Thanks for joining us for this episode, discussing Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Next month we are reading Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
In this episode we talked about
Dykes to Watch Out For
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language – Usage Panel
MacArthur Genius Grant
How memories can change
The Titanic vs. Titanic
Jack’s death and Mythbusters
Paper momentos and pictures vs. electronic records and photos
The Bechdel / Wallace / Verginia Woolf Test
Popular movies and the test
The Mako Mori Test
The Sexy Lamp Test
Ellen Willis Test
Daniel Day Lewis
Recommended Reads
Trevor: We Watch the Waves by Susan Riley
Erica: Circe by Madeline Miller
Kirsten: Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training by Tom Jokinen
Alan: The Stranger by Albert Camus and Les Jeux Sont Faits by Jean-Paul Sartre
Nerd Words for Word Nerds
Erica: Rumination and rumination in psychology
Trevor: The Turing Test
Kirsten: Defenestration and the Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast
Alan: Drake at dictionary.com and Urban Dictionary
Books and Media Mentioned
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
And the twitter account @samuelpepys
Peter and Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths by Graham Annable
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
Anne of Windy Poplars by L. M. Montgomery
Action Jackson
Blade Runner
Degrassi: The Next Generation
The I’m Upset music video
WPL programs and services mentioned
TD Summer Reading Club
The IdeaMILL
Inter-Library Loan
Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Your hosts today were Alan Chorney, Kirsten Wurmann, Erica Ball, and Trevor Lockhart. Website by Arryn Seburn and Erica Ball. Our social media guru is Reegan Breu. Audio production and music by Dennis Penner.
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