Coffee with Heather

Okay, even if your NOT a parent this episode answers the number one question I get DMed on Instagram..."How do you read so much when you're a busy mama?" Well, grab your coffee (or your wine) and listen up because I'm going to share with you the TOP THREE WAYS on how I went from a busy body reading no more than 10-books a year to over 100-books a year (all while still being crazy busy!) These are SIMPLE and CHEAP (if not FREE) way's to get more books in your life no matter how busy you are.

•• Please note that all rights of each of the books mentioned in this episode stay with their authors and respectable publishing houses. All opinions are my own. By purchasing a book from these, or any other links on my podcast episodes or show notes, I will be making a small affiliate profit which helps me continue to make each week's episode. ••

I couldn't be more excited about a book review as I am to talk about Maggie O'Farrell's newest book, Hamnet. Published July 2020 this book is the most outstanding fictional take on Shakespear and his life that I have read in years, if not ever. This book is so utterly real and raw, sucking in its reader right into the 15 Hundreds and making them feel every honest emotion, fear, and love of the characters.

NOTE: There are spoilers in this episode though I stop myself before discussing the ending to leave that as a glorious nugget of gold for the reader to experience. If you want to avoid any spoilers, pause this episode and come back once you've read the book.

Grab a copy of Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell HERE.

•• Please note that all rights of each of the books mentioned in this episode stay with their authors and respectable publishing houses. All opinions are my own. By purchasing a book from these, or any other links on my podcast episodes or show notes, I will be making a small affiliate profit which helps me continue to make each week's episode. ••

At the end of the month (or every other end of the month) I purchase every book I absolutely loved listening to via audiobook to add to my own little library at home. Today's episode is the first "Book Haul" episode on the podcast where I share a stack of books I recently purchased after loving their audiobook renditions (and three newest books to my library I haven't read yet!)

• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

• The Unspoken Name by A. K. Larkwood

• The Harpy by Megan Hunter

• A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers

Please note that all rights of each of the books mentioned in this episode stay with their authors and respectable publishing houses. All opinions are my own. By purchasing a book from these, or any other links on my podcast episodes or show notes, I will be making a small affiliate profit which helps me continue to make each week's episode.

Why is it when you go into a bookstore you have tendencies to pick up one book, but not the other? I'm diving in today after noticing my top 5-reasons why I'll pick up a book after a trip to a bookstore over the weekend. Can you guess what they are? Do you have similar reasons for why you'll pick up a book? Grab a good cup of coffee and snuggle up, and get ready for today's episode on Why I Pick Up A Book.

--Please Note all rights of each of these books stay with their authors and respectable publishing houses. All opinions are my own. By purchasing a book from these links, I will be making a small affiliate profit which helps me continue to make each week's episode.

What's more magical than going to the circus? Not very much. And towards the end of 2020, I picked up two wildly different circus-themed books that I could not put down. The Night Circus by Erin Morgensten and Water For Elephants by Sarah Gruen. Both transfixed beautifully; The Night Circus read like Lewis Carroll's casual everyday description of magic (also narrated by the ever magical Jim Dale) all while Water For Elephants was heart-wrenchingly good touching the soul in a way I haven't felt from a book in so long.

Grab a copy of Water For Elephants Here for yourself

Please note that all rights of each of the books mentioned in this episode stay with their authors and respectable publishing houses. All opinions are my own. By purchasing a book from these, or any other links on my podcast episodes or show notes, I will be making a small affiliate profit which helps me continue to make each week's episode.

Today's episode is a quick review on the comforting and whimsical read, The Dutch House, by author Ann Patchett and the audiobook read by the marvelous Tom Hanks...which is the whole original story as to why I chose this book. I grew up with Tom Hanks being the voice of my childhood and I was so excited to listen to a book read by him. And frick, am I glad that I did. This book is every bit relatable as it is comforting and it was the perfect first book to listen to going into the New Year.

--Please Note all rights of each of these books stay with their authors and respectable publishing houses. All opinions are my own. By purchasing a book from these links, I will be making a small affiliate profit which helps me continue to make each week's episode.

Have you ever bought, rented, or borrowed a book and could not wait to read it; but there came a point where you just couldn't finish it for whatever reason? The first time I remember this happening to me was back in high school when I was taking AP English and we had to read "Little Big Man" - let's just say to pass I totally spark noted that book.

Tired of tinsel and Santa and 8-tiny reindeer but still want to read something for the holiday season? I've got you friend. In this episode, I share with you my top books to be reading during the holidays (and winter months) that have nothing to do with that Jolly ol' man in a red suit and white beard but still puts you in that whimsical mood of winter and still kindling the magic of Christmas time.

- Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling

- Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

- A Wild Winter Swan by Gregory Maguire

- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

- The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

- Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

--Please Note all rights of each of these books stay with their authors and respectable publishing houses. All opinions are my own. By purchasing a book from these links, I will be making a small affiliate profit which helps me continue to make each week's episode.

After a horrible break up, Cecily Gardner finds herself in an NYC bar drinking her emotions away when she meets a man and they fall in love...(heard this story before? Yeah, me too) But here's the plot twist, after a whirlwind romance, Grant goes missing in the chaos of 9/11 and Cecily is bound and determined to get to the bottom of the story when she finds a "Missing Person Poster" with Grants face on it from his wife!

--Please Note all rights of each of these books stay with their authors and respectable publishing houses. All opinions are my own. By purchasing a book from these links, I will be making a small affiliate profit which helps me continue to make each week's episode.

From losing your place in the book, to dog eared pages, to reprint edition covers gone wrong, this episode is all about us diving into the things that drive us bookish folks MAD! After I ran a poll on the Coffee with Heather Instagram a couple of weeks ago, asking you all what some of your worst and maddening pet peeves were when it came to reading and books, I sat down and shared the whole list right here on this episode of Coffee With Heather.

Please note that all rights of each of the books mentioned in this episode stay with their authors and respectable publishing houses. All opinions are my own. By purchasing a book from these, or any other links on my podcast episodes or show notes, I will be making a small affiliate profit which helps me continue to make each week's episode.