I feel the same about Alice Munro. And agree her daughter is a hero and very brave for coming out with this. Thanks for speaking out about it!
@myreadinglife8816
2 ай бұрын
Loved the JL Carr discussion of course! You did a great job explaining Fire Exit. It’s a river that separates the houses. Charles is a character I won’t soon forget.
@shawnbreathesbooks
2 ай бұрын
💖💖
@melaniereed3494
3 ай бұрын
I feel the same as you Shawn ... I cannot separate how I feel about an artist or author from their work. Once I know this awful stuff, it changes everything. Alice Munro was surely very lucky during her lifetime to have so many enablers protecting her, but in the long afterlife I think it's going to be very different. I completely agree about Andrea Skinner, she must be a remarkable woman; she protected her children from the abusive step-father in a way that her parents did not. Lindy gave 'Fire Exit' a good review this week also, so I will definitely check it out soon.
@caleba9648
3 ай бұрын
I lived just down the road from the Penobscot reservation while in college and I find the choice to make the houses devoid of personality interesting as well as true to reality. The homes on the reservation, both reservations in Maine, are incredibly basic. You can tell that when the government built them they basically aimed for "four walls and a roof = house." Maine's governors have a notoriously bad relationship with the indigenous populations here, regardless of political affiliation. Morgan Talty bringing to light the reality of Maine's indigenous population is much needed and I'm so glad to hear the novel is so well received.
@talty900
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for giving that shout out about the state! And thanks for reading!
@readandre-read
3 ай бұрын
I'm so glad to hear that Fire Exit is wonderful. I can't wait to read it. The Alice Munro revelations cast a pall on me as well; what a horrendous batch of parents.
@HannahsBooks
3 ай бұрын
I’m eager to hear what you think about Deluge as you go through it!
@shawnbreathesbooks
Ай бұрын
At the half-way point, I would say it could easily be my book of the year :)
@HannahsBooks
Ай бұрын
@@shawnbreathesbooks ♥️
@jacquelinemcmenamin8204
3 ай бұрын
Every time you talked about Charles the character in Fire Exit…. Charlie though you were talking about him. I’m guessing your mum calls him Charles sometimes. He thought you were having a conversation with him. Deluge was my number one book of 2023.It was marvellous on audio as it had a multi voice cast.
@chris-wolak
3 ай бұрын
It was such a wonderful surprise to see Rohan! I loved your conversation and look forward to her coming back. I'm with her regarding Wuthering Heights. What do you like about it?
@shawnbreathesbooks
2 ай бұрын
Wuthering Heights, yes, hmm, I guess I would say that I appreciate the depth of the character work and the structure of the novel, but perhaps most of all I love the psychological starkness of the story, a refreshing antidote to the happy endings of virtually every other Victorian novel. :)
@59cubanita
3 ай бұрын
As always a fascinating mystery guest. I loved the way she described Trespassing, which was the way I felt about it but would not be able to explain as good as she did. Morgan Talty’s book sounds interesting.
@shawnbreathesbooks
2 ай бұрын
Yes I think you might get on really well with Fire Exit!
@talty900
3 ай бұрын
Shawn, as always thank you for reading and talking about the book--you should hear me try to explain it! 😂
@shawnbreathesbooks
Ай бұрын
Any time! ❤️
@GenXersJustWalkItOff
2 ай бұрын
Devastated by the news about Munro as well… she was one of my three most beloved authors, and the most influential in my own work.
@shawnbreathesbooks
2 ай бұрын
Yup, it really sucks. ☹️
@artandbooks5850
3 ай бұрын
I owned 2 Munro books and after reading about the abuse, I got rid of both books. How horrible and sickening.
@shawnbreathesbooks
Ай бұрын
Yup. :(
@FullyBookedMelissa
3 ай бұрын
Loved the discussions with your mystery guest. And now will I have to add A Month in the Country to my never ending TBR?
@shawnbreathesbooks
2 ай бұрын
Absolutely! 😂
@paulsomerville4005
2 ай бұрын
Great conversation with your mystery guest. I agree with her about Mary Barton. It's a very engaging read. I need to read A Month in the Country. Thank you for this.
@shawnbreathesbooks
2 ай бұрын
And *I* need (and very much want) to read Mary Barton!
@patricia_ps
3 ай бұрын
Delightful guest 💜 and so honest!
@nkcish
Ай бұрын
I’m in the middle of Fire Exit now and my take on Charles is that he is a chronically, depressed person, partly an inherited condition from his mother, but also from growing up lonely, as an outsider in a community he desperately wanted to belong to. I would think that’s a hard character for an author to make a reader care about and yet I think Talty makes him someone worth caring about. At this point, everything about his life is so lost and hard, I may have to take a mental health break from it for a few days. There’s a type of sadness to it that I felt in other books by Native writers - most recently The Berry Pickers. It feels like a collective, cultural sadness.
@shawnbreathesbooks
Ай бұрын
Wow, very insightful observations! I am glad you've fallen so deeply into the novel.
@lindysmagpiereads
3 ай бұрын
I listened to the audiobook edition of Fire Exit and I think that format gave Charles more personality (via the performance by Darrell Dennis). I found the novel quiet and poignant.
@gloriathompson423
3 ай бұрын
I love Friday reads
@josmith5992
3 ай бұрын
I listened to Rowan on the Mookes and Gripes podcast episode that focused on Victorian lit and she was great on that as on here, yes please to more visits! I loved Ohio too but Cli-fi is not for me- let’s see if you can change my mind! 😉
@shawnbreathesbooks
Ай бұрын
The Deluge is shaping up to be my book of the year at the half-way point :)
@michellehyland3675
3 ай бұрын
Neil Gaiman too.
@shawnbreathesbooks
Ай бұрын
Yup. :(
@ElizabethMcLean-ds8mc
3 ай бұрын
Have just read the biography of John McGahren. Will read The Last Englishman. Thanks.
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