Books Of Your Life With Elizabeth

To those complaining about not getting plot summaries...it’s a short podcast, the important thing is what moved the authors most about the book! If you’re intrigued - look the plot up. I love the more nuanced, meaningful conversations on here about what makes a story so impactful for someone and I have found some truly awesome books I wouldn’t have known about otherwise!

“Have you always been a reader?”, asks Elizabeth. “No”, said Diamond, “I began reading at the age of three”. Fantastic! “Once you’ve been to New Guinea, the rest of the world is boring”, said Diamond. “Babies learn to be careful”, says Diamond. The way Jared Diamond choose to raise his children, which he had at the age of 50, based upon his studies of New Guinea families are very refreshing in our modern helicopter parent world. Jared Diamond (author, historian, musician, linguist, scholar, etc.) one of the last well rounded, thoughtful geniuses on planet Earth.

If you can get past the tonally offensive voice and dimwitted comments from the host, Elizabeth, then you’ll love this podcast. Be prepared to endure endless banter with very little substance. Looking for insights on why something is worth reading? Seeking to know the style, plot, characters or anything else about the books these people recommend? No need to look here, because you won’t find it. (I would heartily recommend a certain book host from KCRW, but then you’d think I have some stake in recommending him, which I don’t. I can recognize someone, however, who knows what he’s talking about. Comparing Michael Silverblatt with this faint effort is like comparing 🍎 with 🍊.)

Elizabeth, Thank you for this interview. I’m a “Big Fan!!!” Of Jared Diamond, Darwin, Ekman and the like. I’m not a Scientist or of the Scholarly type but was “a Fly on the Wall” for Carla Dove and her team from the Smithsonian Department in Djibouti Africa. This was my one of last tours and I never knew that I was going to ever meet them. Special thanks to a Taxidermist by the name of Matt Klope. He was the Leading Aircraft Bird Strike Investigators and found out that I am an avid Bird Watcher and he introduced them to me. I just hadda put my personal thoughts in this post because this means so much to hear “Modern Day Explorers Like Jared Diamond in his own words...” Thank you immensely... “Nothing is new...” Easter Island, Mayans, Greenland??? “Nothing is new if no one Knew...”