Episodes

  • 7.04 Listening to the Quiet: High Wages by Dorothy Whipple
    Feb 4 2025

    This week I talk about the 1930 novel High Wages by Dorothy Whipple, the cosmic story of how I found it, and the value of listening to the quiet voice.

    Persephone Books website

    High Wages by Dorothy Whipple

    Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple

    20th Century Reading Challenge: 6.20 Future and Freedom in the 1970s

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    Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning

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    14 mins
  • 7.03 Reading Stats 2024
    Jan 19 2025

    This week, I’m wrapping up my end of year reading episodes by chatting about my 2024 reading statistics. I hope you enjoy!

    Link to our book, Stuck Up and Stupid by Angourie Rice and Kate Rice // AU, NZ // US, UK, CA

    Links to my World Challenge, and the 20th Century Reading Challenge


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    The Community Library Reading Awards 2024

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    Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning

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    13 mins
  • 7.02 An Honour to Be Nominated
    Jan 13 2025

    This week on The Community Library, I’m talking about some more favourite reads of 2024 that didn’t quite make it into my Reading Awards episode.

    Books

    Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

    Don’t You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane

    The Art Thief by Michael Finkel

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    The Community Library Reading Awards 2024

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    Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning

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    11 mins
  • 7.01 The Community Library Reading Awards 2024
    Dec 30 2024

    Welcome to the annual Community Library Reading Awards! A completely subjective and biased awards ceremony in which all the prizes go to the books I read and liked best in 2024.

    The Awards:

    • Biggest Surprise
    • Biggest Accomplishment
    • Most Thought-Provoking
    • Favourite Cover
    • Favourite Speculative Fiction
    • Favourite Translated Fiction
    • Favourite Mystery / Thriller
    • Favourite Nonfiction
    • Favourite 2024 Release

    The Books:

    Essays in Love by Alain de Botton, 1993

    Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy, 1976

    Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, 2023

    Siblings by Brigitte Reimann, 1963, translated by Lucy Renner Jones

    I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, 1995, translated by Ros Schwartz

    The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende, 1982, translated by Magda Bogin

    The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, 1987, translated by Hong-Li Wong

    West of Eden by Jean Stein, 2017

    Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino, 2024

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    Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning

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    21 mins
  • 6.22 See You Soon
    May 26 2024

    If you've been following the podcast for a while, you'll know that each season of The Community Library is about 19-22 episodes. So, my friends, you might have guessed that this is the last episode in season 6. Join me for a little catch up with what I’ve been reading and watching in the past few weeks, and I’ll see you next season!

    For more links and resources, visit my website www.angourieslibrary.com

    You might also like:

    • 6.19 Quarterly Reading Update #1
    • 6.14 The Community Library Live!
    • 6.07 Bookish Q+A
    • 6.05 Mid-Year Book Freakout

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    18 mins
  • 6.21 The Comfort of the End of the World
    May 1 2024

    A couple of weeks ago, I accidentally read a post-apocalyptic book and watched a post-apocalyptic movie in the same week, and I decided I needed to talk about them. This episode is about La Jetée (1962), directed by Chris Marker, and I Who Have Never Known Men (1995), written by Jacqueline Harpman. I hope you enjoy.


    Visit www.angourieslibrary.com for more links and resources.


    Watch La Jetée (1962)

    I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

    More like this:

    6.04 Station Eleven, or 2020

    5.19 Sad Hot Girls

    5.13 The Snake Pit, 1946


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    17 mins
  • 6.20 Future and Freedom in the 1970s
    Apr 17 2024

    Last year, I embarked on a challenge to read a book published in every single year of the 20th Century. When I catalogued all the books from the 20th Century I’d already read, I found the 1970s to be the decade from which I had read the least. In this episode, I take you through my journey of reading books published in 1970, 1973, 1974, 1976 and 1978.

    For more links and resources, visit my website www.angourieslibrary.com


    Books I read to complete the challenge:

    • 1978: Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson
    • 1974: Oreo by Fran Ross
    • 1973: Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
    • 1976: Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
    • 1970: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

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    24 mins
  • 6.19 Quarterly Reading Update #1
    Apr 3 2024

    Since we’re already a quarter of the way into 2024 (!) , it was time for me to sit down with you to talk through my reading stats and highlights from the last 3 months.

    Visit my website www.angourieslibrary.com for more links and resources.

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    Greenpeace Australia Pacific

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    • @angourierice / @the_community_library / our book!
    • Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning
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    22 mins