Bookbabble - A podcast for booklovers everywhere!
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Podcast Description
A group of friends from around the globe meet up online to chat about books, reading and anything that will be of interest to fellow booklovers. Discussions include literary news, reviews or idle chit-chat. Sometimes serious, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, but always a lot of fun.
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ExplicitBookbabble Episode 78: Digital and Bookstores | We’re back! After more than a year, Bjorn, Renee and I get back to have a chit-chat about the state of ebooks and how it’s affecting independent bookstores. Also, Renee’s Charles Dickens recommendations, Downton Abbey, BBC’s Sherlock, Rifftrax.com, and th | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBookbabble Episode 74: World Cup Chat – Part 2 | This is one of the strangest, most languid chit-chat in Bookbabble’s short history. This episode drops you right in the middle of a football match watched by the boys in three different countries – simultaneously. And still somehow manage to talk about | 8/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBookbabble Episode 74: World Cup Chat – Part 1 | This is one of the strangest, most languid chit-chat in Bookbabble’s short history. This episode drops you right in the middle of a football match watched by the boys in three different countries – simultaneously. And still somehow manage to talk about | 8/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 75: Hanging out with Joshua Cohen – Part 2 | The crew is honored to have Joshua Cohen guesting on this episode to talk about your usual babbly things, including his latest work, Witz, which has received rave reviews from critics everywhere. | 8/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 75: Hanging out with Joshua Cohen – Part 1 | The crew is honored to have Joshua Cohen guesting on this episode to talk about your usual babbly things, including his latest work, Witz, which has received rave reviews from critics everywhere. | 8/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 73: Your CONTAGIOUS, INFECTED ANCESTOR - Hanging out with Scott Sigler | This week we speak with New York Times best-selling author Scott Sigler. We covered his start in the publishing industry, the podcast-only novel mechanism, and his upcoming book release ANCESTOR. Plus, there’s this bit about the World Cup as well (it’s | 6/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 72: Books That Make You Laugh! | What are the books that make the babblers break into a smile? Perhaps even outright laughter?(Although it must be said that would look weird. Good for clearing a space for you in public transports, though). Anyway, babblers list out some interesting pi | 6/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 71: “Whodunnit”? More Like “Who Said It”? | The babblers talk about crime fiction, and lists books in this genre (with plenty of help from Wikipedia, too). Note: The audio for this episode is choppy, so please take note. | 6/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 67: 2 Books in 2 Hours! Hanging Out with John Wray - Part 2 | Literary author John Wray joins the group for a round of bookbabbling, and ended staying for over 2 hours! Learn a little more about this talented author of works such as The Right Hand of Sleep, Canaan’s Tongue and his latest novel, Lowboy. | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 67: 2 Books in 2 Hours! Hanging Out with John Wray - Part 1 | Literary author John Wray joins the group for a round of bookbabbling, and ended staying for over 2 hours! Learn a little more about this talented author of works such as The Right Hand of Sleep, Canaan’s Tongue and his latest novel, Lowboy. Also, find | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 70: What Are Sound Novels | This week we’re introduced to the seemingly new form of storytelling called ‘sound novels’. We find out a little more about this supposedly new medium, guided by a resident expert, Renee’s daughter, the Wilde Childe herself, Rosemary. Along the way, Mar | 6/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBookbabble Episode 63: Dante's Hell And Ribena Berry Nipples | The crew welcomes a visit from our favourite English farmer (Gem) as they discuss the recently announced iPad, and all the jokes that come with it. Also, Marcel brings our attention to Electronic Arts's new Dante's Inferno, based on Dante's classic of th | 2/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 62: JD Salinger's dead? Again? | Marcel and Lone get together for a duet, where they discuss the process of writing reviews. As reviewers themselves, they compare notes on how reviews are done, the research put in, and influences. Also discussed are JD Salinger, on his recent passing, | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBookbabble Episode 58: Another Year, Another Show | Gem and Lars return for this first show for the year, where we touched on quite a lot of things, surprisingly. Music, films and of course, books. This show was a little slow in going, but there are Michael Jackson jokes in there! | 2/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Snippet: Bjorn’s Auster Smackdown Prelude | This is a snippet of Bjorn and Donny’s short conversation after the recording of Episode 61. Lamenting yet another postponement to our planned Paul Auster Smackdown show, Bjorn shares his thoughts on Auster’s work. Sort of like a prelude to the smackdow | 2/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBookbabble Episode 61: The Ebook Babble | The guys talk about Apple's impending announcement of their supposed tablet device (which we now know as the Apple iPad) and its supposed killer ebook-reader features, and the ebook industry in general. Bjorn taps into his experience in the ebook industr | 2/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 57: 2009's Great and Not So Great Reads | The group discusses their best reads of the year, plus some not-so-great reads as well. Also, what books best defined the past decade, given all that has happened in the past 10 years? Plus, Renee treats us to a wonderful rendition of bad sex prose, cou | 12/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBookbabble Episode 56: Cultural Imperialism and Adam West | This is one weird, psychedelic episode. We all came out of this one wondering what had happened. How is this episode any different from the previous episodes, then, you may ask? Well, among the stuff we covered: 70s/80s American TV series, Twilight/New | 12/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 55: Christmas Gifts! | The group talks about Christmas gifts – books we’d like to give people, and what we’d like to receive. We covered Black Friday and Cyber Monday, many books, and a toaster. Also, find out what Doraemon and Renee’s handbag have in common (hint: it’s not t | 12/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 54: A Family Affair | Marcel’s sister Nicole joins us for a chitchat about nothing much in particular (well, if you consider almost 2 hours of chitchat 'nothing much’). We did talk about the new Twilight movie, New Moon (where Renee’s teenage daughter Rosemary made a cameo on | 12/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 53: There’s A Sequel For This? | We are so agreeable with each other on this episode. The group clobbers each other with this one: should classic works have sequels? What would we consider as a sequel? Which ones were good, not good, and shouldn’t have been written in the first place? | 11/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 52: Genre and Literature – Hanging out with Brian Evenson | The group is pleased to have Brian Evenson, award-winning literary/horror author of Altmann’s Tongue, Last Days and The Open Curtain, among many others. We discuss the man and his work in this interview, covering genres, literature, his work as the Chair | 11/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 51: We Can’t Let You Read That! | The group talks about censorship in our literature, and as it happens in our respective countries. We discuss about what’s clearly bad, why they should or shouldn’t, and the beef about the whole process. Also, a little on NaNoWriMo, and why teapots can | 11/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 50: Desert Island Reads | Uma leads the group in listing each of our 5 desert island reads – books that we’d like to take with us when we get stranded in a desert island. Some of us took some liberties on the topic and decided to list books they haven’t read that they’d like to b | 10/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 49: If It Were A Festival, There’d Be More Balloons | A tight group this week, and we’re talking offensive literature. Things that sets us off. I suppose we weren’t surprised when the three of us shared the same view about things that offend us in literature, which isn’t what the topic itself would lead yo | 10/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 48: Booker, Nobel and Reviews | Founding member of the Fric Frac Club, Francois Monti, and literary reviewer Umapagan Ampikaipakan joins the group to talk about the literary awards given out recently, namely the Man Booker Prize and the Nobel. Of course, when discussing the Nobel, this | 10/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 47: Music & Literature | The babblers talk about the influence of books on musicians, books by musicians, books on music, music on books, and other permutations of the theme. Somehow we managed to fit Bill Clinton and Viggo Mortensen’s hot body (don’t ask) into this as well. | 10/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 46: Swordplay with Swordskill – Chit-chat with Crystal Koo | This week the group welcomes short story author Crystal Koo, joining us from Hongkong, while surprise guest Gabriele calls in from Frankfurt in this very interesting episode. Crystal, Gabriele and the gang talk short fiction, and have Crystal field most | 10/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 45: Hanging out with Glenda Larke | This week, we speak with the delightful and incredibly friendly Glenda Larke, an Australian fantasy novelist living in Malaysia. In addition to talking about her work and interests, Glenda shares her thoughts on genre fiction in general, the Google Book | 9/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 44: What You’re Missing When You’re Missing Graphic Novels | Along with guests Ivan Yeo and Sheldon Goh, the babblers revisit comics and cover the gamut. What are comics, graphic novels, and why you would want to broaden your reading horizons to include this medium. Lone and Bjorn come through with some gems from | 8/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 43: Bookbabble Review Show – Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon | The babblers talk about Thomas Pynchon’s eagerly awaited new novel, Inherent Vice. Let the gushing commence! | 8/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 42: Online Author Fanaticism | The babblers talk about the enthusiasm that surrounds some authors online, based upon the article “Why do Pynchon, Ballard and Wallace provoke such online loyalty?” from Times Online. | 8/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 41 Part 2: Poetry Revisited | Renee and Marcel have been itching to talk poetry for a while now, and having rescheduled this topic for several weeks, it’s like the floodgates have finally been blown to bloody bits. For this show, Marcel brought along a nice, intelligent fellow, Liam, | 8/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 41 Part 1: Poetry Revisited | Renee and Marcel have been itching to talk poetry for a while now, and having rescheduled this topic for several weeks, it’s like the floodgates have finally been blown to bloody bits. For this show, Marcel brought along a nice, intelligent fellow, Liam, | 8/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 40: The Incredibly Unprepared Discussion on the Google Book Search Copyright Settlement | The babblers look at the Google Book Search settlement case, and discuss the fate of books that are out of print, but still in copyright (known as orphan works). Orphan works are currently a part of the books that are being digitized in libraries around | 8/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 39: There’s Gonna Be A Movie Based on The Asteroids Videogame! | The groups discusses books-related movies that either just opened or are around the corner. We go off on a little tangent, as we usually do BB-style, as we uncover upcoming, jaw-dropping gems in the movie industry. | 7/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 38: He's Still Not Crying | You probably won't know who Marcel is, who joined us a couple of episodes back. But as we're time traveling at the moment with Donny being behind on a couple episodes, suffice it to know that Marcel is *one of us*, and as with the other babblers, will da | 7/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBookbabble Episode 35: Deconstructing The Dan Brown Code | The babblers are once again graced by yet another guest, and this time, Lone Christensen from Copenhagen joins the madness! In this episode, the babblers talk about Dan Brown – if you ever was uncertain where we stood with him, well, let’s just say this | 5/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 34: Hard Times for Literature in Schools | The babblers are joined by a guest today, the affable Emma Sutcliffe from Blackburn, England, as they talk about literature that is part of the school syllabus. What's being taught in schools in the babblers' countries, whether it needs to be changed and | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBookbabble Episode 33: Much Ado About Shakespeare | The episode every Shakespeare fan will wish they were here. Passion coming through pretty clearly for the babblers who turn into the bard's fanboys, talking from personal viewpoints about what makes Shakespeare great and why you should read him. If you | 5/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 31: Do Critics and Reviews Influence Our Reading | The babblers talk about reviews, regardless of whether they are from well-known, highly regarded professional critics or your average blogger. What is the difference between the two, and how either affects our reading selection. Oh, and Gem di | 4/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Snippet: Bookbabble’s First Anniversary Call for Feedback! | Like Bookbabble? Have ideas as to how we can improve? Wanna get something off your chest as you’re listening away to Bookbabble? Send us something, feedback, comments, criticisms, etc as we commemorate approach our 1st anniversary! | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 30: One Hit Wonders | The babblers discuss authors who have produced only one book, or one good book that defines the author’s entire career. Discussion revolves around primary causes of this phenomenon, the stories behind the authors. Somehow Daleks are involved t | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 29: You've got me feeling emotions! | After Gem begins with a terribly tragic story of her beloved Dalek doll, the babblers launch into a discussion on books that elicit strong emotions from its readers. Find out which books still emotionally affect Renee since she was 6 till this very day ( | 3/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 28: It could have been so much better! | This week's topic is about authors who suck over time; examples of writers who start off their careers with a bang, but slowly whimper and choke as their output quality deteriorate over time. The babblers discusses why this happens, and touch also on aut | 3/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 27: Abandoning Books! | Today the group talks about the cardinal sin (not the Philippine archbishop) of book lovers, the act of abandoning books without completing them. What would compel one to drop these books unread? The babblers share books that has been abandoned, what pr | 2/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 26: Remember the time you read...? | After a 2 month break, the babblers are back, joined by Renee once again as they catch up on the recent happenings in the book scene. But first up, the babblers talk about whether they remember the countless books that they have read, whether that's impo | 2/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 20: Bookbabble Review Show - Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann | The babblers finally do a review! The book in question tells the tale of two pioneering German scientists who meet in the 1820s, and recounts their lives as they journey through the scientific world in vastly different ways. Listen to hear what the babb | 1/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 22: Kindles in the Mountains | The babblers talk about Michael Crichton's passing and Oprah's support for Kindle, and we find out that you can't run away from the Kindle, even if you live in an ashram. | 12/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 23: Masterpieces and Martinis - The Heady Mix of Literature and Alcohol | A intriguing exploration of authors and their alcohol. Some of the most famous writers in the world produced some of the best literature in the world with a glass in their hand. The babblers talk about some of the more interesting ones, ponder on how mu | 12/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 24: Prose to Pictures - Memorable Film Adaptations | According to our in-house, part-time and moderately accurate statistician Gem, a third of every movie made in recent times is adapted from a book. But what makes a good movie adaptation? Which ones were favourites and which were duds? (Don't even menti | 12/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Episode 25: Unconventional Storytelling | The babblers list books that tell their story in unconventional ways. Books that either have interesting structures, telling the story out of sequence, using stories within a story, or just simply seem weird, a lot of books got mentioned here. Are they | 12/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bookbabble Snippet: Frank Sinatra | Something off topic that we talked about during a short break in the recording of a recent episode. Irene Wilde talks Frank Sinatra. | 12/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 21: Judging a president by the cover. The 2008 US Presidential Candidates' Reading Lists. | Listen to three non-Americans talk American politics based on their book picks! It was tough staying on topic for this one, but the babblers talked about the 2008 US Presidential candidates' supposed reading lists. Both Obama and McCain plus their VP pi | 10/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 15: Books and Sex - Between the Sheets, Baby! | The babblers talk about what goes on between the sheets - bookwise, that is. Is sex merely a gimmick? What books won't work without the sex, and why? My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-7480e2297a35e52cf42b49f0ce79f975} | 9/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 14: Holy Good-Graphic-Novels, Batman! | Are graphic novels worth reading? The babblers discuss the popular medium that is more often maligned and misunderstood, and makes it understandable to all. Well, we tried, anyway. Lots of recommendations for first time readers, and for those who'd lik | 8/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 13: Jason vs Dracula! | To commemorate Episode 13, the babblers made horror and superstition as a theme for today's show. Didn't eventually talk about superstition, but plenty of horror movie talk, horror-related reads and some recommendations. Also, terrifying developments on | 7/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 12: Collective Human Knowledge Gone Wilde! | The babblers are joined by a special guest, Renee Wallace, more popularly known as Irene Wilde, in a discussion about the collective knowledge that is captured in books, and how we are accessing this store of information and knowledge and whether it is be | 7/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 11: Helping Ourselves To The Secret | The group talks about self-help books, and whether they are more stink than substance. Lars braved the entirely of The Secret and gives a brilliant summary - in all of 5 seconds (nobody was counting, anyway). Others in the discussion include diet books, | 7/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBookbabble Episode 10: Bad Leeks | The group talks about award-winning books that seem to fall short of the expectations that follows recognition, why it's not as easy as it seems (at least to us). Find out why Bjorn loves leek so much, just before he explains his love for Pynchon. Also, | 7/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 9: Iamb What Iamb - The Iambic Pentametre, that is. | The babblers talk poems! An incredibly well-thought out podcast, filled with deliberate ponderings and critical analysis of the artform this episode is most certainly NOT. Favourite poems get recited, emotions and thoughts that accompany them are shared | 6/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 8: What you thought you knew about reading... is probably right. | Bookbabble has a guest! The babblers are joined by a fellow bookworm Katherine aka Pontalba from New Orleans, as they all mull about how we experience the process that is book reading. We took a little time to talk about a Nabokov fan's view about The O | 6/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 7: And the cry rang out all around the town, Good Heavens the Tay Bridge has blown down! | The babblers ramble on about works that are influenced by other people's works, under what circumstances would it be allowed and how much of it is acceptable? Quite a few books were mentioned that builds on existing and established literature, premises a | 6/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 6: What're You Reading For? | This episode was a leisurely-paced show where the babblers mull about what would constitute a good book. A great many books were mentioned in this podcast, and you get a full short story thrown in for good measure! Also, our resident Harry Potter corres | 5/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 5: The FrankenRitchie | The group takes a look at self-publishing, from Dickens's day to the present day incarnation, and briefly examines what has changed in terms of perception and technology. Gem braves the waters to sample celebrity-written fiction, | 5/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 4: Ebooks? That's doolally! | Lars invites the others to ponder on the importance of language, of the responsibilities of translators and of the English language's propensity to adapt words from other languages into its own. Also discussed are the good and bad about ebooks, and if it | 5/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 3: The New Shakespeare - Gary Barlow? | Shakespeare was the topic of the day, with the babblers talking about his influence and the various incarnations of the bard's work today. Also touched on the supposed controversy surrounding the authenticity of Shakespeare. Also, Donny gives some tips | 5/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 2: Harry Potter News Correspondent | The significance of the Orange Prize for Fiction and Donny attempts to explain the perceived differences between male and female authors. The babblers disagree on Rowling's decision to block the publication of a fan-created encyclopedia of Harry Potter's | 4/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 1: Podcast Starting | Inaugural episode! The cast is introduced, and starts off the projected weekly podcast on everything that a booklover would love to talk about in the world of reading. Here, the babblers talk about the the causes and effects of book banning, whether book | 4/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 69 Episodes |
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