#book chat

Hello Awesome Readers, "Us and Them" by David Sedaris is an autobiographical story (essay) about moving into an eccentric new neighborhood then having a strange post-Halloween interaction with a family that refuses to buy a television. "Us and Them" comes of the essay collection titled Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim though this seems like it's more story than essay. Creative non-fiction I suppose. Would you really give away candy after Halloween? Read Here: https://bookshop.org/a/117636/9780316010795 or https://www.blackbinder.com/uploads/3/4/0/9/34090823/us_and_them.pdf  Listen Here: https://t.co/qhrNHjVprv  Social media / Contact me: https://bookchatwithyou.podbean.com/p/contact-page/    

Hello awesome readers! Today we're looking at Pigeons at Daybreak by Anita Desai. It is a slow somber story about Mr Basu who is terminally ill and taken care of by his wife, Otima Basu. We see all the little bickerings of a couple who is 55+ plus years old. Things are quite compact in this story. Both care characters care for each other though the resentment is also quite clear throughout. The story is a picture of one of their days from morning one day until dawn the next day. The story starts with Otima taking forever to situate herself to read the newspaper to her husband since that was once one pastimes. Honestly, there's nothing exciting here. I am sharing this story because I had to read it for a class many times but since I am going familiar with this sort of illness to caretaker sort of lifestyle I felt I could share this story and ask others to comment on it. (No, not me, my wife, child etc are sick...)

Hello Everyone! Today's episode is on "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway. I found a set of Ernest Hemingway books I bought in China years ago. They're both short story collections but one is a translation into Chinese. "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" has all the classic dialogue we expect from Hemingway. In this story Francis Macomber and his wife Margot travel to Kenya so Francis can hunt in the safari, but it proves more than he can handle and during the trip tensions rise between Francis and his wife and Robert the professional hunter. Eventually things end badly for Francis. Read here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/complete-short-stories-of-ernest-hemingway-ernest-hemingway/59cba40c3bf84ef5?ean=9781025566368 https://faculty.washington.edu/jdb/303/Hemingway/The%20Short%20Happy%20Life%20of%20Francis%20Macomber.pdf Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct-vhTrKKGg

This is an archive in which I covered Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell. It is quite a brutal novel. I wouldn't have known it was a children's novel if not for doing a bit of research for the review. It is about a woman living on her for about twenty years after her tribe had been murder by seal hunters. Year after year her tribe had been given a poor deal in exchange for allowing a foreign sailors to seal hunt in their lands. Finally their tribe leader protests and rebels leading to the slaughter of their people. This leads our main character to live for years on her own without companion. This archive doesn't exactly follow the conversational tone I aim for. As of this writing I am studying for a post-graduates degree, but that is for me and perhaps for employment. As for books I feel conversations are more important than trying to slip in every piece of literary jargon possible. I mean, your opinion is more important than mine after-all.

This is an archive I made many many many years ago of Space Station Rat by Michael J Daley. I don't remember this whole story other than I had a full cast audio of it I got from Humble Bundle. A boy everyone finds annoying (just a normal kid) befriends a stowaway genius rat that escapes to horrible experiments. I'm not even sure I read the book or just listened to it. Either way it was a fun kids book and you should check it out even if you're like grandparent aged and just want something fun to listen to. Read here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/space-station-rat-michael-j-daley/6f33cbf8fd41a4bc?ean=9781497638174&next=t  Listen here: https://fullcastaudio.com/space_station_rat/

This is Book Chat with You. This is just a quick announcement. The next four episodes are archives from before. One from the stone age and a few a bit more recent, but I just never uploaded on here for several reasons. I should have done this a week ago when I had no time for this, but perhaps this will give me a bit of a buffer.