2020 Year in Review
Let’s take a look back at all the wonderful things we loved in this shit show of a year– most of them book-related, although we chat about film/TV a fair amount too. We want to share our favs with y’all in the hopes of spreading a bit more joy around. Please reach out and let us know yours as well!
We know this time of year is filled with wrap ups, lists, etc. (hell, we’re complicit), which, for some, can be rough to wade through. Take care of yourselves and feel free to skip this one if that’s the case for you. We’ll be back in 2021 with more book discussions. onto the notes!
The Library Coven: 2020 by the numbers
- 1 rebrand/rename (lol, thanks for sticking with us through it and to be clear, fuck TERFs forever)
- 25 episodes
- 14 books
- 10 GBBO episodes
- 2 full-length bonus episodes (Umbrella Academy & 2 years of podcasting)
- 1 year-in-review recap episode
- 20 hours (1,173 minutes) of produced episode audio, which breaks down into…
- approx. 80 hours of editing audio and writing show notes (about 4x as long as the episode)
- Each of us spends about 1.5-2 hours prepping our episode scripts = 30 ish hours
- Who knows how many hours of reading/listening
- Total pages read for podcast books = 6,946 [average 496 pages/book]
Fiction books mentioned in the episode (alphabetical by author last name)
- Shadow and Bone series, King of Scars, Six of Crows duology and Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
- Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
- Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova
- New Kid and Class Act by Jerry Craft
- Legendborn by Tracey Deon
- We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
- Get a Life, Chloe Brown and Take a Hint, Dani Brown byTalia Hibbert
- You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
- The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang
- A Court of Mist and Fury and Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
- A Dream So Dark by L.L. McKinney
- Nocturna by Maya Motayne
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Non-fiction books mentioned in the episode (alphabetical by author last name)
- Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
- Evicted by Matthew Desomond
- Rust Belt Femme by Rachael Anne Jolie
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Brigid Wall Kemmerer
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
- The Body Keeps the Score by Besser Van der Kolk
- Trauma Stewardship Laura van Dernoot Lipsky with Connie Burk
TV shows mentioned
- The Crown
- Insecure
- Lovecraft Country
- Kim’s Convenience
- Crash Landing on You
- Breeders
- You
- Great British Bake Off
- Lovesick
- The Good Place
- The Queen’s Gambit
- Umbrella Academy
- Little Fires Everywhere
- The Dragon Prince
- Vida
- Pose
- It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- a new host of Marvel shows to be released! (Loki, WandaVision, Falcon & Winter Soldier)
Movies!
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Transcript to come Spring 2021
As always, we’d love to be in discussion with you, magical folx. Post or tweet about the show using #criticallyreading or #thelibrarycoven. Let us know what you think of the episode, anything we missed, or anything else you want us to know by dropping a line in the comments or reaching out to us on twitter or Instagram (@thelibrarycoven), or via email (thelibraycoven@gmail.com). You can also check out the show notes on our website, thelibrarycoven.com.
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