Book Bound Episode 29: The Romance Genre and More

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Special guest Meccah from the Lansing Libraries joins us for a dive into favorite romance picks and the romance genre in general, along with our regular diverse range of picks for the month.

Cheryl’s Books: 

Nothing Compares to you: What Sinéad O’Connor Means to Us edited by Sonya Huber and Martha Bayne​​​​​​​

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe

Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life:  The Plants and Places that Inspired the Classic Children’s Tales by Marta McDowell

 

Mentioned:

Hanif Abdurraqib writing about Sinéad O’Connor (Instagram post) Instagram

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit

Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life: The Plants & Places that Inspired the Iconic Poet by Marta McDowell

 

Jessica’s Books:   

Archangel’s Eternity by Nalini Singh

Get a life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit

 

Mentioned:

Angel’s Blood (first book in series) by Nalini Singh

Nalini Singh’s wide range of titles.

Talia Hibbert titles, “The Brown Sisters” trilogy.

The author I blanked on was Jasmine Guillory.

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

 

Mari’s Books:   

Love, Sivvy: A Novel Inspired by the Life, Letters, and Diaries of Young Sylvia Plath by R.L. Toalson

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Poet and the Bees: A Story of the Seasons Sylvia Plath Kept Bees by Amy Novesky

Navigating Night by Julie Leung

Our Lake by Angie Kang

 

Meccah’s Books:   

Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan

More titles by Kennedy Ryan

Tia Williams titles

Twenty-Four Seconds From Now: A Love Story by Jason Reynolds

We Go Slow by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie