Book Feels

“We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.” Join Pauline and Peter as they wrap up Book Feels’ first season with the poems and prayers that have shaped them. This episode references the following works:  “A Rabbit Reveals My Room” by Nancy Willard “Heirloom” by Paul Tran Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis “For Warmth” by Thich Nhat Han Tho...

"Close your eyes and be still, now. I'm going to give you a memory of a rainbow.” Join Pauline and Peter as they explore some perplexing questions (and don’t provide any answers!) in The Giver by Lois Lowry. Email us at bookfeelspodcast@gmail.com or follow us on instagram @bookfeelspodcast .

“Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.” Join Pauline and Peter as they discuss teenage growing pains and the friends that get you through it in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares. Email us at bookfeelspodcast@gmail.com or follow us on instagram @bookfeelspodcast .

“You try being an eight-year-old violin-playing gymnastics-obsessed geode-collecting stamp connoisseur who has to have all those things with him in order to feel safe and nurtured.” Join Pauline and Peter as they discuss what a gorgeous recovery looks like in Jonathan Van Ness’s memoir, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love. Tw: sexual abuse, addiction, self-harm

“Don't let us make it tidy. It wouldn't seem like a secret garden if it was tidy.” Join Pauline and Peter as they explore healing through nature and play in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Email us at bookfeelspodcast@gmail.com or follow us on instagram @bookfeelspodcast .

“It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather!” Join Pauline and Peter as they explore the good and bad of family inheritance and also what Pauline calls “boy culture” in Holes by Louis Sachar tw: racial violence

“But whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.” Join Pauline and Peter as they discuss Edna Pontellier and her rebellious indiscretions in The Awakening by Kate Chopin. tw: suicide Email us at bookfeelspodcast@gmail.com or follow us on instagram @bookfeelspodcast .

“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them." On this episode, Pauline and Peter discuss magic, friendship, and a dash of generational trauma in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling. TW: abuse Email us at bookfeelspodcast@gmail.com or follow us on instagram @bookfeelspodcast .

“That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.” On this episode, Pauline and Peter explore generational conflict and care through the four mother-daughter relationships in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Email us at bookfeelspodcast@gmail.com or follow...

"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot." Join Pauline and Peter as they discuss Holden Caulfield and all his complexities and contradictions from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. TW: sexual abuse, suicide, self-harm Email us at bookfeelspodcast@gmail.com , or follow us on instagram @bookfeelspodcast .