Between The Covers

By: Jay Ruud and Stacey Margaret Jones
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  • Author Jay Ruud has read every ”100 Best Book” list there is, so it’s only natural that he would create his own. Listen to each episode as he and his wife, author Stacey Margaret Jones discuss a book from his carefully cultivated ”100 Lovable Books” list. Stacey interviews Jay on what makes the book ”lovable” and where it ranks on the master list. They’ll also discuss current books in the CHAOS READER segment.
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Episodes
  • Return to Old New York Guided by Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence

    Return to Old New York Guided by Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence
    Apr 1 2025

    Jay's entry on his 100 Most Lovable Books List this week is one of Stacey's most loved books ever. Join them for their discussion of 1870s New York and its moneyed high society as Wharton's Newland Archer navigates his own conflicting desires for social convention or social rebellion. And chaos reader picks up another favorite reread as well.
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    42 mins
  • Our Lovable Novels Guide to Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Our Lovable Novels Guide to Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Mar 26 2025

    Jay and Stacey discuss the comedy-sci-fi twentieth-century classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, chatting about the first novel in the franchise, which is the gateway-drug to the international sales juggernaut of the six-novel franchise. And chaos reader weighs in with a novel that feels completely opposite of Hitchhiker, Jane Eyre.
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    39 mins
  • Big Feelings in a Small British Town in George Eliot's Middlemarch

    Big Feelings in a Small British Town in George Eliot's Middlemarch
    Mar 18 2025

    Jay and Stacey discuss a novel dear to both of their hearts, George Eliot's Middlemarch, where marriage, aspiration, ambition and social class shape the lives of characters in a small English community in the 1800s. Eliot has written of England's past in her lovable novel, just as Edith Wharton has written of the Old New York of her childhood in Chaos Reader's pick this week, The Age of Innocence.

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    46 mins

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