Episode 3: Just Another Creepy Doll: The Museum of Mary Child by Cassandra Golds

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It's Spooky Month! Carey and Marie kick things off with The Museum of Mary Child by Cassandra Golds. Within, all your creepy doll, Anglican allegory, talking bird, Regency Gothic and mysterious orphan needs. In this episode, you tell yourself it was just a dream, but the Society of Caged Birds tells us otherwise.

The Museum of Mary Child: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Goodreads, Better World Books, Libraries/WordCat

Cassandra Golds: Website

Clair de Lune: Goodreads

The Three Loves of Persimmon: Goodreads

Pureheart: Goodreads

Content Warnings: Emotional Abuse, Religious Abuse, Mental Illness, Abuse of the Mentally Ill, Abuse through the Carceral System

Magic Attic Club

My Friends Dolls

Ghost of the Doll: 

Ghost Of The Doll is an ID website dedicated to toys of the 1980's and 1990's (plus a few 2000's thrown in for good measure)! Here you can reminisce whilst browsing through an extensive selection of toys, view commercials and chat in the forum.

Always Sisters

Sunshine Family

Julie's Fondue Set

Marie's Readalikes:

Wishing for Tomorrow: A Sequel to A Little Princess by Hilary McKay

Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassidy

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

Carey's Readalikes:

John Bellairs

Mary Downing Hahn

The Bears' House by Marilyn Sachs

Currently Reading:

Doll Bones by Holly Black

The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez

Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsey

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Episode 2: Never Mind the Bhangra: Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier

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Carey and Marie take a trip back to early-oughts NYC to explore identity, music, photography, and THAT ONE BEST FRIEND. In Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier, we meet Dimple, caught between identities, friends, passions, and the fact that her best friend is in love with the suitable boy her parents love. We discuss cultural appropriation, NYU, making art and how hard it was to pick just one quote. Not to mention, some greats oughts fashion

Content Warning: childhood neglect, alcoholism (brief), general girl and cross-cultural tomfoolery, cultural appropriation, and Zara Thrusta, the queen of everything, is not well understood by the main characters and they're real awkward about that, so the trans femme character deserved better but the author acknowledged that later

Show Notes:

From Upspeak To Vocal Fry: Are We 'Policing' Young Women's Voices?

When We Were Twins: The Booktrack to Born Confused

Bombay Spleen: The Booktrack to Bombay Blues

For events like the DesiCreate conference, check out South Asia at NYU webpage and sign up for their announcements

Brown Girls Magazine is celebrating #BornConfused15 with a series of essays on readers' relationship with Born Confused--a wonderful series!

 

Readalikes:

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Episode 1: Sheep are IN: The Chicks with Sticks Series by Elizabeth Lenhard

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Our very first episode! Carey and Marie, your hosts, jump feet first into a magical Chicago full of friendship, yarn, serendipity and queer subtext.   How much did we all love knitting? Is Chicago just that magical? And what are the parents of the Chicks with Sticks getting up to during the Sacred Sisterhood Sleepovers? All this and more in Episode 1.

The Chicks with Sticks books are *sob sob* out of print, but you can check your local used bookstore or favorite used book website for copies--we love Better World Books!

Content Warnings: Bella is the "exotic friend" a la Claudia Kishi, workaday girl-against-girl mysogyny/slut shaming, death of a family member and the grieving process (before events of first book)

Show Notes:

Elizabeth Lenhard's website

Her latest work, Our Song --a romance about folk music camp and blacksmithing! -- can be found at Goodreads, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, IndieBound and your local bookseller

Tour the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago online

Trixie's Attic IRL? It's Hollywood Mirror in Boystown!

Hot Chocolate Chicago

A RL Purlicue: Knit 1 Chicago

A RL Stockinette: Nina

Fiber Artists:

Hirst, Don’t It?: Revealing the Invisible Labor of Female Fiber Artists in Twentieth Century Art

The Great Divide: A Survey of Women in Art and Craft

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Name checked in the book: Knitting without Tears by E. Zimmerman, Stitch n'Bitch by Debbie Stoller

 

Readalikes:

To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

The Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace

Current Reads:

Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman

Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

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