Ep 46: Book Club 2019 (Best, Worst, and Buzziest Books of the Year)

Ep 46: Book Club 2019 (Best, Worst, and Buzziest Books of the Year)

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.

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Ep 38: Books for Growth

Ep 38: Books for Growth

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.

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Ep 17: Revisiting Flowers in the Attic with Meg Tietz

Ep 17: Revisiting Flowers in the Attic with Meg Tietz

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.

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Ep 6: Revisiting Judy Blume

Ep 6: Revisiting Judy Blume

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.

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Ep 1: When do you read?

Ep 1: When do you read?

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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