May 2024 - In Conversation With My Brilliant Friend Jeni

The 15-Minute Book Club

Join me and my friend Jeni in a conversation about books we’ve read, loved and hated. We talk about motherhood and the social and neurological changes that come with it; audio books and why many of us think of it as cheating; the controversy surrounding support for non-offending pedophiles and so much more!

Books mentioned in this episode:

• Each Peach Pear Plum by Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg
• Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins
• Stolen focus by Johan Hare
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Matrescence by Lucy Jones
• Magma by Thora Hjörleifsdóttir
• Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis
• Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
• Redwall by Brian Jacques
• The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• How not to Die by Dr. Michael Greger and Gene Stone
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
• Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Idea of You by Robinne Lee
• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
• The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Confessions of a Sociopath by M. E. Thomas
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
• Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
• The Lone Ranger and Toto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
• The Famous Five by Enid Blyton
• The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
• A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
• Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me by Kate Clanchy
• Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell
• Hurrah for Gin by Katie Kirby

Films/shows mentioned in this episode:

• Peaky Blinders Seasons 5 and 6
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Baby Ruby
• Dances with Wolves
• The Idea of You
• Reservation Dogs
• Abbot Elementary
• Avengers: End Game
• Song of the Sea
• Dances with Wolves

Other materials:

• Trevor Noah the difficulty of raising children without a support system: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3IOpompIXNkFUVUKRyvwYB
• Podcast on Diana Mosley: https://wondery.com/shows/british-scandal/season/40/
• This American Life interview with New York Rats: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/801/transcript
• Oprah and Paulo Coelho on the popularity growth of The Alchemist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_SAHuua15U
• Vice News on non-offending pedophiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yWklRbXDOY
• Columbine shooter’s mother’s TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXlnrFpCu0c&t=266s
• A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers review episode: https://salmaintb.podbean.com/e/week-1-a-concise-chinese-english-dictionary-for-lovers/