podcast – Bellwether Friends

  For this episode, we had special guest Amy Diegelman (@amydieg) of #girlgang (@jointhegirlgang) and Panels (@heypanels) with us to talk about graphic novels in libraries in general and Y: The Last Man in particular! Show notes here.

This week, Anna reported in on her experience at BEA (aka BookExpo America) and did her worst to booktalk some of the books she learned about in New York City! Then we discussed our first encounter with the show Leverage, and were both very happy about Fun Home–the book and the show. Show notes here.

This week, Anna and Carolyn talk about their first music purchases and concerts, and Pitch Perfect 2. Show notes here.

This week, we invited each other to watch TV episodes from shows we hadn’t seen before, with shocking results! It’s TV Advisory! Show notes here. As promised, our musical obsession Spotify playlist! Do you have a musical obsession right now? Let us know and we’ll add the song!  

We had a very special guest this episode: Dolly aka @loather aka one half of the Withdrawn podcasting team (@withdrawntweets) talked with us about serial killers and mysteries in general. And . . . Starbucks? Surprisingly, we did not talk about her star cats. Show notes here.  

We took a break from our various nostalgia tours to talk about some  current television shows. Each of us had watched the entirety of one show and the other had watched at least a few episodes. Warning: some spoilers and discussion of sexual assault. Show notes here.

In this episode, Anna took the wheel after reading Amy’s post “Comics Aren’t For Girls.” We tackled comic strips, webcomics, comic books, and graphic novels in our usual rambling and spontaneous fashion. Show notes here.

For this episode, we took a much closer look at a subject that we’ve touched on a few times before: the animal known as the “Boy Band.” DISCLAIMER: We know that there’s no British boy band named “Take Five,” we really do. Let’s blame Robbie Williams or something. We also took a look at what […]

Before we taped our LIVE show, we had our studio audience (some of which came in the middle of the process) take a quiz from the book Feminine Lost: Why Most Women are Male by Jennifer Granger. The quiz is entitled “So Just How Feminine or Masculine Are You?” Thanks to our friends on the […]

We are back from our LIVE show and answering a few more listener-submitted questions. Ally wanted us to talk about “classics” and Katie wanted to know what to give her white male children to diversify their reading experiences. Carolyn says a classic book is something she won’t want to read again, but a classic movie […]