Links: Podcasts, Olympics, & Star Wars

It’s Wednesday! And Boston’s weather is having a moment. The high is 69 today (nice), but we’re due for snow tomorrow. I just came back from a rather relaxing reading retreat and it’s a struggle to drag myself to the gym. What I’m trying to say is that my life is all over the place and I hope your Wednesday is faring better.

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Reminder! Our Movie Matinee Broadcast News discussion will be occurring this Sunday at 8pm ET. We’re doing things a little differently and hosting a live chat, like we do with our Book Club discussions. Hope you can make it!

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Starting on March 14, the people who bring you the Welcome to Nightvale podcast are premiering their Chuck Tingle podcast: Pounded in the Butt by My Own Podcast. It seems like the podcast will feature guests reading and acting out Tingle’s books. Will you be listening?

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Are you a romance reader who lives in or near Cape Town? There’s a book club starting up in your area from Reader Lara! If you’re interested, please fill out this Google Form.

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Though I’m not following the Olympics too closely, I really enjoyed this essay from Korean American writer R.O. Kwon on her emotional reaction to this year’s games:

The Olympics are the only sports I follow — or followed, past tense. With the Pyeongchang Winter Games, I haven’t been able to watch so much as a single full replay clip without crying; that, or shouting. I can barely read the next-day write-ups. I grieve or I rage. When I’m having dinner with white friends and they discuss the latest athletic triumph, I try not to listen. But still, I get pulled in.

“Do you know that part of Korea?” they ask. “Have you been to Pyeongchang?”

“I visited the province once, just for a couple of days,” I say, and I leave it at that. What I don’t explain is that my father’s from that region, as is the rest of his family. His father, my grandfather, helped govern the province of Gangwon, where Pyeongchang is located. I was born in Seoul; a sizable percentage of my family used to be from what’s now North Korea. None of this is worth explaining, not while I’m at dinner with my friends.

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Thanks to EC Spurlock for sharing this link with us! It’s 365 Days of Star Wars Women, where Amy Richau is using each day to talk to use about women in Star Wars, be they actresses, crew members, or Star Wars characters.

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Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!