Well-Read Episode #91 - Memoirs part 2

Our memories may be terrible but these memoirs aren’t. We’re revisiting memoirs this week, and end with what we’re currently reading.

 

 

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Ann’s picks:

• The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty (buy from Bookshop)
  – Afroculinaria (blog)
  – BTS (band)
• Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris (buy from Bookshop)
  – The New Yorker (magazine)
  – Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris (buy from Bookshop)
  – Ann Patchett books
• Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark (buy from Bookshop)
  – My Favorite Murder (podcast)
  – Mr. Show with Bob and David (TV)
  – Georgia Hardstark on Cooking Channel

Halle’s picks:

• Open Book by Jessica Simpson (buy from Bookshop)
  – Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica (TV)
  – Nick Lachey (singer)
  – John Mayer (singer)
  – Dukes of Hazard (film)
  – Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick (buy from Bookshop)
• Becoming by Michelle Obama (buy from Bookshop)
  – A Promised Land by Barack Obama (buy from Bookshop)
• Here For It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays by R. Eric Thomas (buy from Bookshop)
  – Elle (magazine)
  – Bossypants by Tina Fey (buy from Bookshop)
  – Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham (buy from Bookshop)
  – Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (TV)

What We’re Reading This Week:

• Ann: Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (buy from Bookshop)
• Halle: Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson (buy from Bookshop)
  – The Women (film)

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