Bookshelf Remix Bookshelf Remix Podcast
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Have you ever read a book and wished you could linger in its world? Has an author ever dropped a reference that makes you want to look it up and fall into a research rabbit hole? In Bookshelf Remix, Sophia and Elaina, two “professional readers” get stuck into reading for fun and things get very nerdy. Drop in on their conversations and follow along as a Mexican-American and Filipina-Canadian discuss books (including spoilers!) by BIPOC, LGBTQ, disabled, and other historically marginalised authors and take a deep dive into themes they want to learn more about.
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Places I've Taken My Body
Join Eva and Élaina as they cocoon in the warm disabled academic embrace of Molly McCully Brown's "Places I've Taken My Body" essay collection. A poet and a scholar, McCully Brown prompts us to reflect on disability culture and disabled communities, past and present and we get pretty mushy about it. What! It feels so good to be seen. Listen if you too are craving darkly beautiful reflections on living through the cycle of fighting your bodymind, becoming the supercrip, and then forgetting your pain only to start again.
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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
We are back with more Emezi coverage! The magic in "You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty" is all about stringing that grief up like a canopy of wedding rings... If you know, you know. And if you don't know, go read this book immediately! Our fawning knows no spoiler bounds.
CN for discussions of: death, grief, biphobia, aggression
Buy the book
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Recommendations
Eva recommends:
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
Élaina recommends:
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
This One Summer by Mariko and Jilliam Tamaki
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Bookshelf Remix is @bookshelfremix on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook
Élaina is @ElainaGMamaril on Twitter, @spinoodler on Instagram; check out her work at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com, and by listening to Philosophy Casting Call and Women of Questionable Morals.
Eva is @EAsprecher on Twitter and @windup_book_chronicles; find her academic work on ResearchGate
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Lakelore
Are your ready for a psychoanalytic and gushing recap of a queer YA magical realism novel? Well, it doesn't matter because we are gifting you our review of Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore. Come for the Latinx non-binary teen representation, stay for the crip mutual aid.
Book recommendations:
Élaina recommends
Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moscowitz
Felix Ever After by Kacen Calender
Eva recommends
Cemetery Boy by Aiden Thomas
Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques
Follow us
Bookshelf Remix is @bookshelfremix on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook
Élaina is @ElainaGMamaril on Twitter, @spinoodler on Instagram; check out her work at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com, and by listening to Philosophy Casting Call and Women of Questionable Morals.
Eva is @EAsprecher on Twitter and @windup_book_chronicles; find her academic work on ResearchGate
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Jawbone
In this episode, Élaina and Eva wade into the crocodile-infested waters of “Jawbone”, the horror novel by Mónica Ojeda, translated from Spanish by Sarah Booker. Set in Ecuador, this gothic coming of age tale is as mesmerising as it is disturbing. And, of course, as former teenage girls who now teach the youth, your hosts have THOUGHTS. This was a fun one (and a dark one), y’all.
As always, this podcast is spoiler-FULL.
CW: Body horror, blood, kidnapping, torture
Books mentioned in this episode (these are affiliate links to Bookshop.org and if you buy something using them the podcast will receive a small commission):
Tender is the Flesh by Agostina Bazterrica
Sisters by Daisy Johnson
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow
Follow us
Bookshelf Remix is @bookshelfremix on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook
Élaina is @ElainaGMamaril on Twitter, @spinoodler on Instagram; check out her work at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com, and by listening to Philosophy Casting Call and Women of Questionable Morals.
Eva is @EAsprecher on Twitter and @windup_book_chronicles; find her academic work on ResearchGate
Support the podcast
Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
Tell a friend about the podcast!
Become a monthly supporter at www.ko-fi.com/brpod.
Transcripts also live on our Ko-Fi page for free. -
A Snake Falls to Earth
We invite you to enter the wholesome and delightful world of “A Snake Falls to Earth”, the YA fantasy novel by Darcie Little Badger. Witness Élaina as she revises her analysis live on air and bask in Eva’s joy at the excellent snake and ace representation.
Books mentioned in this episode (these are affiliate links to Bookshop.org and if you buy something using them the podcast will receive a small commission):
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Loveless by Alice Oseman
Follow us
Bookshelf Remix is @bookshelfremix on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook
Élaina is @ElainaGMamaril on Twitter, @spinoodler on Instagram; check out her work at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com, and by listening to Philosophy Casting Call and Women of Questionable Morals.
Eva is @EAsprecher on Twitter and @windup_book_chronicles; find her academic work on ResearchGate
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Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
Tell a friend about the podcast!
Become a monthly supporter at www.ko-fi.com/brpod.
Transcripts also live on our Ko-Fi page for free. -
The Piano Room
In this episode, Élaina and Eva discuss the gothic novel “The Piano Room” by Clio Velentza. We go into detail on this Faust retelling set in 1970s-1990s Hungary and Eva shines with her psychoanalytic insights on umlichkeit, or the Freudian “uncanny”. Listen and learn (in the most fun way, obviously).
As always, this is a spoiler-FULL podcast
Thank you to Fairlight Books for Élaina’s advance paperback copy.
CW: murder, abuse and neglect
Books mentioned in this episode (these are affiliate links to Bookshop.org and if you buy something using them the podcast will receive a small commission):
“The Piano Room” by Clio Velentza
“We Have Always Lived in the Castle” by Shirley Jackson
When Things Get Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow
The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffman
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
Follow us
Bookshelf Remix is @bookshelfremix on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook
Élaina is @ElainaGMamaril on Twitter, @spinoodler on Instagram; check out her work at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com, and by listening to Philosophy Casting Call and Women of Questionable Morals.
Eva is @EAsprecher on Twitter and @windup_book_chronicles; find her academic work on ResearchGate
Support the podcast
Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
Tell a friend about the podcast!
Become a monthly supporter at www.ko-fi.com/brpod.
Transcripts also live on our Ko-Fi page for free.