Books you should have read

“The greatest country in the world” said hardly noone without dictator tendencies. What’s it like to be 10yo when extremists take control? Marjane Satrapi will tell you - and it’s way more revealing than you could imagine. Her memoir Persepolis is our book of the month!

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains discussions of suicide.

What do UN interpreters, tuberculosis, and turkey necks have to do with dating? Ask Esther. Our main character in the novel The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath navigates her world while struggling with depression and it is sometimes funny, sometimes suffocating, sometimes nothing - all, real. This semi-autobiographical novel is a classic for a reason. Sylvia Plath writes with nuance.

Happy Black History Month! And we got Octavia Butler. That's right, in this time-traveling quinkydink, we jump from 2021 back to 1976...and 1815! The novel Kindred connects two ancestors across generations, plus or minus an arm.
Continuing our year of women and writers who are POC, enjoy! You might just learn a thing or two about a redhead.

Episode 27. Year 2021. What could go wrong? Well, 50 Shades. Tricia picked a title that sent us „starting the year off with shit“ as Sarah puts it. Fitting? E.L. James wrote Fifty Shades of Grey and we sift through all 50 red flags of this relationship.

Even 20202 ends and for the last episode we are checking in with McMurphy, Bromden and Nurse Ratched. Join us in figuring out what is going on inside the Oregon psychiatric hospital and watch two giant egos fight in Ben Kesey's bestseller. 

A pandemic, an election and a shooting. It was not easy to find a book that was even darker than the real world these days. So we decided to throw some zombies into the mix. In this month's episode we talk about World War Z. Here's to hoping that this stays a dystopian fiction. 

Blessed be the fruit - and all women worldwide who have experienced oppression at the hands of human beings. In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel set in the near-future(?), Offred tells us what the new regime is like and how religious extremists have turned women into breeding machines. The Handmaid’s Tale is more important than uplifting and all the more reason to better understand how oppression operates.

What does universal healthcare and Truom supporters found in character have to do with Matilda, a 5-year old in the UK? Dr. Tanja will explain :D

We have a guest this month and Tim Minchin, you're welcome anytime. Matilda is Roals Dahl's best selling book and Miss Honey has Margerine. It will all make sense- if you listen to the new Episode. 

Maya Angelou. The writer, the activist, the icon. We start with her book I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and she makes it apparent why white supremacy is idiotic and unwelcome. This autobiography shows us the world she saw until the age of 17. Fascinating, racist dentists, and more to learn in the south, aka Stamps, Arkansas.

Visor? Check. Haptic gloves? Check. Avatar with fake name ready? Check. Then you’re ready to join us in the online gaming mecca OASIS in Ernest Cline’s novel, Ready Player One. It’s a bestseller and a classic for a reason and delights gamers and non-gamers alike. Oh, might want to look up the difference between Blade and Blade Runner.