4. Help! I've Never Had an Orgasm!

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07/08/22 • 28 min

It's time for a very SEXY episode of The Chapters. In this episode we get down and dirty with your dilemmas about sex, relationships, and everything in between. This episode contains so many book recommendations (and some NSFW material) - we know you're going to love it!
#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

Book Recommendations:
Dilemma 1:
How To Have Feminist Sex - Flo Perry
Come as You Are by Dr Emily Nagoski
Sex Ed: A Guide For Adults - Ruby Rare
Feeling Myself by Natalie Lee
Mind the Gap by Dr Karen Gurney
My Broken Vagina - Fran Bushe
Bliss Club by June Pla
Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Insatiable by Daisy Buchanan
Dilemma 2:
Pretending by Holly Bourne
Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
Block, Delete, Move On - Lalalaletmeexplain
Unattached - Angelica Malin
Notes on Heartbreak - Annie Lord
Heartburn - Nora Ephron
I Wish I Knew This Earlier - Toni Tone
Conversations on Love - Natasha Lunn
Dilemma 3:
Magpie by Elizabeth Day
Insatiable by Daisy Buchanan
Sorrow and Bliss by Megan Mason
You Made A Fool of Death With Your Beauty - Akwake Emezi

#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

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3. My Boyfriend Dumped Me When I Came Out

We're back with the third episode of The Chapters, where we discuss coming out, being your true self, moving through trauma and dealing with chronic illness. This episode contains so many book recommendations - we know you're going to love it!
#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk

Book Recommendations:
Dilemma 1:
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
What a Time to Be Alone by Chidera Eggerue
Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Poetry of Rupi Kaur
Woman Eating by Claire Kohda - disrupted eating married together with vampire story
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life by Cheryl Strayed
Dilemma 2:
Olive by Emma Gannon
Poor Little Sick Girls by Ione Gamble
Dilemma 3:
To the Lighthouse and Orlando by Virginia Woolf
This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
Audre Lorde
- We Can Do Better Than This by Amelia Abraham
- The Sun Isn't Out Long Enough by Tatevik Sargsyan
- A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
- Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malina Lo
- The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye
- All The Things She Said by Daisy Jones
Queer Sex by Juno Roche
Insatiable by Daisy Buchanan
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
Watching Women and Girls by Danielle Pender

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5. Life Will Never Be Perfect

In true hot book summer style, the girls are back in Episode 5 with the best book recommendations for your dilemmas! This week the girls tackle dilemmas of jealous girlfriends, struggles to make friends, letting go of perfectionism, and moving abroad!
#TheChaptersPodcast is a chatty and entertaining listen for lovers of books and agony aunt advice! Hosted by the girls behind Books That Matter, this podcast is all about recommending books to get us through every chapter of life. Listeners write in, the girls deliver advice and the perfect books to get them through! New episodes are available every week, and you can find the girls at @booksthatmatteruk, and can write in with your dilemmas and questions to [email protected] podcast is brought to you by Books That Matter, the book subscription box by women, for women. Find our subscription boxes at www.booksthatmatter.co.uk
Book recommendations:
Dilemma One:
Girl, Woman, Other- Bernardine Evaristo
Queenie - Candice Carty Williams
Sula - Toni Morrison
Friends and Strangers - J Courtney Sullivan
Stop Being Lonely by Kira Asatryan
Dilemma Two:
Julia Cameron - The Artist’s Way
Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic
A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood
Story Genius by Lisa Cron
Grace Nicholls
Florence Welch's poetry
The Soul of a Woman: Rebel Girls, Impatient Love, and Long Life - Isabel Allende
I Am I Am I Am - Maggie O'Farrel
Dilemma Three:
Kim He Jin - Concerning my Daughter
The Old Woman with the Knife
Crying in H Mart
Travel writing by Monisha Rajesh

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