How was your Simba Mattress? How did your Square Space website turn out?
Sounds Like Hate is a new podcast from the Southern Poverty Law Center that focuses on the stories of people and communities grappling with hate and searching for solutions. Each two-part episode, divided into 40-minute parts, takes a deep dive into the realities of hate in modern America: how it functions, how it spreads, who is affected and what people are doing about it. These are human stories. You will meet people who have been personally touched by hate, hear their voices and be immersed in the sounds of their world. You will learn about the power of people to change – or to succumb to their worst instincts. And you will hear about ways that people across the country are becoming change agents in their own communities.
I’m always on the hunt for podcasts with exceptional writing, and lately I’ve gotten into the Memory Palace for the first time, and been enjoying how vivid the writing has been, how colourful a lot of the details are. If you have any other recommendations, even a standout episode from a podcast, I’d love to hear it.
Podcast playlist is a radio program from CBC in Canada, but you can listen to the episodes live or after they are released online. Each episode focuses on a genre or topic, and they play excerpts from a variety of them, just enough to get you interested. I highly recommend it! Here’s a link to the website.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastplaylist
Extra note: The intro music is by Ratatat, a really awesome band that I also encourage you to check out :D
I loved ReplyAll! It’s just too rare. Also, I love when podcast hosts have a liberal or preferably socialist political bias, but not necessarily a political podcast. Just podcast hosts that view things through a socialist/anti-capitalist lens who also happen to host a podcast.
Thanks!
Table Manners, S9, Ep. 3 - David Schwimmer.
The podcast itself is fine, nothing mind blowing. But holy shit David is hilarious. The entire episode is filled to the brim with David’s dry comedy and it’s gold.
When they’re talking about the banana bread at the end of the episode I spat my tea out I laughed that hard.
We’ve nearly wrapped up 2020, so what is the best/your favorite book you read this year? I know this is hard so if it’s like a top 3 or something like that, that’s okay, too. :)
I would love to see some fantasy book suggestions that involve a character who outsmarts their situation instead of being more powerful due to being “special”. I’d prefer something in the teen-YA range.
I would like a light-hearted read based around a woman who has romantic relationships without the desire to have children.
I just can’t relate to characters who have children or want them! All my life I have been strongly child-free and it would be nice to read a book where the female has a family with her partner and pets, as opposed to with children. Similar to the characters of Cristina Yang in Grey’s Anatomy or Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother.
Open to fiction/non-fiction. Thanks!
Edit: Wow, really wasn’t expecting so many responses but I appreciate each and every one of your recommendations! Thank you!
I want to get a book for my mom, who is in her late 40s. Im looking for a challenging book with a female protagonist without a romance angle. I dont know all the books she has read so im looking for something a bit more obscure that could potentially open her up to less mainstream authors.
She has read circe and enjoyed it and many years ago read all of the Stephanie Plum novels.
She likes tv shows like The Crown and Homeland. She thought queens gambit was really good aswell.
I want it to be less of a “fun” novel and something that really makes you think.
Id probably stay away from fantasy but anything else is fair game.
I have read (and enjoyed) most of the common funny authors that get recommended around here, like Douglas Adams, Christopher Moore, David Sedaris, Jasper Fforde, Terry Pratchett, Jenny Lawson, John Kennedy Toole, etc. Something new would be great!
I’m up for any kind of subject and/or genre, except for politics. I’m severely burned out on that topic at the moment.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Thanks for the great response! Looks like my next read will be Wodehouse :)
I’d really like to read some books with male characters who aren’t afraid to be vulnerable or (emotionally) fragile. I do not look for these “bad boy with a heart of gold”-type characters - although they can be great too. I’d be very grateful if someone could suggest me a book! ^^ I apologise for my english, it’s not my native language.