The Yak Babies Book Podcast
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Thursday Oct 06, 2022
203- Gone Girl 10 Years Later
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Nico leads the pals in a retrospective of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl and its cultural impact 10 years later.
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
196- Cormac McCarthy’s The Road - Canon or Cannon 2.0
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
The pals all read Cormac McCarthy's literary post-apocalyptic The Road and discuss whether it deserves immortalization in the first entry in our rebooted Canon or Cannon.
Thursday Jul 21, 2022
194- Spiderhead
Thursday Jul 21, 2022
Thursday Jul 21, 2022
The pals read the short story "Escape from Spiderhead" by George Saunders then watched the Netflix adaption. How do the two compare? Read and watch then tune in.
Thursday Jul 07, 2022
Thursday Jul 07, 2022
The pals open Season 6 by actually talking about books. Books touched on: Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy; Conversations with Friends, by Sally Rooney; The Idiot, by Elif Batuman; The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth; Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel; The Insecure Mind of Sergei Kraev, by Eric Silberstein; Counterfeit, by Kirsten Chen; 33 1/3 Modern Lovers, by Sean Maloney; The Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett; AstroCity Metrobook One, by Kurt Busiek; Sandman, by Neil Gaiman; Damage Control, by Dwayne McDuffie.
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Reading again! Touched on: All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr; The Mask of Mirrors and The Liar's Knot, by M.A. Carrick; Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett; East of Eden by John Steinbeck; Refuse to Be Done, by Matt Bell; The Godmakers, by Frank Herbert; The Salvage Crew, by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne; Impact Winter, by Travis Beacham; How the World is Passed by Clint Smith; My Grandmothers Hands by Resma Menakem; The Journalist and the Murderer, by Janet Malcolm; Step by Bloody Step, by Si Spurrier; Bolero, by Wyatt Kennedy; Mobile Suit Gundam Origin, by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko; Love Everlasting, by Tom King.
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Reading Books! Hard Rain Falling, by Don Carpenter; Snow Country, by Yasunari Kawabata; Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doer; Lighthouse, by William Monahan; April in Spain, by John Banville; Live and Let Die and Moonraker, by Ian Fleming; X-Men: Inferno, by Johnathan Hickman.
Thursday Dec 30, 2021
Thursday Dec 30, 2021
Talking about books again! The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco; The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood; Termination Shock, by Neal Stephenson; The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig; Call Us What We Carry, by Amanda Gorman; Ultramega, by James Harren; A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games, by Kurt Kulata; Milwaukee Noir; Milwaukee Anthology; Journey to the End of the Night, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine; The Human Target, by Tom King; Superman and the Authority, by Grant Morrison.
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
174- Dr. Seuss‘s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
The pals threaten a holiday classic with a blast into the sea.
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
172- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
The Yaks dive into George Saunders' course in a book: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
What are we reading, boys? Paper Girls Vol. 3, by Brian K Vaughn; The Last Ronin, by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird; Virtual Boy Works, by Jeremy Parish; Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon; Catch-22, by Joseph Heller; Afterparties: Stories, by Anthony Veasna So; Rorschach, by Tom King; X-Men, by Gerry Duggan; Blubber, by Gilbert Hernandez.