A Novel Review Book Podcast
Hello and welcome to A Novel Review podcast series.
Through this podcast Seamus will tackle the endless world of literature, one book at a time!
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Monday Sep 15, 2025
Monday Sep 15, 2025
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Arundhati Roy and her Booker Prize winning novel, ‘The God of Small Things’ is a book where it was the small things I couldn’t make sense of. No matter what I tried, time flipped, names multiplied and the story piled up in a traffic jam that I couldn’t make sense of. This was a DNF for me
Painting: Today I painted a simple view of a field
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead by Olga tokarczuk
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Watership Down by Richard Adams
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
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Monday Sep 08, 2025
Monday Sep 08, 2025
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The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin brings and end to the tale of the Archmage Ged wrapping the Earthsea trilogy in quiet finality. Magic fades, and with it, the Archmage himself passes into legend - diminished, yet fulfilled. There’s sorrow in his end, a sense of something beautiful vanishing into the lines of the horizon. The sea stretches on, but Ged’s voyage ends here, in silence, in shadow, in peace.
Painting: Today I painted two island that Ged and Arren sail through
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com
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Tuesday Sep 02, 2025
Tuesday Sep 02, 2025
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In Aravind Adiga’s Booker Prize winning novel, The White Tiger, Balram Halwai claws his way from darkness to light, serving satire as sharp as his entrepreneurial instincts. Adiga's India is raw, roaring, and unapologetically corrupt – a state of jungle law, where only cunning predators survive. Balram’s journey from teashop boy to businessman is a rags-to-riches journey one morally murky decision at a time.
Painting: Today I drew a line drawing of a tiger
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The God of the Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
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: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com
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Monday Aug 25, 2025
Monday Aug 25, 2025
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Summertime is the time to read outdoors, in the park, at the beach, at a café, wherever the sun is shining. Here are 4 books is read this summer!
Painting: Today I painted a beach
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The Fisherman by John Langan
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq
The Moustache by Emmanuel Carrere
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
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod
Email: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com
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Monday Aug 18, 2025
Monday Aug 18, 2025
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In Naked Earth, Eileen Chang peels back the red curtain on Maoist China with shocking irony spanning more than one layer. Love tries to bloom amid slogans, paranoia, and political purges, but ideology has a habit of stomping on sentiment. It’s romance meets revolution - awkwardly.
Painting: Today I painted a field
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
Naked Earth by Eileen Chang
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The God of the Small Things by Arundhati Roy
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: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/
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Monday Aug 11, 2025
Monday Aug 11, 2025
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Two coming of age novels in a fantasy world richly imagined by Ursula K. Le Guin. Ged is a reckless and young mage from Gont, learning through action the consequences he faces form those actions while Tenar is a young girl, stripped of her family, name and made to serve the nameless ones. Both stories are similar in that both Ged and Tenar have to search for their identity within their true selves, though the stories are incredibly varied.
‘A Wizard of Earthsea’ is a sweeping adventure novel taking us to all corners of the world, while ‘The Tombs of Atuan’ are a deeply personal, introspective journey in an impersonal world. A rich tapestry of adventure and personal attendance, Le Guin’s ability to tell a tale will comfort you, as well as wow you.
Painting: Today I painted two paintings for two books. He first is Ged reasoning with a dragon and the second is Tenar, stripped of all features as she is in the novel.
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
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: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/
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Monday Aug 04, 2025
Monday Aug 04, 2025
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What is the cost of selling your blood for money? Sanguan is a man who sells his blood but understands that it comes at a price and that the money he makes has to be spent on something meaningful. But through the course of his life, meaning takes many forms and Sanguan discovers that sacrifice takes many forms as he wrestles with his familial identity and understanding of what it means to have a family.A sweeping yet tightly written novel, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant is a gripping and raw novel interspersed with moments of darkly lit humour about life.
Painting: Today I painted dripping blood morphing into money
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
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: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com
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Monday Jul 28, 2025
Monday Jul 28, 2025
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The Odyssey. That great journey that is now the hallmark for all subsequent journeys, but as we are ferried along this perilous path, we ask the question – can a hero return home both physically and mentally?
Stylistically more complex than the Iliad, the Odyssey weaves a tale of myth and fiction as one man struggles to return to his home, and even if he makes it home after 20 years, what place does he now occupy?
Painting: Today I painted a boat battling the seas
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
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: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com
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Monday Jul 21, 2025
Monday Jul 21, 2025
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The Iliad was originally orally comprised making up part of the epic cycle. There was a paradox when it was written down. It went from being a flexible and fluid piece of literature that stretched with the imagination of the bard to a rigid story, captured and chained to the page. But, the paradox is, we are now thankful to have this historical piece of literature in a near original state that reaches across the annals of time to tell us a story that remains as fresh and prevalent as once that was written today.
Painting: Today I painted Achilles standing tall on the battlefield
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
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: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com
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Monday Jul 14, 2025
Monday Jul 14, 2025
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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
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