Nothing is Wrong with You - Book Podcast

Welcome to the “Nothing is Wrong with You” book podcast.

Today, we discuss book clubs: the good, the bad, the ugly, the lame, the enriching, and why kids shouldn’t be invited!  Join us as we share stories of book clubs that were really wine clubs, our need for folks to do the assignment and read, and why we won’t ever read again a book that someone else makes us read.
Plus, we recommend the heartbreaking book by Clare LeslieHall, Broken Country.

Colleen

The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential ofGetting in the Way by Sara Ahmed 

"I Remain in Darkness" by Annie Ernaux 

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan

Cacophony of Bone: The Circle of a Year by Kerri Ní Dochartaigh

Rebecca

The Bewitching by Siliva Moreno-Garcia

The Healers by Kimo Armitage

Remembering our Intimacies - Jamaica HeolimeleikalaniOsorio

Pele and Hi'iaka by Nathanial B. Emerson

Athena

Tilt by Emma Pattee
The Satisfaction Cafe by Kathy Wang

A Truce that is not Peace by Miriam Toews

Thank you for joining us. 

Three avid readers (Rebecca, Colleen, and Athena) host apodcast about being a reader to investigate their interactions with books: this includes a close look at books that people rave about, and we couldn’t even finish, and why we continue to follow writers when we have only liked their early books. It is also a place where we shine a light on the unseen or underappreciated books we fell in love with.

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COLLEEN CLEMENS
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 REBECCA BEARDSALL
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Welcome to the “Nothing is Wrong with You” book podcast.

Today, we share our thoughts about when to abandon a book and discuss the factors that go into that hard decision.  We discuss the current quandaries we face regarding the decision to let it go! And we encourage our listeners to allow themselves the freedom to abandon a book that isn’t speaking to them.

Book we recommend

Rabbit Heart by Kristine S. Ervin

(as mentioned in the podcast - please note this book addresses sexual assault and murder)

Books Rebecca is currently reading:

Gliff by Ali Smith

Feijoa: A Story of Obsession & Belonging by Kate Evans

Feeding Ghost: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls

Scotland (still!) by Magnus Magnusson

Books Colleen is currently reading:

Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix

Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad

Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno

Books Athena is currently reading:

The Names by Florence Knapp

Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien

Thank you for joining us. 

Three avid readers (Rebecca, Colleen, and Athena) host a podcast about being a reader to investigate their interactions with books: this includes a close look at books that people rave about, and we couldn’t even finish, and why we continue to follow writers when we have only liked their early books. It is also a place where we shine a light on the unseen or underappreciated books we fell in love with.

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NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU BOOK PODCAST

website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com/podcast/

YouTube | @bookpodcasters

COLLEEN CLEMENS

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 REBECCA BEARDSALL

website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com

Instagram | @author_rebeccabeardsall

ATHENA ROTH

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Welcome to the “Nothing is Wrong with You” book podcast.

Today, we share stories about the role Shakespeare’s work has played in our personal and professional lives and argue for the continuation of reading his work in school–and make the case for teaching some that aren’t often taught.  We share our dirty secrets about canonical books we didn’t love and are going to take off our shelves to make room for more diverse voices. 

Book(s) we recommend - Ali Smith's season series

Autumn by Ali SmithWinter by Ali Smith

Spring by Ali SmithSummer by Ali Smith

Also recommended, The Unfurling Frond by Rebecca Beardsall

Books Rebecca is currently reading:

Gabriele By Anne Berest and Claire Berest

All that We Own Know by Shilo Kino

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Books Colleen is currently reading:

Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica

No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit

Books Athena is currently reading:

A Family Matter by Claire Lynch

Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

Thank you for joining us. 

Three avid readers (Rebecca, Colleen, and Athena) host a podcast about being a reader to investigate their interactions with books: this includes a close look at books that people rave about, and we couldn’t even finish, and why we continue to follow writers when we have only liked their early books. It is also a place where we shine a light on the unseen or underappreciated books we fell in love with.

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NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU BOOK PODCAST

website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com/podcast/

YouTube | @bookpodcasters

COLLEEN CLEMENS

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 REBECCA BEARDSALL

website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com

Instagram | @author_rebeccabeardsall

ATHENA ROTH

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Welcome to the “Nothing is Wrong with You” book podcast.

Today, we talk about our relationship with the literary canon and consider its importance but also its ramifications on us as readers.  We ask who gets to decide what books “matter” and unpack the shame that can come from not liking/understanding/caring about books other people tell us we “should” read.

Book we recommend, The Lucky Ones by Zara Chowdhary

Also recommended, My Place in the Spiral by Rebecca Beardsall

Books Rebecca is currently reading:

⁠The Forgotten Coast by Richard Shaw

The Mermaid Chronicles: A midlife mer-moir by Megan Dunn

The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong

Keystone Poetry Edited by Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple

Books Colleen is currently reading:

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

⁠⁠Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton

Books Athena is currently reading:

The Tell by Amy Griffin

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

Thank you for joining us. 

Three avid readers (Rebecca, Colleen, and Athena) host a podcast about being a reader to investigate their interactions with books: this includes a close look at books that people rave about, and we couldn’t even finish, and why we continue to follow writers when we have only liked their early books. It is also a place where we shine a light on the unseen or underappreciated books we fell in love with.

Socials

NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU BOOK PODCAST

website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com/podcast/

YouTube | @bookpodcasters

COLLEEN CLEMENS

Instagram | @colclemensauthor

 REBECCA BEARDSALL

website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com

Instagram | @author_rebeccabeardsall

ATHENA ROTH

Instagram | @athenaroth

Welcome to the “Nothing is Wrong with You” book podcast.

Today, we discuss Ocean Vuong’s award-winning novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and how sometimes even when a book is gorgeous, our lives do not allow us the space to experience it. Join us as we talk about what we bring to books when we read them, and how sometimes even the best book isn’t the best for us.

Book we recommend - The Change by Kirsten Miller

Books Rebecca is currently reading:

The Axeman’s Carnival by Catherine Chidgey

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

Books Colleen is currently reading

Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

The Moon That Turns You Back Poems by Hala Alyan  

Held by Anne Michaels

Books Athena is currently reading

On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)  by Solvej Balle

This is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer

Athena also shared the Paris Review interview with Ocean Vuong

Thank you for joining us. 

Three avid readers (Rebecca, Colleen, and Athena) host a podcast about being a reader to investigate their interactions with books: this includes a close look at books that people rave about, and we couldn’t even finish, and why we continue to follow writers when we have only liked their early books. It is also a place where we shine a light on the unseen or underappreciated books we fell in love with.

Socials

NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU BOOK PODCAST

website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com/podcast/

YouTube | @bookpodcasters

COLLEEN CLEMENS

Instagram | @colclemensauthor

 REBECCA BEARDSALL

website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com

Instagram | @author_rebeccabeardsall

ATHENA ROTH

Instagram | @athenaroth

Welcome to the “Nothing is Wrong with You” book podcast.

Today, we talk about our personal relationships with books in audio form and share what our brains do when we read–everyone is so different in relationship with their reading life.  We make the case for once and for all that experiencing audiobooks is reading–and no one should convince you otherwise. 

Book we recommend - The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

Books Rebecca is currently reading:

Bird Life by Anna Smaill

Reading the Waves by Lidia Yunavitch

The Whispers Ashley Audrain

Books Colleen is currently reading

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

Ride or Die by Shanita Hubbard

The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins

Books Athena is currently reading

Old Soul by Susan Barker

Three Days in June by Anne Tyler

Thank you for joining us. 

Three avid readers (Rebecca, Colleen, and Athena) host a podcast about being a reader to investigate their interactions with books: this includes a close look at books that people rave about, and we couldn’t even finish, and why we continue to follow writers when we have only liked their early books. It is also a place where we shine a light on the unseen or underappreciated books we fell in love with.

Socials

NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU BOOK PODCAST

website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com/podcast/

YouTube | @bookpodcasters

COLLEEN CLEMENS

Instagram | @colclemensauthor

 REBECCA BEARDSALL

website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com

Instagram | @author_rebeccabeardsall

ATHENA ROTH

Instagram | @athenaroth

Welcome to the “Nothing is Wrong with You” book podcast.

Today, we get down and dirty in a discussion of Miranda July’s acclaimed novel All Fours. We have our favorite kind of discussion when one of us loves a book and the other duo abandons it. Join us for a passionate discussion of what July’s newest did–and didn’t do–for us.

Book we recommend - A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

Books Rebecca is currently reading:

Auta Wahine by Hana Tapiata

The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins

Books Colleen is currently reading

The Comfort of Crows Margaret Renkl

My Friends Hisham Matar

Tell Me Everything Erika Krouse

Books Athena is currently reading

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls Grady Hendrix

A Bit Much Lyndsay Rush

Black in Blues Imani Perry  

Thank you for joining us. 

Three avid readers (Rebecca, Colleen, and Athena) host a podcast about being a reader to investigate their interactions with books: this includes a close look at books that people rave about, and we couldn’t even finish, and why we continue to follow writers when we have only liked their early books. It is also a place where we shine a light on the unseen or underappreciated books we fell in love with.

Socials

NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU BOOK PODCAST

website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com/podcast/

YouTube | @bookpodcasters

COLLEEN CLEMENS

Instagram | @colclemensauthor

 REBECCA BEARDSALL

website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com

Instagram | @author_rebeccabeardsall

ATHENA ROTH

Instagram | @athenaroth

Welcome to the “Nothing is Wrong with You” book podcast.

Today, we discuss how important it really is or is not to connect to characters in all of the books that we read and consider the critical reception of books that felt inscrutable to us.  We spend time with Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake and Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr!.  Join our discussion of these two books–and many others–on this episode.

Book we recommend - Cacophony of Bone by Kerri ni Dochartaigh

Rebecca also talks about Cacophony of Bone on her podcast Lit Illuminated - check it out here: https://youtu.be/O7qmwJf6j8I?si=z6k2lhDXz7JStgjI

Books Rebecca is currently reading:

Scotland - The Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson 

Knife by Salman Rushdie

Books Colleen is currently reading 

Whiskey Tender Deborah Jackson Taffa

The Whispers Ashley Audrain

The Serviceberry Robin Wall Kimmerer

Books Athena is currently reading

Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything by Julia Baird

 We Do Not Part Han Kang

Harness your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days by Kari Leibowitz

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by Gennarose Nethercott

Thank you for joining us. 

Three avid readers (Rebecca, Colleen, and Athena) host a podcast about being a reader to investigate their interactions with books: this includes a close look at books that people rave about, and we couldn’t even finish, and why we continue to follow writers when we have only liked their early books. It is also a place where we shine a light on the unseen or underappreciated books we fell in love with.

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ATHENA ROTHInstagram | @athenaroth

Welcome to the “Nothing is Wrong with You” book podcast.

Today we discuss the books that we would put on our top ten list of best books of the century.  Join us as we discuss the challenges of picking criteria and ten (or 11 or 12!) top books. Instead of recommending just one book, we recommend thirty!

Our lists from this episode - bold highlighted are our top fiction and nonfiction recommendations:

Colleen -

Voices from Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievich

The Seasons of Trouble, Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka Civil War - Rohini Mohan

Brotherless Nights - V. V. Ganeshananthan

Cloud Cuckoo Land -Anthony Doerr

Lives Other Than My Own- Emmanuel Carrere

The Prophets  Robert Jones

The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch

Knife - Salman Rushdie

The Hero of this Book - Elizabeth McCracken

The Postcard - Anne Berest

Covenant of Water -Abraham Verghese 

Devotions - Mary Oliver

The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins

Athena -

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson

Brooklyn - Colm Toibin

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli

Coraline - Neil Gaiman

The Beauty of the Husband: A fictional essay in 29 Tangos - Anne Carson

The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime - Mark Haddon 

The Light of the World - Elizabeth Alexander

Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood 

Department of Speculation - Jenny Offill

Rebecca - 

Bee Season - Myla Goldberg

Bad Indians - Deborah A. Miranda

The Fact of a Body - Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli

Bad Cree - Jessica Johns

Love and Fury - Samantha Silva

A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki

The Postcard - Anne Berest

Fi - Alexandra Fuller

You Could Make This Place Beautiful - Maggie Smith

Greta & Valdin -Rebecca K Reilly

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Thank you for joining us. 

Three avid readers (Rebecca, Colleen, and Athena) host a podcast about being a reader to investigate their interactions with books: this includes a close look at books that people rave about, and we couldn’t even finish, and why we continue to follow writers when we have only liked their early books. It is also a place where we shine a light on the unseen or underappreciated books we fell in love with.

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NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU BOOK PODCAST website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com/podcast/

YouTube | @bookpodcasters

COLLEEN CLEMENS

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 REBECCA BEARDSALL

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Instagram | @author_rebeccabeardsall

ATHENA ROTH

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Welcome to the “Nothing is Wrong with You” book podcast.

Today, we share with you in this quick episode as we spotlight some of our absolute favorite books from the countless pages we’ve devoured  in 2024

Colleen:

Sandwich by Catherine Newman

Greta & Valdin -Rebecca K Reilly

Knife - Salman Rushdie

Bright Young Women- Jessica Knoll

Lives Other Than My Own - Emmanuel Carrere

Rebecca:

Fi - Alexandra Fuller

Greta & Valdin -Rebecca K Reilly

Other People’s Word - Lissa Soep

The Ministry of Time - Kailana Bradley

The Man Who Saw Everything - Deborah Levy

Sand Talk - Tyson Yunkaparta

Shark Dialogues - Kiana Davenport

The Rachel Incident - Caroline O’Donoghue

Athena:

Held - Ann Michaels

The Safekeep - Yael Van Der Wouden

Orbital - Samantha Harvey

Thank you for joining us. 

Three avid readers (Rebecca, Colleen, and Athena) host a podcast about being a reader to investigate their interactions with books: this includes a close look at books that people rave about, and we couldn’t even finish, and why we continue to follow writers when we have only liked their early books. It is also a place where we shine a light on the unseen or underappreciated books we fell in love with.

Socials

NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU BOOK PODCAST

website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com/podcast/

YouTube | @bookpodcasters

COLLEEN CLEMENS

Instagram | @colclemensauthor

 REBECCA BEARDSALL

website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com

Instagram | @author_rebeccabeardsall

ATHENA ROTH

Instagram | @athenaroth