Caitlin Moran, MORE THAN A WOMAN

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Caitlin Moran's observational humor is in a class of its own. Zibby laughed her way through Caitlin's book and their conversation: comparing raising children to addiction, motherhood as a superhero narrative, and how sharing our parenting stories is the key to sanity.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms, don't have time to read books.
0:13.6	Please sign up for my newsletter at Zibbeowens.com for weekly updates about my podcasts, events, and more.
0:20.9	Also, follow me on Instagram at Zib Owens and also at Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:26.4	And finally, join my virtual book club called Zivie's Virtual Book Club,
0:30.4	which meets every other Tuesday at 2 p.m. Eastern Time until 3 p.m.
0:34.5	And features half an hour of book club discussion followed by 30 minutes of
0:38.1	Q&A with the author whose book we've just discussed. You can sign up on my website, zibbyowens.com,
0:44.3	under the virtual book club section, or even on Instagram under the link in my bio. I hope
0:50.2	you'll find me in all these different channels and enjoy this podcast. The sponsor for this whole Labor Day Book blast week is Firstbook.org.
0:58.3	Obviously, the pandemic is crippling education for millions of students, especially those in low-income communities, the widening digital divide and extended, quote-unquote, summer slide due to COVID is devastating.
1:10.6	Apparently, 40% lack access to reliable Internet and functioning digital devices they can use for online learning,
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1:52.0	Oh my gosh, this was probably one of my favorite books of the year.
1:56.3	Caitlin Moran's book, More than a Woman, made me laugh, made me cry. I, like, fell in love with her,
2:04.2	and I'm excited that she's going to be at my book club on October 6th, and I basically can't
2:10.3	wait for y'all to listen to this episode, but mostly to read the book. So a little more about
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