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Parra Pods is a digital voice of City of Parramatta Libraries. It is a podcast about books and authors. We hope that, with the rapid development of the digital world, literature will still have it’s relevant place in people’s lives, regardless of the format in which it appears. To enjoy reading is to enjoy life experiences beyond our imagination. Our podcast, your voice.
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Monday Feb 24, 2020
Monday Feb 24, 2020
Episode 27 - Fiction Reads for Summer
Join Katherine and Nisa for the second of our ‘Summer’ episodes.
It has been a great year for fiction lovers, but here are a few of the titles that resonated with Katherine and Nisa.
'Damascus' by Christos Tsiolkas an historical novel, but with a take on St Paul of the early Christian Church like no other. Visceral, transformative, brutal & beautiful.
To change the pace totally, we review Sally Rooney’s debut novel, 'Conversations with Friends' and her second novel, and twitter sensation, 'Normal People'. She brings her signature style, spare prose and insightful psychological acuity to the exploration of the lives and loves of that most intriguing of generations, the millennials.
Finally Ian Mc Ewan’s 'Machines like Me'?, this is speculative fiction of the top order, its themes range from artificial intelligence, what constitutes consciousness and the formal demands of the haiku poem. Darkly humorous, its most compelling theme is “moral choice”
Fiction titles discussed include:
Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas, Allen & Unwin 2019.
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan, Jonathan Cape/Vintage Publishing 2019.
Normal People by Sally Rooney, Faber and Faber 2018.
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, Faber and Faber 2017.
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