Joel Golby's Book Club

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Joel Golby's Book Club

hi my name is joel golby and welcome to my podcast where each week i recommend you a new book. it's out every tuesday. that's it. that's pretty much it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 20 MAY

    E27: Joel and Lucas Oakeley Create A Character

    Joel creates a whole new format for the book club and pulls in writer Lucas Oakeley to build a character from scratch. Expect dice, coin flips and... long necks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 6m

  2. 1 APR

    E26: Róisín Lanigan's I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There

    Joel speaks to Róisín Lanigan about her latest, I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There, a ghost story set against the horror of the current housing crisis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    41 min

  3. 30/12/2024

    E25: Joel's Experimental Episode

    Joel reviews a graphic novel called Below Ambition by Simon Hanselmann about Megg The Witch and Werewolf Jones who start a band called Horse Mania. He also digs through the finds of his latest book shop crawl. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    33 min

  4. 27/11/2024

    E24: Jente Postuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About

    What I'd Rather Not Think About is a novel about grieving a twin, captured in little vignettes over roughly 200 pages, but what does Joel and his new co-host Geordie Joel make of it? And is it time to stop writing 7 line chapters? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    32 min

  5. 26/09/2024

    E23: Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex

    Joel reads Middlesex, a swirling multi-generational novel that sees a Greek family migrate to Detroit and struggle with their middle class status. The basis of pretty good novel - and it won the Pulitzer - but does Joel rate it? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    32 min

  6. 01/08/2024

    E22: Miranda July's All Fours

    Joel's broken two of his rules this time round by reading a book that is 1) a hardback, and 2) came out this year. It's Miranda July's All Fours, a book where the narrator is supposed to spend a load of money on a life-changing road trip, but ends up blowing all the cash on renovating a motel room just outside town to look like a Parisian hotel suite. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    27 min

  7. 26/06/2024

    E21: Joel Answers Your Questions

    What's the best writing snack? How important is it to plan your character arc? What do you make of The Hardest Geezer book announcement? Joel answers your questions! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    43 min
  8. E20: Jenny Offill's Weather

    20/06/2024

    E20: Jenny Offill's Weather

    In this episode, Joel's picked out another book that everyone seemed to read before he did. Jenny's Offill's Weather came out in 2020 and is set around the inauguration of Donald Trump's presidency and it's a book that feels like it's set in 2016, but does it hold up in 2024? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    29 min
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hi my name is joel golby and welcome to my podcast where each week i recommend you a new book. it's out every tuesday. that's it. that's pretty much it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    tiny podcasts
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    29
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © tiny podcasts
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    Joel Golby's Book Club

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