Kaytee and Meredith return this week to chat about books with you! How do you feel about the backlist? We’re going there.

You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us: using books as a coping strategy and books that you’ve been meaning to read for more than decade…

We dive in to discussing 3 books each. These mostly take a trip down backlist lane, because only one is brand new and the rest are back in the catalog.

Next we get into every listener’s most-asked question: a brief overview of how in the /world/ Kaytee reads SO much while homeschooling all those children.

We finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we’d like to put into every reader’s hands. We’ve got a book that will make your life better and a series that you have to push through the first book to get to the way better second and third books.

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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8:35 - Inspector Thanet Series by Dorothy Simpson

9:32 - Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

12:01 - Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff

13:00 - All the Pretty Girls by J.T. Ellison

13:14 - Setting Free the Kites by Alex George

13:18 - All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda

16:47 - The Uninvited Guests by Said Jones

19:51 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

20:25 - Middlemarch by George Eliot

20:46 - The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

23:08 - The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman

24:05 - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

27:34 - All Things Good and Wonderful, nope, just kidding, it’s All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood

29:22 - Florida by Lauren Groff

29:36 - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

30:42 - What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell

36:52 - Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin

36:55 - The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

37:00 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

39:33 - Do Audiobooks Count?? For further reading: To Your Brain, Listening to a Book is Pretty Much the Same As Reading It

41:32 - Kindle Paperwhite love

44:47 - Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin

45:36 - The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin

48:39 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

49:04 - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

49:08 - A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

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