Unofficial Book Club Podcast

I Didn’t Read Harry Potter Until I Was 23 with Kayla

In this episode Kayla joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and the difficulty in finding time to read as an adult. She shares what its like to read popular childhood books for the first time in her 20’s!
 
Books Discussed on this Episode:
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
Magic Tree House Books by Mary Pope Osborne
Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Outlawed by Anna North
Sign Here by Claudia Lux
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
All We Can Save edited by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson 
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
Men, Women, and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover
Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning by Sarah Weinman
The Night Swim by Megan Goldin
All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks
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I Don’t Spend Time with Anyone I Don’t Like with Kayla

In this episode my friend Kayla joins me to discuss the importance of friendship, poetry and loving yourself. 
 
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If a Book Is Too Big I Wont Read it with Amandine Rafael

In this episode my friend Amandine Rafael joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading, which includes always reading the last page of a book first!
Books Discussed in this episode:
Dan Brown Books
The Art of DuckTales by Kenneth Plume
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Jack Ryan Books 
The Flight Attendant By Chris Bohjalian
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers can teach us about success by Kevin Dutton 
Hysterical: Why We Need to Talk About Women, Hormones, and Mental Health by Eleanor Morgan 
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
La Peste by Albert Camus 
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune 
Happy Place by Emily Henry 
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The Winds of Winter by George R. R. Martin
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones  by James Clear
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I Like a Challenge with Amandine Rafael

In this episode my friend Amandine Rafael joins me to discuss her journey from Luxembourg to Washington DC. What its like to pick up your life and move across an ocean?
 
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Unwrapped Part 2 with Dr. Kendra Washington-Bass and Kelly Peaks Horner

In this episode co-authors of Unwrapped: The Pursuit of Justice for Women Educators, Dr. Kendra Washington-Bass and Kelly Peaks Horner join me again to discuss their book!
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Let the Best Woman Win with Kelly Peaks Horner

In this episode Kelly Peaks Horner joins me to discuss her journey through leadership and advocacy work. 
 
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Unwrapped Part 1 with Dr. Kendra Washington-Bass and Kelly Peaks Horner

In this episode the authors of Unwrapped: The Pursuit of Justice for Women Educators, Dr. Kendra Washington-Bass and Kelly Peaks Horner join me to discuss all the books that impacted them. 
Books Discussed in this episode:
Octavia Butler 
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd
The Book of Longings  by Sue Monk Kidd
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women by Lizzie Skurnick, Rebecca Traister 
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney
The Foundling by Ann Leary
No Exit by Taylor Adams
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery by Herb Frazier and Joseph McGill
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Happiness is Temporary, Joy is Sustained with Dr. Kendra Washington Bass

In this episode Dr. Kendra Washington-Bass co-author of Unwrapped: The Pursuit of Justice for Women Educators sits down with me to discuss the journey to not giving an F and being your authentic self. 
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Your Experience with a Book is Dependent on Where You Are in Life with Leah Calabro

In this episode Leah Calabro joins me again to discuss all the books she's reading and both our hot takes on a few!
 
Books Discussed in this episode:
The Tortoise and the Hare Story by Aesop
Kate Quinn Books
Strangers from a Different Shore by Ronald Takaki
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
Ribbons of Scarlet by Kate Quinn, Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie, E. Knight, Sophie Perinot, Heather Webb, Allison Pataki 
Walden  by Henry David Thoreau
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Last Girl by Jenna Krajeski and Nadia Murad
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption by James Keene, Hillel Levin
Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning by Sarah Weinman
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney
The Night Swim by Megan Goldin
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Daughters of Sparta: A Tale of Secrets, Betrayal and Revenge from Mythology's Most Vilified Women by Claire Heywood
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
 
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1,2,3, F*** It with Leah Calabro

In this episode my friend Leah Calabro joins me to discuss her job as a visiting professor teaching Human Rights Law and Victims Rights Law and the causes very dear to her heart! 
 
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