“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

Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton

“Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong” by Ocean Vuong

“I go down to the shore” by Mary Oliver

“Small Kindnesses” by Dausha Lameris

Tw: sexual assualt and abuse

"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.

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“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.

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“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.

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“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

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“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

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