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Dr. Amanda discusses the current news surrounding sexual assault on the Cornell University campus and connects this culture to Gisèle Pelicot's memoir A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Amanda hosts Dr. Amanda, expert in new communication technology, to discuss books about the current state of AI. Primary focus is on Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAi by Helen Hao and Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis. Additional mentions include The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence - Before it's too late (Cory Doctorow), AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference (Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor), More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity (Adam Becker), The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want (Emily Bender & Alex Hanna), Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech (Brian Merchant), Monk and Robot Series (Becky Chambers), Robogenesis and Robopocalypse (Daniel H Wilson), Buffalo is the New Buffalo (Chelsea Vowel), And Then There Was You (Sophie Cousens), and What if it's You? (Jilly Gagnon). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Amanda hosts her mom to talk about the mom barometer and some of the books she's recommended. It's a lot of books on this one, with less attention to synopses and more attention to mom thoughts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Amanda talks about a handful of books that are hard to sell to other readers based on the premise but worth the read. Books discussed include Open Throat (Henry Hoke), Convenience Store Woman (Sayaka Murata), Quietly, From Afar: A Dark-Comedy Cartoon-Western (Lucas Gardner), A Shore Thing (Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi), and Shark Heart: A Love Story (Emily Habeck). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Amanda hosts her friend Patric to discuss favorite Stephen Graham Jones works, especially The Only Good Indians in anticipation of Off the Reservation, which comes out on October 13. Additional SGJ books discussed include Mongrels, I Was a Teenage Slasher, The Babysitter Lives, and Night of the Mannequins (with a bit of conversation around the Indian Lake trilogy, as well). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Amanda discusses MMIW - Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women from a mega-crisis lens. Books discussed include Highway of Tears: A True Story of RAcism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Jessica McDiarmid); Firekeeper's Daughter (Angeline Boulley); Girl Gone Missing (Marcie Rendon); Where They Last Saw Her (Marcie Rendon); Sisters of the Lost Nation (Nick Medina); The Night Watchman (Louise Erdrich); and Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (David Grann). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Amanda talks about books that touch on various aspects of the housing market and takes the opportunity to mention her favorite book to cite academically. Books discussed on this episode include Best Offer Wins (Marisa Kashino), Model Home (Rivers Solomon), How to Sell A Haunted House (Grady Hendrix), Solace House (Will Maclean), Once the People LIghts Have Gone Off (Stephen Graham Jones), Marshmallow Mountain (AJ Truman and MA Wardell), and Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Matthew Desmond). Also, the computer crashed at around the 34 minute mark and did not seem to reconnect to the good mic, so sorry about the change in quality in the second half. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Amanda has a chance to talk with Demi Blaize, author of the rom-com series, "Apparently, We're the Problem" (Apparently, I'm a Bitch; Apparently, I'm Torture; Apparently, I'm Trouble; and yet-to-be-released Apparently, I'm Toxic). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Amanda hosts Dr. Lydia to talk about their favorite vampire books and what makes them great. Books discussed include Dracula (Bram Stoker), The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Stephen Graham Jones), The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Carissa Broadbent), Vampires of El Norte (Isabel Cañas), Bride (Ali Hazelwood), and The Lesser Dead (Christopher Buehlman). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Amanda features books by Taylor Jenkins Reid and discusses the importance of featuring sapphic love, emotional depth, and empathy for the female character. Books covered on this episode include One True Loves, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones and the Six, Malibu Rising, Carrie Soto is Back, and Atmosphere. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Amanda talks (too much?) about her first cat as an adult and highlights a number of books that feature feline friends. Books discussed include Cat's People (Tanya Guerrero), We'll Prescribe You a Cat (Syou Ishida, translated by E. Madison Shimoda), and The Last House on Needless Street (Catriona Ward), with briefer review of A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman), Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote), Pet Semetary (Stephen King), and The Full Moon Coffee Shop (Mai Mochizuki, translated by Jesse Kirkwood). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Dr. Amanda talks about the role of public apology and purposive rhetoric, and discusses the history of residential schools aimed at dismantling indigenous culture in North America. Books discussed include Five Little Indians (Michelle Good), Shards of Silence (Brian Lee Young), Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools (Mary Annette Pember), A Council of Dolls (Mona Susan Power) and The Night Watchman (Louise Erdrich). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Amanda considers how we talk about mental health and addiction in society and how that is reflected on page. Books discussed include Mistletoe and Mishigas (M.A. Wardell), The Tragedy of Felix and Jake (J. Daniels), Hemlock (Melissa Faliveno), and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Amanda discusses slashers and the Indian Lake Trilogy (My Heart is a Chainsaw, Don't Fear the Reaper, and The Angel of Indian Lake) by Stephen Graham Jones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Amanda talks about how humans interact with the earth this week, discussing Why Fish Don't Exist (Lulu Miller), Gathering Moss and Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer), Entangled Life (Merlin Sheldrake), The Greenhollow Duology (Emily Tesh), and Don't Let the Forest In (CG Drews). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.