27:00) - Revolução, Hugo Gonçalves (27:36) - For the Love of Men, Liz Plank (27:48) - Filhos da Chuva, Álvaro Curia (28:26) - História da Bela Fria, Teresa Veiga (28:40) ________________ Enviem as vossas questões ou sugestões para livratepodcast@gmail.com. Encontrem-nos nas redes sociais: www.instagram.com/julesdsilva www.instagram.com/ritadanova twitter.com/julesxdasilva twitter.com/ritadanova Identidade visual do podcast: da autoria da talentosa Mariana Cardoso, que podem encontrar em marianarfpcardoso@hotmail.com. Genérico do podcast: criado pelo incrível Vitor Carraca Teixeira, que podem encontrar em www.instagram.com/oputovitor.

E finalmente, a Primavera. Os dias são maiores, voltam as andorinhas, está tudo em flor, e claro que não podia faltar um episódio temático com recomendações para as melhores e as piores sensações desta estação. Livros mencionados neste episódio: - A Maldição de Rosas (1:55 & 31:55) - Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar, Cheryl Strayed (2:18 & 16:34) - Pod, Laline Paull (3:23) - City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert (7:58) - Expiration Dates, Rebecca Serle (8:38) - Notes to Self, Emilie Pine (11:59) - The Sun is Also a Star, Nicola Yoon (13:16) - Trilogia The Wolf Den, Elodie Harper (14:28) - Tetralogia Napolitana, Elena Ferrante (14:57) - Dear Dolly, Dolly Alderton (16:32) - Tom Lake, Ann Patchett (17:29) - A Visão das Plantas, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida (18:15) - Weather Girl, Rachel Lynn Solomon (20:20) - Daisy Jones and the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid (21:34) - Mayflies, Andrew O'Hagan (21:43) - Série A League of Extraordinary Women, Evie Dunmore (22:47) - Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan (24:27) - Spring, Ali Smith (24:42) - Reputation, Lex Croucher (26:56) - Mr. Wrong Number, Lynn Painter (27:21) - Sinais de Fumo, Alex Couto (28:04) - Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner (29:13) - You Deserve Each Other, Sarah Hogle (30:57) - Loveless, Alice Oseman (32:29) - Writers and Lovers, Lily King (33:57) - Yes, No, Maybe So, Becky Albertalli e Aisha Saeed (34:10) - Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt (35:55) - The House in the Cerulean Sea, T. J. Klune (36:02) - Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Talia Hibbert (37:38) - Panenka, Rónán Hession (38:35) - I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman (39:47) - You and Me on Vacation, Emily Henry (42:06) - Tudo Pode Ser Roubado, Giovana Madalosso (42:28) - As Primas, Aurora Venturini (43:10) - This Time Tomorrow, Emma Straub (45:30) - Done and Dusted, Lyla Sage (45:45) - Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus (47:10) - One Italian Summer, Rebecca Serle (47:33) ________________ Enviem as vossas questões ou sugestões para livratepodcast@gmail.com. Encontrem-nos nas redes sociais: www.instagram.com/julesdsilva www.instagram.com/ritadanova twitter.com/julesxdasilva twitter.com/ritadanova Identidade visual do podcast: da autoria da talentosa Mariana Cardoso, que podem encontrar em marianarfpcardoso@hotmail.com. Genérico do podcast: criado pelo incrível Vitor Carraca Teixeira, que podem encontrar em www.instagram.com/oputovitor.

Surprising musicals: new musicals are packing in audiences - and some with quite unlikely subjects. Whilst the classic Broadway musical, like 42nd Street, Guys and Dolls, and Oklahoma!, remain as popular as ever, there's now a musical based on Bake Off, and the plot of Operation Mincemeat is itself a plot - to hoodwink the Nazis with a corpse in disguise. Critic David Benedict, Natasha Hodgson, co-writer of Operation Mincemeat, and Matthew Iliffe, Assistant Director of Assassins, discuss what's happening with the musical. Eric Whitacre is one of the world's most popular living composers. He specialises in choral music and is a virtual choir pioneer, uniting thousands of singers all over the globe. He talks to Samira Ahmed about Home, his new album with acclaimed vocal ensemble Voces8. Plus, the Women's Prize For Fiction. In the last of our interviews from authors on the shortlist, we speak to Laline Paull - whose novel Pod explores sealife in the Indian Ocean, with themes of war and migration under the shadow of climate change. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Julian May

We're talking to Louise Minchin, Chair of the Women's Prize for Fiction, and one of her five co-judges, the Nigerian-born, award-winning novelist Irenosen Okojie MBE. Louise is an endurance triathlete and the well-known journalist, who presented BBC Breakfast for 20 years and was one of BBC News 24's main anchors.  Now in its 28th year and started by Kate Mosse OBE, the prize aims to encourage and award the finest women writers around the world. Louise and Irenosen talk us through the six finalists who stand to win the coveted prize of £30,000.   Their enthusiasm for the shortlisted books makes this a fun, lively and highly enjoyable listen.   The shortlisted books are: ‘Fire Rush' by Jacqueline Crooks, a state-of-the nation portrait of black womanhood ‘Trespasses' by Louise Kennedy, set during the Belfast Troubles ‘Demond Copperhead' by Barbara Kingsolver, David Copperfield reimagined for today  ‘Black Butterflies' by Priscilla Morris Priscilla Morris, set against the siege of Sarajevo ‘Hamnet' by Maggie O'Farrell, the story of Shakespeare's son  ‘Pod' by Laline Paull, about a dolphin saving her pod The winner will be announced on Wednesday 14th June Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

Our bookshelf shows are the ones where we get to cut loose and follow our own preferences, so listen in as Kate and Laura swap feel-good early summer reads. Much to their relief after Rodham, the sex in Curtis Sittenfeld's latest novel ROMANTIC COMEDY turns out to be as good as the rest of it. Meanwhile Kate is surprised and entertained by Monica Heisey's REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY. Via the discerning edit of the books aisle in her upmarket grocery store, Laura discovers PINEAPPLE STREET, and enjoys it hugely. Kate is fascinated and entertained by British actress Miriam Margolyes and her autobiography THIS MUCH IS TRUE, enjoying the social commentary as much as if not more than the showbiz stories (though those are good, too). And finally in a preview of Laura's thoughts on Women's Prize shortlisted DEMON COPPERHEAD, she reports back on what she thought of it. And if you thought you were over re-tellings of Greek myths Kate urges you to think again with STONE BLIND by Natalie Haynes.  Booklist Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld Really Good, Acutally by Monica Heisey Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes and in our current reads section we talked about GREY BEES by Andrey Kurkov, and POD by Laline Paull. https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/cover-design-demon-copperhead/If you were interested by our discussion of the cover design for Demon Copperhead and want to know more, there's a brilliant behind-the-scenes into the design process on Faber's website, here. Get in touch with us and tell us what you're reading or recommend us a book on Instagram or Facebook @BookClubReview podcast, on Twitter @bookclubrvwpod or email thebookclubreview@gmail.com. Find our full episode archive at thebookclubreview.co.uk and don't forget to like, subscribe, tell a friend, share on social media – it helps us reach new listeners and we really do appreciate it :)

In this very special bonus episode, Vick sits down with this year's Women's Prize for Fiction shortlisted authors, Jaqueline Crooks, Louise Kennedy, Barbara Kingsolver, Priscillla Morris, Maggie O'Farrell, and Laline Paull. The locations of their books span the globe, from Renaissance Italy and Northern Ireland during The Troubles, to opioid-infested Virginia and even an underwater world populated with extraordinary creatures, and we'll be finding out more about these phenomenal books and why they deserve a spot on your bookshelf during the episode. The 2023 winner will be announced on Wednesday 14th June. The shortlist: **Fire Rush by Jaqueline Crooks **Trespasses by Louise Kennedy **Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver **Black Butterflies by Priscillla Morris **The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell **Pod by Laline Paull Vick Hope, multi-award winning TV and BBC Radio 1 presenter, author and journalist, is the host of season six of the Women's Prize for Fiction Podcast. Every week, Vick will be joined by another inspirational woman to discuss the work of incredible female authors. The Women's Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, and they continue to champion the very best books written by women. Don't want to miss the rest of Season Six? Listen and subscribe now! This podcast is sponsored by Baileys and produced by Bird Lime Media.

O Livra-te Airlines passou por Londres por um fim-de-semana e trouxe um episódio curto, mas recheado. Traz review sem spoilers da adaptação para peça do A Little Life, um pequeno book haul de livrarias londrinas e um blind date caseiro. Livros mencionados neste episódio: - Happy Place (Lugar Feliz), Emily Henry (2:33) - Desire, Haruki Murakami (3:30) - Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield (3:54 & 16:58) - A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara (6:25) - Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (17:26) - Last Summer in the City, Gianfranco Calligarich (18:10) - Girl Meets Boy, Ali Smith (19:50) - The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan (20:48) - The Pachinko Parlor, Elisa Shua Dusapin (21:18) - Pod, Laline Paull (21:45) - All the Lovers in the Night, Mieko Kawakami (22:46) - Atalanta, Jennifer Saint (23:33) - Romantic Comedy, Curtis Sittenfeld (24:35) - Foster, Claire Keegan (26:18) - French Braid, Anne Tyler (26:59) - True Biz, Sara Nović (28:32) - Girl Friends, Holly Bourne (30:25) ________________ Enviem as vossas questões ou sugestões para livratepodcast@gmail.com. Encontrem-nos nas redes sociais: www.instagram.com/julesdsilva www.instagram.com/ritadanova/ twitter.com/julesxdasilva twitter.com/RitaDaNova [a imagem do podcast é da autoria da maravilhosa, incrível e talentosa Mariana Cardoso, que podem encontrar em marianarfpcardoso@hotmail.com]

It's a book club episode! Sarah and Chris are discussing their thoughts on Pod by Laline Paull, one of the books longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Have you read Pod, or is there a book you'd like us to read and discuss? Let us know!Get in touchTwitter | Instagram | TikTok | Website | Voice messageSupport The Bookcast ClubYou can support the podcast on Patreon. Our tiers start at £2 a month. Rewards include early access to the podcast, monthly bonus episodes, tailored book recommendations and books in the post.  If you would like to make a one-off donation you can do so on Ko-fi.  A free way to show your support is to mention us on social media, rate us on Spotify or review us on iTunes.NewsletterSign up to our monthly newsletter for more book recommendations, reviews, new releases, podcast recommendations and the latest podcast news.Support the showSupport the show

I interview Tina Baker about her latest book “Make Me Clean” and also interview Drew Jerrison about the publisher Profile/Viper books and the books they have coming up later this year to look out for. I also review “The Innocent Wife” by Amy Lloyd, “White Oleander” by Janet Fitch and “The Bees” by Laline Paull. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hoje falamos das 5 Linguagens do Amor, um tema sugerido pela nossa ouvinte Kylie, e revelamos que a nossa não é nenhuma dessas — é mesmo o conhecimento partilhado de referências obscuras da internet e usá-las em todas as ocasiões. Livros mencionados neste episódio: - The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston (2:20) - Lonely Castle in the Mirror, Mizuki Tsujimura (3:01) - Thank You For Listening, Julia Whelan (12:05) - Cleopatra and Frankenstein, Coco Mellors (12:24) - Beautiful World, Where Are You?, Sally Rooney (12:51) - Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid (13:18) - Almond, Won-Pyung Sohn (14:44) - One True Loves, Taylor Jenkins Reid (15:51) - Conversations on Love, Natasha Lunn (17:07) - You've Reached Sam, Dustin Thao (17:32) - Strange Weather in Tokyo, Hiromi Kawakami (18:05) - Funny You Should Ask, Elisa Sussman (19:02) - Heartstopper, Alice Oseman (19:19) - Beach Read, Emily Henry (19:54) - You and Me On Vacation, Emily Henry (20:03) - The Switch, Beth O'Leary (20:33) - We All Want Impossible Things, Catherine Newman (20:59) - Autumn, Ali Smith (21:38) - Mayflies, Andrew O'Hagan (21:53) - The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller (22:31) - Icebreaker, Hannah Grace (23:02) - Normal People, Sally Rooney (23:55) - Open Water, Caleb Azumah Nelson (24:53) - Seven Days in June, Tia Williams (25:15) - The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang (25:30) - A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas (26:07) - Carrie Soto is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid (27:00) - It Happened One Summer, Tessa Bailey (27:27) - Act Your Age, Eve Brown, Talia Hibbert (28:43) - The Bees, Laline Paull (29:43) - Pizza Girl, Jean Kyoung Frazier (31:04) - Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner (32:46) - My Sister, the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite (33:12) - Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata (33:26) - Vladimir, Julia May Jonas (24:26) - Conversations With Friends, Sally Rooney (35:23) - Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (36:12) - The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak (36:48) - Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt (37:13) - The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams (37:42) ________________ Enviem as vossas questões ou sugestões para livratepodcast@gmail.com. Encontrem-nos nas redes sociais: www.instagram.com/julesdsilva www.instagram.com/ritadanova/ twitter.com/julesxdasilva twitter.com/RitaDaNova [a imagem do podcast é da autoria da maravilhosa, incrível e talentosa Mariana Cardoso, que podem encontrar em marianarfpcardoso@hotmail.com]

In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to POD author Laline Paul about how to tell "Humanimal" stories that will get us to recognize our collective guilt in the destruction of nature. London-born and of Indian heritage, Laline Paull studied English at Oxford, screenwriting in Los Angeles, and theater in her home city. Her most recent novel is The Bees, which was a resounding critical and commercial success in the United States and Britain. She lives in the English countryside with her family. Her latest novel is POD (2023) Name as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Buiten natuurgebieden lijkt natuur vogelvrij. En bovendien: pas wanneer een leefgebied of soort bedreigd is, onderneemt de overheid actie. Hoe keren we dat tij? In deze aflevering spreekt Anthonie daarover met Jessica den Outer, milieujurist en VN-expert in rechten voor natuur. Jessica deelt wereldwijde voorbeelden van een succesvolle aanpak van natuurbescherming door het verlenen van rechten aan rivieren, wetlands en andere gebieden. Welk probleem lost dat op? En is het voldoende om tot ander, minder destructief menselijk gedrag te komen? En waar ligt de grens voor juridisering van natuur? We bespreken ook hoe het ervoor staat met initiatieven in Europa. Kunnen rechten voor natuur in Nederland de verbreding van snelweg A27 bij Amelisweerd nog keren? De leestip van Jessica is ‘The bees' van Laline Paull, een novelle over het leven in een bijenkorf. Wil je reageren op deze aflevering? Dat kan via @toekomstnatuur op Twitter, @toekomstvoornatuur op Instagram of door een mailtje te sturen naar toekomstvoornatuur@vlinderstichting.nl. Je kunt Jessica bereiken op Twitter en Instagram via @Jessicadenouter. We verwijzen in deze aflevering naar eerdere afleveringen: - Over referentiebeelden voor de Waddenzee in aflevering 15 met Marc Argeloo. - Over Rachel Carson en haar werk in aflevering 21 met Medard Hilhorst.

Off the Leash Podcasts is proud to publish a series of shortcasts supporting the Emily Williamson Festival.  Emily was a co-founder of the RSPB and an eco-activist before the term was even invented. Taking inspiration from her legacy, modern day change-makers will be exploring the links between Conservation, Campaigning, Science and Art in a weekend of events at Manchester Art Gallery between the 12th and 13th of November (NB the event was 12 - 14 Nov, but has now been shortened). In this shortcast, author Laline Paul speaks about activism and the need to wake up, look at issues straight on, get involved and - while we're at it - stick two fingers up at anybody who criticises us for doing so! Laline is author of 'The Ice', 'The Bees' and 'Pod', which is coming out in the Spring next year. Laline Paull Website and Twitter feedEmily Williamson Festival Conservation, Campaigning, Science, ArtA statue for Emily Williamson  emilywilliamsonstatue.comShortcast #18 Tessa Boase | The Story of the RSPB's Women Founders

Join Kara and Katera in discussing "The Bees" by Laline Paull and enjoying homemade biscuits with a creamed honey butter from Kleine Brein Apiary. Flora is sanitation bee with a lot of extra capabilities. Join the girls in discussing Flora's different jobs and all for the hive! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/booksandbrunch/support

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After a brief discussion about food we get down to business, and this week it's bees! Adult Jazz https://www.wnyc.org/story/adult-jazz-in-studio/ Semlor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semla Mead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead Bees in Space https://www.beeculture.com/bees-in-space/ Bee Fences https://elephantsandbees.com/beehive-fence/ A Beekeeper (Nikolai Bogatov, 1875) https://www.flickr.com/photos/gandalfsgallery/6504161717 Bigården, (Ernst Abraham Josephson 1800s) https://beefarm.ru/blog/images/posts/2014/08/honey-savior-day-apiculture-paintings/bigarden.jpg The Bee-Keepers (Pieter Bruegel The Elder ,1568 ) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Beekeepers_and_the_Birdnester_-_WGA03528.jpg Heraldry and Bees https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/the-symbols-of-empire/ The Bees by Laline Paull https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/21/bees-laline-paull-fantasy-novel-review David Attenborough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vll_2xH_SQY Tweet us @thisturf or email this@turf.fm Find out more at http://turf.fm --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisturf/message

Marked as explicit because of sexual imagery.   Beginning with a brief cloudburst and a coda to the previous episode designed to calm Charles Adrian’s esprit d’escalier, the 28th Page One In Review goes on to look at the first five books from the fourth season of the podcast.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   The Bees by Laline Paull, Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser and Unless by Carol Shields were all discussed at more length in Page One 184. Revolutionary Letters by Diane Di Prima was previously discussed in Page One 122.   You can read an outline of the life of Mary Stewart, a.k.a. Mary Queen of Scots, on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots   You can read about Dungeons & Dragons on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons   You can read about Petrópolis, the Brazilian Imperial City, on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr%C3%B3polis   Another book by Dennis Cooper, Guide, is discussed in Page One 72 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/72-isabelle-schoelcher/).   The books discussed in the main part of this episode were previously discussed in Page One 107 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/107-vera-chok/), Page One 108 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/108-martin-zaltz-austwick/), Page One 109 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/109-helen-zaltzman/), Page One 110 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/110-nancy-crane/) and Page One 111 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/111-griffyn-gilligan/).   Episode image is a detail from a photo by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 6th October, 2020.     Book listing:   A Traveller In Time by Alison Uttley (Page One 107) Wolf In White Van by John Darnielle (Page One 108) Irma Voth by Miriam Toews (Page One 109) Insomnia and Song For The Rainy Season from Collected Poems by Elizabeth Bishop (Page One 110) First Sex (excerpt) and Swimmer from The Dream Police by Dennis Cooper (Page One 111)

Talking bee-realism, female friendship and the intoxication of undeserved power and position, Charles Adrian revisits the three books he was given by guests at the end of the third season of the podcast.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   Correction: Contrary to what Charles Adrian says in this episode, The Bees by Laline Paull is not really a Sparticus story. Flora 717 is, in effect, an enslaved bee but she does not exactly gather an army to revolt against her hive and nor is she defeated ultimately. You can read about what is known of Sparticus in Live Science here: https://www.livescience.com/39730-spartacus.html and about Cape honey bees (who, while more likely to be parasites than slaves, display traits similar to Flora 717) on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_honey_bee. It is also possible that there is no type of bee that is, in fact, known to enslave other types of bee in the way that ants do. You can read about enslaved ants and cuckoo bees on the OUP blog here: https://blog.oup.com/2016/02/enslaved-ants-and-cuckoo-bees/   Clarification: While Charles Adrian mentions radio waves as an example of damaging human intervention in the natural world, he is not a 5G truther; he is taking an example from the book (The Bees by Laline Paull) which may be based on contemporary research. You can read about a study into the effect of cell phone radiation on bee behaviour in the PMC here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3052591/ and about 5G truthers in The Atlantic here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/great-5g-conspiracy/611317/   You can read about the waggle dance that foraging bees perform for other members of their colony on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggle_dance   You can read about The Hero’s Journey on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey   Also mentioned in this episode are Tom Brown’s Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, The Prisoner Of Zenda by Anthony Hope and Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov; Pale Fire is discussed in Page One 119 and Page One 151.   You can read about the Schleswig-Holstein question on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein_Question and in the Encyclopaedia Britannica here: https://www.britannica.com/event/Schleswig-Holstein-question   Books discussed here were previously discussed in Page One 104 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/104-daniel-elliot/), Page One 105 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/105-tina-sederholm/) and Page One 106 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/106-neil-spokes/).   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 1st October, 2020.     Book listing:   The Bees by Laline Paull (Page One 104) Unless by Carol Shields (Page One 105) Royal Flash by George Macdonald Fraser (Page One 106)

In honor of Earth day, which is on April 22, Maggie and Harmony are spending the rest of April exploring climate-related stories. The Bees by Laline Paull is not only a surprisingly riveting tale about the life of one personified sanitation bee, but also delves into feminist themes. It explores race, hierarchy, reproductive justice, individualized versus communal love, nature versus nurture and the very real impact humans have on wildlife. In this episode: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK200983/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/08/human-impact-on-wildlife-to-blame-for-spread-of-viruses-says-study-aoe https://www.propublica.org/article/early-data-shows-african-americans-have-contracted-and-died-of-coronavirus-at-an-alarming-rate https://www.greenamerica.org/climate-justice-all/people-color-are-front-lines-climate-crisis What we're reading: Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper by C. Marina Marchese https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6578610-honeybee No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir by Ani Defranco https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42730299-no-walls-and-the-recurring-dream The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36621586-the-winter-of-the-witch The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6437061-the-hundred-thousand-kingdoms Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77197.Assassin_s_Apprentice To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rebelgirlsbookclub/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebel-girls and Twitter https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 Or you can email us at RebelGirlsBookClub@gmail.com. Our theme song is by The Gays and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/RGBC/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/RGBC/support

First Draft Episode #205: Kendare Blake, Somaiya Daud, and Sarah Enni at the University Bookstore in Seattle Pantsing and world building with Kendare Blake, author of the Three Dark Queens trilogy and Anna Dressed in Blood; Somaiya Daud, author of Mirage; and Sarah Enni, author of Tell Me Everything and host of this podcast! This episode is audio from the March 2019 event at The University Bookstore in Seattle, Washington. Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode Kendare wore a Jeff Goldblum T-shirt in honor of Tell Me Everything! Sarah wanted Sudden Cove, the town in Tell Me Everything to feel like a Stars Hollow (from the Gilmore Girls) of the west coast, or like Pawnee from Parks and Recreation. The Bigfoot Discovery Museum is real, Sarah did go there with fellow YA and MG author Kirsten Hubbard (author of Wanderlove, Watch the Sky, Race the Night and more -- listen to her First Draft interview here!) The purveyor of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum was a man who looked just like George R. R. Martin, author of the Game of Thrones series The Bees by Laline Paull, is a book from the point of view of bees Somaiya is inspired by Star Wars (especially the prequel trilogy, The Phantom Menace) and the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, but she also really loves The Silmarillion. MoPOP, a modern art museum in Seattle that hosted the Star Wars costume exhibit when it was in town Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera also explores the world of a matriarchy Somaiya uses Scrivener to organize her extensive historical documents that she writes before she drafts her books Aeon Timeline is timeline software Somaiya paid for to create a 1,000-year history of the world of her book I get to discuss Yucca Mountain, where we should be sending all of America’s radioactive waste! I want to hear from you! Have a question about writing or creativity for Sarah Enni or her guests to answer? To leave a voicemail, call (818) 533-1998. You can also email the podcast at firstdraftwithsarahenni@gmail.com.  Subscribe To First Draft with Sarah Enni Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author of Divergent; Linda Holmes, author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast; Jonny Sun, internet superstar, illustrator of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Gmorning, Gnight! and author and illustrator of Everyone’s an Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too;  Michael Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender; John August, screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; or Rhett Miller, musician and frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their careers and creative works. Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s free! Rate, Review, and Recommend How do you like the show? Please take a moment to rate and review First Draft with Sarah Enni in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Your honest and positive review helps others discover the show -- so thank you! Is there someone you think would love this podcast as much as you do? Please share this episode on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or via carrier pigeon (maybe try a text or e-mail, come to think of it). Just click the Share button at the bottom of this post! Thanks again!

We've read Children of Time (https://amzn.to/2QqYKII), and boy do we have a lot to say about it! This episode we discuss the structure of the book, whether novels need strong characters, how animal consciousness might differ from our own, and how to stock a ship designed to re-seed the human race on another planet. Adrian gets to jabber on about the Baldwin Effect & octopuses, and Matt makes some sharp points about the importance of empathy. Truly this podcast represents the future liberals want.  As always, here's a list of stuff we discuss in the episode. If the links don't show up in your podcatcher, they will on spectology.com. All links are referral links. * Startide Rising by David Brin * The Bees by Laline Paull * The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy * Watership Down by Richard Adams * The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov * Goedel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter  And finally, a few books on consciousness, language, and evolution that weren't mentioned by name, but which Adrian recommends: * Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith (octopus researcher mentioned)* Adam's Tongue by Derek Bickerton (language evolution & the Baldwin Effect)* The Crucible of Consciousness by Zoltan Torey (language & consciousness) * The Perplexities of Consciousness by Eric Schwitzgebel (essays on the difficulty of introspecting consciousness) * The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger (laying out the ideas behind the phrase "consciousness is an illusion" for a lay audience) --- We'd love to hear from you, either by chatting with us on twitter at @spectologypod, sending us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submitting the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

Sharifah and guest Nikki Vanry discuss Stranger Things books and more Star Trek, copyrighting, poorly planned merch, and SFF audiobooks. This episode is sponsored by Recommended and our Best of the Year YA Giveaway.   News Discussed: Stranger Things books and comics are coming! Star Trek: TNG to Possibly Return as Alex Kurtzman Oversees Expansion of Star Trek On TV Pulp novelist of harem fantasy novels wants to trademark “dragon slayer”, and then there was this #quantumgate thing. In terrible ideas--Handmaid’s Tale Wine, and Handmaid’s Tale lingerie.   Books Discussed: The Bees by Laline Paull, narrated by Orlagh Cassidy Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older, narrated by Anika Noni Rose Warcross by Marie Lu, narrated by Nancy Wu The Devourers by Indra Das, narrated by Shishir Kurup and Meera Simhan

An ode to animals, read by the late poet Marianne Moore. Plus, since the dawn of humanity, more or less, people have used representations of animals to tell stories. But some artists have wanted to buck that trend, depicting animal stories from the animals’ point of view. Laline Paull is one of these artists. Her novel The Bees was dubbed "Watership Down for the Hunger Games generation,” but it might be more accurate to call it 1984 in a beehive. And Chicago filmmaker Jim Trainor thinks that authentic animal behavior provides all the plot an artist needs. In his short, hand-drawn films, Trainor supplies narration from the animals’ perspective. But instead of the high drama of Laline Paull’s work, Trainor’s protagonists are utterly deadpan, even in grim situations.  In one film, a lion taking over a pride remarks drily, "I killed my girlfriend's children — which is to say, I killed all the children of all of my girlfriends."  Both Paull and Trainor get most of their facts right, but that’s not what’s important about their work. The artist’s role is to imagine how others feel — other people, other creatures — and try to share that empathy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An ode to animals, read by the late poet Marianne Moore. Plus, since the dawn of humanity, more or less, people have used representations of animals to tell stories. But some artists have wanted to buck that trend, depicting animal stories from the animals’ point of view. Laline Paull is one of these artists. Her novel The Bees was dubbed "Watership Down for the Hunger Games generation,” but it might be more accurate to call it 1984 in a beehive. And Chicago filmmaker Jim Trainor thinks that authentic animal behavior provides all the plot an artist needs. In his short, hand-drawn films, Trainor supplies narration from the animals’ perspective. But instead of the high drama of Laline Paull’s work, Trainor’s protagonists are utterly deadpan, even in grim situations.  In one film, a lion taking over a pride remarks drily, "I killed my girlfriend's children — which is to say, I killed all the children of all of my girlfriends."  Both Paull and Trainor get most of their facts right, but that’s not what’s important about their work. The artist’s role is to imagine how others feel — other people, other creatures — and try to share that empathy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda and Jenn discuss Samoan literature, evil kids, contemporary YA, and more in this week's episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Clara Voyant by Rachelle Delaney and The 49th Mystic (Beyond the Circle Series #1) by Ted Dekker.   Questions 1. One of my best friends just got accepted to volunteer with the Peace Corps in Samoa. For her birthday, I want to give her a book that will get her (extra) hyped about the experience; she's already done a ton of research so I'm not necessarily looking for something informative so much as something that's just fun! I would love something focused on Samoa/South Pacific (that should probably skip the stranded-on-a-tropical-island trope because we're trying to be excited here). I was thinking of something more contemporary than Margaret Mead or Robert Louis Stevenson--maybe even something Own Voices but doesn't have to be. It doesn't necessarily have to relate to Peace Corps/volunteering/etc., but that would be cool too. She reads mostly fiction and some memoir but not a lot of straight non-fiction. Recently, she's been reading and enjoying books like "The Bees" by Laline Paull, "Less" by Andrew Sean Greer, and "Young Jane Young" by Gabrielle Zevin. Some of her forever favorites are "Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight" by Alexandra Fuller, "The Girls from Corona Del Mar" by Rufi Thorpe, "Egg and Spoon" by Gregory Maguire, and anything Tom Robbins. Thank you! --Cel   2. I've always had depression, so at this point it seems like old hat, but recently I've been suffering with massive amounts of anxiety. Like, heart palpitating, ears rushing, feel dizzy and panicking over literally nothing. I am doing yoga, and I stopped eating meat, I journal every day, and I've read the self help books but honestly sometimes nothing helps except to distract myself until it goes away. What I'm looking for is basically a great audiobook (maybe a mystery?) with little to no real conflict that is fun. I like My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Lumberjanes, Steven Universe, and Adventure Time... I'm looking for something that is a sweet and fun romp but in no way causes the "are they gonna survive/are they sad that their families are dead" sort of anxiety that is both illogical and sadly my new reality. I loved Anne of Green Gables, but even that was kind of too much post- the first book. Note: I've read Hyperbole and a Half, Furiously Happy, The Year of Yes, and a lot of the other popular "self help" style books, but really what I'm looking for is good fun distraction. Please help my poor crazy brain, --W   3. Hello, I'm looking for fiction about evil children. One of my all-time favorite books is 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. I had an intense, visceral reaction to the title character in this novel, and the ending absolutely ripped my heart out. It made me want to read all I could about evil kids, but I wasn't able to find much. I read 'The Bad Seed' and 'Rosemary's Baby', and although those could both be classified as Horror, I was much more horrified by Kevin. I'm also hoping for something more contemporary. Do you guys have anything in mind that will fill my need for bad babies? Thank you! --Malarie   4. Hi there- I work in a bookstore and conduct a YA bookclub. We've read and loved books of multiple different genres. While we mostly stick to YA, we've recently started venturing into Sci-fi and Fantasy picks. Some of our past favorites have been Mosquitoland, Eleanor and Park, The Kids of Appetite, Cinder, Scorpio Races, House of the Scorpion, The Martian and Ready Player One. We've also read lots of Historical YA fiction like The Book Thief, Chains and Under a Painted Sky. While we've thoroughly enjoyed most of these books, we keep bumping into two problems with YA picks: 1. We enjoy the heavier themes of some contemporary and historical fic YA, like examinations on race, mental illness, and troubling family dynamics. But we've read too many that have described sexual violence (often familial) in very graphic detail. 2. Sometimes wading through the YA section, it's difficult to find books that are written well and don't follow the typical YA tropes. We're very tired of love triangles- especially in the fantasy and dystopian genres. Do you have any suggestions for a group of 15-16 year olds who love YA and Sci-fi/Fantasy but are tired of these particular topics? Bonus points for Fantasy picks. --Amber   5. Hi Jenn and Amanda! I have recently started a book club at my local non-profit for our volunteers. I work for Voices for Children (CASA), which assigns volunteers to look out for the best interests of children in foster care. So far we have read The Glass Castle, Evicted, and My Name is Leon. We have future picks of The Hate U Give, Dreamland, The Language of Flowers, and Lost Children of Wilder. Any suggestions for books about children in foster care/or any topics that deal with social justice/welfare (non-fiction/or fiction) would be great! --Emily   6. Hello! I am a devote reader of literary fiction but want to get into contemporary YA. Where's a girl to start? For guidance, some of my favourite reads of the past year include Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series; What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky; Goodbye, Vitamin; The Secret History; A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing; and The Lonely Hearts Hotel. And though I haven't read much, my favourite YAs include This One Summer and Another Brooklyn. Help! --Caryn   7. Hey ladies! Recently, I have experienced some love life turmoil and being a big fan of book therapy, I was wondering if you knew of any books about unrequited crushes, or the friends to lover trope not working out. I prefer contemporary over fantasy if possible. Thank you! --Kristen     Books Discussed Welcome Home, edited by Eric Smith Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger Sons for the Return Home by Albert Wendt Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel (tw: domestic violence) Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh Cabin Pressure by John Finnemore (rec by Nita) N0s4A2 by Joe Hill The Dinner by Herman Koch, translated by Sam Garrett Dread Nation by Justina Ireland The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson Peas and Carrots by Tanita S. Davis Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L Sánchez (tw: self harm and suicide) Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel (tw: child abuse)

Lincoln in the Bardo is a ghostly story that unfolds in a graveyard over the course of a single night. Narrated by a chorus of voices and historical sources this innovative novel invites discussion. We find out what Kate's book club made of it. We also speak to Michelle and Claire from an East London feminist book club, and get some good ideas for how to manage a book club where everyone is learning as they go along. We end with our usual recommendations you might want to try out for your next book club read. • Get in touch with us at thebookclubreview@gmail.com, follow us on Instagram @thebookclubreviewpod, find us on Facebook under thebookclubreview or leave us a comment on iTunes, we'd love to hear from you. • Kate's book club website is www.whatkatyread.co.uk. Click on 'archive' at the top to see our list of books going back over seven years, which can be viewed either in date order, or by our star ratings according to how much we liked them. • Books mentioned in this episode: The Tenth of December, George Saunders, The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, Memoir of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir, The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing, The Bees, Laline Paull, Grief is a Thing With Feathers, Max Porter, The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey, Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas, Days Without End, Sebastian Barry, Beloved, Toni Morrison, Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome, The Power, Naomi Alderman • For our next book club we will be reading and discussing This is London by Ben Judah. • If you have read this far then you're probably the sort of person who might want to keep listening for our 'extra' bit at the end, where we talk about what we've been reading outside of book club. Stay tuned for true confessions of what we keep on our kindles.

Joe Wright directs Brecht's Life of Galileo at The Young Vic, reimagining it with a Chemical Brothers rave soundtrack... In science fiction black comedy Colossal, Anne Hathaway plays a woman coping with alcoholism whose alter ego just happens to be a giant space monster. It's a kaiju movie Jimmy McGovern's newest TV offering is Broken which stars Sean Bean as an inner city priest coping with escalating personal and parish pressures. Lucy Hughes-Hallett's novel Peculiar Ground deals with the construction and changing nature of the walls of a country estate across the centuries. Thresholds is an exhibition by Mat Collishaw at Somerset House, re-staging one of the earliest exhibitions of photography in 1839, when William Henry Fox Talbot showed his first prints. Tom Sutcliffe's guests are John Mullan, Laline Paull and Tiffany Jenkins. The producer is Oliver Jones.

What are your #BookConfessions? Susan, Jeannette, and Meredith divulge some of theirs and are buzzing with thoughts for the discussion of Laline Paull's 'The Bees.'Show NotesWhat did you think about The Bees? Tell us about it on Goodreads! Laline Paull’s Website Wired Article on The True Hive Mind- How Honeybee Colonies Think Cornell University Video on Honeybee Decision Making Get your discounted Book Riot Live Tickets with Promo Code "Eclectic" Honey I wrecked the Kids on Goodreads and Amazon The Wonder Weeks on Goodreads and Amazon Authority on Goodreads and Amazon The Underground Railroad on Goodreads and Amazon A Torch Against the Night on Goodreads and Amazon Next Month's Book Station Eleven on Goodreads and Amazon

This week's book manages to combine eerily accurate biology with a Margaret Atwood-esque dystopia, a potent mixture that you need to read to believe. We also dive deep into our mailbag, discuss the recent blizzard, and put some basketball jokes in the place you would LEAST expect. This week's episode is brought to you in part by Squarespace.

This week's book manages to combine eerily accurate biology with a Margaret Atwood-esque dystopia, a potent mixture that you need to read to believe. We also dive deep into our mailbag, discuss the recent blizzard, and put some basketball jokes in the place you would LEAST expect. This week's episode is brought to you in part by Squarespace.

"The Bees" tells the story of Flora 717, a bee who must navigate the world of the hive in much the same way that people learn to navigate the environment in which they live. This may be called science fiction but it should be appealing to all!

On this episode we celebrate the best and brightest of May, taking a look at Laline Paull's novel 'The Bees' - the only debut on the prestigious Baileys Prize shortlist - and another debut from our stellar new author, Claire Lowdon. We catch up with Chris Wright on his travels around the world to find out what this century's heroes did after they reached the pinnacle, plus we persuade some 4th Estaters in the office to confess to the books they've never read, but always lied about... What?! Hilary Mantel's editor has never read WHAT?! And there's a sprinkling of acting. And a really good pun. That's it really. Enjoy!

Peter, George, and Nathan discuss Laline Paull's award-winning 2014 novel THE BEES, a coming-of-age novel about a worker bee named Flora 717. Go read it; we'll wait. This episode contains extensive spoilers, so consider reading the book before listening. Or, since studies show that spoilers don't decrease the enjoyment we get from media, read the book after listening to the episode. You could do both at once but it'd probably get confusing. Episode 00004's book will be THE PERIPHERAL, by William Gibson, if you'd like to get a head start. If you have questions or comments for the LIzard People about The Bees, The Peripheral, or anything we've discussed so far, you can email us at lizardpeopledearreaders@gmail.com or send it to our Ask box on our Tumblr, which is lizardpeopledearreaders.com.

Peter, George, and Nathan discuss Laline Paull's award-winning 2014 novel THE BEES, a coming-of-age novel about a worker bee named Flora 717. Go read it; we'll wait. This episode contains extensive spoilers, so consider reading the book before listening. Or, since studies show that spoilers don't decrease the enjoyment we get from media, read the book after listening to the episode. You could do both at once but it'd probably get confusing. Episode 00004's book will be THE PERIPHERAL, by William Gibson, if you'd like to get a head start. If you have questions or comments for the LIzard People about The Bees, The Peripheral, or anything we've discussed so far, you can email us at lizardpeopledearreaders@gmail.com or send it to our Ask box on our Tumblr, which is lizardpeopledearreaders.com.

Welcome to LIZARD PEOPLE DEAR READERS, the science fiction and fantasy podcast by lizard people, for lizard people. In this episode Peter, George, and Nathan discuss who we are and what we think we're doing, plus what we've been playing, reading, watching and listening to these days.    Peter's Pick: Twilight Struggle, Cold War card-based strategy game by Ananda Gupta / GMT Games   George's Pick: What We Do In The Shadows, mockumentary about vampire roommates in Wellington, by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement  Nathan's Pick: Sunless Sea and Fallen London, by Failbetter Games   Misc: Terry Pratchett was fantasy's Vonnegut, not its Douglas Adams What is Ortus Regni, and what happened to the people who made it? Can bees really detect royalty? Should anyone watch Jupiter Ascending?   Next episode's book: The Bees, by Laline Paull. We know nothing about it! We love bees though.   RSS | Twitteremail: lizardpeopledearreaders@gmail.comwebsite: http://www.lizardpeopledearreaders.com/  

Welcome to LIZARD PEOPLE DEAR READERS, the science fiction and fantasy podcast by lizard people, for lizard people. In this episode Peter, George, and Nathan discuss who we are and what we think we're doing, plus what we've been playing, reading, watching and listening to these days.    Peter's Pick: Twilight Struggle, Cold War card-based strategy game by Ananda Gupta / GMT Games   George's Pick: What We Do In The Shadows, mockumentary about vampire roommates in Wellington, by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement  Nathan's Pick: Sunless Sea and Fallen London, by Failbetter Games   Misc: Terry Pratchett was fantasy's Vonnegut, not its Douglas Adams What is Ortus Regni, and what happened to the people who made it? Can bees really detect royalty? Should anyone watch Jupiter Ascending?   Next episode's book: The Bees, by Laline Paull. We know nothing about it! We love bees though.   RSS | Twitteremail: lizardpeopledearreaders@gmail.comwebsite: http://www.lizardpeopledearreaders.com/  

Laline Paull’s ambitious and bold first novel, “The Bees,” follows Flora 717, a sanitation worker doomed by her birth to the lowest caste of her community. She is large and ugly and — oh, yes — a bee. What could feel gimmicky or cute never does; Flora 717 is a brave and spirited soul, and it is a pleasure to follow her through the hive and the air. The brief prologue and epilogue are the only sections of the book with humans, aside from a single scene halfway through in which a man harvesting honey comes off something like Godzilla. Truly, who needs people when bees provide this much pathos? - New York Times The Avid Reader Show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The show airs every Monday at 5PM EST on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our store at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

An exclusive interview with Laline Paull - debut author of 'The Bees', a brilliantly imagined cross between 'The Handmaid's Tale' and 'The Hunger Games'. Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. But Flora is not like other bees. Despite her ugliness she has talents that are not typical of her kin. While mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is removed from sanitation duty and is allowed to feed the newborns, before becoming a forager, collecting pollen on the wing. She also finds her way into the Queen’s inner sanctum, where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous. But enemies are everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses who jealously guard the Hive Mind. And when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all her instinct to serve is overshadowed by an even deeper desire, a fierce love that will lead to the unthinkable . . . Laline Paull’s chilling yet ultimately triumphant novel creates a luminous world both alien and uncannily familiar. Thrilling and imaginative, ‘The Bees’ is the story of a heroine who, in the face of an increasingly desperate struggle for survival, changes her destiny and her world.

Laline Paull discusses her new book THE BEES (HarperCollins, May 2014) with Erin Wicks, Producer @HarperAudio_US. Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive's survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw, but her courage and strength are assets. She is allowed to feed the newborns in the royal nursery and then to become a forager, flying alone and free to collect nectar and pollen. A feat of bravery grants her access to the Queen's inner sanctum, where she discovers mysteries about the hive that are both profound and ominous. But when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all–daring to challenge the Queen's preeminence–enemies abound, from the fearsome fertility police who enforce the hive's strict social hierarchy to the high priestesses jealously wedded to power. Her deepest instincts to serve and sacrifice are now overshadowed by a greater power: a fierce maternal love that will bring her into conflict with her conscience, her heart, and her society–and lead her to perform unthinkable deeds. Thrilling, suspenseful, and spectacularly imaginative, The Bees and its dazzling young heroine will forever change the way you look at the world outside your window.