Not So Silent Reading

Join Catie and Charlotte as they explore ways to calm your mind, what is a dopamine fast, and how do our brains get overstimulated? 

 

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Catie and Charlotte finally get around to the bestseller The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk. We talk about our favorite parts of the book and if it holds up to all the hype.

Catie and Charlotte are back with Season 2 and chat about Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski.  They talk about what key takeaways, why burnout is so hard to define and get over, and why you should read this book.

Catie and Charlotte recount their favorite books of 2021. We initially planned to pick only 5 each, but it was too hard and we squeezed in a 6th!  Come listen to our favorite reads of the year, what makes a book good versus great, and what are our book intentions for 2021. 

 

Books mentioned: 

Misfits by Michaela Coel

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

Chasing The Scream by Johann Hari

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

The Spy and The Traitor by Ben Macintyre

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Out of Office by Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Peterson

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson

We read 800 Grapes by Laura Dave and have many thoughts.  Also we learned it takes 800 grapes to make 1 bottle of wine. Join our discussion about wine, heartbreak, and the paths we could have taken!

 

Books mentioned: 

800 Grapes by Laura Dave 

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Hear us catch up after a little Hiatus, talk about Caste, how we found it thought provoking and what we are reading next.

Catie and Charlotte discuss their favorite books of 2020!

Venture into the suspensful and thrilling world of Mexican Gothic. Catie and Charlotte talk about the plot-twisting and goosebump induncing suspensful thriller by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

Catie and Charlotte's hot take on the best-selling mystery novel

Come join our discussion of Educated by Tara Westover, the story of a woman growing up in rural Idaho and her journey to go to school.