(Re)Read

"If you date a white guy, your relationship is guaranteed to end in disaster." --#AmyTan, probably

Show Notes:

"Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake" by Frank Chin, published in A Companion to Asian American Studies

"The Woman Warrior Versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose Between Feminism and Heroism?" by King-Kok Cheung, published in A Companion to Asian American Studies

#MothersDay #AmyTan #TheJoyLuckClub #SparkJoy

Totally not in time for #MothersDay, we revisit #AmyTan's classic mamas-and-daughters tale, #TheJoyLuckClub! Will the book bring us joy, or will it end up in the recycling bin*?

*All owned and completed books, if given away at all, end up in those little neighborhood libraries, unless they're literally falling apart, like Casey's copy of #ToKillaMockingbird (which he hasn't actually thrown away yet, but it makes re-rereading it a bit difficult).

Show Notes:

"Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake" by Frank Chin, published in A Companion to Asian American Studies

"The Woman Warrior Versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose Between Feminism and Heroism?" by King-Kok Cheung, published in A Companion to Asian American Studies

#MothersDay #AmyTan #TheJoyLuckClub #SparkJoy

Is #ToniMorrison's #TheBluestEye the perfect companion novel for #HarperLee's #ToKillaMockingbird? Let's discuss.

Show Notes:

"Love and Gold" by Arlie Russell Hochschild in Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy

#ToniMorrison #TheBluestEye #GOAT #Pecola #debutnovel

Another week, another (Re)Read episode about a debut novel written by a female writer! This time around, we discuss #TheBluestEye by the great (and Casey's personal GOAT) #ToniMorrison.

Show Notes:

"Love and Gold" by Arlie Russell Hochschild in Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy

#ToniMorrison #TheBluestEye #GOAT #Pecola #debutnovel

Is Atticus a good person? Is Mother's Day racist? Should you see Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation of #ToKillaMockingbird? Morgan and Casey discuss all these and more on the conclusion of our (re)read of #HarperLee's classic.

#ToKillaMockingbird #HarperLee #Scout #Atticus #Jem #TomRobinson #BooRadley

A-well-a, don't you know about Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird? Well, everybody knows that To Kill a Mockingbird is the word!

#ToKillaMockingbird #HarperLee #Scout #Atticus #Jem #TomRobinson #BooRadley

Pour yourself a pint, sing your favorite drinking song, and put on the Ring of Power, because we're diving headfirst into The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien.

Show notes:

An Encyclopedia of Tolkien: The History and Mythology That Inspired Tolkien’s World by David Day

“Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics” by J.R.R. Tolkien

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#jrrtolkien #tolkien #fellowshipofthering #frodobaggins #middleearth #lordoftherings

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! And what better way to spend it than rereading the most romantic play of all time (allegedly)—William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet!

Show notes:

"The Concept of Self-Fashioning" by Stephen Greenblatt

#RomeoAndJuliet #Shakespeare #StarCrossedLovers #YoungLove

"I think I'm quite ready for another (Re)Read episode about The Lord of the Rings." — Bilbo Baggins

Join us for one last journey to Middle-Earth as we discuss Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Show notes:

“Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics” by J.R.R. Tolkien

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#jrrtolkien #tolkien #trilogy #frodobaggins #middleearth #lordoftherings

/insert Frodo's "It's done!" gif

Show notes:

“Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics” by J.R.R. Tolkien

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#jrrtolkien #tolkien #returnoftheking #frodobaggins #samwisegamgee #middleearth #lordoftherings