Episode 100: A Great and Terrible Beauty

A Great and Terrible Beauty

It’s Episode 100 of SSR — and Week 3 of Pride Month! There’s so much to celebrate on the podcast this week!

Episode 100 is all about Libba Bray’s A Great and Terrible Beauty, the 2003 YA novel that kicked off the Gemma Doyle Trilogy. Megan Tripp joins Alli to discuss everything from world-building and problematic othering of BIPOC to subtle hints at queerness and young women claiming their agency! You don’t want to miss it.

Follow Megan on Instagram (@booksnblazers).

CHECK OUT MEGAN’S BOOK RECOMMENDATION:

All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson

MORE READING:

“A Great and Terrible Beauty” (Kirkus, 2003)

“A Great and Terrible Beauty” (Publishers Weekly, 2003)

“A Great and Terrible Beauty Movie SQUASHED!” (YA Reads, 2009)

“A Great and Terrible Beauty” (BookPage, 2004)

“A Great and Terrible Beauty” (Common Sense Media, 2003)

“A Great and Terrible Beauty” (Historical Novel Society)

“A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray” (The Literary Phoenix, 2018)

More About #BookstaPride!

COVID-19 has disrupted an in-person Lambda Literary Awards ceremony and Pride marches around the world, but we can still celebrate & support on bookstagram! We're hosting a joint fundraiser/giveaway throughout the month of June. With each $5 donation, you will be entered to win a $25 gift card to an LGBTQ independent bookstore.

Lambda is an important org to promote LGBTQ literature that has taken a financial hit due to COVID-19. However, representation in literature only goes so far. The original Pride was a riot against the police. In 2020, police still murder Black people, and those in the LGBTQ community and/or with disabilities are at higher risk. To honor the work being done by protestors on the street, #BookstaPride committee members and friends are matching donations to Lambda Literary with a donation to the LGBTQ Freedom Fund. You donate to Lambda Literary, we donate to support Black lives.

To enter:

Donate $5 to Lambda Literary at bit.ly/BookstaPride.

Screenshot your donation receipt, post it to IG and tag each week’s giveaway host.

Every donation of $5 gets you one entry towards the giveaway

The giveaway winner pool resets weekly, so if you don’t win one week, give $5 the following week to be reentered.

This giveaway is hosted independently by LGBTQ bookstagrammers and is not affiliated with Lambda Literary, Instagram, or the bookstore. 

#BookstaPride giveaway hosts/bookstore schedule:

June 15 - 21: Win a gift card to Loyalty Books in Silver Spring, MD and Washington, DC by tagging @lupita.reads

June 22 - 28: Win a gift card to A Room of One's Own in Madison, WI by tagging @caseythereader

June 29- July 5: Win a gift card to Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis, MN by tagging @claudianeureads

Please note that all the above stores have online stores with shipping, so you can win from any location!

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