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We will be on a much needed hiatus for the entire month of June and a smidge into July. You will get replays of some of our book recommendation episodes from last year, but toward the end of June, we may have a remix episode where we catch up with a former guest.

This last episode of Season 10 is about a very important topic. Although May is almost over, it isn’t too late to recognize books for Mental Health Awareness month. Carrie and I both know and appreciate that mental health is part of total health. Your brain is a really big, extremely powerful, exceedingly important part of your body. If it ain’t happy, no other part of you is happy either. It’s no different than your kidneys or heart not performing their best. This week we give you some book recommendations, both fiction and nonfiction, that highlight mental health or bring some exposure to mental health issues.

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

1- Being Henry: The Fonz…and Beyond by Henry Winkler

2- Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

3- Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

4- And Then, Boom! by Lisa Fipps - A 5 star read recommended by fellow book lover Cassie Sanders @allroadsleadtoausten

5- Starfish by Lisa Fipps

6- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

7- The Professor and the Madman: a Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

8- The Sleeping Beauties by Suzanne O' Sullivan

9- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

10- Wesley Yorstad Goes Outside by Stephanie Hunter

11- All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner

12- Homer and Langley by EL Doctorow

13- The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein

14- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

15- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

16- Sylvia Plath: A Biography by Linda Wagner-Martin

17- Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook

18- The Act of Disappearing by Nathan Gower

19- The Year of the Horses by Courtney Maum

20- Baggage: Confessions of a Globe-Trotting Hypochondriac by Jeremy Hance

21- The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

22- Jingo by Terry Pratchett

23- Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

24- Mort by Terry Pratchett

25- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Shows/podcasts mentioned—

1- Barry (HBO, 2018 - 2023)

2- Reservation Dogs (Hulu, 2021 - 2023)

3- Good Omens (Amazon Prime, 2019 - present)

4- Dear Therapists with Lori Gottlieb and Guy Winch - podcast