Episode 109: Reading Slumps with @veronikellymars

In this episode, we talk to author and librarian emeritus Kelly Jensen about mental health and how it impacts our ability to read for work and pleasure, and what we can do to get out of reading slumps (if we want to).

Links

Kelly’s article: “7 Tips for Reading With Mental Health Challenges”
Ranganathan
Nancy Pearl’s rule of 50
Bossypants by Tina Fey
I’m Just A Person by Tig Notaro
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

Narrative nonfiction: Simon Winchester
Graphic novels
So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know by Retta

Audiobooks
Harry Potter
The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
All The Books (podcast)

Musical Obsessions
Anna: “Automatically in Love” by Carly Rae Jepsen
Alene: “Badass Woman” by Meghan Trainor, from The Hustle

Obsessions
Kelly: Unf*ck Your Brain (podcast), Topo Chico mineral water (also Polar seltzer)
Anna: Whiskey Cavalier
Alene: Trinkets

Twitter and Instagram @veronikellymars

Episode 30: Epistolary Novels with Ally Watkins

Download the episode here.

Dear Listeners,

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a librarian in want of a new book will pounce upon any that promise to be epistolary in nature. Join us for a discussion of epistolary novels with #jointhegirlgang‘s Ally. We promise a very charming discussion!

Yours in admiration,

BF

Links
Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Caroline Stevermer and Patricia Wrede
Carrie by Stephen King
Chat/Connect/Crash by Nan McCarthy (NOT Lauren Myracle who wrote ttyl etc!)
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

Freedom & Necessity by Stephen Brust and Emma Bull
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Jolly Postman or Other People’s Letters by Allan Ahlbert
Griffin & Sabine/Sabine’s Notebook/The Golden Mean  by Nick Bantock
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
@brainpicker/@brainpickings
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (movie)
Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom

Pamela or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
The Divorce Papers by Susan Rieger
LibraryReads
The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone by Adele Griffin
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

You’ve Got Mail/The Shop Around the Corner/In the Good Old Summertime

Musical Obsessions
Ally: Stonewallin’ by Jane Decker (Spotify Discover)
Anna: Formation by Beyonce (lyrics)
Alene: Perfect by One Direction

Obsessions
Ally: Phryne Fisher audiobooks read by Kathleen Wilhoite
Anna: Murder on the Orient Express
Alene: warm socks

Amy, the other half of #jointhegirlgang, was on Episode 22!