Welcome to BookShook! This podcast is all about the first half of July’s book, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon published in 1973 (up to Page 455 (US,383 - Part3 Section 8 - the paragraph starting 'A soft night') if you're reading alongside). The idea of the podcast is that we’ll split a book into two equal halves — a book that I and perhaps you have never read. In the first podcast, published on the second Friday of the month, we’ll discuss the first half. And then in the second podcast (published on the last Friday of the month - 29th July), we’ll look at the second half of the book (in this case from Page 455 (US,383 - Part3 Section 8 - the paragraph starting 'A soft night')). We’ll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it’s a book we’d recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don’t have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I’ll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at the BookShook YouTube channel (link below) or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we’ll be reading for August is Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (so get that ready if you’re going to read alongside). Thanks for listening to BookShook! Roger
Content Warning: I've removed obscene swear words (apologies to Pynchon). There are some very adult themes in the novel covering topics of sex war and oppression.
This episode will be available until October but all episodes can be listened and discussed at the BookShook YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-UchFXG7hqzGyGQ7l1YIpg
Future Reads:
August: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
September: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (644pp.)
October: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (152pp.)