Jenny and Kendra catch up on books they’ve read and liked recently. Kendra also shares how the Reading Women Podcast has changed in the last two years, what her Read Appalachia project is all about, and how she organizes her books (it’s unusual!)
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Books discussed:
Same Sun Here by Silas House and Neela Vaswani
Gilgamesh by Joan London
F*ckface: And Other Stories by Leah Hampton
We Trade Our Night for Someone Else’s Day by Ivana Bodrozic, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac
Even as we Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Other mentions:
Read Appalachia
The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
Southernmost by Silas House
“Dear America” books
The Stella Prize
Tracker by Alexis Wright (link goes to Google since Bookshop didn’t have it yet)
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
“Lost in a (Mis)Gendered Appalachia” by Leah Hampton, in Guernica
The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanet Khan
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
National Gingerbread House Competition at the Omni Grove Park Inn
University of Kentucky – Fireside Industries
Crystal Wilkinson, Kentucky Poet Laureate
Randall Kenan
The International Booker Prize
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, translated by Michele Hutchison
Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets edited by Bianca Lynne Spriggs et al
An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky, translated by Jackie Smith
Related episodes:
Episode 102 – The Reading Women Reading Envy Crossover Episode
Episode 195 – Muchness with Nadine
Episode 199 – Awkward Melancholy with Karen
Episode 212 – Subtly Fascinating with Vinny
Episode 213 – Funicular Reads with Bianca
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Jenny at Goodreads
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Jenny is@readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy
All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.