Little Sleep//Much Reading

Today is a little bit of a longer episode as the Little Sleep Ladies have a very important guest on our show! Our great friend Zoe Wollman joins us to talk about the beloved Beverly Cleary, as we celebrate this amazing author's birthday. We take a little trip down memory lane and went back to our child hoods. Marissa talked about Beverly and touched on her memoir "A Girl From Yamhill" Zoe went for...

April is Autism Awareness month!!! This is something so near and dear to the Little Sleep Ladies and so this week they picked up books by Autistic Authors! Aliza read "The Deep" by Rivers Solomon and Marissa read "Even If We Break" by Marieke Nijkamp! This month we are encouraging our Sleepy Readers to learn about Autistic Authors, and books with Autistic Characters! Take the time to support these...

Hey Weirdos... This is so totally not Morbid! It's your other favorite Podcast, The Little Sleep//Much Reading Podcast! This week the ladies put their detective pants on and give you some cases from True Crime books. We also talk about the ways true crime and nonfiction authors present their work! So hold on to your butts!! These cases are gruesome!

Sleep Readers, enjoy this long bonus episode! As we begin to close out Women's History Month, the Little Sleep ladies dug into our archives to get this video together for you. This episode discusses a well debated topic, "Stephen King, Feminist or Misogynist?" We explore work by King, get into some movie discussions and ask important questions about writing. Please keep in mind this was recorded i...

This episode centers around the Oscars, Baby! The Little Sleep Ladies examined the category of Best Adapted Screenplay! They each picked a book from this category and are bringing their review of it to you! OH YEAH! The Ladies also watched the movie that accompanies their book and they give you a taste of that compared to the book! Tune in to find out what exactly the Ladies read (and watched) Osc...

March 21st is world poetry day! The Little Sleep Ladies read some beautiful poetry books! Marissa reads Night Sky with Exit Wounds by the very talented Ocean Vuong and Liza read Brute by Emily Skaja, such a wonderful book of poems. The Ladies want to encourage everyone to pick up a contemporary book of poems! If you can't buy a book, show poets some love on instagram or twitter! Track them down an...

Hey Sleepy Readers! On this episode we are celebrating the birth of one of our favorite Sci-Fi Authors. Mr. Douglas Adams was born on March 11, so remember him on that day by doing something kind for an animal. Why? Well along with being a Sci-Fi King, Douglas was also a huge Animal Activist! In this episode Liza read "Left Chance to See" by Adams, where he tried to bring awareness to endangered a...

March starts the wonderful Women's History Month! Since the Little Sleep Ladies read women more often than men, we are only using this episode as a celebration of the month. Liza saved a books life (just kidding! or am I?) by picking up "The Bitch" by Pilar Quintana. Marissa read "The Dark Dark" a collection of stories by our host's beloved professor Samantha Hunt! Make sure you read a book by a w...

For our final week of Black History Month the Little Sleep Ladies read Horror! And it was good! Marissa read "The Devil in Silver" by Victor LaValle, and Liza read "Lakewood" by Megan Giddings. Of course, the celebration of black authors and black creators should NOT stop here! We should be consuming black made content all year, and showing our support!! Also please excuse the ending! Our zoom shu...

Hey all you ghouls, cats and witches! This episode of LSMR follows our Black History Month with "Magic" books by Black Authors! Aliza read "Boy, Snow, Bird" by the wonderful Helen Oyeyemi and Riss read "The Intuitionist" by Colson Whitehead. Although our hosts LOVE these amazing authors, and have enjoyed other works by them, the books reviewed this week weren't easy to get through! It just shows t...

The hosts of the LSMR podcast are over the moon about releasing THEIR TWENTIETH EPISODE!! Thank you so much to all of our listeners! This week we focused on Mystery books by Black Authors. Marissa read a crime book called The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson and Liza read a thrilling book called My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. These books were so fun to read. We are loving these...

The Little Sleep Ladies are celebrating Black History Month with books in our favorite genres by Black Authors ALL MONTH LONG!!! This week we had the general topic of Black History. Liza read "The Perishing" by Natashia Deón and Riss read a children's book called "The 1619 Project: Born on the Water" by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson, and illustrated by Nikkolas Smith. For more information a...

To ease us back into a new season of book talking, the LSMR Ladies catch you up on their most recent reads! Riss read White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi and Liza read Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw. Both books have witchy vibes, and beautiful covers that we think you should definitely take a look at! We also talked a lot about other books on this episode, as our conversations kept moving to the to...

The Little Sleep Ladies are starting off the new year (and the new season) by summing up their Top Ten Reads of 2021! This episode is a treat that will feature some of your favorites from last season! The question you should all be asking is..... Which book will be Number One???? We are so happy the Winter Hiatus is over, and we can start talking books again! Be sure to follow us on Twitter, Insta...

Join Liza and Riss for the FINAL episode of the first season where the girls have gifted each other one of the other's favorite books (please tell me that wording makes sense). Liza read one of Marissa's favorite books, "Horns" by Joe Hill. Riss read one of Liza's favorite books, "Red Clocks" by Leni Zumas. This episode was SO fun to film and it was so wonderful to see each other within these book...

This week Riss and Liza are joined by a dear friend, Vineeta Chauhan, as they discuss historical fiction. Vineeta read The Gladd Palace by Amitav Ghosh, Liza read The Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin, and Riss read the podcast's first graphic novel (!!!) Unterzakhn by Leela Corman. This episode is a long one!!

Today the Little Sleep Ladies celebrate Louisa May Alcott's birthday by discussing a collection of essays called March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women by Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley. The book relates not only each writer but also the readers to the March Sisters. Liza and Riss jump through topics: Which March Sister are you? (Along with Hogwarts Houses...

Happy Thanksgiving! In this episode, the Girlies talk Feasts! What can a feast mean in literature? How can a feast be used in a story? Marissa reviews Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham and Aliza reviewed The Council of Animals by Nick McDonell. Wishing everyone a wonderful turkey (or tofurkey) nap!

Surprise Bonus Episode!!!!!! The Little Sleep Ladies talk about Lit News from this week including the National Book Awards! Marissa and Liza also clarify some things about Memoir. We discuss "truth" in Memoir and the use of "emotional truth". If you would like to read more about this check out the links below! https://bookriot.com/a-memoir-doesnt-have-to-tell-the-truth/ https://www.janefriedman.co...

November is Memoir Month!!! Have you read a memoir yet? The LSMR Girlies have! Aliza read "Tastes Like War" by Grace M. Cho and Marissa read "Men We Reaped" by Jesmyn Ward. Both of these books were fantastic and absolutely devastating! Also, notice these authors are both women and POC. We would like to remind you to support POC authors! Read their memoirs and their stories and thank them for the c...

Happy Birthday Mr. Neil Gaiman! The hosts of the Little Sleep Pod celebrated by reading two of Neil's books. Marissa read "American Gods" while Liza read "The Ocean At The End Of The Lane" and the ladies had much to say about these books! Apologies in advance for the background noise! Please keep in mind that Marissa is not recording in her usual space, and is having to record in a shared space (a...

HEY YOU! YEAH, YOU! YOU RIGHT THERE!!! HAVE YOU SHOPPED AT A NATIVE AMERICAN OWNED BOOKSTORE??? BOUGHT A BOOK WRITTEN BY A NATIVE AMERICAN AUTHOR??? DO YOU KNOW WHAT STOLEN LAND YOU ARE CURRENTLY OCCUPYING??? NO? WHAT ARE YOU DOING? IT IS NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH!!! This week the Little Sleep Hosts reviewed books by Native American authors! They discussed Native American Literatures (yes, wi...

The ladies awaken the dead with their reviews of this book! Just kidding, but also maybe not... The hosts discuss the difference between the Supernatural genre and the Paranormal genre. Did you know there was a difference? Marissa gives her review of Malachi Martin's Hostage To The Devil! While Liza brings us a much more lighthearted review with My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. Can you...

This week the LSMR Hosts welcome the wonderfully talented, Lexi Anderson! She joins the ladies for a conversation on body horror and shares a bit of her own writing with a piece called, Disgust, which takes influence from body horror. Aliza reviews Night Bitch by Rachel Yoder, while Riss reviews Tender is the FLesh by Agustina Bazterrica.

FInd yourself asking: What is Psychological Horror? Riss and Liza are here to help! Come listen to our ideas on what psych horror is, and some common technical aspects in writing psych horror. Riss reviews Iain Reid's psych horror masterpiece, "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" while Liza reviews the classic "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" by the great Sherley Jackson.