Meredith and Kaytee have to try to keep themselves under control this week as we have a bit of a longer deep dive segment. It’s hard, listeners, to reign in the book talk, especially after a week away!

You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of the hosts: ditching a time-suck that was preventing reading, and a new bookish website.

 

Next, we discuss our current reads. Since we had to limit ourselves, these four titles are all AMAZING. We dare you to not get excited about at least half of them, no matter what your wheelhouse is!

Our deep dive this week includes and extra special interview with the ladies from Pantsuit Politics, Beth and Sarah. Whether you’re already a fan, or these are new voices in your ears, you’re guaranteed to learn something. I (Kaytee) did, and have been a raving fangirl for more than two years. It’s unbelievable to me that I even got to talk to them!

As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we’d like to press into every reader’s hands: a non-fiction pick from Sarah if you want to broaden your political reading, a poetic choice from Beth for sanity in turbulent times, and one from each of your regular hosts (a sweet picture book and a creepy true crime novel). That’s a lot of pressed books!

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

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4:00 -myTBR.co - Tailored Book Recommendations from Book Riot

7:10 - Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier

10:24 - The Hunger by Alma Katsu

10:46 - The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown

13:54 - Dear Mrs. Bird by AJ Pearce

17:48 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson

18:00 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

20:08 - The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

20:12 - A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

22:40 - I Think You’re Wrong (But I’m Listening) by Beth Silvers and Sarah Stewart Holland

45:59 - The Righteous Mind: Why People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt

47:05 - Hallelujah Anyway by Anne Lamott

48:30 - The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

49:00 - Pantsuit Politics Podcast and Website

Pantsuit Politics on Twitter

Pantsuit Politics on Instagram

50:28 - Stellaluna by Jannell Cannon

52:31 - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule (set in Washington state)

53:07 - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

*Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*