Proust and the Meaning of Cupcakes

In which Carla celebrates episode 50 by answering the questions of the Proust Questionnaire.

Books to read:

Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminairies Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life

Referenced Episodes:

• This Girl Just Had A Bad Date
• A Different World 
• Family Trees
• My writing: Bonnie and Charlie: Casey Anthony and Bonnie MacNara
• My writing: Beatrice and Gwendolyn: Watching the Detectives and Watching the Detectives Part 2

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Books and Threads

In which Carla talks about where she has been--in complex PTSD therapy and in major EDS flareup--and reviews the very best books she has read this year, in therapy and, of course, for fun. Much horror and true crime was enjoyed.

Referenced Episodes:

• This Girl Just Had A Bad Date
• A Different World
• The Mill Girl

Recommended Reading:

CPTSD:

• Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk 
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk 
• The Trauma Tool Kit: Healing PTSD from the Inside Out by Susan Pease Banitt 
• Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Lewis Herman 

My five-star reading this year so far:

1. Dream Work by Mary Oliver (poetry) 
2. Three Early Stories by J. D. Salinger (short stories) 
3. Hannah-Beast by Jennifer McMahon (horror—audio) 
4. The Last Days of August by Jon Ronson (true crime—audio) 
5. Possessed: The Infamous Texas Stiletto Murder by Kathryn Casey (true crime) 
6. Amy: My Search for Her Killer by James Renner (true crime) 
7. Come Closer by Sara Gran (horror) 
8. The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry (horror) 
9. Please Don’t Go Before I Get Better by Madisen Kuhn (poetry) 
10. I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame by Brené Brown (psychology: updated edition title: I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't): Making the Journey From "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough") 

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The Use of Sorrows

In which Carla celebrates two lives well lived, one in letters, one in play, both in finding and making cupcakes. Both lives have anniversaries in January: Mary Oliver, and Carla's younger brother, Eric.

Source for Mary Oliver’s reading her poem “Wild Geese”: https://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/mary-oliver-reads-wild-geese (https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/24/mary-oliver-reads-wild-geese/)

Link to full Instagram watercolor and tribute on There Might Be Cupcakes account: https://www.instagram.com/p/BswBGT2hgoR/

On Being with Krista Tippet: Mary Oliver: https://onbeing.org/programs/mary-oliver-listening-to-the-world-jan2019/ * direct download: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/560660913-mary-oliver-listening-to-the-world-jan2019.mp3

Recommended Reading:

Long Life: Essays and Other Writings https://amzn.to/2FY6pcn

Dream Work https://amzn.to/2Gdbw7N

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Victorian Christmas: The Goblin and the Paw

In which Carla revisits the Victorian Christmas tradition of scary stories at Christmas by reading two classics of the era--and, in doing so, explores the not-well-known genesis of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, to boot. Things get silly and eerie in turn. Come sit by the fire and enjoy some cupcakes and wassail.

Related and Referenced Episode: 32: What the Dickens

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The Mill Girl

In which Carla reads Jennifer McMahon's short story "The Mill Girl", released especially for Halloween 2018.

"The Mill Girl" copyright 2018 Jennifer McMahon, published by Penguin Random House

Music: “Comadreamers I”, Haunted Me

Official Site for Jennifer McMahon 

Recommended reading:

Promise Not to Tell

Island of Lost Girls

Dismantled

Don’t Breathe a Word 

The One I Left Behind 

The Winter People

The Night Sister 

Burntown 

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Reverberations

In which Carla talks about how the past always informs the present...especially the traumatic past.

RAINN: About Sexual Assault | Types of Sexual Violence | Laws in Your State | Help Someone You Care About | Self-Care After Trauma | National Sexual Assault Hotline

Recommended reading:

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman https://amzn.to/2CM19Hc

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk: https://amzn.to/2CivFYi

House of Windows by John Langan: https://amzn.to/2CkpB1C

Lisey’s Story by Stephen King: https://amzn.to/2IYnuSh

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A Different World

In which Carla explains what it was like to grow up as a '70's kid with Cosby as "America's Dad", especially as a survivor of violent sexual assault.

RAINN: About Sexual Assault | Types of Sexual Violence | Laws in Your State | Help Someone You Care About | Self-Care After Trauma | National Sexual Assault Hotline

Recommended reading:

Maya Angelou 

Audre Lorde

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Hinterland

In which Carla shares the beginning of an amazing and frightening book series.

Recommended reading: The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert 

Melissa Albert: Goodreads, Twitter 

Music: Haunted Me, “Mechanics of Leaving”

If you are interested in having your book featured and reviewed on the podcast, please email me at carla@theremightbecupcakes.com. My postal address may be found at theremightbecupcakes.com/about-me-myself-and-cupcakes.

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Dangerous Innocence

In which Carla deconstructs one of her post-grad psychology papers and explores one of her favorite research topics: people who offend in pairs and murder as a team.

Recommended reading from this episode:

Deadly Innocence

Invisible Darkness

Karla: A Pact with the Devil

Audio: Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka: The True Story of the Ken and Barbie Killers (Kindle format) (Audible link http://www.audibletrial.com/mightbecupcakes)

Aftermath by Peter Robinson (fiction inspired by this case) 

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Pears of Hands

In which Carla reads to you fairy tales and folklore all about losing one’s grip.

Recommended reading from this episode:

The Haunters and the Haunted, ed. Ernest Rhys 

The Complete Fairy Tales Grimm 

Gregory Maguire:

Mirror, Mirror

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Wicked

Son of a Witch

A Lion Among Men

Out of Oz

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