
These Books Made Me is a podcast about the literary heroines who shaped us and is a product of the Prince George's County Memorial Library System podcast network. Stay in touch with us via Twitter @PGCMLS with #TheseBooksMadeMe or by email at TheseBooksMadeMe@pgcmls.info. For recommended readalikes and deep dives into topics related to each episode, visit our blog at pgcmls.medium.com.
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 72 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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In this episode, we take a sip from the spring of eternal life—or at least from Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting—and things get delightfully complicated. We are capping off season 5 with a children's book that is not afraid to take ... more
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We're back with a continuation of our discussion around Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. In this episode, we explore the toxicity of Bella and Edward's relationship, the problematic depictions of Indigenous peoples and the influence of th... more
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This episode feels like what we've worked toward for the past few seasons. How can we have a library podcast and not do the pop culture juggernaut that was Twilight? Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (yep she spells Stephanie that way) foll... more
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The Poet X was Elizabeth Acevedo's breakout novel, winning the Printz and Pura Belpre awards and becoming the target of many challenges and even a lawsuit attempting to keep it off of school shelves. We are standing firmly behind this... more
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This Library system is racist AF y'all making fucking podcasts but taking all the books and materials from the areas with the most poc, specifically black communities. The branches in the suitland area are disgusting and literally rotting with like 4 shelves of books but go to laurel or South Bowie or new Carrollton... We see you PGCMLS. What kind of corporate mafia library has CEOs?! Disgusting.
This is in regards to the Harriet the Spy episode. It is vital that you all are corrected, before you desiccate another great book.
Your first rant about Golly’s mother:
I’m guessing none of you bothered to do any research into the life of Fitzhugh herself, the deeply traumatic relationship she had with her mother and grandmother.
Golly makes it explicit that her own mother has CHOSEN a life of ignorance, that this is the consequence of ignorance and, implicitly, intergenerational abuse.
Golly... more
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