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These Girls Read BooksBraiding Sweetgrass Part 2 with my Aunt JayneWelcome to Part 2 of Braiding Sweetgrass. If you didn't listen to Part 1, don't worry. This is a non-linear episodic series so it really doesn't matter. I decided to talk to two different people about the same book because it's just that great of a book and its impossible to talk too much about it.
This episode is recorded with my Aunt Jayne, who is married to my Uncle Pat, she has a really cool and wise-lady outlook on pretty much everything so I was over the moon that she volunteered to talk about this book with me. ...2021-06-171h 09These Girls Read BooksBraiding Sweetgrass Part 1 with Sam SaiferThis week we get real witchy with my friend same in the first installment of this two part thing on the Book Braiding Sweetgrass my Robin Kimmerer. I can't even describe this book because its so cool and weird. I talked to my friend same in this episode and in the next one I talk to another friend and we go over things that are completely different. But still about the same boook. How can I do two episodes on this book you ask? cuz I can and I want to!
This is my podcast! If you d...2021-04-011h 33These Girls Read Books"Teaching our kids to read good!" A Q &A with real live SLP Aileen PloughIn a departure from my normal format, I dive into a Q &A with my cousin Aileen Plough @howtotellastory about her career as a pediatric focused Speech and Language Pathologist and how to engage our kids in language arts at a young age (even infants!) to give them a great baseline for reading comprehension and learning. We even talk about how I met my husband! Its a great dish session.
Follow Aileen @howtotellastory on IG for all the parenting hacks. She even shows us how to use our recycling to set up a kid sized store and...2021-03-1658 minThese Girls Read BooksMissing, Presumed by Susie Steiner with my friend D'Auria (Door-ee-uh)Do you love a good mystery? Are you a UK media junkie like me? Ya gonna love this! Susie Steiner is an incredible mystery writer. Missing, Presumed is the first book in the "Manon" trilogy. If you are a crime novel reader, get yourself a copy. In, fact, get all three and spend the week with Manon, our anti-heroine detective.
D'Auria is a good long time friend of mine with a ton of great insight. You can follow heron IG etc. @dauria she is an activist, reader, hard worker and FEMINIST.
Enjoy!
Follow us...2021-03-111h 41These Girls Read BooksIn the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado with my friend Madeline!This week, I sit down with my friend Madeline and we talk about In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, a masterpiece of a book that challenges form and prose to bring you a memoir that transcends person and place. Making the personal universal. This is a brave book that addresses the realities of domestic violence and abuse in the queer community. Its delicious. Grab a copy, then devour and then hunger for more Machado. She is a literary powerhouse.
Find us on IG, and email me Thesegirlsreadbooks@gmail.com
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Support t...2021-03-041h 30These Girls Read BooksAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver with my friend Laura!Delighted to bring you our first non-fiction book review in the series. My guest Laura is a long time friend, she suggested this book because she is just as obsessed as I am with gardening and homesteading. Laura is a tech entrepreneur that is always serving incredibly creative solutions to the world's problems. Her company Give inKind is a fast growing platform that helps people help their friends and family through illness, big life transitions, and death, even if they can't reach them physically, which is all of us right now.
Barbara Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; A...2021-02-231h 34These Girls Read BooksPriory of the Orange Tree with KylieThis week my sister-in-law and I read Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. An addictive fantasy novel that is nothing short of expansive and beautiful. Truely one of the most creative fantasy books I've ever read. A real feminist one too!
Follow us @thesegirlsreadbooks on IG and send me an email thesegirlsreadbooks@gmail.com if you have any ideas for future reads.
The book store we talk about in this episode is called Parnassus Books in Nashville, its a great follow in IG Too! @parnassusbooks
Enjoy Bookworms
...2021-02-1652 minThese Girls Read BooksLittle Fires Everywhere with my Mom, MauraRing a ding ding! You get to meet the family in this episode, I'm taking you home to meet my mom! For Thanksgiving!
She and I read Little Fires Everywhere with Celeste Ng. It was fantastic, just like all the book reviews say.
Enjoy and come at me with voice memos, email thesegirlsreadbooks@gmail.com and @thesegirlsreadbooks on IG
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/molly-tallon/support2021-02-0941 minThese Girls Read BooksMan at the Helm with LisaThis week we talk to my friend Lisa about Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe. If you love talking about the darkest parts of humanity with a light and wry sense of humor, then you will love this book.
This was recorded while we were both in the middle of evening dinner prep, so you are lucky to listen in.....
We are now on Apple Podcasts!!!!! Yippe!
listen to us there, or Spotify, or Anchor! Wherever you get your podcasts!
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/molly-tallon/suppo2021-02-0156 minThese Girls Read BooksSamantha Hunt's: A Love Story with VeraIn this episode I get to discuss the beautiful short story called A Love Story by Samantha Hunt with my friend Vera. The story is from Samantha Hunt's collection that came out in 2017 called In the Dark Dark, which she describes in an interview as "a map of humans at night." Preach girl.
The story came out in the New Yorker in 2017, and you can listen to the author read the story if you click here.
I highly recommend reading or listening to this story before this conversation. It's just such a good story and a...2021-01-271h 04These Girls Read BooksDrinking Closer to Home with RikkiToday we talk with my friend Rikki about the book Drinking Closer to Home by Jessica Blau. A family drama that hits all your un p.c. buttons.
You can find Rikki's podcast "Dear God it's me 30" anywhere you want to listen to podcasts...
follow her on Instgram @deargoditsme30
Support this podcast by donation and half of your donation will go to litworld.org
listen, read, and share with some other bookworms.
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/molly-tallon/support2021-01-1843 minThese Girls Read BooksComing Soon! These Girls Read Books....Greetings Fellow Earthlings,
Welcome to These Girls Read Books.
This is a teaser episode for my first season. Will be putting out my Season 1 Ep. 1 this weekend.
Follow me on IG @thesegirlsreadbooks or shoot me and email at thesegirlsreadbooks@gmail.com
We read books so you don't have to!
I will be donating half of all proceeds from this show to litworld.org, a non profit that promotes literacy and story telling worldwide.
Cheers!
Molly
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The Arts House48 minute walk with The Arts HouseWrap up and get your hour walking done while catching up with the arts in Cork. Elmarie Mawe and Conor Tallon will help you get your 10k steps done while you hear what it's like to direct a play for birds, as Katrina Foley directs Lex Talionis for The Everyman. Aidan O Hare told Elmarie what it's like to work on a film set during these strange times and about Dead Still on RTE. Molly Lynch is getting ready to broadcast to Cork Opera House live from London, and we'd lots of new music too. Hosted on Acast. See...2020-11-1548 min