Things We Love: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
This week’s entry on the 200 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language list is Things Fall Apart by Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe. We talk about Okonkwo, whose life is destroyed by colonialism’s e...
29 Apr 202539min
Journey into Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Jay and Stacey discuss the iconic, influential novel (novella?) by Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. The journey of the plot is also a journey of the soul for the characters and their country, as well...
22 Apr 202546min
Spend the Day with Mrs. Dalloway!
Jay and Stacey discuss Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, entering the life of the mind of Clarissa Dalloway and her social set in this watershed novel of the early 20th century. Chaos reader talks about h...
15 Apr 202541min
The Best of Best-Selling British Author Terry Pratchett's Novels: Night Watch
This week's entry on Jay Ruud's 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language is Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel, Night Watch, a time-traveling fantasy on a flat planet that considers the nature o...
8 Apr 202539min
Return to Old New York Guided by Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence
Jay's entry on his 100 Most Lovable Books List this week is one of Stacey's most loved books ever. Join them for their discussion of 1870s New York and its moneyed high society as Wharton's Newland Ar...
1 Apr 202541min
Our Lovable Novels Guide to Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Jay and Stacey discuss the comedy-sci-fi twentieth-century classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, chatting about the first novel in the franchise, which is the gateway-drug to ...
26 Mar 202539min
Big Feelings in a Small British Town in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Jay and Stacey discuss a novel dear to both of their hearts, George Eliot's Middlemarch, where marriage, aspiration, ambition and social class shape the lives of characters in a small English communit...
18 Mar 202546min
Grandeur, Nostalgia and Family Drama in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
Even posh Brits have family problems, and Evelyn Waugh's exploration of the aristocratic Flyte family through the perspective of upwardly-mobile Charles Ryder touches on the allure of a bygone era, re...
11 Mar 202539min
