Like A Real Book Club: Episode 6 - Does This Make Us Demanding Caribbean Readers?

Is it ok to “feel a way” when a Caribbean author doesn’t use our language and our culture in their work? We love reading novels and poetry from the Caribbean, especially ones written by Jamaican authors, but are we demanding in our expectations? Also, wtf is magical realism?

Books Mentioned Worth Reading:
A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes
Here Comes The Sun by Nicole Dennis Benn
PATSY by Nicole Dennis Benn 

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Like A Real Book Club: Episode 3 - Pages to Screen and Rants in Between

We talk about books that should hit the screens, but not before we struggle to define "gothic novels" as a genre, talk about fast-fashion, and do a small rant about Bookstagram. 

But shout Out To Bookstagrammers We Love: @ColourLit_UK, @2Treads and @IfThisIsParadise

Books mentioned that are worth reading: 
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
Here Comes The Sun by Nicole Dennis Benn
The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson
Over The Roofs of the World by Olive Senior
Gardening in the Tropics by Olive Senior
Ammerichannah by Chimamanda Adiche
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth Warsan Shire

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Like A Real Book Club: Episode 2 - Girl, Woman, Other Book Club Meetup

In February, Rebel Women Lit read The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins. It’s been described, as a gothic, romance, and mystery novel, but we just think it’s a brilliant historical fiction that should replace every Jane Austen book on the CXC syllabus because more Caribbean people need to read it.

Like A Real Book Club: Episode 1 - Girl, Woman, Other Book Club Meetup

Like a real book club, Jherane, Kristina, and Ashley talk about books that defined the 2010-2019s and just about everything else.

First episode weirdness we start off a bit formal, talking about the history of RebelWomenLit and our personal reading journies. Then we really get into it: Fangirling over writers, Jherane talks about crying over books, Kristina gets a bit brainy talking about classic vs romantic poetry and Ashley talks about her hobby with street signs.