Meredith is on vacation, so Kaytee has a special guest co-host join her for this week’s episode. She is so excited to share her conversation with Jessica Turner!

You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us: one that only a family of two authors will ever experience and a new discovery at the library that made for a quiet weekend at home.

We dive in to discussing 2 books each. One of which we both cannot stop talking about.

Next, we get to discuss Jessica’s new book, Stretched Too Thin, as well as her previous work, The Fringe Hours. Both are books you need on your shelves! Who wants to win a copy of STT? I’ll be giving away a copy on Instagram this week, so pop on over there to enter!

We finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we’d like to put into every reader’s hands. Jessica does a great job pushing BOTH of our books into your hands this week, as I promise you’ll want to pick up each of them for totally different reasons. They also kind of follow a theme (unintentionally, as 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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0:42 - Stretched Too Thin by Jessica Turner

1:51 - When God Made You by Matthew Paul Turner

1:52 - When God Made Light by Matthew Paul Turner

1:55 - When I Pray For You by Matthew Paul Turner

3:28 - Playaways at the library

4:09 - How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

4:11 - The Problim Children by Natalie Lloyd

6:22 - Modern Girls by Jennifer S. Brown

8:44 - The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

8:46 - Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

8:53 - Maybe In Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid

9:00 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

9:18 - Sliding Doors (movie)

10:04 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

10:48 - How to Walk Away by Katherine Center

11:12 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

11:38 - Lies by TM Logan

13:49 - I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

15:15 - March: Book One by John Lewis

15:27 - Ghost by Jason Reynolds

15:51 - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

18:18 - The Fringe Hours by Jessica Turner

19:57 - Stretched Too Thin by Jessica Turner

31:51 - I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (yep, again)

35:18 - American Marriage by Tayari Jones

35:32 - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

36:11 - Documentary 13th by Ana DuVernay on Netflix

38:14 - Jessica’s bookstagram account: booksnobbery

38:20 - TheMomCreative.com

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