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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Episode 79: The Trashier The Better | Lone returns from hiatus in this episode as we talk about trashy books! The chat centres around an article in TheAwl (see link below). What makes… | 6/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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.… | 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… | 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.… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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.… | 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… | 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… | 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.… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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,… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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,… | 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… | 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,… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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.… | 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,… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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.… | 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… | 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… | 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?… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 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… | 4/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 70 Episodes |
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