Other books referenced 2010

In addition to the main feature readings of the podcast, Julie often mentions other books or book reviews. Some of these mentions are on the podcast, others on the blog. In this thread, I'm putting links to episodes and other blog posts with relevant touchstones.

2010-01-09:

George Eliot's Silas Marner
G.K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man
Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed
Cook's Illustrated Magazine's The Best International Recipe

2010-01-27:

Myke Bartlett's How to Disappear Completely, a surreal mystery of overlapping Londons

2010-02-16: in addition to the main feature, references these works

Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House
Alan Russell's The Hotel Detective (main feature); and The Fat Innkeeper

2010-02-25:

Archer Mayor's Open Season

Edit: touchstones being a bit untouchable again.

2010-03-03:

H. Russell Wakefield The Best Ghost Stories
Tony Hillerman's The Fallen Man
P.G. Wodehouse's William Tell Told Again
Charles Dickens' David Copperfield

2010-03-24:

William Peter Blatty's Dimiter

2010-04-26

Robert Sheckley's The Status Civilization
Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, a classic revenge epic

2010-05-13:

James Preller's A Pirate's Guide to First Grade illust. Greg Ruth
China Miéville's The City and The City
Richard Castle's Heat Wave
"Desire: The Energy of Life Itself" from Father James Martin's The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything
Isabelle Allende’s Island Beneath the Sea reviewed as "Have you ever seen such cruelty?"
Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants

2010-05-14:

Helen Simonson's Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

2010-06-24:

Mike Resnick's The Bride of Frankenstein (new enough not to have been anthologized yet)

2010-06-29:

Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (though classic, reads fresh

2010-08-17 links to several book reviews in blogs and other internetted media outlets. The works referenced are

William H. Patterson's Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century a critical biography
Loren D. Estleman's Frames, a murder mystery
Vernon Lee's A Phantom Lover, a Victorian ghost story
Brandon Sanderson's The Mistborn, which gained Sanderson the privilege of completing the Wheel of Time series
Bram Stoker's Dracula as seen in a new angle of literary analysis
Patrick Madrid and Kenneth Hensley's The Godless Delusion, as its name indicates, a theist response to Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion
Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, the famed travelogue of spiritual tourism
Ted Chiang's The Lifecycle of Software Objects, which is not a college textbook but a novella
Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind is examined for the validity of its theosphere

2010-09-29 has two entries of book reports. Do go and read Julie's notes and remarks; often they enhanced my appreciation of the work concerned.

Jane Eyre, that magnificent story of relentless (if a bit Calvinist) determination.
One Door Away from Heaven; Koontz is not quite the bulk pulp writer I once thought.
The Case of the Missing Servant and The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing for a taste of non-Eurocentric writing.
Sweet and Low for non-fattening (but murderous) chocolate.
Better Than Homemade for food history
The Trials of Rumpole for the post-prandial digestive of good humour
Hamlet; I am regrettably deaf for the printed script. As for poetry, I have to hear the text read for it to spring alive.
Through the Wall for early 20-th century detectoring. However, if you are hysterical about "spoilers", be advised that Julie is considering this story for future production.
Carnacki, The Ghost Finder is a delicious collection of classy British understatement in the midst of sometimes gruesome ghostly horrors.

2010-09-24 mentions a book review of Cursed on another of Julie's blogs
2010-09-23 Night of the Living Trekkies. Quite.
2010-09-08 launches a debate on personal preference for Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. Or for one sister or another.
2010-09-01 is preparing for Hallowe'en by pointing to Julie's review of Holy Ghosts.

2010-10-27 reflects on Ignatius Critical Editions, taking Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gulliver's Travels as the launching point, and touches

Scarlet Letter, the high school bugaboo that is actually good writing;
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court on the author not being the protagonist;
Mindswap as a parallel to Gulliver in existentialism;
Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and The Tempest as examples of Shakespeare that don't need to be boring

2010-10-25 introduces Cleek: The Man of Forty Faces and his further adventures in The Riddle of the Purple Emperor; in the podcast itself Julie mentions those wonderful anthologies Wandering Stars and More Wandering Stars
2010-10-15 mentions discussion of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde over at SFFAudio

2010-11-22 adds to the resources of learning about religions

World Religions by John Bowker, and a confusingly similarly named
The World Religions by Huston Smith.

2010-11-26 explores the Grimm stories, mentioning

The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, available at antiquarian booksellers and at http://gutenberg.org ;
The Annotated Brothers Grimm; I find annotated editions always very useful; there is usually a lot more depth to a (good) work than a product of monoculture education like myself readily sees.

2010-11-30 sees Julie indulge in memetics: Fifteen Novels in Fifteen Minutes, and naturally she bends the rules. I am reproducing the author list here with no touchstoning or other linking.

1. Rumer Godden;
2. Agatha Christie (nonfiction);
3. Harriett Beecher Stowe;
4. Robert Alter (his OT translations);
5. Flannery O'Conner (The Habit of Being);
6. Dean Koontz;
7. C. S. Lewis;
8. Shirley Jackson;
9. Samuel Shellabarger;
10. Fulton Sheen;
11. Francis Fernandez (author of the In Conversation with God series;
12. Nathaniel Hawthorne;
13. Robert R. Chase;
14. Charlotte Brontë;
15. M. F. K. Fisher;

2010-12-28 lists Julie's Top Nonfiction Books. Some of the works may have been mentioned in other threads.

Paul Among the People by Sarah Ruden, about that industrious writer of epistles.
Confections of a Closet Master Baker by Gesine Bullock-Prado, a cookbook and a story of escaping from the (tinseled) rat race.
Finding Martha's Place, Martha Hawkins' culinary and spiritual journey.
You Are What You See by Scott Nehring examines film narratives and how to find their significance -- there is nothing objective, and Nehring doesn't hide his philosophical underpinnings.
The Habit of Being by Flannery O'Connor, a collection of letters displaying daily life, daily devotion, and daily wit and intelligence.
Roots of the Faith: From the Church Fathers to You by Mike Aquilina is an affirmation of the continuity of the Church.
Full of Grace by Judith Dupre, meditations on Mary the Mother.
Oh Holy Night by Michael C. Snow builds an uplifting view on humanity around the miracle of the spontaneous armistice on Christmas Eve 1914.

2010-12-27 has a listing of Julies Top Fiction. Again, some of these may have been mentioned or featured in other episodes.

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley combines Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Nancy Drew, and other typical features of the detective genre to a unique fascinating mixture.
High Spirits is a collection of ghost stories by that genius of a Canadian, Robertson Davies.
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simenson, a late-life romance of wit and warm perceptiviness.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett was so good that Julie is using ALL CAPS to recommend it, which is a rare event.
Vampire$ by John Steakley has sex, vampires, and rock-and-roll, so of course Julie loved it. :)
Through the Wall by Cleveland Moffett is an early mystery story of layers and complexity and cliff-hangers. Julie is thinking of featuring this book on the podcast.
Carnacki the Ghost-Finder by William Hope Hodgson is a collection of ghosts, some hoaxes, some supernatural. The way Hodgson tosses in mentions of this or that mystical and ritual practice as well-known and obvious spices the tales well. And who could forget the electric pentacle.
Trouble is My Business by Raymond Chandler was taken up by Julie due to her experience with City of Dragons.
Nightmare Town by Dashiel Hammett -- you always have to balance a dose of Chandler with another of Hammett, for some variety.
Till We Have Faces is C. S. Lewis' retelling of an ancient myth, and it works on multiple levels. Even if you despise the Narnias, you might want to try this.

Good grief there's a horde of these already and I'm only starting on December. Let's see how the touchstone links choke.

2010-12-16 mentions for the podcast episode

A Wrinkle in Time; Many Waters; Through a Screen Darkly; and The Handbook of Christian Apologetics.

2010-12-16 blog post laments the loquaciousness of Connie Willis' two-volume novel Blackout / All Clear.

2010-12-07 points to a review of Dame Agatha's The Secret Adversary, where the hilarious pair Tommy and Tuppence tangle up in spycraft.