MisRead

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We're back! In this brand new episode of the MisRead Podcast, we discuss the much talked about book "Queenie" by Candice Carty-Williams. We talk inter-racial dating and fetishes, self-sabotage issues, friendships and more.

Synopsis: Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth.

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Join us as we look back on our favorite books of the year and what we are planning to read in 2019!

Time Stamps:

Favorite movies: 6:00

Favorite music: 6:52

Favorite podcasts: 16:00

Best books of 2018: 20:08

Memorable books of 2018: 33:42

2019 TBR: 46:18

Books mentioned:

- How to love a Jamaican, Alexia Arthur’s

- If Beale street could talk, James Baldwin

- Widow Basquiat, Jennifer Clement

- Heads of the colored people, Nafissa Thompson-Spires

- Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi ** See note below

- Circe, Madeleine Miller

- A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley

- The 7 spiritual laws of success, Deepak Chopra

- Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde

- Motherhood by Sheila Heti

- John Keele

- Robert Munch

TBR 2019:

- Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams

- Homecoming, Andrew Pyper

- Looker, Laura Sims

- Genesis begins again, Alicia Williams

Add-ons and books we forgot to mention:

-Girl on the train, Paula Hawkins

-Little fires everywhere, Celeste Ng

- Ayiti, Roxane Gay

- The Lonely Hearts Hotel, Heather O'Neill

- Heartbreaker, Claudia Dey

- What it means when a man falls from the sky, Lesley Nneka Arimah

P.S.: We want to apologize for our mistake in using the term “she” while speaking of Akwaeke Emezi. Emezi has stated that they prefer to be identified as “They” and not “She” and we want to respect that. This was an honest mistake. As we are moving towards a more conscious society, we will continue to hold ourselves accountable on the information we share on the authors we love and respect.

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In today's episode, we talk to Claudia Dey about her new novel "Heartbreaker".

Synopsis: Billie Jean is the essential #nastywoman many men and women fear because she sets the rhythm of her life. She arrives, seemingly out of nowhere, in “The Territory” a small community of 391 people, and falls in love with The Heavy, a man of few words with scars on his face and a blue thread sowed on his wrists. Together they have Pony Darlene Fontaine. She starts a side hustle called “The Complaint Department” and you will never guess what kind of complaints you can file there. Enter Traps, the richest man in the commune, his wife Debra Marie and their son, the quiet Supernatural. What follows is complicated so we had to have Claudia Dey on the podcast to tell us what made her use a cult as the backdrop of the story, the meaning behind the fantasy-filled names bestowed on the people (a dog is named Gene Rowlands and an old man, Sexeteria #NeedIsayMore?) and the sexual liberties the girls play with.

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We had the pleasure of having Reggie Bailey on the show and provide his perspective, as a black man, on the much talked-about debut collection of Jamel Brinkley's "A Lucky Man". The collection of nine stories explores the layered complexities of black men. At times humorous, at times heartbreaking, this poignant book left us deep in thoughts.

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In this episode of MisRead we give an ode to the comic books of our childhood while discovering new ones.

Books mentionned:

- Dragonball

- Black Panther

- Saga

- Ranma 1/2

- Black Lightning

- Alex + Ada

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We are delighted to have Sarah Selecky on the show this week. We discussed her new book "Radiant Shimmering Light", female empowerment on social media and why pleasure is at the centre of her writing process.

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On today’s episode, we discuss legendary tell-all books, the waves of feminism and sexism...from women!

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On today’s episode, we discuss Kanye’s political literacy (or lack of…) and provide a list of books he should be reading before his next visit to the White House.

*TBR=To Be Read

Books Mentioned:

Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Between the World and Me”

Ijeoma Olua, “So you want to talk about race”

Audre Lorde, “Sister Outsider”

**Correction WEB Dubois wrote an essay that was published in “The Souls of Black Folks” (not a book)

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, ”Women who run with the wolves”

Sister Souljah, “No Disrespect”

Edward Baptist, “The half has never been told”

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In this week's episode, we review "If Beale Street Could Talk" by James Baldwin and we question how the world has changed since the book was first published in 1974. Also, we question what is Black Love today? Is Black love Black wealth? Is Black love extended to allies? Does "not seeing colour" cause harm?

The synopsis: Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions, despair, and hope.

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