The Terrible Reading Club

When sickness has become the center of your life, when the goal posts move from “get better” to “live,” you do not simply wake up better and get on with it. In today’s episode, Nora talks with Suleika Jaouad, author of Between Two Kingdoms. Suleika was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia when she was 22. A major spoiler for her book (and for this episode) is that Suleika lives. She survives cancer, the stated goal for every patient, but… then what?

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For book discussion guides and a community of Terrible bookworms just like you, join The Terrible Reading Club on Substack! It's free!

Got a book you want to recommend? Send us a note at [email protected]. 

The Terrible Reading Club team is Nora McInerny, Claire McInerny, Megan Palmer, Marcel Malekebu, Kara Nesvig, Jordan Turgeon, and Michelle Plantan.

Our upcoming reading list can be found here.

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The transcript for this episode can be found here.

Originally published on “Terrible, Thanks for Asking” on October 21st, 2021

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John Green is one of Nora’s favorite observers of humanity, in part because of how gentle he is with even the most maddening parts of human existence: illness (both mental and physical), human foibles and failures. And maybe most impressively, he’s a creator who has existed on the Internet without letting it completely destroy him and his opinions of humanity. In today’s episode, Nora talks with John about his book The Anthropocene Reviewed.

Wanna read the book? When you purchase from Apple Books or Bookshop.org, you help support our show!

For book discussion guides and a community of Terrible bookworms just like you, join The Terrible Reading Club on Substack! It's free!

Got a book you want to recommend? Send us a note at [email protected]. 

The Terrible Reading Club team is Nora McInerny, Claire McInerny, Megan Palmer, Marcel Malekebu, Kara Nesvig, Jordan Turgeon, and Michelle Plantan.

Our upcoming reading list can be found here.

Find all our shows and our store at feelingsand.co.

The transcript for this episode can be found here.

Originally published on “Terrible, Thanks for Asking” on September 23, 2021

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When Nora lost her dad, her second pregnancy, and her husband in the fall of 2015, people gifted her a lot of books. Why? Because people want to say and do the right thing when times are hard … want to make everything better as fast as possible. Many of those books ended up in the donation pile immediately, but one of the books Nora actually read was by Anne Lamott.

Since then, she’s read all of Anne’s books — including her latest, Dusk, Night, Dawn. So it only made sense to kick off this new show with Nora’s conversation with Anne.

Wanna read the book? When you purchase from Apple Books or Bookshop.org, you help support our show!

For book discussion guides and a community of Terrible bookworms just like you, join The Terrible Reading Club on Substack! It's free!

The Terrible Reading Club team is Nora McInerny, Claire McInerny, Megan Palmer, Marcel Malekebu, Kara Nesvig, Jordan Turgeon, and Michelle Plantan.

Got a book you want to recommend? Send us a note at [email protected]. 

Our upcoming reading list can be found here.

Find all our shows and our store at feelingsand.co.

The transcript for this episode can be found here.

Originally published on “Terrible, Thanks for Asking” on October 12th, 2021

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