A short discussion on Jamaica's reading culture, Read Across Jamaica and how the Jamaican libraries are... kind of a mess. Who's up for a #JamaicaReads campaign?
Interview with Jacqueline Bishop About The Gift of Music and Song - Like A Real Book Club Podcast Episode 22
Like A Real Book Club: Episode 13 - The One About Mental Health & Jamaican Churches
Ashley, Jherane and Kristina have an intimate conversation about their experiences with churches, mental health, and of course books.
Listen on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, or search for it wherever you listen to podcasts.
Like A Real Book Club: Episode 12 -Because We Owe You Five Book(ish) Episodes
One thing about us, we’re gonna intend to talk about one thing and end up talking about 27. It’s been such a long time since we’ve done an episode that everything came pouring out of us. But that’s the beauty of a book club (and the podcasts that are like them) - you get to gush about your favourite things, the things you hate and everything in between with amazing people.
In this episode of the podcast, Ashley, Jherane and Kristina catch each other up on what they’ve been reading; all the reasons Goodreads sucks (and why we’re switching to Storygraph); our vendetta against Alfredo pasta and, perhaps more importantly, why we think Spice and Shenseea would be big fans of Talia Hibbert.
Like A Real Book Club: Episode 9 - 100 Caribbean Books That Shaped Our World
We teamed up with BOCAS Lit Fest to select (not 100) Caribbean books that had an impact on our lives.
Book mentioned:
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid (included in our Patreon travel club)
Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell
Gardening in the Tropics by Olive Senior
The Fear of Stones and other Stories by Kei Miller
Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World by Verene Shepherd
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
Like A Real Book Club: Episode 7 - Learning to Love Complicated Mothers
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or search ‘Like A Real Book Club’ wherever you listen to podcasts
We meditate on the complexities of Caribbean motherhood - ladened with a history of patriarchal violence that has architected the tenuous, terrible and beautiful bonds we form with the matriarchs in our lives (and, of course, how these relationships are depicted in Caribbean literature).
Book mentioned:
Learning To Breathe by Janice-Lynn Mather
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Here Comes The Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
The Star Side of Birdhill by Naomi Jackson
Working Miracles: Women's Lives in the English-Speaking Caribbean by Olive Senior
Like A Real Book Club: Episode 6 - Does This Make Us Demanding Caribbean Readers?
Is it ok to “feel a way” when a Caribbean author doesn’t use our language and our culture in their work? We love reading novels and poetry from the Caribbean, especially ones written by Jamaican authors, but are we demanding in our expectations? Also, wtf is magical realism?
Books Mentioned Worth Reading:
A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes
Here Comes The Sun by Nicole Dennis Benn
PATSY by Nicole Dennis Benn
PATSY by Nicole Dennis-Benn
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Like A Real Book Club: Episode 3 - Pages to Screen and Rants in Between
We talk about books that should hit the screens, but not before we struggle to define "gothic novels" as a genre, talk about fast-fashion, and do a small rant about Bookstagram.
But shout Out To Bookstagrammers We Love: @ColourLit_UK, @2Treads and @IfThisIsParadise
Books mentioned that are worth reading:
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
Here Comes The Sun by Nicole Dennis Benn
The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson
Over The Roofs of the World by Olive Senior
Gardening in the Tropics by Olive Senior
Ammerichannah by Chimamanda Adiche
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth Warsan Shire
Like A Real Book Club: Episode 1 - Girl, Woman, Other Book Club Meetup
Like a real book club, Jherane, Kristina, and Ashley talk about books that defined the 2010-2019s and just about everything else.
First episode weirdness we start off a bit formal, talking about the history of RebelWomenLit and our personal reading journies. Then we really get into it: Fangirling over writers, Jherane talks about crying over books, Kristina gets a bit brainy talking about classic vs romantic poetry and Ashley talks about her hobby with street signs.