Why I Really Like This Book

Why I Really Like This Book

These are podcasts about forgotten fiction, for curious readers, and for anyone who likes old books. Sometimes they're stories, sometimes they're not. Most of the authors write in English; and sometimes they don't. But all the books I talk about, I really really like. I hope you will too.

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My name is Kate Macdonald: I'm an English lecturer, and a lifelong browser in second-hand bookshops. I post weekly ten-minute podcasts on a Friday, on the books I really like which I think deserve new readers. You can find out lots more at the Facebook page here, and get these podcasts weekly by subscribing on the iTunes link above.

The music for the podcast intro is by The Tribe Band. Lucy Marsh did the drawing and Matthias Opsomer lettered it. Patrick Belk and Martin Fowler hold my tech safety net.

Questions? Send me a message by mailing me at kate [dot] brussels [at] yahoo [dot] com.

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Fri, 2 September 2011

John Galt and Annals of the Parish

Imagine the excitement when the first road is built through the village, when actors come to town, when Miss Girzy dies in a fire with the symbols of her greed clutched in either hand. This podcast raves about John Galt's classic Scottish novel about a village that grows into a town at the turn of the nineteenth century. Annals of the Parish is about instantly recognisable people set against rapidly changing provincial society. For readers who like a good saga.

Direct download: John_Galt_and_Annals_of_the_Parish.mp3
Category:the life of the place -- posted at: 6:25 AM

Much appreciated for the information and share!
posted by: Susan on 2011-09-20 21:13:08
Excellent! My first full podcast session and I thoroughly enjoyed it. You do make the book sound like such a good read: the humor, the tragedy, the whole setting of it. Having become such a slow reader, and often finding narrated ones too frustrating, I may well get into these podcasts, conveying the whole sense of a book in a size I can handle.
posted by: Anneke on 2011-09-03 22:00:52

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