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TBR Lowdown is a weekly conversational bookish podcast focused on reading and discussing as many diverse books as possible.

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TBR Lowdown is a weekly conversational bookish podcast focused on reading and discussing as many diverse books as possible.

Join our #12Women12Countries annual reading challenge and check out our 2024 Community Reading Schedule at https://www.tbrlowdown.com.

Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss a thing!

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    The Great American Novels

    The Great American Novels

    In this episode, we discuss, The Atlantic’s March 14, 2024, The Great American Novels article.



    Highlights:

    🎙 Can one book encompass the totality of America?🎙What does the term “great American novel” even mean?🎙 It’s always fun to see a list of books that are completely new to you.

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    • 1 hr 10 min
    2024 Q1 Book Favs

    2024 Q1 Book Favs

    In this episode, we share our favorite books from the first quarter.



    Highlights:



    🎙 Poets writing novels FOR THE WIN!

    🎙Naomi makes serious progress in completing some series on her shelves.

    🎙2024 is proving to be a really good reading year.



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    ⭐️ Readalong with us for our 2024 Reading Schedule https://www.tbrlowdown.com/2024readingschedule



    ⭐️ Participate in our 2nd annual #12Women12Countries reading challenge ⁠https://www.tbrlowdown.com/12women12countries⁠



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    • 46 min
    Late Spring/Summer Book Releases

    Late Spring/Summer Book Releases

    In this episode, we talk about some of the late Spring and Summer book releases we’re looking forward to and think you should put on your radar.



    Highlights:



    🎙 Naomi has been on a literary vampire book kick.

    🎙Yup, there are most definitely some dark emotional books on our list.

    🎙 Female friendships come up again in some of Alyssa’s picks.



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    ⭐️ Participate in our 2nd annual #12Women12Countries reading challenge ⁠https://www.tbrlowdown.com/12women12countries⁠



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    • 1 hr 2 min
    We Discuss Grapes of Wrath and Whose Names are Unknown [UPCOMING]

    We Discuss Grapes of Wrath and Whose Names are Unknown [UPCOMING]

    STAY TUNED FOR THIS UPCOMING EPISODE....



    The Grapes of Wrath was published today in 1939.



    We have been reading The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and Whose Names are Unknown by Sanora Babb, and we will have a deep dive discussion about both books and their publishing history. You don't want to miss this episode!


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    • 3 min
    [UPCOMING] We Discuss The Grapes of Wrath and Whose Names are Unknown

    [UPCOMING] We Discuss The Grapes of Wrath and Whose Names are Unknown

    STAY TUNED FOR THIS UPCOMING EPISODE....

    The Grapes of Wrath was published today in 1939.

    We have been reading The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and Whose Names are Unknown by Sanora Babb, and we will have a deep dive discussion about both books and their publishing history. You don't want to miss this episode!

    We chat about the Bloomberg article: TikTok Is Turning the Publishing World Into Fast Fashion

    We chat about the Bloomberg article: TikTok Is Turning the Publishing World Into Fast Fashion

    In this episode, we chat about the Bloomberg article: TikTok Is Turning the Publishing World Into Fast Fashion. There have been several articles and YouTube video essays on this topic.

    Highlights:

    🎙Is it booktok that’s the problem or the publishing industry?🎙There seems to be an increasing amount of judgment in the book community.🎙We are entirely too concerned with what other readers are doing.🎙 Are special editions even special anymore?

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    Join our community! Read and chat with us.

    ⭐️ Readalong with us for our 2024 Reading Schedule https://www.tbrlowdown.com/2024readingschedule

    ⭐️ Participate in our 2nd annual #12Women12Countries reading challenge ⁠https://www.tbrlowdown.com/12women12countries⁠

    ⭐️ Join our book club Discord server ⁠https://disboard.org/server/823917426387058719⁠

    ⭐️ Join our Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TBRLowdown⁠

    ⭐️ Follow TBR Lowdown on Instagram/Twitter/TikTok/YouTube

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    • 58 min

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