Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Journey Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg, a memoir of one incredibly strong woman's survival in Stalin's Reign of Terror.

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Stuff we Mentioned

The much harder to find second installment of Ginzburg's memoir.
The recent NY Times article about this area of Siberia and how climate change is affecting it
so many articles about Bowie's trans-Siberian trip
here's the fancy way to travel by train across Siberian these days.
Our episode on the very real and not fake Communist comic book Octobriana
Pushing Ahead of the Dame on Wild is the Wind

Our Favorite 2020 Books

We both agreed that that The Street was our favorite Bowie Book of the year - check out our episode on it.

We also agreed that Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead was in our top list. Other than that (in no order):

Kristianne

Greg

Deacon King Kong
The Overstory
The Yellow House
Hamnet
Washington Black
The Essex Serpent - the author also wrote Melmoth, which we couldn't remember despite our best efforts.

What's Up Next

Mystery Train by Greil Marcus

What Song Did We Choose?

and maybe, just for the holiday season:

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