30: What Would the Spice Girls Do?: How the Girl Power Generation Grew Up with Lauren Bravo
11/15/18 • 31 min
Lauren Bravo is the author of What Would the Spice Girls Do?: How the Girl Power Generation Grew Up, which makes some fascinating and important points about identity, feminism, and the power of the girl gang. In this episode, Lauren talks to Claire about what she was reading back in the days when the Spice Girls were blaring out from her ghetto blaster, her friendship with previous podcast guest Daisy Buchanan, the book she made her boyfriend read while standing over him to make sure he laughed in the right places, and more.
Books Mentioned on the Podcast:
What Would the Spice Girls Do?: How the Girl Power Generation Grew Up, by Lauren Bravo
Sweet Valley Twins, by Francine Pascal
The Baby-Sitters Club, by Ann M. Martin
Anastasia Krupnik Stories, by Lois Lowry
Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends, by Kelsey Miller
Promising Young Women, by Caroline O'Donoghue
The Break, by Marian Keyes
OMG, What a Complete Aisling, by Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght
Conversations with Friends, by Sally Rooney
Work Like a Woman, by Mary Portas
Crudo, by Olivia Laing
Lauren Bravo is the author of What Would the Spice Girls Do?: How the Girl Power Generation Grew Up, which makes some fascinating and important points about identity, feminism, and the power of the girl gang. In this episode, Lauren talks to Claire about what she was reading back in the days when the Spice Girls were blaring out from her ghetto blaster, her friendship with previous podcast guest Daisy Buchanan, the book she made her boyfriend read while standing over him to make sure he laughed in the right places, and more.
Books Mentioned on the Podcast:
What Would the Spice Girls Do?: How the Girl Power Generation Grew Up, by Lauren Bravo
Sweet Valley Twins, by Francine Pascal
The Baby-Sitters Club, by Ann M. Martin
Anastasia Krupnik Stories, by Lois Lowry
Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends, by Kelsey Miller
Promising Young Women, by Caroline O'Donoghue
The Break, by Marian Keyes
OMG, What a Complete Aisling, by Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght
Conversations with Friends, by Sally Rooney
Work Like a Woman, by Mary Portas
Crudo, by Olivia Laing
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Caroline Hulse is the author of The Adults, a really enjoyable novel about what happens when two exes go on holiday together, with their new partners and the daughter who links them. What could possibly go wrong? She talks to Claire about her love of board games, how being a writer has changed her relationship with books, why she chose to start her novel with the revelation that someone gets shot with an arrow at the end, and more.
Books Mentioned on the Podcast:
The Adults, by Caroline Hulse
For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker, by Victoria Coren
Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng
Anatomy of a Scandal, by Sarah Vaughan
Standard Deviation, by Katherine Heiney
Degrees of Guilt, by HS Chandler
Unscripted, by Claire Handscombe
It's All a Game: A Short History of Board Games, by Tristan Donovan
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?: And 87 Other Serious Answers to Questions in Songs, by James Ball
Truth, Love & Clean Cutlery: A Guide to the truly good restaurants and food experiences of the United Kingdom, by Giles Coren and Jules Mercer
Let's Get Fizzical: More than 50 Bubbly Cocktail Recipes with Prosecco, Champagne, and Other Sparkling Wines, by Pippa Guy.
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31: One Day in December, with Josie Silver.
Josie Silver is the author of One Day in December, a delightful novel, perfect for curling up with by the fire. Claire loved it, and she’ll be recommending it to all the romantics in her life. Josie talked to the Brit Lit Podcast about why winter brings out our romantic side, her favourite love stories in fiction, an example of how much blind luck can be involved in succeeding in the publishing industry, and more.
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Books Mentioned on the Podcast:
One Day in December, by Josie Silver
Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
The Time Traveller's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
The Break, by Marian Keyes
Star-Crossed, by Minnie Darke
Unscripted, by Claire Handscombe
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