What You Should Read

You Should Read: Honey Girl (a book club episode!)

June 08, 2021 Kelly Hager, Julia Hall, Rachael Hall Season 2 Episode 23
What You Should Read
You Should Read: Honey Girl (a book club episode!)
Show Notes

Hi, Should-Heads! We are absolutely delighted to present our latest book club episode. We all loved Honey Girl and do a deep dive into parental expectations, love stories vs. romance, microaggressions, the importance of chosen family and what to do when your Plan doesn't work out. And are we really going to go monster hunting ourselves? We just might...

 

Book News:

Firsthand Accounts of Tulsa Race Massacre Republished: oklahoman.com/story/news/2021/05/30/greenwood-author-publishes-black-wall-street-book-tulsa-race-massacre/5047138001/ 

Elin Hilderbrand: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/86562-readers-angered-over-anne-frank-reference-in-new-hilderbrand-novel.html 

NK Jemisin deal: https://www.avclub.com/n-k-jemisin-is-adapting-her-broken-earth-trilogy-for-t-1847040525 

 

Currently Reading:

Julia: It Happened One Summer (Tessa Bailey)

Kelly: Jay's Gay Agenda (Jason June)

 Rachael: Pumpkin (Julie Murphy) and Anne of the Island (L.M. Montgomery)

 

Recent Acquisitions:

Julia: Pumpkin (Julie Murphy), Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang), Dear Miss Metropolitan (Carolyn Ferrell), Malibu Rising (Taylor Jenkins Reid) and The Lost Queen (Signe Pike)


Kelly: Instructions for Dancing (Nicola Yoon), The Maidens (Alex Michaelides), An Emotion of Great Delight (Tahereh Mafi), Animal (Lisa Taddeo), Live Your Life (Amanda Kloots), All the Lonely People (Mike Gayle), Sweethand (N.G. Peltier), Somebody's Daughter (Ashley C. Ford), The Passing Playbook (Isaac Fitzsimmons), Golden Girl (Elin Hilderbrand), The Other Black Girl (Zakiyah Dalila Harris), Girl One (Sara Flannery Murphy), Kill All Your Darlings (David Bell), The Final Girl Support Group (Grady Hendrix), The Taking of Jake Livingston (Ryan Douglass) and Defy the Night (Brigid Kemmerer).

Rachael: Pumpkin (Julie Murphy), The Nature of Witches (Rachel Griffin)

 

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