What You Should Read

You Should Read: Books by Indigenous authors

October 13, 2020 Kelly Hager, Julia Hall, Rachael Hall Season 1 Episode 21
What You Should Read
You Should Read: Books by Indigenous authors
Show Notes

Hello and we are finally back! This week, we discuss Indigenous authors and the books you absolutely cannot miss. Sidebar topics include an update on our reading TBR challenge (suffice to say we are slightly behind), Christmas cookies (enjoy how smoothly Kelly was able to demand some) and how wonderful it is to be back together, taping the podcast. We also briefly discuss our upcoming Halloween episode, which one of us is VERY EXCITED FOR (Kelly. It's Kelly).

(And don't forget our first book club is approaching! We're discussing The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult on the episode that drops December 8! Make sure to read it and share your thoughts with us via email or on IG and Twitter.



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Books discussed in the episode:

CURRENTLY READING:

  • Rachael:  Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Joanne Fluke), All Boys Aren't Blue (George M. Johnson) and Anne of Avonlea (LM Montgomery)
  • Julia: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 
  • Kelly: There's Someone Inside Your House (Stephanie Perkins)



RECENT ACQUISITIONS:

  • Julia: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (VE Schwab), A Deadly Education (Naomi Novik), The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid), The Book of Two Ways (Jodi Picoult) and Spoiler Alert (Olivia Dade).
  • Kelly: The Science of Stephen King (Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence)
  • Rachael: a gorgeous set of the Anne of Green Gables series (LM Montgomery), The Book of Two Ways (Jodi Picoult), The Troop (Nick Cutter), Outlander (Diana Gabaldon) and Summer of 69 (Elin Hilderbrand).


Books by Indigenous authors:

Kelly recommends: 

  • There There (Tommy Orange)
  • Carry (Toni Jensen)
  • Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManus)



Rachael recommends:

  • Winter Counts (David Heska Wanbli Weiden)
  • Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
  • Future Home of the Living God, The Round House and Love Medicine (Louise Erdrich)

Julia recommends: 

  • Black Sun (Rebecca Roanhorse)
  • Elatsoe (Darcie Little Badger)
  • Future Home of the Living God (Louise Erdrich)
  • Blood for the Sun (Errick Nunnally)



LINKS MENTIONED:

1) Akwaeke Emezi and the Women's Prize: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/05/akwaeke-emezi-shuns-womens-prize-request-for-details-of-sex-as-defined-by-law?fbclid=IwAR1zowWz6RAfnN0zie1w2_eLFb73B0IhFnlSPVzxjRxFzocXCQgtxig02NM

2) Our interview with Errick Nunnally: http://www.whatyoushouldread.com/1101233/4646714-10-you-should-read-all-the-dead-men-with-author-errick-nunnally



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