The Book Review

I recently discovered this podcast, and I love it! I especially like the episodes where the host and guests look ahead to some books that are coming up. Everyone is insightful and they seem to like different kinds of books, which I appreciate. The interviews with authors are fascinating as well. I’ve noticed many reviewers say they miss an old format from a couple years ago… I didn’t listen then, but as a recent subscriber, I really enjoy this podcast!

I enjoyed when authors would be interviewed on recent or upcoming releases, updates on the publishing world, and titles the staff looked forward to. I don’t find it interesting to listen in on a book club. There seems to be no consistency.

I thought this was a wonderful, in depth review of one of the world’s great books. It took me three or four times listening to the review to get used to some of the sing song voices of the reviewers. Some of the sing song voices sounded as if they were reading Rather than speaking. It may be related to the way some people inflect upward, as if they are asking you a question at the end of every sentence.

Does anyone at the Times read these reviews? It’s astonishing to me that reviewers have for years now been begging for a host other than Gilbert Cruz and just gone ignored. This man constantly tells us how little he reads almost as if he takes pride in how unqualified he is for this job.