Poe sure knows how to make me feel emotionally conflicted. This week I read the ...complex...Annabel Lee. @RavynReads on socials, if you'd like to connect!

In this fifth episode of Shelf Lives, I interview Marky. We discuss motherhood, South America, Pablo Neruda, and how much we both hate Galen! Feel free to get in touch @RavynReads on socials. "The Mountains Sing" by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai "The Two Princesses of Bamarre" by Gail Carson Levine "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine "The Whispers" by Ashley Audrain "In the Time of the Butterflies" by by Juliet Alvarez "Maybe I'll Pitch Forever" by Satchel Page "Just Mercy" by Brian Stevenson The books of Anchee Min "The Only Survivors" by Megan Miranda "The House of the Spirits" by Isabelle Allende

This week, I read "Remember" by Christina Rossetti - a beautifully haunting poem about loss, love, memory, and the act of remembrance. If you enjoy the episode, please feel free to subscribe so you don't miss future episodes. I know you've got limited podcast listening time, I'd be honored to spend it with you. If you'd like to get in touch, you can find me at @RavynReads on most social media platforms.

In this episode of Shelf Lives, Ingrid from Wisconsin and I discuss hard things, and freezing to death to watch football. @RavynReads on socials Media Mentioned: "La Rose" by Louise Erdrich "Future Home of the Living God" by Louise Erdrich "The Watchman" by Louise Erdrich "Galapagos" by Kurt Vonnegut "Ariel: Poems" by Sylvia Plath "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula Le Guin "The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin The Works of Octavia Butler The Works of N. K. Jameson "The Round House" by Louise Erdrich "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov Lolita Podcast by Jamie Loftus "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown "The Sentence" by Louise Erdrich "The Great Gatsy" by F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler @BirchbarkBooks Ingrid's Statement on Neil Gaiman: Please note this interview was recorded before the revelations about Neil Gaiman's sexual abuse of multiple women over decades. I asked Ravyn not to edit out the parts where we discuss his work. While I can no longer in good conscience recommend Neil Gaiman's books, I do not deny the impact they had on me when I read them. I do not presume to tell the listeners how to feel about this situation. I just know these events have reminded me not to place celebrities on pedestals, and that no person should be above scrutiny.

Both timely and timeless, "Ozymandius" by Percy Shelley... @RavynReads on socials

In this episode, I read Edgar Allan Poe's short two stanza poem, "A Dream Within A Dream". Socials: @ravynreads

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Today's episode celebrates the beauty of a forest in winter. Ravyn reads Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". It's a beautiful, short ode to nature, winter, duty, and even, in the right light, mortality.

I hope you enjoy it!

In this latest episode, Ravyn reads Yeats for the first time. The 1899 poem, "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" explores a universal emotional state, vulnerability in love.

Enjoy!

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In this episode of "Shelf Lives", Chaz, host of "The Excommunication Station" Podcast discusses growing up in the Evangelical Church, religious trauma, public libraries as sites of resistance, and Stephen King as a gateway to a world outside a narrow interpretation of life. For anyone who's suffered religious trauma or is simply fascinated by the experience of the American brand of evangelicalism, this is for you. Oh, and Ravyn mentions getting sex ed from a giraffe in a van and absolutely not being able to pronounce Palahniuk correctly.

Check out Chaz's incredible postcast, "The Excommunication Station" anywhere podcasts can be found. It's a delightful complement to God Awful Movies, if you're into that kind of thing!

http://excompod.com

Books mentioned on the show: "Turmoil in the Toy Box" by Phil Phillips "God's Generals: Why They Succeeded and Why They Failed" by Roberts Liardon "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn "Different Seasons" by Stephen King "Johnny's Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo "Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving" by Pete Walker "Oral Roberts and the Rise of the Prosperity Gospel" by Johnathan Root "The Stand" by Stephen King "Columbine" by Dave Cullen "Intended for Pleasure" by Ed Wheat "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk "Rant" by Chuck Palahniuk "Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk "Survivor" by Chuck Palahniuk "Pygmy" by Chuck Palahniuk "Diary" by Chuck Palahniuk "Invisible Monsters" by Chuck Palahniuk "Ham on Rye" by Charles Bukowski "The Undertow" by Jeff Sharlet "The Giver" by Lois Lowry "Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original" by Howard Bryant

I read "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" by Emily Dickinson. Socials: @RavynReads