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Episode Thirty Show Notes
Titles discussed
Find Darling girls by Sally Hepworth
Find Last shot by Jock Zonfrillo
Find I'm glad my mom died by Jeanette McCurdy
View The September Issue on Kanopy Films
Find Adventures of Tintin - Cigars of the Pharoah
Find Maybe you should talk to someone by Lori Gottlieb
Find I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee
Find Rental person who does nothing by Shoji Morimoto
Find The 5am Club: own your morning, elevate your life by Robyn Sharma
Find A stitch in time directed by Sasha Hadden
Find The Willow Tree Wharf by Leonie Kelsall
Find Between two worlds directed by Emmanuel Carrere
Find The country of others by Leila Slimani
Also mentioned
Find The monk who sold his Ferrari by Robyn Sharma
Find Who will cry when you die? by Robyn Sharma
Find The farm at Peppertree Crossing by Leonie Kelsall
Find The Wattle Seed Inn by Leonie Kelsall
Find The River Gum Cottage by Leonie Kelsall
Find The Blue Gum Camp by Leonie Kelsall
Find Watch us dance by Leila Slimani
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Episode Twenty Nine Show Notes
Titles discussed
Find Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Find Anne with an E - Seasons 1, 2 and 3
Find Be not afraid of love by Mimi Zhu
Find The passengers of the night
Find Better off dead by Lee Child
Find Cheers to childbirth by Lucy Bloom
Find The coast by Eleanor Limprecht
Find Raised by wolves by Jess Ho
Find The Matchmaker by Saman Shad
Find Homecoming by Kate Morton
Find Age of vice by Deepti Kapoor
Find Death of a bookseller by Alice Slater
Find Obsession by Nicole Madigan
Find Heartbake by Charlotte Ree
Find My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar
Also mentioned
Find Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
Find The Adversary by Ronnie Scott
Find Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
Find Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh
View The first bad man by Miranda July
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Episode Twenty Eight Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
So you think you don't like...dystopian
Find The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Find The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall
Find Enclave by Claire G. Coleman
Artist interviews
Go to Tash Brennfleck - Artist website
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Guest author reading - Rauiri Murphy
Find Two Sets of Books by Ruairi Murphy
Reviews
Find Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Find Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson
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Episode Twenty Seven Show Notes
Main title discussed
Reviews
Find The lighthouse by Paco Roca
Find The Sandman: overture by Neil Gaiman
Also mentioned
Find Muriel's wedding: the musical - original cast recording
Find Between a frock and hard place
Find The adventures of Tintin by Herge
Find The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman
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Episode Twenty Six Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find The Strangers by Katherena Vermette
Also mentioned
Find The break by Katherena Vermette
Find The making of her by Bernadette Kiwa
Interview with Alojz Babic - Curator, SHE Exhibition Walker Street Gallery
Visit SHE of Mind and Body Exhibition webpage
Read the SHE of Mind and Body Exhibition Zine
Reviews
Find Melbourne by Sophie Cunningham
Find After the Tampa: from Afghanistan to New Zealand by Abbas Nazari
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Episode Twenty Five Show Notes
Main titled discussed
So you think you don’t like… chick lit
Find The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Find Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Find Downton Abbey by Jessica Fellowes
Find Ms Fishers Murder Mysteries by Kerry Greenwood
Find The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
Find The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth
Find The Mother in Law by Sally Hepworth
Find Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Find Persuasion by Jane Austen
Find Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Find Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Reviews
Find Yoga Animals: 32 Poses from the Wild
Also mentioned
Bridesmaids
Trainwreck
Mean Girls
Bridget Jones’ Diary
Sex and the City
The Notebook
Sounds
City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band and crowd sounds recorded at Pride March 2023
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Episode Twenty Four Show Notes
Summer reading recommendations
Find The making of her by Bernadette Jiwa
Find Another country by James Baldwin
Find You made a fool of death with your beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Find The Nancys by R.W.R. McDonald
Find Nancy business by R.W.R. McDonald
Find Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
Find Braiding sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Find Bad blood: secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup by John Carreyou
Find Found, wanting by Natasha Scholl
Find Sin eater by Megan Campisi
Find The seven moons of Maali Almedia by Shehan Karunatilaka
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Episode Twenty Three Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find The Uncaged Sky by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Play reading
Find Harry Potter and Cursed Child
Reviews
Find Never Give Up by Bear Grylls
Find The Potion Diaries by Amy McCulloch
Also mentioned
Find Shackelton: a biography by Ranulph Fiennes
General resources
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Episode Twenty Two Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni
Guest reading - Garry Disher
Find Day's End by Garry Disher
Reviews
Find Violetta by Isabel Allende
Find Drunk on Too Much Life directed by Michelle Melles (Kanopy Streaming Movie)
BookMatch - How to break up with plastic
Find Repair Revolution: How Fixers are Transforming our Throwaway Culture by John Wackman
Find Living Without Plastic by Brigette Allen and Christine Wong
Find #Eat Meat Less: Good for Animals, the Earth and All by Jane Goodall
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Episode Twenty One Show Notes
Feature interview with Akuch Kuol Anyieth
Find Unknown by Akuch Kuol Anyieth
So you think you don't like... fantasy
Find From Blood and Ash by Jennifer Armentrout
Find Oasis by Katya De Becerra
Find The Nights of Prague By Nicole Jarvis
Bookchat
Main title discussed:
Find Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Also mentioned
Find The Antidote: Happiness for People that Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman
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Find Atomic Habits by James Clear
Reviews
Find Other Houses by Paddy O'Reilly
Find House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Sometimes the movie really is better than the book
Find Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Find The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Find Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding
Find The Lost World - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Find The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King - Book and DVD
Find Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Find Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Find Bluey - Children’s book series
Find Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Find Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Find Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Find The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
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Episode Twenty Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
Also mentioned
Find The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
Find House of Stone by Novuyo Tshuma
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Reading by Else Fitzgerald
Find Everything Feels Like the End of the World by Else Fitzgerald
Reviews
Find Stolen Focus : Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari
Bookweek costume ideas
Find The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler
Find The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
Find Mr Bump by Roger Hargreaves
Find Goosebumps by R.L.Stine (for Slappy Costume)
Find Jetty Jumping by Andrew Rowe
General resources
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Episode Nineteen Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth
Reviews
Find Kindred by Octavia Butler
Find The Way of Dog by Zana Fraillon
So you think you don't like...true crime
Find Anita Cobby: The Crime that Shocked the Nation by Alan Whiticker
Find The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy by Elizabeth Kendall
Find A Serial Killer's Daughter by Kerri Rawson
Also recommended
Find Missing William Tyrrell by Caroline Overington
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Episode Eighteen Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find Life Mode On: How to Feel Less Stressed, More Present and Back in Control When Using Technologyby Joanne Orlando
Also mentioned
Find How to do Nothing : Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Find Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles by Beth Pickens
Find The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
So you think you don't like...Llterary fiction
Find The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
Find The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Find The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
Reviews
Find Open Waterby Caleb Azuma Nelson
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Episode Seventeen Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
Junior library officer recommends
Find Sapiens : A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari
Find The Turn of The Screw by Henry James
Find The Truth About Verity Sparks by Susan Green
So you think you don't like... thrillers
Find The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
Find You Need to Know by Nicola Moriarty
Reviews
Find All Systems Red by Martha Wells
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Episode Sixteen Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find How it Feels to Float by Helena Fox
Reviews
Find Love Objects by Emily Maguire
Find A Story about Cancer (with a Happy Ending) by India Desjardins, illustrated by Marianne Ferrer
BookMatch - young adult fantasy
Find The Other Side of the Sky by Amie Kaufman and Megan Spooner.
Find The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina
Find The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni
Find Only a Monster by Vanessa Len
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Episode Fifteen Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Also mentioned
Find Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
Find Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Find In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life by Juliet Annan, Yemisi Aribisala and Laura Freeman
BookMatch recommendations - International Women's Day
Find Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Find Three Sisters by Heather Morris
Find Wild: a journey from lost to found by Cheryl Strayed
Find Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Find Lean In: Women,Work and the Will to Lead< by Sheryl Sandberg/a>
Reviews
Find Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
Lion (Kanopy Streaming movie and DVD
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Episode Fourteen Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
Find Pain and Prejudice by Gabrielle Jackson
Also mentioned
Find Work Won't Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe
Further reading
Find Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
Find The Women's Brain Book : the Neuroscience of Health, Hormones and Happiness by Sarah McKay
Find Ask me About my Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain by Abby Norman
Recommended podcasts
Everybody Knows – podcast about the rise and fall of the MeToo movement in Australia told through the lens of the music industry and the secrecy and archaic laws that protected abusers and prevented survivors from speaking out.
Sistas Let’s Talk - ABC Radio’s newest feminist podcast all about amplifying the voices of women across the Pacific. Each week, host Hilda Wayne talks to inspirational women about the issues affecting them and discusses how to navigate modern life as a Pacific Island woman. Topics covered include Pacific women in politics, women keeping Pacific languages alive and the movement to reclaim traditional recipes of the past.
Sisteria - a podcast about women & non-binary creatives’ experiences as creators & consumers of arts & culture.
Featured chat
Find Animals Make us Human edited by Leah Kaminsky and Meg Keneally
So you think you don't like - adult graphic novels
Find You and a Bike and a Road by Eleanor Davis
Find Watchmen by Alan Moore, illustrated by Dave Gibbons
Find Death Note by Tsugumi Oba, illustrated by Takeshi Obata
Reviews
Find The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Find A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
General resources
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Episode Thirteen Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find Meet Me at the Intersection edited by Rebecca Lim and Ambelin Kwaymullina
Interview with Brendan Murray
Find The School : the Ups and Downs of One year in the Classroom by Brendan Murray
Find The Drowned Man by Brendan Murray (Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime 2017)
Find Venom: the heroic search for Australia's deadliest snake by Brendan Murray
Find Silence: the Bleaching of History (Article from The Griffith Review)
Find The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Find Short Stories by Alice Munro
Reviews
Find Girl, Trans-cending by A.J. Clementine
Find The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita
Favourite books growing up
Find Round the Twist (books and DVD series) by Paul Jennings
Find Are you there God, it's me Margaret by Judy Blume
Find Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Find The Baby-sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin
Find Animorphs (series) by Katherine Applegate
PJ's and Trent's summer reading recommendations
PJ
Find The Bad Guys series by Aaron Blabey
Find Bum Trilogy by Andy Griffiths
Find Folk Tales in the collections
Find Pax: Journey Home by Sara Pennypacker
Science experiment books
Find Science in a Jar by Julia Garstecki
Find Super Science Experiments:Outdoor Fun by Elizabeth Snoke Harris
Find More Hands-on Science: 50 kids activities from CSIRO by various authors
Trent
Find The Baby-sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin
Find Our Australian Girl series by various authors
Find Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanagan
Find Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events
Find Amazing Magic Tricks by Chris Stone
Find Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers
Find Treasure Hunt House by Kate Davies
General resources
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Episode Twelve Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Readings by Omar Sakr
'How to sleep' and 'Citizen of' from his works
Interview with Lisa Burke
WAYSS : Homelessness and domestic violence support in South East Melbourne
The Orange Door : Support for families
Greater Dandenong links to Family Violence Support Services
Reviews
Find Hunt for the Wilderpeople(DVD and Kanopy streaming movie)
Find In My Blood it Runs (Kanopy streaming movie)
Resource list for gender equality and equity and family and intimate partner violence
Find A Mother’s Story by Rosie Batty
Find A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Find Fixed it : Violence and the Representation of Women in the Media by Jane Gilmore
Find Fury: Women Write about Sex, Power and Violence by Samantha Trenoweth
Find Goodbye Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival by Kelly Sundberg
Find Her Say: Survivors of Domestic Abuse Tell Their Own Stories by Jackie Clark
Find In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder by Jane Monckton-Smith
Find In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Find Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism by Laura Bates
Find My Father, the Murderer: A Reckoning with the Past by Nina Young and Denise Young
Find Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
Find See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
Find The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar
Find The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy
Find The Witches are Coming by Lindy West
Find Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Find Troll Hunting by Ginger Gorman
Find Why Women are Poorer Than Men and What We Can Do About It by Annabelle Williams
Fiction
Find A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
Find The Orchardist’s Daughter by Karen Viggers
Find When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy
Find The Power by Naomi Alderman
Find The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
Young Adult
Find Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
Kanopy – documentaries
Hitting Home - A Critical Look into the Domestic Abuse Cycle
Hummingbird: Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence in Brazil
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
Informit – Explore academic articles and journals free with your library card (access Informit with your library membership)
Ensuring Access to Justice for Women Experiencing Family Violence Beyond the Pandemic
‘The Devil is in the Level’: Understanding Inequality in Australia’s Film, TV and Radio Industries
The Criminalisation of Coercive Control: The Power of Law
Podcasts and radio shows
The Gender Card - podcast by Griffith University’s Gender Equality Research Network
Women on the Line - 3CR Local radio show covering women’s issues from around the world
Bodies podcast– Season 2 Episode 5: Invisible Impact - Stacie escaped her abusive partner. But eight years later, her inner world was still in disarray. Why wasn’t she better? And why did it take her so long to leave?
Reading Women podcast – Interview with Meena Kandasamy
Other resources
The Conversation – Articles on family violence
See What You Made Me Do – SBS on Demand - Available in Hindi, Arabic, Korean, Punjabi, Vietnamese and Simplified Chinese
General resources
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Episode Eleven Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Interview with Diversity and Literacy Librarian
Find Fa Yi Qin Ming series by Qin Ming
Find Wo Zai Jiao Luo Hao An Xin by Yuri Yokomizu
Go to the Go to the OverDrive Chinese Reading Room
BookMatch - climate change and environment
Find The Breeding Season by Amanda Niehaus
Find Ghost Species by James Bradley
Find The Last Migration by Charlotte McConaghy
Find Into the Woods: Trees in Photography by Martin Barnes
Find Animals Make Us Human edited by Leah Kaminskyp and Meg Keneally
Reviews
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Episode Ten Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find Disoriental by Negar Djavadi
Interview with Community Engagement Officer - Heritage
Find City of Opportunity: the making of the City of Greater Dandenong by Martin Curtis
View the History and Cultural Heritage Page
View the Digital Archive and the Graham Southam Collection
BookMatch
Find Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
Find The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
Find The Beijing Bureau by Trevor Watson
Find I know I am rude: Prince Philip’s Life in his own words by Nigel Cawthorne
Find Girl, 11 by Amy Suiter Clarke
Reviews
Find The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do
Find Becoming by Michele Obama
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Episode Nine Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find Suspiria (DVD) based on the book by Dario Argento
Also available on Kanopy
Reviews
Find Spark Joy: an Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying by Marie Kondo
Find Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan
BookMatch recommendations - for someone who likes crime stories
Find The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro
Find The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey
Find Light Seekers by Femi Kayode
Find The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka
Find Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu
Also mentioned
Find Out by Natsuo KirinoGoodreads review
Find Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien
Find The Girl by Sonia Faleiro
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Episode Eight Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find Borderlanders by Gillian Polack
Reviews
Find Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
Find The Mothers by Genevieve Gannon
BookMatch recommendations
Find Disoriental by Negar Djavadi
Interview with Negar Djavadi on Lithub
Find Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Find The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
Find Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
Find Fairest: A Memoir by Meredith Talusan
Find She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya
God Loves Hair by Vivek Shraya
Even this Page is White by Vivek Shraya
Find A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
Find In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Find Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Find The Low Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado
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Episode Seven Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find Born Into This by Adam Thompson
Also mentioned
Find Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan
Find A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop
Find Kim Jiyoung - Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
Find How to Endo : a Guide to Surviving and Thriving with Endometriosis by Bridget Hustwaite
Reviews
Find The Family Law by Benjamin Law
Interview with Jesse Oliver
Find Invisible Boys by Holden Sheppard
Antipoet - Allan Boyd ( Website)
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Episode Six Show Notes
Main title discussed
Find The Yield by Tara June Winch
Interview with Leah Jing McIntosh
Access Liminal Magazine Instagram: @Liminalmag
Find Collisions : Fictions of the Future : a Liminal anthology by edited by Leah Jing McIntosh
Find Memorial by Bryan Washington
Find The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Find The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Find Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh
Find Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan
Reviews
Find Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman
Find The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
BookMatch recommendations
For someone who likes World Stories (Translated works), Literary Fiction and Horror
Find Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker
Find Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan
Find When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy
Review of When I Hit You from The Wire
Find Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Find Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin, translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell
Find Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Find Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, translated by Jonathan Wright
Find The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud, translated from French by John Cullen
Find The Stranger, (also known as The Outsider by Albert Camus)
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Episode Five Show Notes
Main titles discussed
Find The Hidden Girl and other stories by Ken Liu
Find Broken Stars translated and edited by Ken Liu
Also mentioned
Find Flatland : a romance of many dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
Dark City (1998 Movie)
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Spectology (podcast)
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Interview with Warren Loorham
Voice At The Table - Training and advocacy for people with cognitive disabilities - 'Nothing about us, without us'
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Anatomy for the Artist - Sarah Simblet
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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003) directed by Judy Irving - Kanopy streaming movie
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Episode Three Show Notes
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Episode Two Show Notes
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Discussion with the Content Management Librarian
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New and emerging authors discussion
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
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