Ep 96: Book Club's Best Books of the Year 2020
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My real life book club friends Yasmin Dunn and Stephanie Newman-Smith join me for a long and lively conversation about some of our favorite books of 2020.
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Ep 90: Best Books Lately with Dr. Cara Pence
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I’m joined by one of my oldest and closest friends, Dr. Cara Pence. You might remember Cara from Ep 6: Revisiting Judy Blume. On this episode, we’re each sharing the best books we’ve read lately and talking through two recent best sellers. (One we loved, one we didn’t.)
Read MoreEp 83: Best Books Lately with Christine Koh
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It’s time for another episode about the best books we’ve read lately! This time I'm joined by Christine Koh, an author, speaker, blogger, podcaster, designer, and scientist. Yes, DR. Christine Koh is all of those things, and on this episode she is sharing books that speak to the Asian American experience AND her newfound love of the romance genre.
I'm sharing two books about cults, what I'm reading before I fall asleep at night, and the novel that took me totally by surprise.
So there is a LOT packed into this conversation.
Read MoreBONUS: More great books to read!
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We didn't have time for me to share ALL the great books I've been reading on the recent reading episode, so this is a little bonus to tell you all about my current book stack, including a new novel that's a contender for favorite of the year, and a nonfiction book that I am forcing myself to read with an open mind.
Read MoreEp 74: Best Books Lately with Sarah Bessey
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It's time for another episode about BOOKS and this time I'm joined by my good friend Sarah Bessey. Sarah is a writer, speaker, and all around woman of wisdom. She is the author of Jesus Feminist, Out of Sorts, and the spiritual memoir Miracles and Other Reasonable Things. She is also the cofounder of the Evolving Faith conference.
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On this episode, Sarah and I each share the best books we've read lately, including popular novels, Canadian authors that fly under the radar, and social justices resources.
Read MoreEp 65: Summer Reading Guide with Anne Bogel of Modern Mrs Darcy
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This episode is for anyone who is excited for summer reading!
I am so excited to welcome Anne Bogel, three-time author, blogger at Modern Mrs. Darcy, podcaster at What Should I Read Next? and someone who reads more books than anyone else I know!
Read MoreBONUS: 10 Books in my To Read pile + listener recommendations!
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This Best Books lately episode ran longer than I expected and I didn't have time to tell you about all the awesome books in my MASSIVE To Read pile. I chose 10 of the books waiting on my kindle or on my bedside to share with you, and then listed the rest over on the blog. (You can find my full To Read list here.)
I love hearing what YOU'RE reading lately, and so the last few minutes of this bonus episode includes listener recommendations, straight from their own mouths. So now my To Read pile is somehow larger than it was before I recorded this...
Read MoreEp 54: Best Books Lately with Jessica Turner + A Conversation about American Dirt with Stephanie Newman-Smith
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This episode is for you if you love to read (and follow literary controversies).
Book episodes are the best episodes! We spend the first half hour talking about the best books we've read lately with Jessica Turner, and we take a brief detour to talk about #Bookstagram and our current reading habits (including a new hobby Jessica picked up and the #ReadYourBooks challenge she's hosting online).
In the second half of this extra long episode, I'm joined by my real-life book club friend Stephanie Newman-Smith to talk through the layers of controversy around the novel American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. We talk about who can tell what stories, how the publishing industry is complicit in silencing non-white voices, and the bizarre marketing missteps around the novel that Oprah picked for her book club.
Read MoreEp 46: Book Club 2019 (Best, Worst, and Buzziest Books of the Year)
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Allllll the Best Of book lists are rolling out and of course I have to throw my two cents in.
This episode is a conversation with two friends from my real life book club, Yasmin Dunn and Stephanie Newman-Smith. We are discussing the best, worst, and buzziest books of the year and we have a LOT of words.
Read MoreEp 38: Books for Growth
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This episode is for you if you’re seeking books to expand your perspective.
Reading and personal development are two of my passions, and when they intertwine it’s like heaven.
I’ve broken down personal growth books into 4 categories:
Introspection
Spirituality
Body
Humanity
Or, put another way: Discovering ourselves, finding God, connecting to our body, and learning about others.
Read MoreEp 31: Best Books Lately with Alyssa Hertzig
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My favorite type of episode! All about books…the best we’ve read this summer, plus reading habits and what’s on our To-Read list.
Read MoreEp 17: Revisiting Flowers in the Attic with Meg Tietz
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Flowers in the Attic was published in 1979 and has become somewhat of a cult classic novel, especially for women of a certain age who passed it among friends.
My dear friend Meg Tietz suggest that we revisit Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews, and we were both really surprised by what we found between the pages of this book.
Read MoreEp 11: Best Books I've Read Lately
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This episode is full of all the books I can’t stop talking about lately.
Here is the list of all the books mentioned in this episode:
Read MoreEp 6: Revisiting Judy Blume
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This episode is a little bit of a different format. I’m with one of my oldest and dearest friends, Dr. Cara Pence, and we’re revisiting a childhood favorite: Judy Blume.
I have several ideas for a revisit series, where we look at some popular things from our past - books, movies, tv shows, et cetera - and talk about how they affected us and how we feel about them now. So this is the first in that series and we’re looking back at the formative era of pre-pubescent literature that is Judy Blume.
Read MoreEp 1: When do you read?
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WHEN do you read?
HOW do you read?
WHAT do you read?
In this episode, I’m answering all of those questions and so much more. I’m telling you my secret to reading (roughly) one book a week. We talk about if audiobooks count the same as reading a book you hold. And I confess my dilemma over rating books publicly.
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