Podcasts about My Absolute Darling

In Ep. 194, Catherine (@GilmoreGuide) and Sarah head back to the year 2017 in the book world with this second annual special retrospective episode!  They share big bookish highlights for that year, including book news, award winners, and what was going on in the world outside of reading. They also talk about how their own 2017 reading shook out, including their favorite 2017 releases.  Plus, a quick run-down of listener-submitted favorites!  This episode is overflowing with great backlist titles to add to your TBR!   This post contains affiliate links through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). CLICK HERE for the full episode Show Notes on the blog. Highlights The big news that was going on outside the book world. The book stories and trends that dominated 2017. How similar 2017 and 2025 are. The 2017 books that have had staying power.⁠ Was this as dismal a year in books as Sarah remembers? Sarah's and Catherine's personal 2017 reading stats.⁠ Listener-submitted favorites from 2017.⁠ Bookish Time Capsule (2017) [2:12] The World Beyond Books No books mentioned in this segment. The Book Industry Wonder by R. J. Palacio (2012) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [9:59] Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur (2015) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [10:04] A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2016) | Amazon | Bookshop.org[10:40] The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [10:44] Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [12:08] My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [12:18] The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [13:03] If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [13:13] We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [13:23] Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler (2016) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [13:46] Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (2016) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [13:48] The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney (2016) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [13:50] Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall (2025) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [14:57] Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [15:03] James by Percival Everett (2024) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [15:04] Bookish Headlines and Trends Becoming by Michelle Obama (2018) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [20:41] A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [20:43] The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (2006) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [20:48] My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (2011) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [23:04] The Road to Dalton by Shannon Bowring (2023) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [23:31] Big Books and Award Winners of 2017 A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (2012) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [26:01] Beartown by Fredrik Backman (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [26:06] The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [26:21] Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance (2016) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [26:27] The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [26:48] Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (2022) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [28:09] The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [28:39] Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [29:23] Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (2014) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [29:40] Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [31:31] Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2008) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [32:09] Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [32:51] Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [33:16] Normal People by Sally Rooney (2018) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [33:41] Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [34:32] Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2011) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [34:38] Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [35:09] The Sellout by Paul Beatty (2015) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [35:52] What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [36:56] Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [37:21] The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [37:45] Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (2016) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [38:04] The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, 3) by N. K. Jemisin (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [38:30]  Our Top Books of 2017 The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [40:46] Beartown by Fredrik Backman (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [41:20] Dead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [41:22] Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [42:02] If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [42:16] Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolitio (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [42:23] The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [42:36] This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [42:38] Trophy Son by Douglas Brunt (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [42:48] White Fur by Jardine Libaire (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [43:05] Final Girls by Riley Sager (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [46:38] Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [46:44] Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [46:46] Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [46:49] The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [47:10] Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (1995) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [47:15] Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [47:19] The Heirs by Susan Rieger (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [47:34] The Takedown by Corrie Wang (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [47:53] Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [48:01] Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [48:09] Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (2014) | Amazon | Bookshop.org   [48:17] Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [48:28] The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [48:33] Listeners' Top Books of 2017 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [49:33] Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [49:51] The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [50:03] The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org[50:07] Beartown by Fredrik Backman (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [50:13] Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [50:15] The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [50:18] The Alice Network by Kate Quinn (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [50:24] This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [50:25] Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong (2017) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [50:27]

Leigh Oshirak is a Global Brand Consultant with over 30 years of experience building some of America's most beloved brands. Seven years ago, she launched her own consulting business and has been working with Female-founded companies. Prior to that, she was the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Digital Content at Williams-Sonoma Inc. and the Director of Marketing for Joe Boxer. She started her career in Los Angeles in 1990 in the film industry, working for major film studios, including Sony Pictures Entertainment, Disney's Touchstone Pictures, and Warner Brothers on movies such as the Tina Turner biopic: What's Love Got to Do with It which was nominated for two Oscars. She is the co-author of the acclaimed book: Balance is a Crock, Sleep is For The Weak: An Indispensable Guide to Surviving Working Motherhood, published by Penguin in April 2010.  In this episode, Nada sits down with Leigh to discuss her decision to “retire from paid work”. Leigh unpacks how and why she came to this decision. The conversation invites all to consider how to be intentional about our future—whether stepping into or away from work. Together, they run through Leigh's previous experiences as a consultant and how she is focused on using her expertise to help others while also moving into a space of authentic discovery. In addition to sharing her recent retirement decision, Leigh shares tips about jumping into the consulting world and makes recommendations around boundary setting,  turning down clients, paying attention to red flags, and creating contracts to safeguard payment. She also talks about the perks of finding a partner and creating a network.Leigh recommends adding Smacked by Eilene Zimmerman, My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent, and Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss to your bookshelf. Follow on Instagram: @loshirakPlease follow us at @thisislibertyroad on Instagram--that's where we hang out the most. And please rate and review us —it helps to know if this podcast is inspiring and equipping you to launch and grow your ventures.

This week we are joined by Rachel Rausch, Teen Services Librarian at the Orange Branch.  Katy and Rachel discuss a controversial topic this week... books that everyone loved that we just DID. NOT. LIKE! These are books that take the world by storm, reach the top of the best sellers list, or end up with a huge book club buzz, and sometimes we just don't get it.  Rachel does NOT recommend The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by Victoria Schwab, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, or The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern.  Katy does NOT recommend My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent, Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, and Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune.  Listen to what other staff members of the Delaware County District Library just didn't like, and read more about today's episode here. Do you have a topic you want to hear us cover? Please email libraryguys@delawarelibrary.org  Music Credit:  Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This week on What We're Reading and Other Stuff we tell you what Shanna's reading and what Jen's DNFd.  Update on The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek! - Jen's finished it since the recording and she did really like it despite not being 100% sure in the recording.   Anyone who loves historical fiction is going to love this book!We are reading The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers for Book Club this month so pick up a copy and read along with us!  Books Mentioned in this Episode:The Blinds by Adam SternberghThe Lincoln Highway by Amor TowlesFive Little Pigs by Agatha Christie My Absolute Darling by Gabriel TallentThe Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michelle Richardson How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu We are affiliated with Libro.fm. If you purchase on any of the books we've shared through the links above, your dollars help support your local bookstores as well as this podcast!best_bookclub@outlook.comPatreonwww.bestbookclub.caInstagram

La Mélodie du Bonheur, c'est un podcast hebdomadaire consacré à la musique. Chaque semaine, un album passe dans notre viseur, dans un cycle trois actus, un hors-actu. L'album de la semaine : Cette semaine, Flavien, Léo, Loïc et Wazoo vous parlent de Father of the Bride, album de Vampire Weekend sorti le 3 mai 2019. Pierre les rejoint pour le quiz et les recommandations. Les recommandations : • Flavien : Telling Lies, jeu vidéo développé par Sam Barlow• Léo : faire du vélo et Terrestres : revue des livres, des idées et des écologies• Loïc : My Absolute Darling, livre écrit par Gabriel Tallent• Pierre : Contrebande, blog sur le cinéma et autres choses auquel il participe• Wazoo : le service online de la Switch qui offre l'accès à une partie du catalogue Super Nintendo Tracklist : • Générique de début : Michel Polnareff – Une simple mélodie ; Star Academy – La Musique• Album de la semaine : Vampire Weekend - California English ; Vampire Weekend - This Life , Vampire Weekend - Flower Moon (feat. Steve Lacy)• Morceau de fin : La Nòvia - La chabra bura• Générique de fin : Pet Shop Boys – Hit Music ; ABBA – Thank You for the Music ; Ulver – Like Music ; Kraftwerk – Musique Non Stop ; Serge Gainsbourg – Ballade de Melody Nelson Retrouver le podcast : XSilence | Facebook | Twitter | iTunes | Podcloud

What do we mean by perfection and is the pursuit of it a pointless exercise? We hear from poet Charly Cox about why just the word alone is enough to induce anxiety, Sebastian Faulks considers where in the arts perfection might lie and why capturing it might mean a journey to perfection and then back again. Finally we hear from novelist Gabriel Tallent who shares the sheer blood, sweat and tears of writing his debut novel. BOOKS MENTIONED: She Must Be Mad, Paris Echo, Love Is Blind, My Absolute Darling, Dept of Speculation, Ink, Carol, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

In this short episode, we look at what our host, Erin, is reading now, what new books have been added to her queue, and a short review on the book My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent. This book was a great beach read, deeply inspiring, heartbreaking, and disturbing!  Plus a lot of extra commentary from Erin on the range of books she's reading right now.

Ce 6ème épisode porte sur le travail. C’est un sujet assez vaste et complexe donc je n’ai pu que m’accompagner d’une experte en la personne de Géraldine Galindo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geraldinegalindoescp/), professeure de Gestion des Ressources Humaines à l’ESCP Europe. Nous avons parlé du rôle qu’occupe le travail dans nos sociétés modernes, de la perception différente (ou pas) du travail par les millenials, de discriminations, de rémunération et aussi de l’avenir du travail. Timestamps: 0’00 > 1’03 : Introduction 1’03 > 2’34 : Présentation Géraldine Galindo 2’34 > 5’19 : Coups de coeur 5’19 > 7’48 : Actualités 7’48 > 14’44: Pourquoi travaille-t-on? 14’44 > 18’05 : Les Millenials et le travail 18’05 > 21’59: Inégalités de genre et travail 21’59 > 25’51 : La rémunération 25’51 > 33’15 : Origine ethnique et discriminations 33’15 > 39’23 : L’avenir du travail 39’23 > 44’30 : Le travail au quotidien, pragmatiquement 44’30 > 47’12 : Outro Références: - The Big Salary Reveal: https://www.glamour.com/story/12-real-people-discover-what-the-pay-gap-looks-like - My Absolute Darling: https://www.gallmeister.fr/livres/fiche/259/tallent-gabriel-my-absolute-darling - Jeanne Added: https://www.facebook.com/jeanneaddedpage/ - Waiting To Exhale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKW16e1Lrdk - Rachel Ama : www.youtube.com/rachelama - The Confidence Gap : https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-confidence-gap/359815/ - Enquête « Parlons Travail » de la CFDT: https://www.parlonstravail.fr - Les générations entretiennent-elles un rapport différent au travail?: https://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/3349 - La génération Y révolutionne le travail: https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2018/02/15/021-la-generation-y-revolutionne-le-travail_5257316_4401467.html - Non, les jeunes au travail n’ont pas tous les mêmes attentes: https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/aurelien-preud-homme/non-les-jeunes-au-travail-n-ont-pas-tous-les-memes-attentes_a_22546728/ - Travail: ce que veulent les jeunes: https://www.lesechos.fr/30/08/2018/lesechos.fr/0302178269295_travail---ce-que-veulent-les-jeunes.htm - Do Millenials have a Lesser Work Ethic?: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-changing-culture/201602/do-millennials-have-lesser-work-ethic - Les jeunes de 18 à 30 ans face à un travail en mutation : http://www.institut-viavoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Les_18-30_ans_face_a_un_travail_en_mutation._Etude_Viavoice-ManpowerGroup-Les_Echos_Start._Juin_2017_vdef.pdf - Quelques Résultats des enquêtes européennes sur le rapport au travail: https://france.attac.org/nos-publications/les-possibles/numero-14-ete-2017/dossier-le-travail/article/quelques-resultats-des-enquetes-europeennes-sur-le-rapport-au-travail - Le(s) rapport(s) des jeunes au travail (INJEP) : http://injep.fr/publication/les-rapports-des-jeunes-au-travail/ - Les Millenials et le travail : l’entreprise au défi: https://static3.cegos.fr/content/uploads/2018/09/28101539/cegos-millennials-et-travail-brochure-enquete-20172.pdf - Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.fr/ - Le coût économique des discriminations: https://www.strategie.gouv.fr/sites/strategie.gouv.fr/files/atoms/files/19-09-2016_fs_rapport_cout_economique_des_discriminations_final_web_0.pdf - Le CV anonyme « pénalise » les personnes issues de l’immigration : https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2011/04/04/le-cv-anonyme-penalise-les-personnes-issues-de-l-immigration_1503004_3224.html - « Ligue du LOL » : les nouveaux codes d’une vieille domination: https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2019/02/15/ligue-du-lol-les-nouveaux-codes-d-une-vieille-domination_1709707 Contacts: LinkedIn de Géraldine Galindo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geraldinegalindoescp/ Email : ecrireaperspectives@gmail.com Instagram: instagram.com/perspectivespodcast Twitter: twitter.com/Perspectives_5

In this episode we go deep and discuss "My Absolute Darling" by Gabriel Tallent and "Educated" by Tara Westover while sipping on Isolation by Odell Brewing and Mountain Livin' by Crazy Mountain. xoxo

In this episode we go deep and discuss "My Absolute Darling" by Gabriel Tallent and "Educated" by Tara Westover while sipping on Isolation by Odell Brewing and Mountain Livin' by Crazy Mountain. xoxo

Dans cet épisode, je pars à la rencontre de Franck Thilliez, figure incontournable du nouveau polar à la française depuis La Chambre des Morts, mais également co-scénariste de la série Alex Hugo, carton d’audience sur France 2. Elevé dans un milieu ouvrier, cet informaticien nous raconte avoir découvert les livres en traînant, adolescent, sur les brocantes du Nord de la France, théâtre de la plupart de ses intrigues. Lorsqu’il ne réunit pas ses deux héros récurrents, Lucie Hennebelle et Sharko, Franck Thilliez écrit ce qu’on appelle dans le jargon littéraire des « one-shots », des intrigues indépendantes comme celle de son dernier opus, « Le Manuscrit Inachevé » (Fleuve). C’est sombre, comme toujours, mais sans doute plus machiavélique que jamais. On y suit, en parallèle, l’enquête d’un duo de flics qui a découvert un cadavre mutilé dans le coffre d’une voiture. De l’autre une reine du thriller qui se cache derrière une fausse identité. Et dont la vie de couple part à vau-l’eau depuis la disparition de leur fille unique... Si vous voulez découvrir les auteurs avec Franck Thilliez dans ce podcast, voici quelques conseils de lecture : >> "Ça" de Stephen King (Le livre de Poche) >> "American Psycho" de Bret Easton Ellis (10/18) >> "Salammbô" de Gustave Flaubert (Pavillons Poche) >> "Le Horla" de Guy de Maupassant (Folio) >> « Des souris et des hommes » de John Steinbeck (Folio) >> "My Absolute Darling" de Gabriel Tallent (Gallmeister) >> "Soeurs" de Bernard Minier (XO) >> "Toutes blessent, la dernière tue" de Karine Giebel (Belfond) >> « Plus jamais seul » de Caryl Ferey (Gallimard) Merci pour votre écoute. Pensez à partager cet épisode et à parler du podcast LGQL. Et surtout notez le 5***** sur iTunes et partout où vous l'écoutez !!! Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Salt Lake City resident Gabriel Tallent's debut novel “My Absolute Darling” has been getting rave reviews. Here's a synopsis:

In his first essay collection, UP UP DOWN DOWN, Cheston Knapp attends skateboarding camp for adults, recalls his fraternity days, looks for UFOs, and checks out the local wrestling circuit, all in the name of learning more about himself. He and James talk about the art of the essay, the search for community, editing at Tin House, and the difficulty they have living in the moment. Plus Scribner art director and designer Jaya Miceli on book covers.   -  Cheston Knapp: https://www.chestonknapp.com/ Cheston and James discuss: David Foster Wallace  Charles D'Ambrosio  W. G. Sebald  HAMLET  Joan Didion  Zadie Smith  Maurice Merleau-Ponty  Edmund Husserl  Leslie Jamison  A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER by Tom Clancy  Graham Greene  John LeCarre  Sarah Manguso Maggie Nelson -  Jaya Miceli: https://jayamiceli.com/ Jaya and James discuss: UP UP DOWN DOWN by Cheston Knapp Anna Laytham (designer)  Daniel Loedel  THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula Hawkins THE ANIMALS by Christian Kiefer  THE READY MADE THIEF by Augustus Rose  Marcel Duchamp  Viking Penguin Helen Yentus (art director, Riverhead/ designer)  Riverhead Books  INTO THE WATER by Paula Hawkins  A SEPARATION by Katie Kitamura  THE INCENDIARIES by R.O. Kwon  MY ABSOLUTE DARLING by Gabriel Tallent  SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward  Paul Buckley (art director, Penguin)  WEST by Carys Davies  Lauren Peters-Collaer (designer)  I'D DIE FOR YOU by F. Scott Fitzgerald  FLESH, BONE, WATER by Luiza Sauma - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

2:09: Paula Gallagher, Baltimore County librarian and Roughly Speaking critic, recommends a debut novel, "My Absolute Darling," by Gabriel Tallent.5:58: After the islands, Florida and southern states were pummeled by Hurriane Irma, after Houston was flooded by Hurricane Harvey, it might be hard for Americans to turn their attention to Yemen, Somalia and South Sudan and the famine hitting those countries. But our topic is something a lot of Americans might not be aware of: The Trump administration's proposed deep cuts to foreign aid that for decades enjoyed bipartisan support in Congress. Thomas Awiapo, a native of Ghana orphaned as a boy, survived childhood famine because of U.S. foreign aid, and he tells us his heartbreaking story of survival. Now a consultant with Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services, Awiapo was in Washington recently to says thanks for the food he received at a village school and to ask that such aid continue.Links:http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/541271/my-absolute-darling-by-gabriel-tallent/

Sarah and Ellison Weist delight in chatting with professional runner Alysia Montaño, a 2012 Olympian and 7-time (!!!) U.S. Champion in the 800-meters. Due with baby #2 next month, Alysia talks about busting the long-standing myths of staying active during pregnancy. Alysia shares how she is navigating her “shifting” body—and how she schooled her regular UPS driver in the power of a pregnant woman. She tells why she wears a flower in her hair when she runs—as well as how she gained her childhood nickname of Icebox! Find out what “drain the dragons” means in this pro mother runner’s life, and delight at her gotta-grab-life-by-the-horns approach to motherhood. Sarah is awestruck by an insight from Alysia, borrowing the phrase to fuel her marathon. Alysia even shares a bit of her birth story, complete with a BOSU ball. In the intro, Sarah relates a bit more about her Twin Cities Marathon run, and Ellison talks about the books she’s read lately (see list). Dear Alysia joins the conversation at 26:50. My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent Brewster by Bruce Slouka The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold The Child Finder by Renee Denfield Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor To enjoy a free month of Bark Box with order of 6- or 12-month subscription, visit barkbox.com/AMR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gabriel Tallent discusses his book My Absolute Darling.

TWICE a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, and beyond. Two Book Minimum: Hunger: A Memoir of (my) Body by Roxane Gay (2017) My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent (2017) Dying by Cory Taylor (2017) The Dinner by Herman Koch (2009 / trans. 2013) Instead of She Said/She Said, this episode addresses the wide world of HISTORICAL FICTION... find out what we have to say about this complicated genre! News from LPL: Ian from the Info Services team at LPL has started Doc Discussions, a documentary watching club! The inaugural event is Saturday, Sept 16th (events will take place on the 3rd Saturday of each month) Banned Book Trading Cards are coming! Our guest presenter will be... Zora Neale Hurston! Performed by Dr. Carmaletta Williams, a retired professor of English & African American Studies, AND an Emmy-winning performer. Dr. Williams has been working on the upcoming Langston Hughes documentary, I, Too, Sing America. The Banned Book Trading Cards reveal is at 5pm on Friday, Sept. 22nd in the LPL Auditorium Show Notes: http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/2017/09/book-squad-podcast-011-hist-fic-and-books-that-hurt-yer-guts/ This episode was produced by Jim Barnes in the Sound & Vision studio. Theme song by Heidi Lynne Gluck. Please subscribe and leave us comments – we’d love to know what you think, and your comments make it easier for other people to find our podcast. Happy reading and listening! xo, Polli & Kate

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Gabriel Tallent, whose debut novel My Absolute Darling will be released tomorrow by Riverhead. Gabriel Received his BA from Williamette University. His stories have been published in Narrative and in the St. Petersburg Review. His thesis at Willamette was on the discursive construction of Pleasure in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela. But he also was a checker at Target, so that gives you a little bit of an idea of how this story could have emerged from his head. My Absolute Darling plumbs the depths of moral depravity and soars to places where a girl’s reach exceeds her grasp and yet she is able to accomplish things that are impossible to imagine. Julia (Turtle) is the 14 year old daughter of Martin. Martin is a very intelligent survivivalist with tons of weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition and the ability and the desire to use them all. He is also dangerous and depraved but there is a certain part of us and this is a danger to the reader of the novel, a certain part of us that almost has the capability to comprehend his motives. It’s scary that we have the capability to do so. That is why this book has gotten so much buzz and is such a riveting read. Some reviews suggest that it is not for the faint of heart. Others say read the book with friends and then fight over it.. Trust me--as a book club selection, you will find yourself in fight club rather than the usual casual night out at the book store. It’s not a book to make light of. It’s a book to ponder and one which makes you question your understanding of family relationships and how that can go so wrong and also ponder the strength of someone whose strength was obtained from the very man who is her sworn nemesis and father.

We discuss My Absolute Darling chapter 1-6

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Resurrection of Joan Ashby, The Burning Girl, My Absolute Darling, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove, and Book of the Month. Find a list of the titles discussed on this episode in the shownotes.

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – We're joined in the studio by Sam Leith, Literary editor of the Spectator and self-professed rhetoric geek, discusses the problem of fake news in a post-truth world, with recourse to Aristotle and economic theory; we're running an extract, in this week's summer double issue, from My Absolute Darling, the new American novel everyone seems to be talking about – we'll discuss the dark material at its centre with the author himself, Gabriel Tallent; "Walid Jumblatt has the air of quiet dignity which befits a retired warlord with nearly half a million Twitter followers", so begins Alev Scott's essay on her experiences among the Druze of Lebanon, one of the country's eighteen recognised minorities. Alev joins us to describe an enlightening and troubling encounter. The podcast will take a break and return on August 31; keep up with the TLS at the-tls.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.