Ep 107: 10 Reasons to Read (A conversation with Sara Hildreth of @fictionmatters)
/Let’s talk about books that are NOT my book! I’ve been pretty open that in the last few months of launching my first book Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First., my personal reading life has taken a major nosedive. For the first time in years, I’ve been unable to focus on reading any sort of fiction with consistency.
But after I had this conversation with Sara Hildreth of @fictionmatters and the Novel Pairings podcast, I suddenly had a renewed interest in my favorite hobby of all time: READING! Sara just brings that out in people.
In this conversation, Sara and I each share 5 reasons we read fiction, why it has matters to us personally and how it changes the world. I just loved chatting with her and we could have talked for hours.
I hope this episode makes you run to your bookshelves or sparks a great conversation about why reading fiction matters to YOU.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Starring Sally J. Freeman as Herself by Judy Blume
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Bloomability and Walk Two Moons both by Sharon Creech
The Sense of an Ending by Julianne Barnes
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
Neopolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
Big Little Lies and What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Dark Matter and Recursion by Blake Crouch
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Exhalation and The Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Reminder that I share all the books I’ve been reading (and my most honest reviews) in my monthly-ish newsletter The Secret Posts.
But if you ARE in the mood for a little non-fiction, might I suggest:
