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Introducing the Bookaholics Podcast, a safe place for reading junkies who obsess over books, authors, bookstores, book news, and book trivia. You’re invited to nerd-out with book reviews, author interviews, our habit, and other bookish things . Enjoy Interviews with those in the book business. Meet new authors. Explore curating your library with new genres and discover new authors. revisit the classics with a twist. Your host Deirdre Pippins, also known as Ms. Media Content, is a board member for her local library, content creator, copywriter, and business owner. She has traveled extensively throughout the world because of the influence of books she’s read. Remember to subscribe to the podcast, follow us Instagram @truebookaholic. You can also email us at readingjunkie@book-a-holic.com. Don’t forget to support your local library and independent bookstores. The Bookaholics Podcast ”For those who can’t get enough of that bookish stuff.”

  1. 4d ago

    They Built a $30 Million Company—Then It Nearly Destroyed Them | Book Recommendation | Episode 162

    The latest news at Bookaholic - https://linktr.ee/truebookaholic 📚 BUY THE BOOK👉 HOLD ON FOR DEAR LIFE https://amzn.to/4yyoWlQ What do you hold on to when everything you built starts to fall? Three friends. One impossible idea. Thirty million dollars raised overnight. And a question none of them thought to ask until it was almost too late. In the summer of 2017, Charlie, Jack, and Nik leave MIT believing they can change how the world moves money. Within months, they are exactly the kind of company that gets written about. Within two years, they are nearly destroyed by it. A Story About Everything That Almost Broke Hold On for Dear Life is a literary fiction novel about idealism, hubris, and resilience - and the long, difficult work of finding your way back to why you started. What waits inside: A friendship that almost doesn't survive success A love story three years in the making A market crash, a hack, a kidnapping A debut novel by a real Wall Street and crypto executive Have you ever bet on something the world told you to walk away from? Have you ever built something with the people closest to you and watched the building change them? This isn't a book about cryptocurrency. It's a book about what survives when everything else burns - and what it costs to find out. Among the best literary fiction books written at the intersection of ambition, friendship, and financial ruin - this is fiction for adults who know that the hardest losses aren't always measured in money. If Normal People stayed with you, if Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow lingered for weeks, this is the next book you cannot put down. ----more---- 💛 SUPPORT THE PODCAST 💛 📩 Join the Bookaholic Newsletter for FREEBIES 🎁 and more: https://www.book-a-holic.com/newsletter ⭐ Join my Patreon! It's FREE! https://www.patreon.com/cw/truebookaholic ⭐ Leave a review on my website. https://www.book-a-holic.com/reviews/new/ 📌 Subscribe on YouTube @truebookaholic 📌Follow me on my TikTok, Facebook, Instagram @truebookaholic ----more----This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may earn a commission.

  2. Sep 18

    He Was a 29-Year-Old Virgin—Then He Became the “King of Sensuality” | Episode 161

    Are you an author who needs a website or website refresh? Tertulia has created a platform designed specifically for authors—not businesses, photographers, or restaurants—but writers. Instead of forcing authors to adapt a generic website builder, Tertulia automatically creates a professional author website using your book's ISBN or ASIN. Within minutes, your books, cover images, metadata, and author information are imported, giving you a polished starting point without the technical headaches. Check it out here👉:http://bit.ly/4hhiLx5 ----more----📚 BUY THE BOOK👉 WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT SEX?https://amzn.to/4j3AYPx What happens when a shy, inexperienced 29-year-old virgin suddenly becomes America's hottest new sex expert? In Terrance K. Gibson's humorous and provocative novel What's So Great About Sex?, Wilbur Klutzheimer is a lonely New York Times reporter who has never had much success with women. After rejecting a friend's offer to teach him how to seduce women, Wilbur begins experiencing vivid erotic dreams—and turns them into a bestselling book. Suddenly, the man who knows little about sex is celebrated as the “King of Sensuality.” But when Wilbur falls in love with Toni, he must confront a difficult question: Can he find love while keeping the truth about himself hidden? In this episode, Terrance K. Gibson joins Bookaholic to discuss virginity, sexuality, relationships, self-worth, and what it really means to be a man or woman in today's world. Is sexual experience really what makes us mature—or is there more to becoming an adult? Tune in for a fun, thought-provoking conversation about sex, love, identity, and one very unlikely sex expert. - ----more----💛 SUPPORT THE PODCAST 📩 Join the Bookaholic Newsletter for FREEBIES 🎁 and more: https://www.book-a-holic.com/newsletter ⭐ Join my Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/truebookaholic ⭐ Leave a review on my website. https://www.book-a-holic.com/reviews/new/ 📌 Subscribe on YouTube @truebookaholic 📌Follow me on my TikTok, Facebook, Instagram @truebookaholic ----more---- This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may earn a commission.

  3. Sep 11

    From Rock Bottom to Revenge: When Obsession Takes Over | Episode 160

    Are you an author who needs a website or website refresh? Tertulia has created a platform designed specifically for authors. Tertulia automatically creates a professional author website using your book's ISBN or ASIN. Within minutes, your books, cover images, metadata, and author information are imported, giving you a polished starting point without the technical headaches. Check it out here👉:http://bit.ly/4hhiLx5 ----more----📚 BUY THE BOOK👉 FULLY AVERAGE https://amzn.to/4ina5G6 Melissa Bonetti thought she had it all figured out. A steady job. An eight-year relationship. A life of comfortable, perfectly average normalcy. Then everything falls apart in a single day. She loses both her job and her boyfriend of eight years in less than 12 hours. Suddenly unemployed, dumped, and living in her childhood bedroom, Melissa is at rock bottom. Then she runs into Rachel Moore, her middle school tormentor, who made her life hell. Rachel is now a wealthy CEO living a dream life. While Melissa's world crumbles, Rachel thrives. It's the final straw. Armed with cheap spy equipment and a growing obsession with justice, Melissa embarks on an increasingly unhinged mission to expose Rachel's secrets. What starts as Internet stalking quickly spirals into something far more dangerous, and Melissa can't seem to stop. A darkly comic tale of obsession, friendship, and learning that sometimes the person destroying your life is you. ----more----💛 SUPPORT THE PODCAST 📩 Join the Bookaholic Newsletter for FREEBIES 🎁 and more: https://www.book-a-holic.com/newsletter ⭐ Join my Patreon! It's FREE! https://www.patreon.com/cw/truebookaholic ⭐ Leave a review on my website. https://www.book-a-holic.com/reviews/new/ 📌 Subscribe on YouTube @truebookaholic 📌Follow me on my TikTok, Facebook, Instagram @truebookaholic ----more----This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may earn a commission.

  4. Sep 4

    Her Husband Left Her For A Man! | Episode 159

    Are you an author who needs a website or website refresh? Tertulia has created a platform designed specifically for authors—not businesses, photographers, or restaurants—but writers. Instead of forcing authors to adapt a generic website builder, Tertulia automatically creates a professional author website using your book's ISBN or ASIN. Within minutes, your books, cover images, metadata, and author information are imported, giving you a polished starting point without the technical headaches. Check it out here👉:http://bit.ly/4hhiLx5 ----more----📚 BUY THE BOOK👉 FROM SEXLESS MARRIAGE TO SEX GODDESS https://amzn.to/3UwupLq In this powerful and deeply candid memoir, psychologist Alisa Kriegel takes readers on an unexpected journey of sexual awakening, self-discovery, relationships, dating, love, and pleasure. At 48, Alisa’s husband tells her he has fallen in love with a man. Rather than allowing the heartbreak to define her, Alisa decides it’s time to understand herself—and her sexuality—in a completely new way. And she doesn't hold back. From the unexpected world of online dating and romance to adventures ranging from New York City sex clubs to a canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness, Alisa explores what it means to feel desired, embrace pleasure, let go of shame, and become comfortable with the woman she is becoming. What makes this story particularly fascinating is that Alisa is a psychologist. She has spent her career helping other people understand themselves. Now, she has to turn those same tools inward. In this Bookaholic conversation, we talk about midlife reinvention, female sexuality, relationships, shame, desire, dating, and the courage it takes to give yourself permission to experience life differently. ----more---- It's STILL summer! Here are my beach read recommendations! Summer Reads  💛 SUPPORT THE PODCAST 📩 Join the Bookaholic Newsletter for FREEBIES 🎁 and more: ⭐ Join my Patreon! It's FREE!  ⭐ Leave a REVIEW on my website. 📌 Subscribe on YouTube @truebookaholic 📌Follow me on my TikTok, Facebook, Instagram @truebookaholic This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may earn a commission.

  5. Aug 14

    From Breaking News to Finding Herself: Carol Lin’s Untold Story | Episode 158

    Are you an author who needs a website or website refresh? Tertulia has created a platform designed specifically for authors—not businesses, photographers, or restaurants—but writers. Instead of forcing authors to adapt a generic website builder, Tertulia automatically creates a professional author website using your book's ISBN or ASIN. Within minutes, your books, cover images, metadata, and author information are imported, giving you a polished starting point without the technical headaches. Check it out here. ----more----📚 BUY THE BOOK👉 WHEN NEWS BREAKS: A MEMOIR OF LOVE AND WAR  What happens when the career you love demands almost everything from you? In this powerful conversation, former CNN anchor Carol Lin takes us behind the headlines and into the deeply personal story behind When News Breaks. Lin made history as the first network journalist to break the news of the September 11 attacks. But just one month later, she found herself facing a Taliban sniper along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border—a terrifying moment that underscored the risks and sacrifices of a career she loved. With honesty, humor, and remarkable candor, Carol reflects on building a career in a white-centric, male-dominated world of journalism, the adrenaline of breaking news, and her complicated relationship with a traditional Chinese mother who warned her that journalism would never love her back. But the biggest stories aren't always the ones that happen on camera. Carol opens up about devastating personal news, a marriage marked by infidelity and cancer, motherhood, and the difficult choices she faced while trying to become the mother her daughter needed. Ultimately, When News Breaks becomes more than the story of an accomplished journalist—it is the story of a woman learning to separate the person she became in the spotlight from the woman she truly is. In this episode, we talk about: Breaking the news of 9/11 and the responsibility of being first The dangers and adrenaline of international journalism Being a woman of color in a male-dominated news industry The expectations of family, culture, and career Marriage, infidelity, cancer, and devastating personal loss Motherhood and the sacrifices women make What happens when your professional identity becomes bigger than your personal one finding yourself after years of living behind the headlines. ----more---- It's summer! Here are my beach read recommendations! Summer Reads  💛 SUPPORT THE PODCAST 📩 Join the Bookaholic Newsletter for FREEBIES 🎁 and more. ⭐ Join my Patreon! It's FREE!  ⭐ Leave a review on my website.  🛒Shop my Amazon Store. 📌 Subscribe on YouTube @truebookaholic 📌Follow me on my TikTok, Facebook, Instagram @truebookaholic This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through my links, I may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.

  6. Aug 7

    Reboot Your Story | Episode 157

    Are you an author who needs a website or website refresh? Tertulia has created a platform designed specifically for authors—not businesses, photographers, or restaurants—but writers. Instead of forcing authors to adapt a generic website builder, Tertulia automatically creates a professional author website using your book's ISBN or ASIN. Within minutes, your books, cover images, metadata, and author information are imported, giving you a polished starting point without the technical headaches. Check it out here👉:http://bit.ly/4hhiLx5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 📚 BUY THE BOOK👉 REBOOT YOUR STORY https://amzn.to/3SkQVWG What if self-help could actually adapt to you? In this episode of The Bookaholic Podcast, Anne-Cécile Ville discusses Reboot Your Story, a different kind of self-help book inspired by her experience with perimenopausal anxiety. Combining neuroscience, storytelling, emotional intelligence, and personalized AI reflection, the book offers women practical ways to better understand anxiety, self-doubt, emotional patterns, and the stories that shape how we see ourselves. Instead of telling you to fix yourself, Reboot Your Story encourages you to slow down, build self-awareness, and reconnect with self-trust, clarity, and joy. One of the book's most innovative features is its personalized AI reflection threads, designed around your personal wound to help you recognize emotional triggers and respond with greater awareness. In this conversation, we explore: Perimenopause, anxiety, and emotional well-being The six-element framework behind Reboot Your Story How neuroscience can help us understand our emotions Why self-awareness matters more than perfection Personalized AI and the future of self-help How to reclaim joy without reinventing yourself ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's summer! Here are my beach read recommendations! Summer Reads - https://www.amazon.com/shop/bookaholic-deirdrepippins/list/1Q08GL7U4UNXE?ref_=hype_hm_sf_e 🎁 BOOKAHOLIC FREEBIE Want more book recommendations and author interviews? 📩 Join the Bookaholic Newsletter: https://www.book-a-holic.com/newsletter 💛 SUPPORT THE PODCAST ⭐ Join my Patreon! It's FREE! https://www.patreon.com/cw/truebookaholic ⭐ Leave a review on my website and socials. 📌 Subscribe on YouTube 📌Follow me on my TikTok, Facebook, Instagram @truebookaholic This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may earn a commission.

  7. Aug 1

    Calling All Dog Moms! | Episode 156

    Are you an author who needs a website or website refresh? Tertulia has created a platform designed specifically for authors—not businesses, photographers, or restaurants—but writers. Instead of forcing authors to adapt a generic website builder, Tertulia automatically creates a professional author website using your book's ISBN or ASIN. Within minutes, your books, cover images, metadata, and author information are imported, giving you a polished starting point without the technical headaches. Check it out here👉:http://bit.ly/4hhiLx5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 📚 BUY THE SERIES OF THREE BOOKS👉KOA'S RUFF LIFE https://amzn.to/3U5By4S What happens when a lovable Rhodesian Ridgeback becomes a children's book star? 🐾📚 In this episode of The Bookaholic Podcast, author Andy Honda, MD introduces us to Koa, her real-life therapy dog and the inspiration behind the Koa’s Ruff Life children's book series. We talk about three of Koa’s adventures: 🎄 Koa’s Ruff Life: Christmas Time in New York City — Koa explores the magic of NYC during the holidays, from Fifth Avenue and Rockefeller Center to Bryant Park and the Rockettes. 🔎 Koa’s Bryant Park Scavenger Hunt — Koa takes readers on a fun adventure through one of New York City's most beloved parks. 🦁 Koa’s Adventure to the Central Park Zoo — Koa explores the zoo and introduces young readers to the animals and excitement of Central Park. Andy also shares the real-life story behind Koa, his work as a therapy dog, and the special connection he has with children through his visits to schools, hospitals, and children with special needs. It's a conversation about books, NYC, dogs, adventure, kindness, and giving back. 📖 About Andy Honda: Andy Honda, MD, is a NYC-based medical executive, consultant, speaker, and author of the Koa’s Ruff Life series. Her stories are inspired by her real-life adventures with Koa. 🌐 Learn more: koasrufflife.com | andyhondamd.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's summer! Here are my beach read recommendations! Summer Reads - https://www.amazon.com/shop/bookaholic-deirdrepippins/list/1Q08GL7U4UNXE?ref_=hype_hm_sf_e 🎁 BOOKAHOLIC FREEBIE Want more book recommendations and author interviews? 📩 Join the Bookaholic Newsletter: https://www.book-a-holic.com/newsletter 💛 SUPPORT THE PODCAST ⭐ Join my Patreon! It's FREE! https://www.patreon.com/cw/truebookaholic ⭐ Leave a review on my website and socials. 📌 Subscribe on YouTube 📌Follow me on my TikTok, Facebook, Instagram @truebookaholic This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may earn a commission.

  8. Jul 27

    From Taxi Cab Driver to Carnegie Hall | Episode 155

    Are you an author who needs a website or website refresh? Tertulia has created a platform designed specifically for authors—not businesses, photographers, or restaurants—but writers. Instead of forcing authors to adapt a generic website builder, Tertulia automatically creates a professional author website using your book's ISBN or ASIN. Within minutes, your books, cover images, metadata, and author information are imported, giving you a polished starting point without the technical headaches. Check it out here👉:http://bit.ly/4hhiLx5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 📚 BUY THE BOOK 👉FROM CAB DRIVER TO CARNEGIE HALL https://amzn.to/4fFjq9m "From Cab Driver to Carnegie Hall shows how effort and perseverance can turn dreams into reality...a testament to inspiration and resilience." - Readers' Favorite 5-Star Review Dive into an Inspiring Journey from NYC Streets to the Grand Stages of the World: A Musician's Tale of Grit and Glory One afternoon David Singer was performing at the White House and that evening he was back behind the wheel of a New York City taxi. He shared the stage at Carnegie Hall with legends of classical music, only to find himself weeks later scaling fences and evading guard dogs to sell welding supplies before dawn. Through these vivid extremes, Singer's memoir captures not only the challenges of a life in music but also the resilience and determination required to keep moving forward. His story is rooted in history-his parents' experiences during the Depression and the Holocaust-and shaped by the profound mentorship of Rudolf Jettel, a savior to many Jews and Singer's self-proclaimed "musical father." From teaching young musicians to acclaimed performances at the Marlboro Music Festival and with the Grammy Award-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Singer's journey is a powerful reminder of the transformative power of music, perseverance, and never giving up. From Cab Driver to Carnegie Hall is not only a chronicle of musical achievement-it is an inspiring story of resilience and triumph that will resonate with dreamers, strivers, and music lovers alike. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's summer! Here are my beach read recommendations! Summer Reads - https://www.amazon.com/shop/bookaholic-deirdrepippins/list/1Q08GL7U4UNXE?ref_=hype_hm_sf_e 🎁 BOOKAHOLIC FREEBIE Want more book recommendations and author interviews? 📩 Join the Bookaholic Newsletter: https://www.book-a-holic.com/newsletter 💛 SUPPORT THE PODCAST ⭐ Join my Patreon! It's FREE! https://www.patreon.com/cw/truebookaholic ⭐ Leave a review on my website and socials. 📌 Subscribe on YouTube 📌Follow me on my TikTok, Facebook, Instagram @truebookaholic This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may earn a commission.

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Introducing the Bookaholics Podcast, a safe place for reading junkies who obsess over books, authors, bookstores, book news, and book trivia. You’re invited to nerd-out with book reviews, author interviews, our habit, and other bookish things . Enjoy Interviews with those in the book business. Meet new authors. Explore curating your library with new genres and discover new authors. revisit the classics with a twist. Your host Deirdre Pippins, also known as Ms. Media Content, is a board member for her local library, content creator, copywriter, and business owner. She has traveled extensively throughout the world because of the influence of books she’s read. Remember to subscribe to the podcast, follow us Instagram @truebookaholic. You can also email us at readingjunkie@book-a-holic.com. Don’t forget to support your local library and independent bookstores. The Bookaholics Podcast ”For those who can’t get enough of that bookish stuff.”

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