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Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow – Enthusiasticast Episode 85
Mark feels the love for the godfather of soul behavioural economic theory. We mention: Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow; his Wikipedia page; his TED talk. Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper Franzenfreude … Continue reading
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Tagged Behavioral economics, Colonoscopies, Daniel Kahneman, Franzenfreude, Thinking Fast and Slow
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Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money – Enthusiasticast Episode 83
Mark is enthusiastic about the Stephanie Plum novels. There was a (gasp!) delay between recording and posting this episode, so a lot of the books that we talk about as ‘coming soon’ are now, in fact, ‘out recently’ and in … Continue reading
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Tagged #Jonathan Tropper, #Kristin Cashore, Alpha, Bitterblue, Christa Faust, Dan Chaon, Daniel Suarez, Darwyn Cooke, Greg Rucka, House to Astonish, In Sunlight and Shadow, Insurgent, Janet Evanovich, John Scalzi, Junot Diaz, Kill Decision, Mark Haddon, Mark Helprin, Mark Leyner, Money Shot, Neal Stephenson, One Last Thing Before I Go, Paolo Bacigalupi, Parker: The Score, Redshirts, Stay Awake, Stephanie Plum, The Drowned Cities, The Mongoliad, The Red House, The Sugar-Frosted Nutsack, This Is How You Lose Her, Veronica Roth
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Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding – Enthusiasticast Episode 76
It’s the missing episode 76! Where have you been, young lady? Your father and I were sick with worry. We mention: The National Book Awards The Giller Prize Laura Miller at Salon, on book awards Who the Hell is Arcade … Continue reading
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If Only We Could Read Faster (for August 30)
If time and money were infinite, this is what I would buy and read. The Cat’s Table Michael Ondaatje I first read Ondaatje in 1992—The Collected Works of Billy the Kid—while in the grip of an untreated fever from … Continue reading
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Tagged Michael Ondaatje, Scorch City, The Cat's Table, The Leftovers, Toby Ball, Tom Perrotta
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While You’re Waiting
New shows are coming soon, we promise, but until then here’s some supplemental reading to go with two of our past recommendations. And they’re free! Back in Episode 51 Mark was enthusiastic about Ian Tregillis’ Bitter Seeds. If you took … Continue reading
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Tagged Bitter Seeds, Ian Tregillis, Max Brooks, World War Z
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If Only We Could Read Faster (for August 2)
If time and money were inifinite, this is what we would buy and read. Bed David Whitehouse Who hasn’t wanted to just stay in bed? Mal Ede goes to bed one day and stays there for twenty years, eventually … Continue reading
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If Only We Could Read Faster (for July 26)
Well, that was a longer hiatus than planned! If time and money were infinite, this is what we would buy and read. This edition brought to you by second chances. Collecting Cooper Paul Cleave I read Paul Cleave’s Blood … Continue reading
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Choose the Cover for Machine Man
Over on his blog Max Barry tells how his publisher–in a fit of insanity–asked for his input on the cover of his upcoming novel Machine Man (the first draft email version of which I spoke highly of here), and now … Continue reading
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I Think I… Love You
If you’re anything like me then every now and again you go trolling through Amazon, entering the names of favourite authors in hopes that one of them might have announced a new book. And if you’re even more like me … Continue reading