Fangirl Happy Hour, Episode #44 – “Library Appreciation”

Renay and Jenny discuss terrible list making and how to be better, what we like in our nonfiction, and Jenny makes Renay a literary fiction starter pack! Discussion References Intro/What We’re Reading Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer The Southern Reach trilogy being adapted into movie by 28 Days Later writer The Vagrant by Peter Newman Grit […]

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Renay and Jenny discuss terrible list making and how to be better, what we like in our nonfiction, and Jenny makes Renay a literary fiction starter pack!

Discussion References

Intro/What We’re Reading

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

The Southern Reach trilogy being adapted into movie by 28 Days Later writer

The Vagrant by Peter Newman

Grit to Great by Linda Kaplan Thaler & Robin Koval

How to Weep in Public by Jacqueline Novak

Making Good Lists; 04:36

Have a good variety between:

Time period
Tone
Race
Gender

Nonfiction Tangents; 19:53

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

A History of Namibia: From the Beginning to 1990 by John Kinahan & Marion Wallace

Ewan McGregor’s Stupid Beautiful Face: A History of Han/Luke and Star Wars Slash

Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays by Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse

The Confidence Code by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman

Literary Fiction Starter Pack; 33:04

Jenny’s Excellent Literary Fiction Starter Pack

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Substitutes acceptable: Purple Hibiscus or Americanah)

Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Addendums:

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

Also mentioned:

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

Recommendations; 49:15

Jenny: The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

Renay: Avengers Academy

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