How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy really spoke to Julia and Victoria’s exhaustion with productivity, their love for their houseplants, and their ever-growing need to run away to the woods. Plus: a few tips and suggestions for reading books outside of your cultural context.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Pachinko series on Apple TV+
Book Club minisode on Academic Writing
Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die by Daniel Sloss
Hannah Gadsby’s stand-up special Douglas
Ologies podcast episode Carnivorous Phytobiology (MEAT-EATING PLANTS) with Hali’a Eastburn
American Girl historical fiction books
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Book Club episode onInterpreter of Maladies
Recommendations:
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing
Completely Arbortrary podcast
Ologies podcast episode Indigenous Fire Ecology (GOOD FIRE) with Amy Christianson
The poetry of Rabindranath Tagore
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Currently Obsessed:
Season 3 of My Brilliant Friend on HBO
Motomami album by Rosalia
Multitude album by Stromae
Lizzo’s Watch Out For The Big Grrrls on Amazon Prime
Free Form Mixtape album by Dizzy Fae
