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Books & Chat: Short Book Reviews & Literary Discussions

Christina Young - Books and Chat | Short Book Reviews & Literary Discussions

Books & Chat 🎙️from Gloucester Book Club 📚 Your perfect literary companion in two formats: ☕ Bitesize Book Bites 10-minute solo episodes featuring: - Quick, thoughtful book reviews - Standout passages worth revisiting - Personal reflections from our club shelves 📖 Book Club Chats 30-minute community conversations with: -Our book club members and occasionally local authors - Lively discussions about themes and characters Be part of our story! Find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts ~

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00:35:06

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Books & Chat: Short Book Reviews & Literary... ·

2024/05/01

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is a 2014 non-fiction book by American surgeon Atul Gawande. The book addresses end-of-life care, hospice care, and also contains Gawande's reflections and personal stories. He suggests that medical care should focus on well-being rather than survival.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:34:26

The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak

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2024/04/08

Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled.Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. --- Send in a voice message:

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00:31:29

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

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2024/03/04

Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives, they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally

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00:34:58

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

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2024/02/09

Shortlisted for The British Book Awards 2023 Fiction Book of the Year. ‘O'Farrell paints as evocative a picture of Renaissance Italy as she did Shakespearean England in the former Waterstones Book of the Year Hamnet, as Cosimo de' Medici's third daughter learns to navigate an opaque Florentine court and an enigmatic new husband’ ~ Waterstones--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:41:35

Heaven My Home by Attica Locke

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2024/01/26

The thrilling follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird: Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is on the hunt for a boy who's gone missing - but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target 9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him - and all goes dark. Darren Matthews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after the events of his

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00:26:30

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

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2024/01/08

It is the tale, simply told, of one ordinary middle-aged man - Bill Furlong - who in December 1985, in a small Irish town, slowly grasps the enormity of the local convent's heartless treatment of unmarried mothers and their babies (one instance of what will soon be exposed as the scandal of the Magdalene laundries). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:09:33

Top 4 books from 2023

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2024/01/05

Gloucester Book Club’s top 3 books read and discussed in 2023 and voted for by members of book club --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:10:21

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas by Kate Nivison

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2023/12/19

From Stories For Christmas and the festive season - British Library --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:13:34

Ticket for a Carol Concert by Audrey Burton

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2023/12/12

Taken from Stories for Christmas and the festive season - British Library Women Writers --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:34:56

French Braid by Anne Tyler

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2023/11/06

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Redhead by the Side of the Road returns with a luminous new novel that paints a joyous and painfully truthful portrait of family life ~ Waterstones --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:13:03

A Visitor by Holly Crawford from Spooky Ambiguous

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2023/10/18

The second episode of our Halloween series of short stories from Spooky Ambiguous, ghost stories and poetry fangs and fairy tales, published by Crumps Barn Studios. Suitable for children. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:18:32

Prohibido El Paso by Patrick Booth - a short story...

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2023/10/13

Taken from Spooky Ambiguous - an intriguing collection of short stories and poetry where nothing and no-one is as they seem. With permission from Crumps Barn Studio in The Cotswolds --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:31:12

The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

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2023/10/02

When the Nazis march into Paris, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear, including her beloved Library. Together with her fellow librarians, Odile joins the Resistance with the best weapons she has: books. But when the war finally ends, instead of freedom, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:27:45

The Five - Hallie Rubenhold. How do I know if this...

Books & Chat: Short Book Reviews & Literary... ·

2023/09/07

“A passionate condemnation of the misogyny Jack the Ripper's victims have been held in for over a century, The Five tells an engrossing group biography of Victorian womanhood, blighted by poverty and powerless against casual and constant abuse” ~ Waterstones --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:36:21

Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

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2023/08/08

“Tackling the issue of long-term mental illness with wit and candour, Mason’s remarkable novel takes a rounded, empathetic look at the condition through the experiences of a middle-aged woman who has struggled to find contentment in her adult life” ~ Waterstones --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:38:23

Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Books & Chat: Short Book Reviews & Literary... ·

2023/07/03

But there she was Sadie Green, in the flesh. And to see her almost made him want to cry. It was as if she were a mathematical proof that had eluded him for many years, but all at once, with fresh, well-rested eyes, the proof had a completely obvious solution. There’s Sadie, he thought. Yes. ‘A brilliant story about life’s most challenging puzzles: friendship, family, love, loss’ ~ Nathan Hill, author of The Nix --- Send in a voice message:

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00:34:42

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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2023/07/03

Waterstones book of 2022, British Book Awards author of 2023, debut novelist Bonnie Garmus brings us Lessons in Chemistry. “smart,funny, joyous and powerful featuring an unconventional female scientist with a quiet game plan to change the world”. Listen in to our discussion! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:40:41

Stoner by John Williams

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2023/04/17

John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world. In this episode you’ll hear Christina, Tony and James sharing their thoughts about the book. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:32:55

Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie

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2023/03/10

A dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people – from the international bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. This year, 1988, anything seems possible for the girls; and for Pakistan, emerging from the darkness of dictatorship into a bright future under another young woman, Benazir Bhutto. But a snap decision at a party celebrating the return of democracy brings the girls’ childhoods abruptly to an end. Its consequences will

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00:34:01

Flamingo by Rachel Elliott

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2023/02/03

A brilliantly moving story of the cost of secrets and the power of hope, Flamingo revolves around two families, an unforgettable summer they spend together and a re-encounter decades later that changes everything. Waterstones --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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