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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. 8h ago

    The World Has Lost Its Mind! Is Common Sense Always Right? | Episode 167

    You want to be a book reading master but don't always have the time. Here's how to conquer your 2027 reading goals and read 52 books next year. Download the FREEBIE now! https://www.book-a-holic.com/newsletter 📚BUY THE BOOK👉 UNCOMMON SENSE: HOW TO THINK CLEARLY WHEN THE WORLD HAS LOST ITS MIND https://link.amazon/B0cwM37sP Uncommon Sense is a book about changing your perspective. While most of us are intelligent, we’re simply used to thinking in familiar, knee-jerk ways that feel natural — even when those ways aren’t serving us particularly well. Over time, our habits of thought become automatic. They shape how we react to everyday situations, how we interpret events, and how we make decisions, often without our realizing it. What feels obvious, or “just the way things are,” is usually nothing more than a perspective we’ve grown accustomed to. This book isn’t about telling you what to think. It’s about helping you see ordinary situations just a little differently — clearly enough to notice the logic, the truth, and the lessons that are often hiding in plain sight. When perspective shifts, behavior follows — not because you were told what to do, but because a better option finally becomes visible. Drawing on a lifetime of experience — as an educator, an administrator, a dancer, a DJ, and, most importantly, an analytical observer of human behavior — Jack Valerio examines everyday moments at work, in relationships, and in daily life, and shows how small changes in perspective can change outcomes. Uncommon Sense doesn’t offer formulas, slogans, or quick fixes. It doesn’t ask you to become someone you’re not. Instead, it invites you to look at the everyday things you’ve been seeing your entire life from a slightly different angle — one that opens up new understanding and new possibilities. The goal is simple: not to replace your thinking, but to refine it. Not a revolution, but a small evolutionary change — one that helps you pause instead of react, see options where you once saw only assumptions, and make choices that work better for you in real situations with real consequences.   💛 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 This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may earn a commission.

  2. Oct 23

    She Transitioned at 71: Richelle Lee Slota’s Story of Identity, Courage & Poetry | Episode 166

    The latest news at Bookaholic - https://linktr.ee/truebookaholic 📚 BUY THE BOOK👉 LETTERS TO MY DEAD NAME by Richelle Lee Slota https://link.amazon/B0445CI9q Richard struggled for much of his life with a mystery. Why was he uneasy and uncomfortable? Why did he feel like an imposter? In his sixties, he made a discovery that would change his life and his creative work. He realized that his life as a man did not fit with who he knew himself to be. He began the journey of transition that led him to emerge in his San Francisco community as "Richelle Lee," leaving "Richard" behind. This powerful book of poems by Richelle is a magnificent collection of metrical poetry that gifts the reader with honest passion and delightful good humor. Richelle Lee Slota's poems open themselves to the world in private and public "letters" that dare to test a society full of hate and division. These letters/poems are stronger than the terror and rejection the writer faces. The beauty of her rhythm and her emotional honesty--and Richelle's dazzling technical energy--reach out to anyone seeking optimism and hope and provide nourishment. "Catch the cis-brained psyches' sober iambs/write, thrumming clever like a cleaver transgender tie-ins," Richelle writes. See the gifted person who has discarded her dead name and be captivated, enlarged, and changed by this writer of unique and moving poetry, who courageously signs her new name to every poem. ----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 This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may earn a commission.

  3. Oct 16

    A White Woman Wrote A Book About Slavery | Episode 165

    The latest news at Bookaholic - https://linktr.ee/truebookaholic 📚 BUY THE BOOK👉 FOX CREEK by M. E. Torrey https://amzn.to/4i21kPM The year is 1843 when six-year-old Monette, the pampered and beloved daughter of a French Creole sugar planter, is taken to New Orleans and sold into slavery. Sold along with her is Cyrus, a boy big for his age, torn from his mother without a chance to say goodbye. Together they go to Fox Creek Plantation in “English” Louisiana, home to the Jensey family. While Cyrus is sent to the fields, Monette becomes the childhood playmate of Kate, the planter’s daughter, and catches the eye of Breck, the planter’s son. It’s easier and safer for Monette to pretend life is normal. That she belongs. To forget her past, even to forget Cyrus, whom she’d loved. But as the years pass, it becomes clear that children of color do not belong in the world of the white elite—at least, not as equals. The brutality and powerlessness of slavery begin to take their toll upon Monette. Who is she now? Who will protect her? And who is that big boy from the fields who keeps pestering her? Fox Creek is a powerful novel set during one of the most turbulent times in American history. It is a story of race, privilege, the battle of wills, and the denial of freedom. But most of all, it is a story of love, a love that transcends all that threatens to tear it apart. ----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 This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may earn a commission.

  4. Oct 9

    He Wanted A Wife. She Wanted A Life. | Book Recommendation | Episode 164

    The latest news at Bookaholic - https://linktr.ee/truebookaholic 📚 BUY THE BOOK👉 JACK IN LOVE by Roberta Grimes https://amzn.to/4xVZN3I Jack Richardson is the brilliant, mildly autistic heir to a billion-dollar fortune—and the son of a notorious international criminal who became an American hero during World War II. After his father’s death, Jack inherits a vast global empire and hires Beryl Christian, a beautiful and ambitious Smith College graduate who arrives in New York in 1968 dreaming of becoming a computer programmer—and perhaps even the first woman President. When Beryl becomes involved in managing Jack’s complicated worldwide estate, the two form an unexpected bond. As she helps Jack confront the loneliness and trauma of his past, their relationship deepens into love. But when Jack proposes marriage, Beryl faces a difficult question: Can she build a life with the man she loves without giving up her own dreams, ambitions, and independence? Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1968, this sweeping story explores love, wealth, ambition, healing, and a woman’s struggle to become her own person. If you want, I can also make this **more “viral” for YouTube**—with a stronger opening hook designed to make someone stop scrolling and click. ----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 This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may earn a commission.

  5. Oct 2

    He Has a Death Sentence… Then Someone Starts Following Him - Book Recommendation | Episode 163

    The latest news at Bookaholic - https://linktr.ee/truebookaholic 📚 BUY THE BOOK👉 FELLS POINT by William Loving https://amzn.to/4yckkSU What begins as a personal journey of late-life reckoning becomes a noir-tinged meditation on memory, mortality, and the search for purpose. By turns darkly funny and melancholic, Fells Point captures a soul—and a city—at a crossroads. Daniel Doyle Jr., a jaded, middle-aged corporate communications flack in Baltimore, is drifting through life under a literal death sentence: a congenital heart defect that could take him any day. Determined to reclaim some meaning, he sets out to truly see and understand his city for the first time, creating a “bucket list” of cultural landmarks, lost institutions, and personal haunts across Baltimore. But as he traverses the city’s past and present, he realizes he’s being followed by a mysterious stranger who seems to appear wherever he goes. Is it paranoia, coincidence, or something more sinister? ----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.

  6. Sep 27

    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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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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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