A Novel Review Podcast

• The Colour Purple by Alice Walker

  To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com   Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple is an epistolary novel that spans the years and distance between two sisters that are trying to survive their respective worlds. Celie is stuck in an abusive relationship, married to a man that views her as his property to do with what he likes. Nettie escapes the doldrums of domestic life, becoming a part of a mission in Africa. The duality of their lives is intimately entangled in the social landscape they find themselves in as they struggle through with a perseverance that inspires and defines.   Painting: Today I painted letter addressed to Nettie   Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:   The Colour Purple by Alice Walker Blood Meridian by Cormack McCarthy Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua Naked Earth by Eileen Chang   Additional segments throughout the podcast include:   Mantle Piece Moments What are you reading? On that Quote   Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5 Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com   Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod Email: [email protected]  IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/  -------- #ANovelReview #bookpodcast #podcast #book #novel #stories #shortstories #poetry #literature #books #novels #booktok #bookstagram #bookwitter #books #novels #literaryfacts #podbean #LiteraryLovers #whatareyoureading #BookLaunch #Literature #PodcastAndChill #BookBoost #BookLover #Art #Watercolour #WatercolourArt #TinyArt #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #NaziGermany #Education #Fantasy #Gormenghast

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• The Citadel of the Autarch, Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun | A Novel Review

  To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com   The Citadel of the Autarch is the final in the series Book of the New Sun and it is safe to say it ends how it begins… shrouded in mystery. A climax? I think so… Answers? Possibly… but do I know what actually happened? Ill save that for the second read. A masterpiece of a series that presents itself as something simple but the closer you look, the more confused you are. Severian limps to the end of this story and at the conclusion, you are left wondering if you lost your mind while others gained…   Painting: Today I painted a man at the dawning of a new sun   Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:   The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin The Lich Before the Darkness by Timothy Stormcrow   Additional segments throughout the podcast include:   Mantle Piece Moments What are you reading? On that Quote   Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5 Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com   Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod Email: [email protected]  IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/  -------- #ANovelReview #bookpodcast #podcast #book #novel #stories #shortstories #poetry #literature #books #novels #booktok #bookstagram #bookwitter #books #novels #literaryfacts #podbean #LiteraryLovers #whatareyoureading #BookLaunch #Literature #PodcastAndChill #BookBoost #BookLover #Art #Watercolour #WatercolourArt #TinyArt #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #NaziGermany #Education #Fantasy #Gormenghast

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• Blood Meridian by Cormack McCarthy

  To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com   ‘Whatever in creation exists in without my knowledge, exists without my consent’ A quote from today’s novel that is equally stark as it is brutal as it is mythic as it is beautiful. Cormack McCarthy’s famed novel, Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West weaves a tale that draws from historical narrative. A novel with a mythic quality to it, the prose is stripped and yet indulged with a biblical beauty to swallow us as the reader into a world that will shock you but keep you reading for more.   Painting: Today I painted a man amongst the bloody outline of a beast.   Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:   “Blood Meridian” by Cormack McCarthy “The Colour Purple” by Alice Walker “Swinging Between Water and Stone” by Steven Mayoff “The Midnight Project” by Christy Climenhague   Additional segments throughout the podcast include:   Mantle Piece Moments What are you reading? On that Quote   Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5 Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com   Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod Email: [email protected]  IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/  -------- #ANovelReview #bookpodcast #podcast #book #novel #stories #shortstories #poetry #literature #books #novels #booktok #bookstagram #bookwitter #books #novels #literaryfacts #podbean #LiteraryLovers #whatareyoureading #BookLaunch #Literature #PodcastAndChill #BookBoost #BookLover #Art #Watercolour #WatercolourArt #TinyArt #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #NaziGermany #Education #Fantasy #Gormenghast

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• Achilles and Odysseus: The choice of a lifetime - Book Review & Literary Analysis | A Novel Review

  Two men. Achilles and Odysseus. Two central themes across two books. The Iliad and the Odyssey. War and Home. One lives a life of inscincere happiness. The other a life of authentic grief, but is one better than the other? Painting: Today a photo I took while in Israel studying archaeology. It is an elderly couple walking hand in hand through a ruinous city. It is entitled, 'Until the End of Time. Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include: Bibliography: Albacini, F. (c.1825) Wounded Achilles. Marble sculpture. Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth. Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees. Homer (2003) The Iliad. Translated by E.V. Rieu. Revised and updated by P. Jones. London: Penguin Classics. Homer (2003) The Odyssey. Translated by E.V. Rieu. Revised by D.C.H. Rieu and updated by P. Jones. London: Penguin Classics. Mengi, M. (ed.) (2004) Odysseus and Calypso. Red figure vase, clay. Paris: Louvre Museum. Sartre, J.-P. (1946) Existentialism is a humanism. Available at: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/complexity/people/students/dtc/students2011/maitland/philosophy/sartre-eih.pdf (Accessed: March 2025) Woolven, S. (2020) Until the End of Time. Photo. Additional segments throughout the podcast include: • Mantle Piece Moments • What are you reading? • On that Quote Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5 Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod Email: [email protected] IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/ -------- #ANovelReview #bookpodcast #podcast #book #novel #stories #shortstories #poetry #literature #books #novels #booktok #bookstagram #bookwitter #books #novels #literaryfacts #podbean #LiteraryLovers #whatareyoureading #BookLaunch #Literature #PodcastAndChill #BookBoost #BookLover #Art #Watercolour #WatercolourArt #TinyArt #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #NaziGermany #Education #Fantasy #Gormenghast

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• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

  To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com   Two boys and a kite with nothing but life ahead of them. A turn of events sees the world come down faster than a cut kite and suddenly the world and future of the boys’ lives is uncertain. Set against the backdrop of the Coup of the Taliban and spanning as far as the United States we learn that you can take the boy out of Afghanistan, but does this physical distance equate to an emotional separation and freedom?   The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a powerful novel about friendship, betrayal, and redemption. Set in Afghanistan and later the United States, it follows Amir, who struggles with guilt after betraying his loyal friend Hassan.   Painting: Today I painted a boy flying a kite   Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:   “The Patience Stone” by Atiq Rahimi “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini “Blood Meridian” by Cormack McCarthy “The Colour Purple” by Alice Walker   Additional segments throughout the podcast include:   Mantle Piece Moments What are you reading? On that Quote   Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5 Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com   Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod Email: [email protected]  IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/  -------- #ANovelReview #bookpodcast #podcast #book #novel #stories #shortstories #poetry #literature #books #novels #booktok #bookstagram #bookwitter #books #novels #literaryfacts #podbean #LiteraryLovers #whatareyoureading #BookLaunch #Literature #PodcastAndChill #BookBoost #BookLover #Art #Watercolour #WatercolourArt #TinyArt #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #NaziGermany #Education #Fantasy #Gormenghast

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