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Beach read season is upon us! There are lots of definitions of beach reads out there but to us, a good beach read is something that is smart, sexy, funny, and full of heart. Tune in to hear Jordy and Mariquita discuss This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune and then stick around for Renee’s review of The Husbands by Holly Gramazio.
 
This Summer Will Be Different discussion (0:23)
Jordy and Mariquita sit down to discuss Carley Fortune’s newest book, This Summer Will Be Different. This is a heavy-hitting romance novel that explores the love we receive from friendships, found family, and romantic partners. You’ll laugh, cry, swoon, and get into all your feels with this summer read. 
 
Renee’s Review Corner: The Husbands (25:33)
Lauren comes home from a bachelorette party to find her husband waiting up for her. But she doesn’t have a husband. It turns out, she has a magic attic. If you like funny books that are smart but irreverent, listen to Renee’s review of The Husbands by Holly Gramazio.



Books/Resources Mentioned:
This Summer Will be Different by Carley Fortune
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Happy Place by Emily Henry
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery 
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio



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Today’s episode is sponsored by Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America by Shefali Luthra from Doubleday. Thank you to our sponsors for supporting independent feminist media.
 
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This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.
 
Original music by @iam.onyxrose
 
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Today’s episode features two seemingly disparate segments with a lot in common. Alternate titles included Wisdom from the Windy City, Voices of Chicago Youth and Elders, Notes on Compassion, or something about absurdism and groundedness. Mariquita, Rah, and Renee discuss the new book Kittentits by Holly Wilson, then Ashley interviews Chaz Ebert about her book It’s Time to Give a FECK.



Kittentits and the Absurd (1:40)
Mariquita, Rah, and Renee discuss Kittentits by Holly Wilson and grapple with elements of the absurd. Mariquita shows off her pop culture knowledge by pointing out millions of references to Return to Oz that went way over Rah’s and Renee’s heads and also schools us on the Chicago World’s Fair of 1992 that never was. Renee shares a bit about absurdist philosophy and Rah straps in for a good time.
 
It’s Time to Give a FECK with Chaz Ebert (27:50)
Ashley spoke with Chaz Ebert about her book, It’s Time to Give a FECK: Elevating Humanity through Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion, and Kindness. The conversation includes writing the personal stories with the research and how FECK can be better shown in the media. 



 
Books/Resources Mentioned:
Kittentits by Holly Wilson
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
It’s Time to Give a FECK: Elevating Humanity through Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion, and Kindness by Chaz Ebert
 
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Today’s episode is sponsored by The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté from Page Street YA and Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America by Shefali Luthra from Doubleday. Thank you to our sponsors for supporting independent feminist media.
 
Get our weekly round-up of blog and podcast content delivered directly to your inbox every Friday here.
 
Check out our online community here! 
 
This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.
 
Original music by @iam.onyxrose
 
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Is anyone else just generally Going Through It? Here at Feminist Book Club, we all kind of feel like life is a lot at the moment. So today we’re here with some feminist brain candy to keep you company when the going gets rough. Renee shares some books she’s read recently, then Ashley and Rah discuss the new film Challengers. 
 
What to Read When Everything Sucks (1:40)
When times feel especially heavy, Renee leans on genre fiction and what she calls “feel-good literary fiction.” In this segment, she shares a bunch of the lighthearted books that have been keeping her sane while the world feels like it’s on fire. 
 
Challengers: More Than a Horny Tennis Movie (12:18)
Ashley and Rah both scored discounted tickets to see Challengers recently so they teamed up to discuss what they thought about this film and Zendaya’s breakout leading role. 
 
 
Books/Resources Mentioned:
Comedic Romantasy is My Self-Care by Steph on the FBC Blog
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
The Kielbasa Killer by Geri Krotow
Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
Glory Be by Danielle Arcenaux
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
You’re Invited by Amanda Jayatissa
My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
The Society of Shame by Jane Roper
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
 
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Today’s episode is sponsored by The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté from Page Street YA and Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America by Shefali Luthra from Doubleday. Thank you to our sponsors for supporting independent feminist media.
 
Get our weekly round-up of blog and podcast content delivered directly to your inbox every Friday here.
 
Check out our online community here! 
 
This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.
 
Original music by @iam.onyxrose
 
Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

We love to celebrate women who defy gender roles and today we’re celebrating two groups of fascinating women. First, Ashley gives an update on all the exciting happenings in women’s sports around the country. Then, Renee chats with Laura Carroll about her book A Special Sisterhood, a collection of profiles on women in history who chose not to have children. Tune in to celebrate women athletes and child-free women!
 
Ashley Is Back in Her Women’s Sports Bag (1:40)
Ashley shares her experience attending an Angel City Football Club game. She also shares exciting updates on WNBA partnerships (including over-the-counter birth control!), this year’s draft, and Candace Parker’s retirement from the WNBA. 
 
A Special Sisterhood of Child-Free Women (13:10)
Renee sits down with Laura Carroll to talk about women who choose not to have children. They discuss Laura’s long history of researching and writing about child-free women, some child-free icons from history, and the importance of celebrating the lives we choose.
 
 
Books/Resources Mentioned:
WNBA announces multi-year partnership with Opill
A Special Sisterhood by Laura Carroll
The Baby Matrix by Laura Carroll
 
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Today’s episode is sponsored by The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté from Page Street YA and Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America by Shefali Luthra from Doubleday. Thank you to our sponsors for supporting independent feminist media.
 
Get our weekly round-up of blog and podcast content delivered directly to your inbox every Friday here.
 
Check out our online community here! 
 
This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.
 
Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

Here at FBC, we wanna diversify your bookshelf in all sorts of ways and we’re here to remind you that reading Black stories doesn’t just mean reading literary fiction about pain or suffering. Genre fiction, or popular fiction that falls into certain predictable categories, is full of incredible Black women writing at the tops of their games. In this episode, we recommend two in particular, one romance author and one thriller author.
Renee’s Reading Corner: A Love Song for Ricki Wilde (1:47)
The hill Renee will die on is that fans of Emily Henry need to be reading Tia Williams’ books. In this segment, she compares Henry and Williams to make a case for more white women to read Tia Williams’ romances, specifically her newest book A Love Song for Ricki Wilde.
 
While We Were Burning and Messy Black Women (8:48)
Tayler has a chat with Sara Koffi, author of the novel While We Were Burning, a domestic thriller. Tayler and Sara chat about unlikeable Black women, how that shows up in Sara’s book, some of their favorite unlikeable Black women in pop culture, and who gets to tell those stories.
 
 
Books/Resources Mentioned:
Funny Story by Emily Henry
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams 
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
While We Were Burning by Sara Koffi
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
 
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Today’s episode is sponsored by Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannan and Moral Code by Lois and Russ Melbourne. Thank you to our sponsors for supporting independent feminist media.
 
Get our weekly round-up of blog and podcast content delivered directly to your inbox every Friday here.
 
Check out our online community here! 
 
This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.
 
Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

We believe good books help us feel a little less alone, whether that’s a book that reassures us that we’re not the only ones falling for logical fallacies or it’s a picturesque audiobook experience that complements the landscape around us. Join Renee for a review of The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell then stick around to hear Jordy discuss the books she listened to, the bookstores she visited, and the books she purchased on her cross-country roadtrip.
 
Renee’s Reading Corner: The Age of Magical Overthinking (1:48)
Renee is a huge fan of Amanda Montell’s work and relates to it on a deep level. In this review of Montell’s latest book, The Age of Magical Overthinking, Renee shares what this book does really really well and where it falls short.
 
Cross Country Bookish Endeavors (7:30)
Jordy sits down to discuss her experience driving cross-country from San Francisco, California to Lyme, Connecticut. Along the way she shares about the bookstores she stopped at, the books she picked up, and the audiobooks that kept her company on the journey. 
 
Books/Resources Mentioned:
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming
American Mermaid by Julia Langbein
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
Witches: The Transformative Power of Women Working Together by Sam George-Allen
Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden
Something Wilder by Christina Lauren
Red String Theory by Lauren Kung Jessen 
Butcher & Blackbird by Brynn Weaver
Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang
The Mayor of Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham
Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories edited by Sandra Proudman
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea
Book Passage (San Francisco, CA)
City Light Books (San Francisco, CA)
Sundance Books and Music (Reno, NV)
King’s English Bookshop (Salt Lake City, UT)
Reading in Public (West Des Moines, IO)
Brain Lair Books (South Bend, IN)
RJ Julia Booksellers (Madison, CT)




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Today’s episode is sponsored by Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannan and Moral Code by Lois and Russ Melbourne. Thank you to our sponsors for supporting independent feminist media.
 
Get our weekly round-up of blog and podcast content delivered directly to your inbox every Friday here.
 
Check out our online community here! 
 
This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.
 
Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.