Like A Real Book Club: Episode 20- bell hooks All About Love
Self-help, theory or a mixture of both? For us...it’s really whatever you managed to take from it.
One thing Ms hooks will do is have you talking at length about her work, usually with striking polarity: one side really loved it and the other just could not get behind her ideas. For this new episode of Like A Real Book Club, Ashley, Kristina and Jherane take on one of hook’s more famous books and RWL’s March pick, “All About Love: New Versions”.
Self-help, theory or a mixture of both? For us...it’s really whatever you managed to take from it. Engaging with hook’s work for a lot of readers may seem daunting because of her unmovable place as a central thinker in the Black feminist canon. However, our hope with this episode is that everyone recognizes the utility in reading our favourite theorists critically and that it’s okay to disagree with them. Sometimes they disagree with themselves years later!
Grab your tea, your water or whatever you usually have while listening to podcasts and chat with us about what love is and how we can all create a love ethic. Also listen to us GUSH over amazing performers like Diana Ross and Tina Turner as well as the songs that have been carrying us through the last couple months.
Like A Real Book Club: Episode 19 - The One About Sarah Ladipo Manyika's Like A Mule Bringing Ice-Cream to the Sun
Ashley and Kristina walk into a bar...
Ashley and Kristina walk into a bar...
...And that's exactly how this conversation felt. In this new episode of Like A Real Book Club, Ashley and Kristina dive into the short and sweet novel by Sarah Ladipo Manyika, "Like A Mule Bringing Ice-cream to the Sun", a story that gets to your bones in under 120 pages.
We talk about how Sarah geniusly weaves several topics together in this small book. From the more overt topic of ageing to issues of homelessness, immigration, the fear of losing one's self, care work and just...so much more.
Get a cocktail (or water) and press play.
Episode 17 - The One About The Caribbean Readers' Awards
Behind the scenes of our inaugural Caribbean Readers' Awards, our inspiration, next year's goals and a bit of tea.
Listen to this episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Behind the scenes of our inaugural Caribbean Readers' Awards, our inspiration, next year's goals and a bit of tea.
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Learn more about the Rebel Women Lit Caribbean Readers' Awards and shop the nominees: rebelwomenlit.com/awards
See the Caribbean Readers' Awards in O! Magazine: https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/books/g35179881/rebel-women-lit-caribbean-readers-awards-winners/
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
Like A Real Book Club: Episode 5 - Interview with Sara Collins
Interview with Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton
We chat with Sara Collins, winner of the Costa Book Awards 2019, about her debut novel The Confessions of Frannie Langton! We talk about the inspirations for the book, writing complex enslaved characters, a bit about white feminism, and her experience recording her own audiobook.
Bonus: She talks about her upcoming sophomore novel.
Like A Real Book Club: Episode 4 - The Confessions of Frannie Langton Book Club Meetup
Book Club Review of The Confessions of Frannie Langton
In February, Rebel Women Lit read The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins. It’s been described, as a gothic, romance, and mystery novel, but we just think it’s a brilliant historical fiction that should replace every Jane Austen book on the CXC syllabus because more Caribbean people need to read it.
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 2 - Girl, Woman, Other Book Club Meetup
In February, Rebel Women Lit read The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins. It’s been described, as a gothic, romance, and mystery novel, but we just think it’s a brilliant historical fiction that should replace every Jane Austen book on the CXC syllabus because more Caribbean people need to read it.
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.