Episode 48 - A Community of Problematic Characters with Bre @Brezzylovesbooks

On this episode, Bre @Brezzylovesbooks, a therapist who also runs the Raleigh chapter of Well-Read Black Girl, and I discuss our shared love of book communities, problematic characters, and why romance isn’t our reading preference. I also give a rare TV recommendation! 

 

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Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda

On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1) by Solvej Balle 

 

Books Highlighted by Bre:

Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson

The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder by Valerie Burns

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson 

There There by Tommy Orange 

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Someplace Generous: An Inclusive Romance Anthology ed. by Amber Flame & Elaina Ellis

Girl, Gurl, Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic by Kenya Hunt

 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel 

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats 

Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats 

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen 

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson 

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri 

Heavy by Kiese Laymon 

Pushout by Monique Couvson

The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones 

Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange 

Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan