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 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.
#LikeARealBookClub Ep 2 - Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Meetup to talk about our January book: Girl, Woman, Other
Lots of spoilers for Girl, Woman, Other ahead!
Trigger Warning: Discussions around gang rape and sexual assault in the book.
In January, Rebel Women Lit read Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other which is the only 2019 Booker winner we'll recognize. Like A Real Book Club meets to chat about the not-a-short-story collection of stories by 12 black british people -mostly women- and their interwoven lives.
Join us next month as we discuss The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins.
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Like A Real Book Club Podcast Launch: Books That (Kinda) Defined The Decade
Like A Real Book Club' - A Rebel Women Lit Podcast Episode 1
We’ve launched a podcast! After months of fighting away imposter syndrome, we’ve decided to launch a podcast where we talk about books and just about everything else.
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If you were to ask any member of a book club what goes on there, responses would be in the neighbourhood of, “we interrogate the themes emerging from the story and intentions beyond the words. Oh, and we also talk about how fucking hard natural hair can be but also, our perception of justice being less about victims and more about punishment”. Essentially, we talk about books...and literally everything else. And that’s exactly what the “Like A Real Book Club” podcast is lol.
In our very first episode, we shared and discussed the books we thought shifted the book and publishing industry in the decade that has passed (and we’re not gonna talk about whether it was or wasn’t the end of the decade lol!).
You can listen to Like A Real Book Club on any podcast directory. Here are a few:
Direct RSS Link: likearealbookclub.libsyn.com/rss
Episode Shout-Outs:
Yrsa Daley-Ward
Maxine Walters
Ayobami Adebayo
Leone Ross
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Books Mentioned:
Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James
Kingston Noir
How To Love A Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs
Here Comes The Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Americannah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Milk & Honey by Rupi Kaur
A World of Poetry
Hunger by Roxane Gay
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
Serious Things Ago Happen by Maxine Walters
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Winds of Winter by George R. R. Martin (???)
Come Let Us Sing Anyway by Leone Ross
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