Little Sleep//Much Reading

IT IS ALMOST THE END OF OUR SEASON!! But not quite! For our second to last episode, the Little Sleep Ladies picked books from our (extremely long) To Be Read piles! Sweet Liza picked one of the best titled books we've ever encountered, The Great Glorious Goddamn Of It All by Josh Ritter. Riss picked a book that was flying off shelves this summer, Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. Felt good t...

Hello! It is that time of year again where we show our appreciation for Native Authors! Liza and Riss always find Native Authors who write BANGING books! We encourage our Sleepy Readers to do the same, not just this month but EVERY MONTH!!! Riss opens the episode with an Older Children's book (not exactly YA), called The Legend of the Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac. Liza read a much newer book tha...

The Little Sleep Much Reading Podcast is embracing Fall this episode!!We're bringing you that warm snug content. We have a bit of an ongoing discussion this week about why these books are similar and the feel of "fall" books. The Lull of Fall books. Riss starts the book discussion with Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red . Liza rounds us out with The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel.

Happy Halloween Sleepy Readers!!! We post this video so all of our ghouls, freaks, weridos and of course, Creatures, can have something fun to listen to while they are putting on their costumes! It is in fact a little treat! This Episode is all about Creature Features. What makes a creature feature to us? What goes into that? Riss Reads Clive Barker's iconic book, The Hellbound Heart, inspiration...

Hello Party People!!! This week to continue our Halloween Extravaganza we talk Slashers! We open our chat with our own opinions on the slasher genre, and things we feel make Slashers what they are. They Liza moves into her book, There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins. After Riss discusses her more complicated book In The Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami. But wait theres more! The Ladies a...

It Came From the Closet is back for another week! This week Marissa discusses the second half of this Queer Horror Theory book! Meanwhile Liza talks about her Queer Horror Fiction pick, The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht!

The Little Sleep Ladies are talking Queer Horror with a new release from Feminist Press called It Came From The Closet ! Marissa is going to tie in a modern Queer Horror Book with Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt . We LOVE discussing Horror theory and so we had so much fun filming this episode, and reading these books, and we hope you also give them a chance! Also as a warning, this video was only...

HEY WEIRDOS! The Little Sleep Ladies are having ANOTHER Morbid Podcast themed episode. When we heard Alaina's book was finally being published we FREAKED OUT!! How exciting is it to read the words of someone you admire so much? (And how exciting when those words turn out to be so amazing?) We proudly read and discuss The Butcher And The Wren by Alaina Urquhart.

The Little Sleep Ladies are bringing you two spooky books by two wonderful LatinX Authors! Marissa read Goddess of Filth by V. Castro. Aliza read Maria Maria: & Other Stories by Marytza. K. Rubio. The Ladies also have one mini conversation about Don't Worry Darling , and a longer discussion about Possession in Horror.

The Little Sleep Ladies are joined by one of their most favorite people, Annie Planker! Annie is a beloved friend who is our Musical Girlie! Today she joins the pod to discuss books turned musicals. This episode is full of musical knowledge and talk about shows, as well as really good books. Riss read Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. Aliza read Big Fis...

In celebration of National Read a Book Day, which happened on September 6th, the Little Sleep Ladies decided not to read just one book or two books, but to have a READ-A-THON !!! So the ladies tried reading as many books as they could in one day. This episode is also the first that the ladies filmed physically together since Aruba! The episode is set up a little differently, composed of voice memo...

Ooooh yes! The Little Sleep Ladies are looking to one of their favorites for this episode. We focused all on Harry Styles!!! Liza Read In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan which lightly inspired Harry's song "Watermelon Sugar." While Riss read a reported Harry favorite, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. The Little Sleep ladies had a little tiny discussion on misogyny based on these reads, and...

On August 30th, 1797, badass Feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft gave birth to Mary Shelley, who would change literature forever. Mary Shelley went on to write Frankenstein thus sealing her fate as the Grandmother of Horror. We want to wish Mary a very happy birthday beyond the grave. Please. celebrate with us in this episode! Aliza read Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft by Samantha Silva. R...

This episode is so close to our hearts! The Little Sleep Ladies not only discuss Row v Wade and Reproductive Rights, but they do it with their dear Feminist Friend, Lindsay Lopp. We would like to remind everyone listening that we believe in the right to abortion. We believe reproductive rights are human rights. We will continue to support the efforts of feminist women everywhere.

Riss and Liza are so excited to be bringing you our fortieth episode! This week we are judging books by their covers! Marissa read a fantasy book called The Splendid City by Karen Heuler while Liza read an experimental book called When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà. The Ladies were visited by an unwelcomed Guest in the beginning of the episode and we left it in for giggles!

HAPPY SEASON THREE !!! The Little Sleep Ladies have a fun season planned out for you all and we're starting off with a BANG! Riss and Liza are doing itchy, sweltering Summer horror books! Riss read the very popular My Heart Is a Chainsaw by our beloved Stephen Graham Jones and Liza read the beautiful Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by super talented, Brom. We are so excited to kick off a third seas...

THIS IS OUR LAST EPISODE OF OUR BONUS SEASON, THE ARUBA TAPES! Riss read the trending book, Wilder Girls by Rory Power while Liza read New Animal by Ella Baxter! We both decided that we need to read each others books DESPERATELY! So thats how you know theres some good content in there. As this is our last episode, we gave a tiny bit of homework at the end! We will be taking a tiny break from the P...

The Little Sleep Ladies are almost done with The Aruba Tapes episodes! This one centers around water with Aliza reading Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid and Riss reading The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh. The Ladies had such a wonderful time sitting with these books and letting the water of the book rush over us!

The Little Sleep Ladies had a wonderful surprise while they were in Aruba, and we had books find us! What we mean by this is that we both unexpectedly came across two books that spoke to us and felt right. Riss came across The Girl in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware while Aliza found The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean.

For another fun addition to the Aruba Tapes, the Little Sleep Ladies read "Beach Trash" which we consider high-drama Mass Market Books that you would take to the beach! We recorded this episode outside in the fresh beautiful Aruban air, so please forgive the background noises you may here. It could be wind, or our live studio audience which included Lizards! For this episode, Aliza read The Reef b...

*So sorry for the noises you hear this episode. Marissa had a house full of babies!* Here is another drop in the bucket we call our Aruba Tapes. This is a shorter episode than usual, focusing on the theme of Island Gals.

MINI SEASON! ARUBA EDITION! Hello Sleepy Readers! The Little Sleep Ladies are BACK with a *mini* season centered around the wonderful island of Aruba. We have lots of cute things planned for these few episodes! Today we wanted to show our appreciation for Caribbean Islanders! Marissa read a book of poems, a short story, and art by Ruby Bute, called Floral Bouquets: To the Daughters of Eve. While L...

On this FINAL episode of our Second Season, the Little Sleep Ladies invite a special friend on the pod, Jessica, to talk with us about a fun book called Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. This book is beloved to many people, these ladies included, and so we wanted to get into the meat of this book and figure out why that may be. For this episode we ditched our normal episode format of going over our rev...

Sleepy readers, welcome in AAPI Month with this new episode! Riss read On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee and sweet Liza read How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang. This episode turned out to be one of Riss's favorites that the two have recorded yet! The ladies had a beautiful conversation in the middle of the episode on liking books, and also why they continue to do this podcast weekly....

Hooooowdy Folks! Happy Earth Day! THIS IS OUR THIRTIETH EPISODE!!!!! For this episode the Little Sleep Ladies decided to focus on climate apocalypse type books. Listen to this episode or read these books and appreciate the world that we have! Think about how lucky we are to get to experience something so magical! Aliza read a relatively new book, Here Lies by Olivia Clare Friedman while Riss read...