weird sex
2013-2014 Year in Review
We’re capping year two of Novel Ideas with our Year in Review episode. In this episode we list our Top and Bottom 5 books of the year, as well as handing out various awards for books we read this year. Subjects include the typical, such as: classics, YA, science fiction, bestsellers, characters, and social issues. We also get into some of our usual silliness like the importance of staying alive versus finding a boyfriend, weird sex, Gabs ships, and terrible ad copy. For those of you playing at home, see if you can guess which twenty minutes were punched in after the fact.
The music bump is “Happy” by Pharrell Williams.
At the end of this episode, we will tell you that our next episode will be a “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, but I think it will actually be The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman.
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged awards, best/worst characters, best/worst relationships, boredom, bottom 5, criteria for lists, disappointment, dishonorable mentions, finding a boyfriend, Gabs ships, honorable mentions, importance of classics, listener questions, lists, Maurice and modernity, neverending sucky, Neville takes a level in badass, parental guidance, representations of women, slavery?, social issues, surprises, terrible ad copy, top 5, weird sex.
Beloved
Novel Ideas wraps up Banned Book Month with Beloved by Toni Morrison, a story of escaping the past against the background of slavery. This book is a rather difficult read, as it written non-traditionally, shifting points of view and tenses and using some modern literary techniques that don’t get used often in popular fiction. In this episode we talk about some of those challenges, as well as gender and publishing, slavery, the context of infanticide, and the difficulty of escaping the past. We also discuss “enlightened” slave owners, weird sex, whitepeople, and our need of a professor to help us decipher the text. This book was a rich topic for discussion, we hope you find this episode interesting.
The music bump is “Freedom” by Charles Mingus.
Beloved – Not A Dead White Guy
Recommendations:
Gabs: 6/10 as an enjoyable book, 8/10 as something you should read.
Ben: I might not go as high as 6/10 for enjoyability, but it was a pretty powerful book. I’m also going to say 8/10 as something you should read.
This entry was posted in Episodes and tagged "enlightened" slave owners, 2 year olds' desires, banned books, book banners are dopes, confederate flags, context, crazy assigned readings, difficult read, emotional scars, extended intro, filler episodes, freedom, gender and publishing, genre?, justified infanticide, love, no-traditional writing style, Reconstruction, red, sexual choice, slave owning theorists, slavery again, slavery as an institution, slavery is bad, supernatural elements, Sweet Home Alabama, the horror of slavery, Thomas Jefferson, tied to the past, we need a professor, weird sex, well written, what is a man?, whitepeople are the devil.
Novel Ideas 