23 episodes

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.
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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.

Listen on Apple Podcasts
Requires macOS 11.4 or higher

    E21: Joel Answers Your Questions

    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!
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    • 43 min
    E20: Jenny Offill's Weather

    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?
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    • 28 min
    E19: Benjamin Myers' Beastings

    E19: Benjamin Myers' Beastings

    Joel watched a great TV show based on Benjamin Myers' 'The Gallows Pole' only to find out that everyone had been reading Benjamin Myers for years. This week, he's reading the 2014 novel set in idillic Northern English countryside, Beastings.
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    • 27 min
    E18: Jonathan Ames' The Double Life Is Twice As Good

    E18: Jonathan Ames' The Double Life Is Twice As Good

    You asked for it, you got it. Joel's read a book that he hated and it's Jonathan Ames' collection of articles and short stories that have not dated well and probably weren't very good at the time either.
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    • 37 min
    E17: Anne Dillard's Teaching A Stone To Talk

    E17: Anne Dillard's Teaching A Stone To Talk

    Joel's got really into heading down to his local pond and counting the different types of flowers and fish he can see after reading a mind-altering set of essays on exploration, faith and nature by Anne Dillard. Good for him!
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    • 26 min
    E16: Joel Answers Your Questions

    E16: Joel Answers Your Questions

    Joel's got the answers to all your questions on reading, writing and books in general.
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    • 32 min

Customer Reviews

4.1 out of 5
55 Ratings

55 Ratings

LottieHL ,

V funny podcast

Got me out of a huge reading slump with some great recommendations

BeedyEyes ,

Doesnt review his friends’ books apart from his friends

Nice to hear him a-laughing and a-lolling with Sheena Patel, who he knows really really really well and goes drinking with but not a friend, no way. Nice that she blurbed his book too. I got the measure of this. Cool.

bonbon2 ,

Love this

Great to hear Joel’s take on these stories. Enjoyable podcast.

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