Perks S8 Ep 175 | The Motherlode | 5-10-23

This week we focus on books about mom "adjacent" books; by or about motherly figures in our lives. We give you 10 (plus a few more) books to add to your TBR or maybe even gift your mom for Mother's Day. We have memoirs, historical fiction, children's books, speculative fiction, graphic memoir, and even books celebrating moms of the non-human persuasion.

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Books mentioned in this episode:

1- Now Beacon, Now Sea by Christopher Sorrentino

2- The Measure by Nikki Erlick

3- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

4- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

5- The Other Mother by Rachel Harper

6- Runaway by Erin Keane

7- The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

8- Truth and Other Lies by Maggie Smith

9- The Particulars of Peter: Dance Lessons, DNA, and other Excuses to Hang Out with my Perfect Dog by Kelly Conaboy

10- Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

11- Skylark by by Patricia MacLachlan

12- Caleb’s Story by Patricia MacLachlan

13- Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou

14- A Letter to my Daughter by Maya Angelou

15- A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

16- A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

17- A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck

18- Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

19- The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

20- The Need by Helen Phillips

21- The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman

22- Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers

23- Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance

24- Different: The Story of an Outside-the-Box Kid and the Mom Who Loved Him by Sally Clarkson and Nathan Clarkson

25- Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s by Jennifer Worth

26- Glitter and Gun by Kelly Corrigan

27- Graveyard of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe

28- The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

29- The White Enchantress by Caitriona Drexler

Movies mentioned—
1- The Light Between Oceans (2016)

Podcasts mentioned—
1- The Daily (NY Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/podcasts/the-daily/tv-wga-writers-strike.html

2- Tell Me More (Kelly Corrigan)

3- Wiser Than Me (Julia Louis-Dreyfus)

Articles mentioned—

https://www.gq.com/story/writers-strike-2023-wga-explained

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/03/illinois-to-become-first-state-to-prohibit-book-bans-00095151

https://apnews.com/article/texas-library-banned-books-73f17143237d57784efd2746d292ab68