The Book Hangover: Recent Episodes
Luisa Peixoto
The Book Hangover is a podcast that discusses the meaning behind different books, but no, not any books, specifically the ones that are so intense, they leave you with a major “hangover” unable to move on with your life or think about anything else. It is a one-woman show hosted by Luisa Peixoto, with the occasional book lover as a guest. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/luisa-peixoto/support
On Episode #5 of The Book Hangover, host Luisa Peixoto discusses the novels "An Absolutely Remarkable Thing" and "A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor" by Hank Green, dissecting the story and going over the most prominent topics of this science-fiction duology. The series follows twenty-three-year-old April May who stumbles across a giant sculpture while roaming through New York City at three AM. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship—like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor—April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are "Carls" in dozens of cities around the world—from Beijing to São Paulo—and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight.
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On Episode #4 of The Book Hangover, host Luisa Peixoto discusses the book“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer, exploring the story and going over the most prominent topics of the book. “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” is a 2005 novel that tells the story of nine-year-old Oskar Schell, an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, pacifist, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweler, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.
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On Episode #3 of The Book Hangover, host Luisa Peixoto discusses the book “Me and White Supremacy” by Layla Saad. “Me and White Supremacy” takes its readers on a 28-day journey of how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other people do better too. As an updated and expanded version of the original social media challenge, “Me and White Supremacy,” takes the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources.
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On Episode #2 of The Book Hangover, host Luisa Peixoto discusses the novel “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel, highlighting its qualities as a different style of apocalyptic novel and going over the most prominent topics of the book. "Station Eleven" is a theater fiction novel, and was originally published in 2014. It takes place after a fictional swine flu pandemic, known as the "Georgia Flu", has devastated the world, killing most of the population. Moving backwards and forwards in time, from the glittering years just before the collapse to the strange and altered world that exists twenty years after, "Station Eleven" charts the unexpected twists of fate that connect six people: famous actor Arthur Leander; Jeevan — warned about the flu just in time; Arthur's first wife Miranda; Arthur's oldest friend Clark; Kirsten, a young actress with the Travelling Symphony; and the mysterious and self-proclaimed 'prophet'.
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On Episode #1 of The Book Hangover, host Luisa Peixoto discusses the novel "More Than This" by Patrick Ness, dissecting the story and going over the most prominent topics of the book. "More Than This" is a young adult novel and was originally released in 2013. It follows a teenage boy named Seth who, after drowning in the ocean, wakes up alone on a desolate suburban English street in what he believes to be hell.
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