#8 - Queer Women, Mysteries, and Retellings!
Books Unbound
Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Raeleen finished a book and got deja vu, Ariel hasn't finished anything, but we both get excited to recommend books about queer women, a mystery, some retellings, a book with dual timelines, and essays about women!
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Books mentioned:
Our goodreads list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/141358.Books_Unbound_Podcast
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Hike by Drew Magary
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
In the Woods by Tana French
Fly on the Wall by e. Lockhart
Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With My by Mariko Tamaki
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
How to by a Woman by Cailtin Moran
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books to get to their hearts with your hosts, me. It's Ariel and... |
| 0:17.7 | Me, Raylene. Today, we are very excited. We have a good episode. |
| 0:21.3 | We got some great recommendations in, like requests. |
| 0:24.4 | And I'm excited about the books I'm going to mention one of the books. |
| 0:27.8 | I forgot I'd read. |
| 0:29.5 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 0:30.5 | This is exciting. |
| 0:31.5 | So I'm excited to talk about that one when we get to it. |
| 0:34.5 | A couple of notes off the top here, excitingly. |
| 0:38.9 | We got an email from Jenny with the most useful information this podcast has ever received. She told us that you pronounce |
| 0:46.7 | the author of my year of rest and relaxation and Eileen as Otessa Mosh Fegg. Wowg wow yeah and i actually watched a video to confirm that |
| 0:58.7 | and there was a guy interviewing her and he said otessa mosh fag mosh fag yeah so it's legit it's real |
| 1:05.1 | you were so close i mean i was close i think you were pretty close and you weren't completely wrong |
| 1:09.4 | with your assumption. |
| 1:13.3 | So, uh, thank you so much, Jenny. |
| 1:14.3 | That's very helpful. |
| 1:17.8 | I now know I can go forth into the world a better person. |
| 1:18.7 | True that. |
| 1:26.5 | The other note we have is that we're coming up close very excitingly onto our buddy read. |
| 1:30.1 | So I know Raylene's going to talk about, um, on Earth, |
| 1:37.3 | we're briefly gorgeous. But also we have, um, you know, our buddy read deadline is coming up. So we are going to be making a very special episode of the podcast all about that book. We're going to be |
| 1:43.1 | going to be in depth. We're going to be having a |
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