For episode nine of Come Read With Me, my friend Jess joined me to discuss Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz’ Dr. Mütter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine. As usual, there were plenty of tangents including a five-minute tangent (you’re welcome, I edited it from 20) about Jane Austen fan fiction. Maybe I should just turn this into a Come Read Jane Austen with me podcast! (Don’t worry, I won’t.)
I was apparently super fidgety during the recording so I’m super sorry about all the background noise!
Download it here: CRWM #09 (Right Click and “save as.”) Or, better yet, subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher!
Jess and I talked for almost TWO hours so the editing process was pretty daunting. I had to cut a lot out including some books (like a discussion about creative non-fiction and American Horror Story vs. Dr. Mütter’s Marvels) and editing quite a few interesting discussions down by half 😀 That being said, we still were able to talk about medicine and modern improvements of science, Shakespearean post-it notes and the state of Women’s health today.
Books Mentioned
- The Year of No Mistakes – Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
- Emma – Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
- Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters – Jane Austen and Ben Winters
- Spank Me Mr. Darcy – Jane Austen and Lissa Trevor
- Brain on Fire – Susannah Cahalan
- Cathedral – Raymond Carver
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love – Raymond Carver
- Smoke Gets In Your Eyes – Caitlin Doughty
- One Weird Trick (Sex Criminals, Vol. 1) – Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
- An Unquiet Mind – Kay Redfield Jamison
- The Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
- Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
- Prejudice & Pride – Lynn Messina
- The Technology of Orgasm – Rachel P. Maines
- From Hell – Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
- V for Vendetta – Alan Moore and David Lloyd
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
- The Exchanger – Vladimir Navokov
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
- Bonk – Mary Roach
- Life on Mars – Mary Roach
- Stiff – Mary Roach
- Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
- My Undoing – Aiden Shaw
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
- Saga, Vol. I – Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- Selected Shorts – Symphony Space
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- Lafayette in the Somewhat United States – Sarah Vowell
- Unleashing Mr. Darcy – Teri Wilson
Books Edited Out
- We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
- The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
- Inherited Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri
- Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
- Ally Hughes Has Sex Sometimes – Jules Moulin
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams – Sylvia Plath
I hope you enjoyed the episode as much as we enjoyed recording it. I’ll be back in March with Episode 10!
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