Getting Better by Reading Books Maxine Horne
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Get Better by Reading Books is the audio accompainment to my midlife crisis
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Episode 11 – The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
In this episode Maxine realises that maybe she never has to read a book by a white dude bro every again. She gets cross about it and then we can get on with the episode. The Body Is Not An Apology is a beautiful book that validates every body and calls us into action to […]
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Ep10 – The Fear Fighter Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones
Maxine sneaks back from her holidays and tries to tell you all about the book she read months ago. But just tells you to read it yourself. Pretty much… It’s wonderful, it’s affirming, it’s the book we need to read because we have work to do if we are going to get this world fairer […]
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Ep 9 – Food Freedom by Melissa Hartwig
In this episode, Maxine ignores all the lessons in this book and tries to bore you into joining her on her food freedom journey. She also thinks about how eating and self care relate to excellence (and evidently forgets that the book in ep 8 is the Power of Ritual by Casper Ter Kuile!)
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Ep8 – The Power of Ritual by Casper Ter Kuile
Maxine loves this book so much but ends up talking about Lin Manuel Miranda (obviously)
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Ep7 – Personality Isn’t Permanent by Benjamin Hardy
Where Maxine vaguely remembers she’s supposed to be talking about a book whilst getting all angry about personality tests and straight white men just being everywhere whilst having no clue about life for the rest of us.
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Ep 6b – Working Identities by Herminia Iberra and Playing Big by Tara Mohr
Where Maxine subtly slips in that she’s read more than one book a week over the last few weeks and catches you up with the good stuff.