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Join Eva and Élaina as they cocoon in the warm disabled academic embrace of Molly McCully Brown's "Places I've Taken My Body" essay collection. A poet and a scholar, McCully Brown prompts us to reflect on disability culture and disabled communi
We are back with more Emezi coverage! The magic in "You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty" is all about stringing that grief up like a canopy of wedding rings... If you know, you know. And if you don't know, go read this book immediately! O
Are your ready for a psychoanalytic and gushing recap of a queer YA magical realism novel? Well, it doesn't matter because we are gifting you our review of Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore. Come for the Latinx non-binary teen representation, sta
In this episode, Élaina and Eva wade into the crocodile-infested waters of “Jawbone”, the horror novel by Mónica Ojeda, translated from Spanish by Sarah Booker. Set in Ecuador, this gothic coming of age tale is as mesmerising as it is disturbin
We invite you to enter the wholesome and delightful world of “A Snake Falls to Earth”, the YA fantasy novel by Darcie Little Badger. Witness Élaina as she revises her analysis live on air and bask in Eva’s joy at the excellent snake and ace rep
In this episode, Élaina and Eva discuss the gothic novel “The Piano Room” by Clio Velentza. We go into detail on this Faust retelling set in 1970s-1990s Hungary and Eva shines with her psychoanalytic insights on umlichkeit, or the Freudian “unc
*Season 3 of Bookshelf Remix enters the scene to the sound of fanfare and golden trumpets*: We’re back with a brand new season, brand new lineup, and brand new co-host, Eva Sprecher! Join Eva and Élaina to discuss “Gold Diggers” by Sanjena Sath
We we are thrilled to announce that season 3 of Bookshelf Remix is coming on the 20th of March!We have read debut novels, romance, YA fantasy, horror, and magical realism galore and you get to hear about it.So subscribe to Bookshelf Remix on
Visiting from the land of @bookedsolidpod and @woqmpod, Sariah has joined Élaina to read "The Perishing", a historical speculative fiction novel by Natashia Déon. As season 2 of Bookshelf Remix wraps up, Élaina is very tired and may or may not
Ok, we are going with back-to-back loved reads! In this episode, Élaina discusses The Street by Ann Petry with fellow podcaster Jack Davidson. The Street is a realist drama written and set in 1940s Harlem, NYC. But really, it is a masterful and
In this episode, poet Liv Mammone joins Élaina to discuss the genre-breaking offering that is Carmen Maria Machado’s “In the Dream House”. We talk about what it means to consume someone else’s trauma narrative as “art” and the fact that Machado
In this episode, Élaina is joined by psychoanalyst, social care scholar, and fellow bookstagrammer Eva A. Sprecher to discuss “The Panopticon”, a YA novel by Scottish author Jenni Fagan.There were unfortunate technical issues with Élaina’s mic
In this episode, Élaina discusses The Other Black Girl, a social horror thriller by Zakiya Dalila Harris, with Sarah Winkler and Ben Winkler, the hosts of the What’s New Nancy Drew? and A Swift Review podcast.SPOILER ALERT: We discuss the whol
In this episode, Sophia spills the tea on why authors translating their own books is problematic, Élaina googles “pushing daisies” in French, and we both discover why Whereabouts bothers us so much as a book!Please rate and review Bookshelf Re
Élaina and Sophia read a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel with mixed results. In this episode, they cover Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri, with Élaina reading it in the original Italian under the title Dove mi trovo.Please rate and review Bookshelf R
In the second installment of our coverage of Anna K. by Jenny Lee we stacked one soapbox on top of the other and our teetering up there. This episode is pretty much sliced in the middle with the first part discussing misogyny and the second par
We’re back, y’all! In this episode, we discuss Anna K. by Jenny Lee, a contemporary YA adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Full disclosure, this book made us angry, so feel free to skip it if you loved it because we have a lot to say.CW
We're baaaaaaaack! Did you miss us? Make sure you subscribe to Bookshelf Remix so you won't miss our Season 2 premiere on May 2 and follow @bookshelf remix on all social media platforms.This season has some serious ups and downs, but we are so
When I'm not reading books, I'm watching Gilmore Girls. So it is my pleasure to announce Women of Questionable Morals:"Who led? Who followed? None of that really matters because Sariah of @bookedsolidpodcast and Élaina of @bookshelfremix have
It’s time to share our feelings about season 1! We read so many good books and we truly went on a journey.Errata: In this episode, we use the wrong pronoun for Akwaeke Emezi in passing. Emezi uses they/them and we apologise for this slip-up.P
It's our season finale! In this episode Elaina and Sophia wrap up their discussion of Love After the End, a Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Anthology edited by Jacob Whitehead. They discuss climate change and land sovereignty, and later their favori
Sophia reads to her plants and admits being afraid of anthologies, Élaina waxes poetic about “reading practices”, and we all discuss the impact of reading Love After the End (edited by Joshua Whitehead) and the radical statement that is writing
In Part 2 Sophia and Élaina discuss the community that surrounds Vivek and the way living his and later her truth creates a chosen family; Osita’s toxic masculinity in relation to his queerness; Nnemdi living her truth, her friends finding thei
In Part 1 of their coverage of Akwaeke Emezi’s “The Death of Vivek Oji”, Élaina and Sophia confront their limits as readers and discuss the benefits of reading a book that is not written for them. Oh, and get ready to break down the violent str
In this episode, Élaina and Sophia explore the different personalities of the boroughs and reflect on the role of Staten Island in the plot. They consider the instability of race in the U.S. and how Jemisin's book plays with that history. And,
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