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  • Books with Big Feels

    Books with Big Feels
    2026/04/21
    Dr. Amanda discusses books with big feels and deal with healing, and talks about how we experience grief differently. Books include A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman), The Guncle (Steven Rowley), The Little Paris Bookshop (Nina George), Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt), What My Bones Know (Stephanie Foo), and We Burned So Bright (TJ Klune).

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    46 分
  • Cultivating Empathy through Memoir

    Cultivating Empathy through Memoir
    2026/04/14
    Dr. Amanda uses standpoint theory to advocate for reading memoirs from perspectives far different from your own as a means of learning more about the world we inhabit and an exercise in expanding our empathy. For fiction lovers, she also discusses why the fictional memoir and ghostwriter space is compelling. Books discussed include Gender Queer (Maia Kobabe), I am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My Life from the Lord's Resistance Army (Evelyn Amony, edited by Erin Baines), Soft as Bones (Chyana Marie Sage), Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady (Florence King), The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid), Great Big Beautiful Life (Emily Henry), and The Ghostwriter (Julia Clark).

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    46 分
  • Rellings from Fairy Tale to True Crime

    Rellings from Fairy Tale to True Crime
    2026/04/07

    Dr. Amanda discusses the role of retellings in books and film, and how they allow space to reimagine realities. Books discussed include How to Be Eaten (Maria Adelmann), Peter Darling (Austin Chant), The Silent Patient (Alex Michaelides), Bright Young Women (Jessica Knoll), and This Book Will Bury Me (Ashely Winstead).

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    44 分
  • Parenting Takes

    Parenting Takes
    2026/03/31
    Dr. Amanda discusses a variety of books that speak to or around the role of parenthood in today's society. Books discussed include the Danish Secret to Happy Kids (Helen Russell), The Amazing Generation (Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price), Sincerely your Autistic Child (Emily Paige et al., and Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network), Keepers of the Lost Cities series (Shannon Messenger), The Kodiaks Home Ice Advantage (David Robertson), and And Then She Fell (Alicia Elliott).

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    51 分
  • Why Women Read Horror

    Why Women Read Horror
    2026/03/24
    Dr. Amanda hosts media scholar, Dr. Lydia, to discuss why women watch (and read) horror. They discuss discuss genre nuance and the gendered nature of horror consumption. Books discussed include Slewfoot (Bram), The Vegetarian (Han Kang), and Bunny (Mona Awad).

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    54 分
  • The Haunted House

    The Haunted House
    2026/03/17
    Dr. Amanda discusses the value of the haunted house, or maybe just selfishly discusses her favorite haunted house books. Discussion includes Manor of Dreams (Christina Li), Harvest House (Cynthia Leitich Smith), The Reformatory (Tananarive Due), The Sentence (Louise Erdrich), and Hazelthorn (CG Drews).

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    44 分
  • Those 70s Vibes

    Those 70s Vibes
    2026/03/10
    Dr. Amanda talks with Dr. Adam of the Sister Wives Professor about 1970s nostalgia, 1970s rock memoirs and aesthetics. Books discussed include Paul Stanley of Kiss's memoir (Face the Music: A Life Exposed), Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough's memoir of Lisa Marie's life (From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir), Daisy Jones and the Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid), and Mary Jane (Jessica Anya Blau).

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    49 分
  • On Conflict and the Third-Act Breakup

    On Conflict and the Third-Act Breakup
    2026/03/03

    Dr. Amanda discusses conflict communication as exemplified through the third-act, highlighting examples from books with conflict resolution including a third-act breakup as well as a couple who post third-act conflict differently.


    Books discussed are: Boyfriend Material (Alexis Hall), How to End a Love Story (Yulin Kuang), Stars in Your Eyes (Kacen Callender), You and Me (Tal Bauer), and Vampires of El Norte (Isabel Cañas).


    Also, Vampires of El Norte takes place in the 1840s. I think I accidentally said 1940s.

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    43 分