Season 8, Episode 175 The Motherlode
This week we focus on books about mom "adjacent" books; by or about motherly figures in our lives. We give you 10 (plus a few more) books to add to your TBR or maybe even gift your mom for Mother's Day. We have memoirs, historical fiction, children's books, speculative fiction, graphic memoir, and even books celebrating moms of the non-human persuasion.
Books mentioned in this episode:
1- Now Beacon, Now Sea by Christopher Sorrentino
2- The Measure by Nikki Erlick
3- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
4- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
5- The Other Mother by Rachel Harper
6- Runaway by Erin Keane
7- The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
8- Truth and Other Lies by Maggie Smith
9- The Particulars of Peter: Dance Lessons, DNA, and other Excuses to Hang Out with my Perfect Dog by Kelly Conaboy
10- Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
11- Skylark by by Patricia MacLachlan
12- Caleb’s Story by Patricia MacLachlan
13- Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
14- A Letter to my Daughter by Maya Angelou
15- A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
16- A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
17- A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck
18- Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
19- The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
20- The Need by Helen Phillips
21- The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
22- Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers
23- Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
24- Different: The Story of an Outside-the-Box Kid and the Mom Who Loved Him by Sally Clarkson and Nathan Clarkson
25- Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s by Jennifer Worth
26- Glitter and Gun by Kelly Corrigan
27- Graveyard of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe
28- The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
29- The White Enchantress by Caitriona Drexler
Movies mentioned—
1- The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Podcasts mentioned—
1- The Daily (NY Times)
www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/podcas…iters-strike.html
2- Tell Me More (Kelly Corrigan)
3- Wiser Than Me (Julia Louis-Dreyfus)
Articles mentioned—
www.gq.com/story/writers-strike-2023-wga-explained