Alex Wieckowski, the face behind Alex & Books—a newsletter for book recommendations, summaries, and reading tips—is convinced that if you’re really lucky, books will occasionally call out to you. And when they do, you’ve gotta listen to the voice.

Alex is a voracious reader, writer, podcaster, and book wizard! And if there’s one thing you take away from his story, I hope it’ll be the power of serendipity and trusting your intuition (that’s actually two things, but nvm).

This is episode #10 on The Newsletter Nerd Show.

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Show Notes:

0.33 - Alex in the Hotseat

2.20 - How a bike crash led to launching Alex & Books

3.22 - Identifying there's a need for book recommendations

3.47 - A fun exercise involving a 2017 photograph

4.45 - How life as a person & creator has evolved since then

5.18 - The 2 C's framework to choosing books

6.11 - Why you should judge a book by its cover

6.42 - When to quit reading a book

7.57 - Why a newsletter?

8.40 - The most and least favourite part of running a newsletter

9.30 - Repurposing newsletter content

10.19 - What to know before launching a newsletter

11.17 - A newsletter sin

12.00 - The Reading Room

14.02 - Have You Ever?