Colored Pages Book Club

Hello Beautiful Listeners! The dynamic duo is back for our second-ever Colored Pages Book Club Interview. This time our guest is the amazing Joamette Gil, editor of "Heartwood: Non-Binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy" and the driving force behind the independent publishing company Power & Magic Press.  Join us as we discuss Sailor Moon, the comics industry, Power & Magic Press' various anthologies, and stories that have touched and inspired us. Also! Follow Joamette on twitter @JoametteGil and check out all of the Power & Magic Anthologies on her website: https://powerandmagicpress.com/ Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

OmgHAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! Your favorite hosts are back to ~finally~ conclude their Summer Short Series! Grab some Oreos and a nice beverage as Marci and Ako talk about the historic, legendary, and ONLY non-binary comics anthology; Heartwood: Non-Binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy! Join us as we traverse through 22 forest-filled stories of fun, magic, heart, and transformation. Introduction: 00:00 - 14:45 "The Lungs of Jeju" by Sunmi: 14:45 -17:33 "Blât" by chlove: 17:34 - 23:54 "Expand" by Raven "raveyrai" White: 23:55 - 28:38 "Finding Alex" by Joamette Gil and Corey Ranson: 28:30 - 35:07 "No Vacancy" by Xanthe Bouma: 35:07 - 38:09 "Dear Paloma" by Polly Guo: 38:13 - 49:38 "Shuvah (Return)" by Ezra Rose and Jey Barnes: 49:39 - 55:22 Discussion: 55:42 - 1:26:20 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

School is drawing near, but never fear, another episode of the Colored Pages Book Club is here! Join Ako and Marci as they chat about influential allegories/stories from their childhood, colonialist wasps, and what would happen if a historic social oppressor suddenly...disappeared.   Note: There is a spoiler for "Tales of the Abyss" in the intro of this episode. (We know it came out in 2005, but, hey, maybe you're late to the game...literally lol) Note Part II: Ako misspoke -- The murder of Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria, NOT the Prince of Serbia started off World War I! Intro: 00:00 - 14:22 Plot Summary: 14:45 - 23:30 Discussion: 23:30 - 45:20 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

The kids are back for another blerd filled episode of the Colored Pages Book Club’s Summer Short Series! This episode, we will be reading the first volume of the fantasy comic "M.F.K" by Nilah Magruder. Listen in as Marci and Ako discuss fantasy, the concept of adventure, what element we would bend (think "Avatar the Last Airbender"), and who we'd cobble together to defeat an evil boss--a dastardly villain who's trying to ban fro-yo FOREVER. Intro: 00:00 - 14:16 Plot Summary: 14:36 - 25:50 Discussion: 26:04 - 50:55 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

Marci and Ako are back with another episode in their Summer Short Series! This week, they’ll be discussing Pornsak Pichetshote’s horror comic, "Infidel".  Picture this--a warm summer night, a smoldering campfire, Marci, Ako, and a mutual friend sitting around a campfire. The friend clicks on her flashlight app and places her phone just below her chin lighting up her face in a very spooky fashion. She lowers her voice and asks the two “has anyone ever heard of the racist ghosts that they say haunts apartments in New York Cit--wait where are y’all going?!” Ako, much to her chagrin, found herself suddenly and ANNOYINGLY abducted by extraterrestrials and Marci, well Marci had immediately called one of any dozen ride-share services and headed back towards town, the ancestors did not get him this far just to get haunted by a ghost story! Plot Summary: 11:30 - 39:34 Discussion: 39:24 - 1:12:24 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our emai

Haiiii! All we gotta say is "sky's out, thighs out" cuz we're starting our Summer Short Series! This week, your favorite nerds talk about ZZ Packer's short story "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere"! Get comfortable as we go through the plot summary and later discuss the clumsy process of coming out, navigating Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), and our own personal tales from college in our most personal episode to date! Plot Summary: 2:34 - 15:19 Discussion: 15:28 - 54:04 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

Hai-hai!!!! This week, the dynamic duo interviews the insightful, talented, and hilarious Ryka Aoki. In true book club fashion, we talk about everything from life, family, and identity to the best time of day to write poetry or fiction. Enjoy! "Get Plenty Stuff to See" an Excerpt From He Mele A Hilo: 51:03 - 55:20 Checkout more from Ryka Aoki on Twitter @ryka_aoki and on her website rykaryka.com Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)! 

Hai-hai!!! This week, your scrumptious hosts return to finish their discussion on Ryka Aoki's "He Mele A Hilo: A Hilo Song". We start with a discussion of the nature of utopias, finish the book's plot summary, and later discuss the politics of community integration, divinity as commonplace, and who or what tf Harry is lol. Initial Convo: 0:35-10:59 Plot Summary: 11:16 - 44:39 Discussion: 44:49 - 1:15:50 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)! 

What's good?! This week, your favorite literary hosts sit down to discuss "He Mele A Hilo: A Hilo Song" by Ryka Aoki. Get comfortable as we start with a conversation about the classic love triangle, move to discuss the plot of the first half, and finish by discussing Hawaiian Pidgin English, Nona's bomb ass chicken, and of course, the legendary queen, Eva.  ~NEW SEGMENT~: 0:33-6:45  Plot Summary: 7:02 - 36:14 Discussion: 36:23 - 1:16:05 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

Chiiiiiile....let's just get this over with lol. This week, we, with great difficulty, finish our discussion of Isabel Allende's "House of the Spirits". Be warned, there is copious shade on the path ahead, so do be sure to bring a flashlight. We'll start with our usual plot summary and then dive into a discussion around missed opportunities, redemption, and the seeds of revolution. Plot Summary: 3:10 - 47:00 Discussion: 47:08 - 1:29:42 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

Haiiiiii!!! This week, we begin our discussion of Ako's second book, "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende! As always, we'll start with a juicy ass plot summary of all the events up until the end of Chapter 6. From there, we'll dive into a bigger discussion around themes such as the intersection of magic and feminism, world-building tactics, ironic racism, and 986 reasons why we don't mess with bitch-ass Esteban Trueba.  Plot Summary: 2:50 - 40:29 Discussion: 40:40 - 1:21:39 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

This week, your faves, Ako and Marci, sit down to finish their discussion on Toni Morrison's "Sula". Like always, we'll give you plenty of antics while we break down the rest of the story and break into a bigger discussion about outlaw women, the function of social pariahs, the ubiquity of evil, and the multiplicity of love! Plot Summary: 3:17 - 28:05 Discussion: 28:19 - 1:10:54 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

This week, your hosts, Marci and Ako, STAN for all things Toni Morrison as they discuss the first half of Sula! Sit back as we crank that plot summary and eventually have a discussion around this weird ass place called Medallion, mental health, the complicated nature of community acceptance, and, of course, the Deweys lol.  Plot Summary: 9:51 - 30:04 Discussion: 30:16 - 1:04:36 Join the club and get in touch with us through our website (thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

This week, your hosts, Marci and Ako, finish their discussion of The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin! Come join us as we hit y'all with a plot summary, gag over how wrong all of our predictions were in the last episode, and use the book's many wild ass events to launch into discussions on steamy sex scenes, race within fantasy, and the sacrifice of knowledge!  Plot Summary: 0:49-34:55 Discussion: 35:08-1:08:33 Join the club through our website (www.thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)!

Welcome to the Colored Pages Book Club!! This week, your hosts, Marci and Ako, talk about the first half (end of Chapter 12) of The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. Come join us as we talk about who tf we are, give you all a thick ass plot summary, and discuss our initial thoughts on this gripping tale!  Plot Summary: 6:34-49:05 Discussion: 49:17-1:07:55 Join the club through our website (www.thesecoloredpages.com), Twitter (@TheColoredPages), and our email (thesecoloredpages@gmail.com)! Trigger warning: In the plot summary, there is some brief mentioning of childhood sexual abuse, so please do take care of yourselves!