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Welcome back to the series in which I revisit favourite books from my childhood. We began in 2007 with Enid Blyton and The Boxcar Children, and today we’re exploring 2008 with Anne of Green Gables and Ballet Shoes.

Visit my website www.angourieslibrary.com for more links and resources.

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6.03 Childhood Favourites: 2007

5.15 When History Meets Magic

5.12 I Watched 7 Old Movies in 7 Days

5.01 Why You Should Be Critical of the Things You Love

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Hello! This week I’m coming to you live and unscripted! Since I last spoke to you I’ve been very busy travelling and also trying to recover from a terrible cold. So I scrapped my essay plans, and instead decided to do a very casual mid-year book freakout episode for you. I hope you enjoy! A x

Visit my website www.angourieslibrary.com for more resources, including links to all the books I talked about.

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It took me three years before I felt ready to read a book about a pandemic. After much recommendation, from both during the height of the coronavirus pandemic and afterwards, I read Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. In this episode I talk about how much this book impacted me, in its discussions of disaster, survival, and art. I hope you enjoy! A x

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I have been reading for about eighteen years of my life. And I’m curious about what books I loved as a kid, and how they’ve influenced my reading tastes now. Do these books hold up? How do we separate our opinions from feelings of nostalgia? Should we change outdated vocabulary in old books? All these questions and more answered in today’s episode, the first in a new series on this podcast. I hope you enjoy! A x

Visit my website www.angourieslibrary.com for more links and resources, plus a full transcription of this episode.

This podcast concept was taken from Kayla from Booksandlala on YouTube. You can watch her childhood favourites series here.

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With Taylor Swift currently on her epic Eras Tour, I thought it was a great opportunity to revisit Swift’s oeuvre. Today I’m talking about some of my favourite songs on Midnights, how they draw on storytelling tropes, and how Taylor Swift has created her own literary world. I hope you enjoy!

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It’s been a while since I sat down at the microphone, and it’s so nice to be back. Life has been a lot lately, and I want to thank you for being so patient, and for still being here. This episode is just a little catch up, and you can look forward to more regular, full-length episodes in the future. Thanks for sticking with me. A x

For more links, resources, plus a full transcription of the episode, you can visit my website www.angourieslibrary.com

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In past few months, I happened to read three “Sad Hot Girl” books (a phrase which tiktok, of course, created). In this episode, I investigate the Sad Hot Girl genre, what these three books have in common, and how I felt reading them. I hope you enjoy! X

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Four months after first arriving in LA, I have now read five and a half books set here (some on purpose, some by accident). In this episode I talk about how these books have influenced and informed my experience of LA as a city. I hope you enjoy x

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Hollywood, La La Land, Tinseltown, Showbiz. There are many names for the film industry in Los Angeles, and even though I’ve visited so many times, I still struggle to separate the myth from the reality. This episode is a look at Hollywood, its cinema, its stories, its identity. I hope you enjoy! A x

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Like many old things, the Greek myths might at first seem complicated, dull, or irrelevant, but I promise you, they are far from it. This episode is a guide bya beginner, for beginners, with the aim to share my love of the Greek myths, and hopefully inspire you to discover them, too. A x

Prefer to read rather than listen? A full transcription of the episode is available on my website: angourieslibrary.com

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