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When All is Read and Done#10: Free Britney from the Toxic CircusIn our season finale, we talk about Britney Spears, the toxic circus of her conservatorship, and how Britney's loss of autonomy reflects that of millions of people worldwide. Also, Britney suffering from domestic violence?
What we’ve learned about Britney Spears’s conservatorship case changes everything
Britney Spears’s Conservatorship: What to Know
#FreeBritney! And while we're at it, free the women of Saudi Arabia too
Britney Spears' Conservatorship Is Back In Court: Who's Who, And What They Want
Liz Day's Twitter 2021-07-1925 minWhen All is Read and Done#9 Amazon: Who Pays at the Everything Store?This week, we discuss the Rocket Man Jeff Bezos, Amazon, and how they've changed the game, for better or worse, for how book lovers shop online.
Booksellers fear 'stranglehold' as Amazon snaps up British rival The Book Depository
Amazon.com and 'Big Five' publishers accused of ebook price-fixing
Amazon and Its Missing Books
A Final Word Before Mr. Bezos Blasts Off
Power and Peril: 5 Takeaways on Amazon’s Employment Machine
Amazon offers 'wellness chamber' for stressed staff
The Amazon That Customers Don’t Se...2021-07-0525 minWhen All is Read and Done#8 Reading Refugees: Stories of the DisplacedFor World Refugee Day, we discuss the refugee crisis, moving beyond an Euro-centric view of the crisis, and what we can do to help.
1951 Refugee Convention
UNHCR viewpoint: ‘Refugee’ or ‘migrant’ – Which is right?
‘Home’ by Warsan Shire
12 Book about Syria to Help You Learn about the Ongoing Conflict
Elizabeth Day talks to Pulitzer Prize winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen about The Committed
RADRecs:
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives (Viet Thanh Nguyen)
The Best We Could Do (Thi...2021-06-2123 minWhen All is Read and Done#7 Reading Romance: Love in the Time of CovidAimee challenges Josh to read 'The Love Quotient' and challenges his perception of love, romance novels, and the universe.
The Romance Writers of America
The Romance Publishing Industry and Its Reputation
Meeting Harry Styles and what it taught me about "gender contamination" in business
Diana Gabaldon on Why Outlander Isn’t Really a Romance and Writing Her First Episode
RADRecs:
The Rosie Project
Call Me By Your Name
Blankets
The Prince and the Dressmaker
...2021-06-0725 minWhen All is Read and Done#6 Cancelled! Un-Fantastic Authors & Where to Find ThemIn a follow-up to the last episode, we talk about cancel culture in the readers' community and publishing industry. Cancel culture can be a powerful tool to democratize accountability, but it can also be a double-edged sword used by bigots and activists alike.
The second wave of “cancel culture”
Why ‘Cancel Culture’ Is a Distraction
The Daily Podcast - A Vast Web of Vengeance
A Feminist Critique of Murakami Novels, With Murakami Himself
RADRecs:
We Need New Stories (Nesrine Malik)
The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars (Meghan Daum)
You can find us on Instagram at readanddon...2021-05-2420 minWhen All is Read and Done#5 When Authors Disappoint Us: JK Rowling and the Chamber of TERFSWe talk about whether authors’ politics and behavior affect how we enjoy their books. These include authors who we adored as children as well as current authors (JK, we're looking at you).
'Tintin in the Land of Cancel Culture' article
JK Rowling's controversial essay on transgender persons
Charisma Carpenter statement on Joss Whedon's alleged abuse
RADRecs:
N.K. Jemisin
Asterix the Gaul
You can find us on Instagram at readanddone or email us at readanddonepod@gmail.co...2021-05-1020 minWhen All is Read and Done#4 What We Read in Lockdown? Probably NothingWe talk about the books that helped us get through lockdown, and how they gave us hope even amidst adversity.
RADRecs:
The Property (Rutu Modan)
Low (Rick Remender)
Probably Nothing (Matilda Tristam)
Beyond the Books:
The Body Coach TV
Tom Holland (Not Spider-Man)
Pocket Mountains
You can find us on Instagram at readanddone or email us at readanddonepod@gmail.com.2021-04-2720 minWhen All is Read and Done#3 Rape Culture: Not That Bad (It's Worse)Following the devastating death of Sarah Everard, we discuss rape culture, its roots, and the survivors who have spoken out against it.
RADRecs:
Tomorrow Sex will be Good Again (Katherine Angel)
Dear Ijeawele (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
We Should All Be Feminists (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Not That Bad (Roxane Gay)
Drawing Power (Diane Noomin)
Know My Name (Chanel Miller)
Beyond the Books:
The Havens (UK)
The Survivor's Trust (UK)
Women's Centre...2021-04-1221 minWhen All is Read and Done#2 Diversity and #OwnVoices: A Savage RealityWe continue our discussion about diversity in our second episode! Aimee shares her journey of diversifying her bookshelf (thanks, Donald!), and we dive into gatekeeping in publishing, the struggles of #OwnVoices authors to be heard, and auditing our bookshelves.
Corinne Duvyis #OwnVoices
RADRecs:
The Poppy War (RF Kuang)
The Weight of Our Sky (Hanna Alkaf)
Gender Queer (Maia Kobabe)
On a Sunbeam (Tillie Walden)
Christine T (IG: lookprettybooks)
Nat (IG: anattynook)
You can...2021-03-2924 minWhen All is Read and Done#1 Reading Diverse Characters: Girls, Women, Others, UsWelcome to Episode 1 of WAiRaD! We start by discussing why diverse characters in fiction is important to us, and share books we've enjoyed recently with great representation and diversity.
RADRecs:
Monstress (Marjorie Liu)
Girl, Woman, Other (Bernardine Evaristo)
We, The Survivors (Tash Aw)
Evening is the Whole Day (Preeta Samarasan)
You can find us on Instagram at readanddone or email us at readanddonepod@gmail.com.2021-03-2928 min
When All is Read and DoneTrailer: When All is Read and DoneWhen All is Read and Done is a podcast where two readers, Aimee Lee and Josh Teh, share their perspectives and human rights issues surrounding the books they read. In the process, we try to make sense of the world one book at a time!
In this teaser trailer, we share the genesis of When All is Read and Done, as well as what our upcoming first episode will be about. Like and subscribe to keep up to date on when the very first episode will drop (soon, we promise!). Slide into our DMs @readanddone on Instagram...2021-03-0203 min