Episode 51: What We Read In December

 Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! We have a shorter episode this month amidst the Chrsitmasing. Here are our final reads of 2024!

Books discussed include:

- El Asesinato De Pitágoras / Killing Pythagoras (Marcos Chicot, 2013)

- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (Jules Verne, 1870)

- Poor Miss Finch (Wilkie Collins, 1872)

- Fatally Inferior (Lyn Squire, 2024)

- Pinocchio (Carlo Collodi, 1883)

- The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, 1943)

 

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Episode 50: What We Read In November

The Books Boys turn 50! I think that's how it works.  Welcome back for our November reviews. Dean and Alex have both read some Guy De Maupassant, plus Dean goes back to his old faithful Dickens' deputy, and we have some feminist discussion from Virginia Woolf. 

Books discussed include:

- Our Hearts (Guy De Maupassant, 1883)

- Une Vie / A Life (Guy De Maupassant, 1883)

- Dr Heraclius Gloss (Guy De Maupassant, 1921)

- A Room  Of One's Own (Virginia Woolf, 1929)

- Man And Wife (Wilkie Collins, 1870)

- Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe, 1722)

- Thérèse Desqueyroux (François Mauriac, 1927)

- The End Of The Night (François Mauriac, 1935)

- Surrounded By Idiots (Thomas Erikson, 2014)

 

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Episode 43: What We Read In April

The Books Boys crew are just back from a trip to Venice, and ready to tell us about their April reads. Also happy birthday to Dean. It's time for the dreaded George Eliot, some great dystopian books, and a surprise call in from renowned scientist turned author George Paxinos (georgepaxinos.com.au)

Books reviewed include:

- A River Divided (George Paxinos, 2021)

- George Eliot (Adam Bede, 1859)

- Toilers of The Sea (Victor Hugo, 1866)

- The Law And The Lady (Wilkie Collins, 1875)

- The Seven Poor Travellers (Charles Dickens, 1854 / 1920)

- Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005)

- Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury, 1953)

- We (Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924)

- Loose Ends (Michael Weller, 1979)

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Episode 39: What We Read In December

 Happy New Year from the Books Boys, who decided to record in the same room for the first time! 

Join Dean, Alex, and little Alfred for our December reviews, plus the author Gary Stuart calls in to chat about his 2 new books (garylstuart.com)

Books discussed include:

- The Works Of Alexandre Dumas (short story collection (Dumas, 1830s-60s, compiled 1927)

- Aventuras de Cuatro Mujeres y Un Loro / The Adventures Of 4 Women and a Parrot (Alexandre Dumas fils, 1856)

- The Dead Secret (Wilkie Collins, 1856)

- Hide & Be; My Brother, Myself (Gary L. Stuart, 2023, upcoming)

- Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston, 1937)

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Episode 29: What We Read In February

 Here we go! All our February reads! We finally managed to keep it concise this month. Hear reviews of what  TheDean!, PJ, and Alfred read, and a call-in from author Martin Treanor (martintreanor.com).

Books discussed include:

- Marguerite De Valois / La Reine Margot (Alexandre Dumas, 1845)

- Hide And Seek (Wilkie Collins, 1854)

- The Logos Prophecy (Martin Treanor, 2023)

- The Chanteuse From Cape Town (John Constable, 2023)

- The Woods (Harlan Coben, 2007)

- Beyond Psychology (Osho, 1988)

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Episode 21

We had a lot of fun (and stress) making this one, it's Episode 21!

Join TheDean! & PJ as we give our wrap-up of the books we read in June, and the author Charles Salzberg (charlessalzberg.com) calls in to chat about his books. 

Books discussed include:

- Canary In The Coalmine (Charles Salzberg, 2022)

- Armadale (Wilkie Collins, 1864-6)

- History Of The Thirteen (Honoré de Balzac, 1833-4)

- Salammbô (Gustave Flaubert, 1862)

- La Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo (Mario Vargas Llosa, 1981)

- Discovery of Heaven (Harry Mulisch, 1992)

- Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu, 400bc)

- Improve Your Vision in 3 Minutes (Rui Hiramatsu, 2021)

- Feiedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1883-92)

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Episode 20

 Welcome to Books Boys Episode 20!!

We tried so hard to keep the runtime under 2hrs this month. TheDean! ventures into some more modern books, before taking refuge in dickens's deputy, and PJ sneaks in some 9th art to the reading list! We also have a surprise call-in from author Sharon Sutila to talk about her book The Stealing (thestealing.com)

Books discussed include:

- The Country Doctor (Honoré de Balzac, 1833)

- The House of the Cat and Racket (Balzac, 1830)

- Little Novels (Wilkie Collins, 1887) 

- The Perfume (Patrick Suskind, 1985)

- Lunar Park (Bret Easton Ellis, 2005)

- The Stealing (S.A. Sutila, 2021)

- The Discovery of Heaven (Harry Mulisch, 1992)

- Comet In Moominland (Tove Jansson, 1946)

- The Hundred Year Old Man (Jonas Jonasson, 2009)

- Nimm's Leicht! (Loriot, 1981)

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Books Boys - Episode 6

 Half a year already? And the kids still don't know what books are?

Join TheDean! & PJ for episode 6 of books boys! TheDean! has read some Victorian literature and is now off to apply to be a governess. PJ has read some soviet sci-fi and German poetry! Plus Carolyn Hobdey calls in to chat about her book "All The Twats I Met Along The Way". Get it, Buy it, Books!

Books discussed include:

- No Name (Wilkie Collins, 1962)
- Uncle Silas (J. Sheridan Le Fanu, 1964)

- The Wife Of Sir Isaac Harman (H.G. Wells, 1914)

- The Breakdown (B.A. Paris, 2017)

- Complete Father Brown Mysteries (G. K. Chesterton, 1911-1936)

- The Amphibian Man (Alexander Belayev, 1928)

- upcoming novel (Kyron Bourke, 2021)

- Tao Te Ching (Lao Tsu, 500 B.C.)

- The Penguin Book of German Verse (ed. Leonard Forster, 1957)

- A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin, 1968)

- All The Twats I've Met Along The Way (Carolyn Hobdey, 2020)

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Books Boys - Episode 3

Welcome to the 3rd episode, and Christmas special, of Books Boys! 

Read some books!!

This month we discuss:

- Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)

- Cousin Bette (Honoré de Balzac, 1847)

- After Dark (Wilkie Collins, 1856)

- The Apartment (K.L. Slater, 2020)

- Reason Without Rhyme, & Fifty-Seven Pebbles (Eileen T. O'Neill, 2013 & 2015)

And we also give our Christmas recommendations! 

Then we cross over with Kant's Dream to hear  the latest single from Kyron Bourke (ft. Maeve Smyth & based on lyrics by Eileen T. O'Neill), and to close we hear a Christmas treat from the Books Boys themselves (ft. Alicia)

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