On today’s episode we share a hodgepodge of things!  Sophie was just down in Dallas for a visit and we talked about summer books -  the type we love and the ones we are looking forward to.  We also chat about the Coronation, our thoughts about the current royals, and Deb shares the furniture deal of the century.  Join us!

Shownotes

Books we mentioned:

Deb’s list:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-imposters/18871847?aid=4835&ean=9780316552851&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

https://bookshop.org/p/books/tom-lake-ann-patchett/19520433?aid=4835&ean=9780063327528&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

https://bookshop.org/p/books/yellowface-r-f-kuang/19045272?aid=4835&ean=9780063250833&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

https://bookshop.org/p/books/so-big/18244205?aid=4835&ean=9780061859984&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

https://bookshop.org/p/books/our-town-a-play-in-three-acts-thornton-wilder/7899116?aid=4835&ean=9780063003996&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

Sophie’s list:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/less-than-zero-bret-easton-ellis/6701309?aid=4835&ean=9780679781493&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

https://bookshop.org/p/books/pure-colour-sheila-heti/17242788?aid=4835&ean=9780374603946&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

https://bookshop.org/p/books/anna-karenina-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-leo-tolstoy/11689262?aid=4835&ean=9780143035008&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

Find us on Instagram!

Deb is https://www.instagram.com/lonestarwords/

Sophie is https://www.instagram.com/sophievcoco/
And Generations is https://www.instagram.com/_generationspod/

Today we are talking about what we love to watch when we aren’t reading!  We are both very picky about what we turn on but we are fanatical about the shows we do love.  We share a few shows that have become part of our ethos (some you will know, and some you may not!) and had so much fun reminiscing about some great watches.

Deb also confesses a change of heart about a show she’s been raving about, and we change up our usual end matter categories!

Join us for this fun episode!

Shownotes

In Deb’s book tote:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/if-we-re-being-honest-cat-shook/18566812?aid=4835&ean=9781250847546&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

The Garden of Abdul Gasazi

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-garden-of-abdul-gasazi-chris-van-allsburg/11270430?aid=4835&ean=9780395278048&listref=children-s-treasures

Deb’s favorite thing of the week:

https://perfectsnacks.com/products/peanut-butter

Our May book:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-woman-s-story-annie-ernaux/10222262?aid=4835&ean=9781583225752&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

In Sophie’s book tote: 

How to Look at a Vermeer - The Atlantic

Sophie’s life changing shower head:

https://jolieskinco.com/products/the-jolie-showerhead?nbt=nb%3Aadwords%3Ag%3A19876078698%3A153073433171%3A652409257811&nb_adtype=&nb_kwd=jolie%20filtered%20showerhead&nb_ti=kwd-1637255543711&nb_mi=&nb_pc=&nb_pi=&nb_ppi=&nb_placement=&nb_li_ms=&nb_lp_ms=&nb_fii=&nb_ap=&nb_mt=e&gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwuqiiBhBtEiwATgvixONbecJ5r_ytv0ii6pRSwSqF3FGw3SVn-gH3do7Nfu0QnisvjsAmtRoCSLEQAvD_BwE

Find us on Instagram!

Deb is https://www.instagram.com/lonestarwords/

Sophie is https://www.instagram.com/sophievcoco/
And Generations is https://www.instagram.com/_generationspod/

On today’s episode, we share our thoughts about our April book, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.  We found this novel had just as much to say to us in 2023 as it did when we read it in our high school and college classrooms.  From early themes of feminism, to our first introduction to Southern literature, to why this 1899 story still resonates today, we dug in.  

Join us for our thoughts on this tiny book that speaks volumes.

In Deb’s book tote:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/desperate-characters-paula-fox/17679254?aid=4835&ean=9780393351101&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

In Deb’s ear bud:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marlon-and-jake-read-dead-people/id1492163935

In Sophie’s book tote:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/jacobs-room-woolf/18261245?aid=4835&ean=9780192857392&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

Find us on Instagram!

Deb is https://www.instagram.com/lonestarwords/

Sophie is https://www.instagram.com/sophievcoco/

And Generations is https://www.instagram.com/_generationspod/

On today’s episode, Sophie and I discuss the new book, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, by Claire Dederer, which poses the question: can we love art created by someone who is morally corrupt?  Deb recently read Monsters and found it to be an intriguing look at this provocative question and given Sophie’s career in the art world, she had lots to add to this conversation.  

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/separate-art-from-artist-cancel-culture-monsters-book/673497/

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/

https://blog.oup.com/2020/10/is-it-rational-to-condemn-an-artwork-for-an-artists-personal-immorality/

In Deb’s book tote:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-virgin-suicides-twenty-fifth-anniversary-edition-jeffrey-eugenides/6986279?aid=4835&ean=9781250303547&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

In Deb’s ear bud:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/still-watching-succession-by-vanity-fair/id1328561705

Find us on Instagram!

Deb is https://www.instagram.com/lonestarwords/

Sophie is https://www.instagram.com/sophievcoco/

And Generations is https://www.instagram.com/_generationspod/

On today’s episode, Sophie and I share our reactions to the recent New Yorker article The End of the English Major.  The humanities are near and dear to both of our hearts and it’s hard to imagine either of our lives without literature and art as driving forces.  There’s been lots of buzz and op-eds in response to the New Yorker and we share our thoughts about those as well.  Join us!

Shownotes

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/opinion/english-literature-study-decline.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major

Sarah Hildreth’s Substack article

https://open.substack.com/pub/fictionmatters/p/reading-in-public-no-4?r=gc06y&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

In Deb’s book tote:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/cursed-bread-sophie-mackintosh/19349640?aid=4835&ean=9780385548304&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

In Sophie’s ear bud:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/still-watching-succession-by-vanity-fair/id1328561705

Find us on Instagram!

Deb is https://www.instagram.com/lonestarwords/

Sophie is https://www.instagram.com/sophievcoco/

And Generations is https://www.instagram.com/_generationspod/

Today we share our conversation about Women Talking by Miriam Toews and are thrilled to be joined by our first repeat guest, Jaclyn Masters.  Jaclyn first joined us on episode 29 and we are grateful to have her back to share thoughts about this very buzzy book that was also a 2023 Academy Award nominee and won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay.  We had very strong reactions to this hot button novel that is the perfect book club book. 

Shownotes:

The podcast we shared:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/women-talking-with-miriam-toews/id1439313864?i=1000446440871

Articles we cited:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/books/review/women-talking-miriam-toews.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/10/women-talking-miriam-toews-review

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/06/709530968/these-women-talking-build-their-own-faith-and-future

In Jaclyn’s book tote:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/babel-or-the-necessity-of-violence-an-arcane-history-of-the-oxford-translators-revolution-r-f-kuang/18269577?aid=4835&ean=9780063021426&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

https://bookshop.org/p/books/big-love-reclaiming-myself-my-people-my-country-brooke-blurton/18830062?ean=9781460761519

In Jaclyn’s earbud:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/now-is-not-the-time-to-panic-kevin-wilson/18542533?ean=9780062913500

In Deb’s book tote:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-forbidden-notebook-alba-de-cespedes/18759807?aid=4835&ean=9781662601392&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

In Deb’s ear bud:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/rehearsal-eleanor-catton/109297?aid=4835&ean=9780316074322&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

On today’s episode we share our conversation with Sara Hildreth of Fiction Matters!  I’m sure all of you know Sara from her fabulous instagram account @fictionmatters but Sara also runs a book club and is one of the partners of the Novel Pairings podcast!  Sophie and I had so much fun asking Sara about how she began this journey (it’s a very interesting answer!) and what she’s learned along the way.  We shared books, thoughts about raising a reader, and she joined our “What’s in Your Book Tote, What’s in Your Ear Bud?” with great recommendations!  

In Deb’s book tote:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-luminaries-eleanor-catton/15557847?aid=4835&ean=9780316074292&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

In Sophie’s book tote:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/as-i-lay-dying-william-faulkner/18874580?aid=4835&ean=9780679732259&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

Books Sara shared:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/mrs-caliban-rachel-ingalls/12418995?ean=9780811226691

https://bookshop.org/p/books/walk-two-moons-sharon-creech/498844?ean=9780064405171

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-dance-tree/18728989?ean=9780063274778

In Sara’s ear bud:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447

Sara’s Novel Pairings podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/novel-pairings/id1500764291

Find us on Instagram!

Deb is https://www.instagram.com/lonestarwords/

Sophie is https://www.instagram.com/sophievcoco/

And Generations is https://www.instagram.com/_generationspod/

And you can find Sara here:

https://www.instagram.com/fictionmatters/

Today we have a guest who many of our listeners will already know from the world of bookish podcasts.  Sarah Dickinson is the creative force behind and host of Sarah’s Bookshelves Live, which premiered back in 2019.  Deb has known Sarah from the Bookstagram community for years and was on Sarah’s podcast back in its infancy.  Today we turn the tables and ask Sarah the questions!  We had a great time talking about Instagram, and how it’s changed, just how much work goes into producing a podcast, and of course, books!

Books Sarah mentioned:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-likely-story-leigh-mcmullan-abramson/18566428?aid=4835&ean=9781982199241&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-black-swan-second-edition-the-impact-of-the-highly-improbable-with-a-new-section-on-robustness-and-fragility-nassim-nicholas-taleb/7841914?aid=4835&ean=9780812973815&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

https://bookshop.org/p/books/symphony-of-secrets-brendan-slocumb/18668008?aid=4835&ean=9780593315446&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

Find us on Instagram!

Deb is https://www.instagram.com/lonestarwords/

Sophie is https://www.instagram.com/sophievcoco/

And Generations is https://www.instagram.com/_generationspod/

And you can find Sarah on IG at:

https://www.instagram.com/sarahsbookshelves/

And her podcast here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sarahs-bookshelves-live/id1446116424

Sophie and Deb share the reflections about Mexico City!  From ancient ruins and archeology to art history, great food and wonderful people, Mexico City rivals the big European cities, but doesn’t share their price tag!

Come travel with us!

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major

Find us on Instagram!

Deb is https://www.instagram.com/lonestarwords/

Sophie is https://www.instagram.com/sophievcoco/

And Generations is https://www.instagram.com/_generationspod/And you can find Jaclyn at https://www.instagram.com/sixminutesforme/

It was such a treat to welcome Jaclyn Masters to the podcast!  Deb has known Jaclyn for years and they met in the Bookstagram space and forged an IRL friendship. Many of you will know her as the face behind the account @sixminutesforme.  Jaclyn is Australian by birth, lived in Houston for a few years and is now back in Melbourne, but we’ve continued our connection over the miles.  We talked about why she began her IG account, how it’s changed over the years, and we asked the probing question “what does sixminutesforme mean?”  Join us!

Show Links:

In Deb’s earbud

https://bookshop.org/p/books/women-talking-miriam-toews/18527863?aid=4835&ean=9781635574340&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

In Deb’s book bag

https://bookshop.org/p/books/vintage-contemporaries-dan-kois/18727238?aid=4835&ean=9780063162419&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

Books Jaclyn mentioned:

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Reasons-Not-to-Worry-by-Brigid-Delaney/9780349436296

https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-the-rooftop-margaret-wilkerson-sexton/17818849?ean=9780063139961

The book we chose for March!

https://bookshop.org/p/books/women-talking-miriam-toews/18527863?aid=4835&ean=9781635574340&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

Find us on Instagram!

Deb is https://www.instagram.com/lonestarwords/

Sophie is https://www.instagram.com/sophievcoco/

And Generations is https://www.instagram.com/_generationspod/And you can find Jaclyn at https://www.instagram.com/sixminutesforme/