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Hosted by a little indie bookstore located just blocks from the beach, Reading Books shares bookish insights, TBR suggestions and a peek behind the bookseller curtain. Tune in and join our reading community. We’d love to have you!
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Winter Reading Wonderland
Books discussed in this episode:
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Diamond Willow by Helen Frost
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes by Shauna Niequist
Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer
Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes by Phyllis Grant
The Fortune Teller by Gwendolyn Womack
We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker -
Love is in The Air-Reading Romance
It's February and bookish love is in the air.
Books mentioned in this episode...
Crushing It by Lorelei Parker
Some Kind of Magic by Mary Ann Marlowe
Dating by the Book by Mary Ann Marlowe
An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening by Carol Wall
Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy
Persephone Station by Stina Leicht
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce -
Reading for Fun while Reading to Learn
Today we head back to campus for a discussion with college students about their reading lives. We’ll learn how they find time, what they are reading and what they wish they were reading.
Books discussed in this episode:
Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain and Other Big Ideas by Alexi Pappas
What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer
My Sister the Serial Killer by Onyikan Braithwaite
Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi -
Getting on “Track” with Reading Resolutions
Today we talk with readers and ask them to tell us a little about their bookish goals for 2021. They share their tracking style, what worked and what didn’t and why they think it’s important to give tracking a go. So let’s get reading books together and welcome in 2021 with open book-filled arms !!
Books discussed in this episode:
A Swim in a pond in the Rain by George Saunders
She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh
A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell
Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Chasing Lucky by Jenn Bennett -
Don’t Panic-Book Gift Ideas by the Read Books Team
In this, our first episode, our team shares some book ideas for gifting. Books mentioned in this episode:
The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant,
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous
The Greatest Beer Run Ever By J. T. Molloy and John "Chickie" Donahue
The Well Gardened Mind By Sue-Stuart Smith
The Witches are Coming By Lindy West
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse By Charlie Mackesy
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune
The Tiny Chef and and Da Mishing Weshipee Blook by Adam Reid, Rachel Larsen and Ozi Akturk
The Dragon Proxies Tiananmen Ascending By Britt Alan
Cassandra Speaks By Elizabeth Lesser
Facism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins