TBR Lowdown

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A Hella Bookish Conversation Apr 04, 2022

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Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:

In this episode, we have a very bookish conversation.

We were really chatty in this episode and we cover a variety of bookish topics. Our reading lives have changed so much since getting involved in this Internet bookish space and we explore some of those changes and much more.

Highlights:

🎙 Naomi has a confession about a particular author.

🎙 We discuss what our reading life looked like as younger readers.

🎙 We chat about the state of reading before social media.

Check out our show notes to see the small presses we love and the books we want to read from them. LINK IN BIO

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Books Coming to a Screen Near You! Mar 28, 2022

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Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:

In this episode, we chat about some of the books being adapted for the screen.

Is it us or is Hollywood gobbling up all the books to make new tv shows and movies? It seems as though there are no original screenplays (or very little) and Hollywood execs are always waiting to acquire the next great novel to adapt for the screen.

Highlights:

🎙 Naomi shares what book she has no interest in seeing an adaptation of.🎙 Alyssa wants this author to finish this particular book already

🎙 We share books we think should be adapted.

Check out our show notes to see the small presses we love and the books we want to read from them. LINK IN BIO

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We discuss The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Mar 21, 2022

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Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:

In this episode, we discuss The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers. The book world has been buzzing about The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, and after reading it, we now know why.

Highlights:

🎙 We both talk about getting into reading Quan Barry at the top of the show.

🎙 We were both shocked to read so much about passing in the story.

🎙 The conversation on native land as it relates to slavery.

Check out our show notes to see the small presses we love and the books we want to read from them. LINK IN BIO

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We Discuss Giovanni’s Room, Our February Book Club Pick Mar 14, 2022

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Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:

We discuss our February book club pick, Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin. James Baldwin is an author we’ve been wanting to read more of and Giovanni’s Room, in particular, is a book we really wanted to read as a TBR Lowdown book club pick.

Highlights:

🎙What was the deal with the photograph of David’s mother?

🎙 There was a definite disdain for women throughout this book.

🎙 Past trauma runs deep in some of these characters.

Check out our show notes to see the small presses we love and the books we want to read from them. LINK IN BIO

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It's National Small Press Month Mar 07, 2022

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Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:

March is National Small Press Month and in this episode, we talk about some of the small presses we’ve found and fallen in love with over the last year. We also share some books we’d like to read from them.

Highlights:

🎙 Alyssa obsessives over one of her new favorite indie small presses.

🎙 These Violent Delights. No, not that one. The book everyone should read.

🎙 Naomi shares a confession and thought regarding the scholastic book fairs.

Check out our show notes to see the small presses we love and the books we want to read from them. LINK IN BIO

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We Play the 20 Questions Booktube Tag Feb 28, 2022

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Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:

In this episode, we have a little fun and play the 20 Questions book tag from booktube.

Every now and then we like to grab a book tag from booktube and play it on the podcast. It's fun to see what each other's answers will be and to see where we agree and disagree.

Highlights:

🎙 Alyssa stumps Naomi on that dreaded question almost every reader hates to answer.

🎙 Where do we disagree or agree to disagree?

🎙 Alyssa loses it over something written in a Stephen King book and it was funny!

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We Discuss The Cabinet, Our January Book Club Pick Feb 21, 2022

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Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:

We discuss our January book club pick, The Cabinet by Un-Su Kim (translated from Korean by Sean Lin Halbert).

Highlights:

🎙We break down The Cabinet and share our favorite parts.

🎙 We give some excellent book recommendations.

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#JanuaryinJapan Reading Wrap-up Feb 14, 2022

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Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:

In this episode, we talk about discovering #JanuaryinJapan and what we read for that challenge.

Highlights:

🎙Alyssa finds a new obsession in manga.

🎙 Naomi ventures into the world of Japanese mysteries.

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#12Women12Countries Book Recs + BookTok Conversation Feb 07, 2022

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Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:

We’re so excited about the #12Women12Countries yearlong reading challenge we created. We thought it would be helpful to give you all some book recommendations for it. We also had an interesting conversation about BookTok and how that community is driving book sales.

Highlights:

🎙We provide some exciting book recs. Some of which we’ve already read and others we are stoked to read.

🎙 The topic of polygamy comes up and we have opinions.

🎙 We have some spicy opinions about BookTok.

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Can We Get ONE Definition for Dark Academia? Jan 31, 2022

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Hi Friends. In this episode of TBR Lowdown:

🎙 We discuss dark academia and try to find one solid definition for it.

We love reading books in the dark academia sub-genre, but we’ve found it incredibly frustrating when searching for dark academia books online. We chat about that on this episode and try to find one definition to clearly define dark academia.

Highlights:

🎙Alyssa is furious someone put Anna Karenina on a dark academia list

🎙We discuss dark academia through the aesthetic and literature lens.

🎙Alyssa breaks Naomi with the term light academia

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