Episode 27: One fine day

Good Librations Podcast episode 27 one fine day

What might be achieved in 24 hours?

Come with us as we stride across an investigation of the pacing, character and breadth of novels set in a single day.

And find out what connects Aristotle to a 16th Century Italian humourist to Shakespeare to James Joyce to Ferris Bueller.

Find it on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.

 

Shelf-absorbed (books we reviewed)

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

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Shelf-important (things we mentioned)

Woolf’s Reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses, 1918-1920 – Modernism Lab

Woolf’s Reading of Joyce’s Ulysses, 1922-1941 – Modernism Lab

Literature's most misunderstood icon?

How to Show Character Development in Fast-Paced Stories - Story Embers

Romantic Tales Set Over the Course of One Day

15 Novels That Take Place in a Single Day - Electric Literature

 

Authors:

  • Lodovico Castelvetro
  • Aristotle
  • Marcel Proust
  • Henry James

 

Books/written works:

  • The Tempest by William Shakespeare
  • The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • The Odyssey by Homer
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  • Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  • The Hours by Michael Cunningham
  • Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  • No Exit by Taylor Adams
  • Contest by Mathew Reilly
  • The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser
  • The Guest List by Lucy Foley
  • Saturday by Ian McEwan
  • The Dinner by Herman Koch
  • Like Mother by Cassandra Austin
  • The Sun is also a Star by Nicola Yoon
  • The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
  • Meet me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
  • The Love Season by Elin Hilderbrand
  • One Day with You by Shari Low
  • Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
  • Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo
  • Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn
  • Funny story by Emily Henry
  • Beach read by Emily Henry
  • Enemies to lovers by Laura Jane Williams
  • Only one bed by Kati Wilde

 

Film/TV:

  • Big Business
  • The Hours
  • Knives Out
  • The Glass Onion
  • Clue
  • Falling Down
  • Love at First Sight
  • Meet Cute
  • Second Act
  • Before trilogy

I just can't help my-shelf

Film/TV:

  • The Breakfast Club
  • Can’t Hardly Wait
  • Booksmart
  • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
  • Clerks
  • Dazed and Confused
  • Groundhog
  • The Edge of Tomorrow
  • Palm Springs
  • The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

 

Books/Authors:

  • The Magicians by Lev Grossman
  • This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
  • Replay by Ken Grimwood
  • The First 15 Lives of Harry August by Claire North
  • Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
  • The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
  • A Week of Mondays by Jessica Brody
  • All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Shelf-obsessed (further reading and listening)

  • This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
  • The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  • Contest by Mathew Reilly
  • The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser
  • The Guest List by Lucy Foley
  • The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
  • Meet me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

  

 

 

 

 

 

   

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