Babes in Bookland
A podcast celebrating women's memoirs, one story at a time!
Podcasting since 2024 • 18 episodes
Babes in Bookland
Latest Episodes
Blissful Thinking: A Memoir of Overcoming the Wellness Revolution by L.L. Kirchner
What happens if you stop looking for your flaws? My friend Jaime is back to chat about Lisa’s wellness journey. We reflect on the ways we attempt to find balance and peace and happiness in our own lives, learn about Pema Chod...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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47:38
Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor by Anna Qu
How do you live with unanswered questions?In her moving memoir, Anna Qu shares and reclaims her story as her truth. Brett and I discuss her tumultuous and confusing upbringing, and the complicated relationships between Mothers and Daught...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:00:56
FREE-lease - Subscriber Edition - Finding Me by Viola Davis
Gave myself a birthday break and you guys access to the extended version of Finding Me by Viola Davis.Also, included this poem that I am turning to right now for hope, comfort, and grit:Still I Riseby Maya Angelou...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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1:22:39
Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
When is it sexual empowerment versus sexual exploitation? This is the question Kate Flannery’s memoir had me and my friend, Kate, coming back to again and again. With a literary flair, she tells the story of working for and being su...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:04:31
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Do you accept the love you deserve?My friend, Priscilla, and I chat about the incredibly unique and moving memoir In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Carmen illuminates and writes about her own experience with domestic a...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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59:12