You Are Worth It: Trauma, Intelligence, and Respect in "Flowers for Algernon"

11/13/23 • 34 min

Hello everyone, and welcome to Books Undone. I'm your host, Livia J. Elliot, and today we will discuss FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON by Daniel Keys, and we will discuss the many heart-breaking realisations discussed in a sci-fi masterwork centred on neurodivergency and trauma. Full disclosure: there are spoilers in this podcast, but more importantly, what you will hear is my subjective opinion of it. You are allowed and entitled to disagree and differ.

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Hello everyone, and welcome to Books Undone. I'm your host, Livia J. Elliot, and today we will discuss one of my favourite books - "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury. In this episode, I will share my thoughts on what I believe lays beneath the book's face value of book burning and censorship, to discuss its underlying theme of simplification of reasoning. Full disclosure: there are spoilers in this podcast, but more importantly, what you will hear is my subjective opinion of it. You are allowed and entitled to disagree and differ.. Find the transcript on my website : https://liviajelliot.com/blog/2023/4-transcript-fahrenheit451/

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Language Is Thought: Linguistic Relativity in Babel-17

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Books Undone. I'm your host, Livia J. Elliot, and today we will discuss BABEL-17, a classic sci-fi by Samuel R. Delaney. I came across it thanks to a recommendation of a BookTube channel I watch regularly, @johanareads. In this episode, I will discuss the book's central theme of linguistic relativism.

Full disclosure: there are spoilers in this podcast, but more importantly, what you will hear is my subjective opinion of it. You are allowed and entitled to disagree and differ.

Find the transcript on my website: https://liviajelliot.com/blog/2023/6-podcast-babel17/

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