Little Sleep//Much Reading

*So sorry for the noises you hear this episode. Marissa had a house full of babies!*

Here is another drop in the bucket we call our Aruba Tapes. This is a shorter episode than usual, focusing on the theme of Island Gals.

MINI SEASON! ARUBA EDITION!

Hello Sleepy Readers! The Little Sleep Ladies are BACK with a *mini* season centered around the wonderful island of Aruba.

We have lots of cute things planned for these few episodes! Today we wanted to show our appreciation for Caribbean Islanders! Marissa read a book of poems, a short story, and art by Ruby Bute, called Floral Bouquets: To the Daughters of Eve. While Liza In the Time of Butterflies, a Historical Fiction book by Dominican writer Julia Alvarez.

We're so excited to be bringing you these wonderful voices and we hope you enjoy.

We strongly encourage you to go check out these author's sites and show your support for them!

https://www.rubybute.com/about

https://www.juliaalvarez.com/

On this FINAL episode of our Second Season, the Little Sleep Ladies invite a special friend on the pod, Jessica, to talk with us about a fun book called Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. This book is beloved to many people, these ladies included, and so we wanted to get into the meat of this book and figure out why that may be. For this episode we ditched our normal episode format of going over our review scales and instead we just had an old fashioned discussion.

The Little Sleep Ladies also have a big announcement at the end of the show regarding out next season coming to your ear holes in June!

Sleepy readers, welcome in AAPI Month with this new episode! Riss read On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee and sweet Liza read How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang.

This episode turned out to be one of Riss's favorites that the two have recorded yet! The ladies had a beautiful conversation in the middle of the episode on liking books, and also why they continue to do this podcast weekly. It was a beautiful reader moment and it gave the ladies warm and fuzzy feelings.

Hooooowdy Folks! Happy Earth Day! THIS IS OUR THIRTIETH EPISODE!!!!! For this episode the Little Sleep Ladies decided to focus on climate apocalypse type books. Listen to this episode or read these books and appreciate the world that we have! Think about how lucky we are to get to experience something so magical! Aliza read a relatively new book, Here Lies by Olivia Clare Friedman while Riss read a beloved book, The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

We gave you homework in this episode so listen closely!

Also check out our website at the link below

https://thelittlesleepmuchreadingpodcast.wordpress.com/

And if you are feeling frisky, check out Marissa’s site and maybe purchase her book?

https://marissabelmonte.com/

Also please keep in mind our podcast is still relatively new (not even a year old yet) and so sometimes we are testing new things. Therefore this episode was edited less than usual. You will hear us talk more nonsense and maybe use lots of filler words. Please be kind, but feel free to let us know how you felt about it.

Today is a little bit of a longer episode as the Little Sleep Ladies have a very important guest on our show! Our great friend Zoe Wollman joins us to talk about the beloved Beverly Cleary, as we celebrate this amazing author's birthday. We take a little trip down memory lane and went back to our child hoods. Marissa talked about Beverly and touched on her memoir "A Girl From Yamhill" Zoe went for a classic "Ramona and Beezus" and Liza brought us into the world of "Muggy Maggie"! We had tons of fun doing this episode and celebrating such a wonderful person.

If you are interested you can follow Zoe on instagram at @Nervousrack and be sure to go visit her cool website at zwollman.cargo.site

April is Autism Awareness month!!! This is something so near and dear to the Little Sleep Ladies and so this week they picked up books by Autistic Authors! Aliza read "The Deep" by Rivers Solomon and Marissa read "Even If We Break" by Marieke Nijkamp! This month we are encouraging our Sleepy Readers to learn about Autistic Authors, and books with Autistic Characters! Take the time to support these wonderful people!

ALSO Please please please try picking up a nonfiction book, or doing some research on Autism! Learn about how different other people can be and how OKAY that is !

Hey Weirdos... This is so totally not Morbid! It's your other favorite Podcast, The Little Sleep//Much Reading Podcast! This week the ladies put their detective pants on and give you some cases from True Crime books. We also talk about the ways true crime and nonfiction authors present their work! So hold on to your butts!! These cases are gruesome!

Sleep Readers, enjoy this long bonus episode! As we begin to close out Women's History Month, the Little Sleep ladies dug into our archives to get this video together for you. This episode discusses a well debated topic, "Stephen King, Feminist or Misogynist?" We explore work by King, get into some movie discussions and ask important questions about writing.

Please keep in mind this was recorded in our early podcast days!

Also enjoy this article on Monster Mothers.

https://electricliterature.com/why-new-fiction-is-making-mothers-into-monsters/

This episode centers around the Oscars, Baby! The Little Sleep Ladies examined the category of Best Adapted Screenplay! They each picked a book from this category and are bringing their review of it to you! OH YEAH! The Ladies also watched the movie that accompanies their book and they give you a taste of that compared to the book! Tune in to find out what exactly the Ladies read (and watched) Oscars style, baby!