The Petite Polymath: Recent Episodes

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Book review and cultural musings. What’s not to love?!

The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl

Madeleine L’Engle - The Small Rain & A Severed Wasp

The Will of the Many— John Islington

James—Percival Everett

How to Hide an Empire: Daniel Immerwahr The Covenant of Water: Abraham Verghese

Making all things new— Ilia Delio The return of the gods- Jonathan Kahn

Biography of X— Catherine Lacey

What Looks Like Bravery — Laurel Braitman

Erasure— Percival Everett

My own writing 😬

The Portrait of a Mirror— A. Natasha Joukovsky

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Lessons in Chemistry — Bonnie Garmus

TV recap: Fleishman’s In Trouble & Atlanta

Toni Morrison- Sulla

The Book Eaters- Sunyi Dean

Katie Kitamura - Intimacies

Ann Patchett- State of Wonder, The Patron Saint of Liars, The Dutch House

These Precious Days — Ann Patchett

How to Stop Time- Matt Haig

On the state of the world and Douglas Murray’s The Madness of Crowds

Jesus and John Wayne- Kristin Kobes Du Mez

2021 music review

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6iW1y9QJchjyoy93DdfMZi?si=zYGAtORsTf-2DV5fYVXtHQ

The invisible life of addie larue- VE Schwab

TV roundup

Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger- Lisa Donovan

On death

The Overstory-Richard Powers

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev- Dawnie Walton

Musings.

Matt Haig- The Midnight Library, Nella Larsen- Passing

On Grief, WANDAVISION, Tish Harrison Warren’s Prayer in the Night, love/longing and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

Mateo Askaripour- Black Buck

Octavia E Butler- The Parable of the Sower

On Jazmine Sullivan’s Heaux Tales and Lupin

Thoughts on Bridgerton

Circe -Madeline Miller

Big Friendship- Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman

Caste— Isabel Wilkerson

How to Change Your Mind- Michael Pollan

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, And Defiance During the Blitz— Erik Larson With guest- Tyler Godoff

Sue Monk Kidd- The Book of Longings

Zadie Smith’s Intimations

Such A Fun Age - Kiley Reid

The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley

Normal People- Sally Rooney

Crossing to Safety- Wallace Stegner

Dune- Frank Herbert

Pardon the glitch when I’m talking about humans and struggle and jump to language. 🤦🏾‍♀️

COVID addition

The Afflictions-Vikram Paralkar and thoughts on High Fidelity on Hulu.

African Samurai— lockley & Girard

On music from 2010-2019! No book this time.

The Testaments- Margaret Atwood

The Power—Naomi Alderman

Women Talking- Miriam Toews

The Inheritance Cycle—Christopher Paolini

Everybody’s Son by Thrity Umrigar

Men Without Women- Haruki Murakami

There, There by Tommy Orange

Barracoon- Zora Neale Hurston Check out the playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/britta517/playlist/7FxhlWJz62Rz8JjSadt9vo?si=dCsujjUuRA23raqUba5adg

This Will Be My Undoing- Morgan Jerkins Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/britta517/playlist/1MZ09aFD0zQOW07ObKeIGh?si=apEBKQoVSfaYbUMSp8oAxw

The Sun is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/britta517/playlist/553TvZb3TvxJwM4v4bpOwO?si=3VhigrEFSfqAzN4HmnEzgw

Review of The Heads of Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires. Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/britta517/playlist/7HMGf0QS5OgUZ0fJXnIPIa?si=2C7si9qSTVO_Qj5GYunwBg

Behold the Dreamers— Imbolo Mbue Playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/britta517/playlist/4jjbAaOc8FB1xZSVxB4BFQ?si=SqMuxWnmRXqGNP1J6y4qkQ

A musing on Fran Ross’ novel Oreo.

Playlist inspired by the above: https://open.spotify.com/user/britta517/playlist/21TC3aWJaPQcl4UdNCuMVl?si=FYBCO6FbRyiUZqZNiJHMXA

Enjoy the What We Lose inspired playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/user/britta517/playlist/23LdItP2F6nJOlHQXMgfPB?si=lkFz0zuLSL2CxN2zhZdyMg

My inaugural practice podcast in which I discuss Childish Gambino/Donald Glover