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Happy Holidays! We're bringing back our year-end reading round up. Join us as we talk about our year in reading, our favorite books of 2024, and what we're looking forward to reading in 2025. We also talk about how our conversation about goal-setting in January of this year impacted our years in reading (spoiler: profoundly and in a good way!)
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie LeongTower of Dawn by Sarah J MaasHeartburn by Nora Ephron
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Books we talk about in this episode:
Books we're reading now:2024 reads we haven't talked about on the podcast:
The Familiar by Leah BardugoMorbidly Yours by Ivy FairbanksWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonDracula by Bram StokerConfessions of a Forty-Something Fuck Up by Alexandra PotterCurse of Penryth Hall by Jess ArmstrongThe Day of the Triffids by John WyndhamThe Hapless Milliner (Miss Austen Investigates #1) by Jessica BullKitchen by Banana YoshimotoOur favorite books of 2024:
Elizabeth: Tie between Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan and Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van PeltMartha: Tie between A Fire Endless by Rebecca Ross and Nora Goes Off Script. Honorable mention to The House Witch series.Books on our TBRs for 2025:
History Lessons by Zoe Wallbrook (July)The Lioness (Dec 2024) And The Trees Stare Back (YA) by Gigi Griffis (May)Heavy Hitter by Katie CotugnoAll Fours by Miranda JulyGreat Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (April)Stop Me If You've Heard This One by Kristen Arnett (March)The Women by Kristin Hannah?Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) by Rebecca Yarros (Jan)Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (April)Black Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey (Feb)Ordinary Monsters by J.M. MiroWhen the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker-----------------------
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Romantic fantasies have taken the book world by storm in recent years, but fantasy stories that allow us to break free of the rules and limitations of our own world and reality are as old as human history. We wanted to learn more about the genre's history and its variations and sub-genres.
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-the-fantasy-genre-history-of-fantasy-and-subgenres-and-types-of-fantasy-in-literaturehttps://litjoycrate.com/a/blog/fantasy-book-tropes?srsltid=AfmBOoqZ5EBUD7-q8IYgOI0pTKRcyZmSfBLyexpqCVQrgkF8Mybxz7DQhttps://www.britannica.com/art/fantasy-narrative-genrehttps://bookriot.com/fantasy-sub-genre-primer/ Dassler, J. (2021). Women in Literature: The Impact of Feminism on Fantasy Literature, 1950-1990. International Social Science Review, 97(4), 1–20.Schlobin, R. C. (2011). Mendlesohn, Farah, and Edward James. A Short History of Fantasy. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 22(2), 292+https://zipdo.co/book-sales-by-genre-statistics/https://www.tonerbuzz.com/blog/book-and-reading-statistics/https://fantasy-faction.com/2015/classic-female-fantasy-writershttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/27/sff-community-marion-zimmer-bradley-daughter-accuses-abusehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_fantasy https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/style/shadow-daddies-romantasy-novels.html
What's the difference between fantasy and science fiction? Between high fantasy and low fantasy? What about all the sub-genres? Are Romantasy really something new or are they just a marketing ploy? How about cozy fantasy? Join us as we take a deep dive into fantasy and add lots of books to our TBR that will help us escape the current reality!
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Books we're reading in this episode:
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Just for the Summer by Abby Jiménez
Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler
The House Witch by Delemhach
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Whether or not you'll enjoy a book club depends a lot on your reading style, habits, and preferences. But if you're interested in joining a book club, there is truly one out there for everyone - different types, communities, themes, modalities, and more.
Book Riot: https://bookriot.com/a-history-of-book-clubs/Medium: https://medium.com/the-mission/the-best-book-clubs-throughout-history-d45537334de0Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/03/27/womens-book-clubs-history-oprah-reese/Huffington Post: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ladies-who-book-club-have-always-been-the-glue-of-resistance_n_595db02de4b02e9bdb0a3454NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/books/reese-witherspoon-book-club.html https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/book-clubs-and-book-commerce/3C50183E95136DAD1FC7FB51FD6E6A1E https://testprepinsight.com/resources/us-book-reading-statistics/https://thgmwriters.com/blog/global-book-reading-statistics-2022-2023-complete-survey-data/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/09/why-do-so-few-men-read-books-by-women
Join us as we talk about our own experiences with book clubs (as both participants and moderators), the history of book clubs (which includes a lot more social activism than we expected!), celebrity book clubs, and how to find a book club that's right for you.
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Books we're reading in this episode:
A Date with Death by Julia Chapman (Dales Detective #1)
A Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting by Sophie Irwin
A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen (Saga of the Unfated #1)
The House Witch by Delemhach
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Season 2 is here and our first episode is a big one! In some ways, we have been building up to this moment since the podcast began: we finally chat with Elizabeth's librarian inspiration and the All Books Aloud unofficial mascot, Nancy Pearl.
Nancy has had a storied life and a career about as influential as a librarian could hope for, and she shares so much of it with us during this hour. We talk about how her difficult childhood led her to the library, how the librarians in that first public library inspired her love of reading and her desire to be a librarian herself, and how that career led to some of her noteworthy epiphanies about books and reading.
How did she come up with reading doorways? How did she realize that no two readers read the same book? What does she think about book bans and the state of libraries today? And what did she once say about finishing books to Elizabeth's grad school class that made them all gasp? Listen and find out!
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Books we're reading in this episode:
The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
The League of Gentlewomen Witches by India Holton
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In our season finale we talk with author Sarah T. Dubb about her debut novel, Birding With Benefits. It's a fun, flirty, sexy, and touching fake-dating romance novel featuring two protagonists in their 40s who fall in love while - you guessed it - bird-watching together. But Sarah hasn't always been a romance reader (or writer). In fact, her reading journey started solidly in literary fiction, but she fell in love with romance during the pandemic (like someone else we know...ahem...:)
Join us for this super fun conversation as we talk about one writer's journey from a kid who loved to read--but never thought of writing novels--to a published author. Sarah also has lots of tips and insider information for writers hoping to get published. You won't want to miss it!
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Is the book always better than the movie? If you had asked either of us before this episode, we both would have said unequivocally 'yes!' But our discussion showed us that this topic might actually be more nuanced than we realized. Join as we talk about nearly every Jane Austen adaptation ever made (don't worry, we also talk about other adaptations...a little), ponder whether we enjoy watching screen adaptations of our favorite books even if they're not perfect, daydream about books we wish would be made into screen adaptations, and more.
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Two very special guests joined us for this episode - the other half of our sibling quartet, Bekka and Mike. Listen in as we talk about our early experiences with reading, the similarities in how our reading journeys started, where our tastes differ, and how we took different paths based on our personality traits.
We really enjoyed reminiscing with our siblings and reflecting on some childhood nostalgia, and we hope you'll enjoy it, too!
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Books we're reading in this episode:
The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard (The Cazalet Chronicles #1)
Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
Why Women Grow by Alice Vincent
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The topic of this week's episode is one of the few book-related topics we've found where we disagree! Martha loves to re-read her favorite books, whereas Elizabeth thinks life is too short to re-tread old ground. Martha begins the episode by setting herself the challenge of changing Elizabeth's mind...listen to find out if she's successful!
Allison. 2019. “Why You Should Reread Your Favorite Books and How to Make It Worth Your While.” Mind Joggle. January 14, 2019. https://www.mindjoggle.com/why-you-should-reread-your-favorite-books/ NA. 2021. “On The Particular Pleasures of Re-reading.” Penguin Random House. August 5, 2021. https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2021/07/re-reading-books-again-returning-literacy Jenner, Natalie. 2020. “Doesn’t Everyone Reread Their Favorite Books All the Time?” Literary Hub. May 18, 2020. https://lithub.com/doesnt-everyone-reread-their-favorite-books-all-the-time/
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Books we're reading in this episode:
The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard (The Cazalet Chronicles #1)
Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas
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We have explored a lot of different components of the book publishing industry on the podcast, but neither of us know much about the work of literary translation. So, we were thrilled to get the chance to talk with Polly Mackintosh about her work. Polly is Commissioning Editor and in-house translator for Gallic Books, and is the translator of the forthcoming novel, Clara Reads Proust by Stéphane Carlier.
We chatted with Polly about how she got started as a translator, what her favorite and most challenging parts of the work are, her process and how she captures each author's style and tone, what influence she thinks AI will have on the work of literary translators, and much more. Join us as we learn about the fascinating mix of art and craft that goes into translating a work of art like a novel!
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Books we're reading in this episode:
Clara Reads Proust by Stéphane Carlier, Polly Mackintosh (Translator) (published in the UK on March 28th, forthcoming in North America - May 21, 2024)
Birding With Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb (forthcoming - June 4, 2024)
The Gentleman's Gambit by Evie Dunmore (A League of Extraordinary Women #4)
A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree (Legends & Lattes #0 )
What I Know About You by Éric Chacour (forthcoming - September 24, 2024)
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
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Additional notes from Polly:
The ebook of Clara Reads Proust will be available to everyone (US and UK) starting on March 28, 2024. There isn't a date for the audiobook release yet, but it will be coming at some point.
After the interview, I asked Stéphane whether he'd ever been a hairdresser, and he said he hadn't but shared the following insights:I asked one of my best friends, Quentin, who happened to a hairdresser, to help me. Sent him emails with questions like "What does it smell like when you get to the salon in the morning? Please be very specific" or "What's in the drawer of the counter at the entrance?" Poor Quentin, he was so nice and helpful! The "Proust parts" of the book (the second and third parts) were easy compared to the "salon part" of it (the first one)!
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This episode was recorded in-person and on location during our sister vacation on the Big Island of Hawaii! We kept our reading choices for the trip a secret from one another and did a live reveal, then we talked all about vacation reading while getting a little tipsy on tropical fruit juice and rum cocktails.
Among and around several digressions, we discuss questions like, what types of stories do you like to read on vacation? How many books do you bring? What format of book do you bring and why? What are the pros and cons of different formats on vacation? When and where do you read on vacation? We also talk about other bookish, touristy things you can do on vacation. Join us on island time for this fun episode!
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Books we're reading in this episode:
Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan
The Mitford Murders by Jessica Fellowes
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Dinner Lady Detectives by Hannah Hendy
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Even if you don't use TikTok, you've likely at least heard of the phenomenon known as BookTok. Individual videos sometimes get millions of views, and the combined hashtags for these videos on TikTok have had hundreds of billions of views. The publishing industry is paying attention - and so are we!
https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/09/21/tiktok-is-changing-the-way-books-are-recommended-and-soldhttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/books/tiktok-books-booktok.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/06/i-cant-stress-how-much-booktok-sells-teen-literary-influencers-swaying-publishershttps://www.thebookseller.com/news/more-than-half-of-young-readers-credit-booktok-with-sparking-passion-for-reading-pa-findshttps://www.ala.org/advocacy/sites/ala.org.advocacy/files/content/tools/Gen-Z-and-Millennials-Report%20%281%29.pdf Brookbank, E. 2023. “It makes you feel like more of a person:” The leisure reading habits of university students in the US and UK and how academic libraries can support them, College & Undergraduate Libraries, 30:3, 53-94, DOI: 10.1080/10691316.2023.2261918https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/93201-booksellers-add-tiktok-to-the-toolbox.html https://bookriot.com/tiktok-publishing-company/
Is BookTok really driving book sales? Or is it just creating yet another thing for people to envy online and feel bad about in their real lives? Is it lowering the quality of writing in books, turning them into fast fashion? And how is it affecting indie authors? Is it truly something new, or is it a new version of an old trend? And if it's encouraging young people to read more and see reading as something that's cool - does anything else really matter? Join us!
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Books we're reading in this episode:
The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West by Sara Ackerman
Clara Reads Proust by Stephane Carlier
The Gentleman's Gambit by Evie Dunmore
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What do you do with books that you're finished with? Books you've read or don't want anymore or spilled coffee on? In this episode we discuss what makes a book valuable - to individuals and to society - and why this can sometimes result in anxiety about how books are disposed of.
Haider, Salman. 2022. “Five Laws of Library Science.” Librarianship Studies & Information Technology (blog). September 11, 2022. https://www.librarianshipstudies.com/2017/09/five-laws-of-library-science.html Piepenburg, Scott. 2019. “The Five Laws of Library Science.” Librarian to Librarian. October 17, 2019. https://librariantolibrarian.wordpress.com/2019/10/18/the-five-laws-of-library-science/ Better World Books: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/Ben Krumholz, FOX 11 News. 2024. “Residents Outraged Over Dumpster Filled With Library Books at Marinette’s UWGB Campus.” WLUK. January 11, 2024. https://fox11online.com/news/local/northwoods/residents-outraged-over-dumpster-filled-with-library-books-at-marinettes-uwgb-campus https://twitter.com/elizabethbrookb/status/1131392411563728896———. 2024. “Books Published per Country per Year.” Wikipedia. February 25, 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_per_year Talbot, Dean. 2023. “Number of Books Published per Year.” February 21, 2023. https://wordsrated.com/number-of-books-published-per-year-2021/ https://twitter.com/womensart1
We dig into the work libraries do to preserve books and the “weeding” they have to do to stay functional for the communities they serve. Elizabeth goes on a teeny-tiny rant about the controversy this weeding can sometimes cause, but why it should be embraced rather than resisted or feared. We also talk about various options for how and where to unload books you don't want anymore, and ideas for reading more sustainably. Don't miss it!
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Books we're reading in this episode:
The Mitford Murders by Jessica Fellowes
The Gentleman's Gambit (A League of Extraordinary Women series book #4) by Evie Dunmore
My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme
House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City #3) by Sarah J. Maas
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Romance novels generate over $1.44 billion (with a 'b!') in revenue and are highest-earning, biggest, and fastest growing genre of fiction in the book industry. And yet, if you're a romance reader, you've probably had to defend it to someone at some point or maybe you've even been embarrassed of your reading. Why are these books that so many read still so fraught?
https://observer.com/2022/09/derided-for-centuries-romance-novels-are-a-huge-business/https://wordsrated.com/romance-novel-sales-statistics/ Lyons, Martyn. 2011. Books : A Living History. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum. Pgs. 177-179.Avery, Jessica. 2017. “Feminist Romance Novels from #RomanceNovelsforHillary.” Book Riot. December 12, 2017. https://bookriot.com/feminist-romance-novels-from-romancenovelsforhillary/Rodale, Maya. 2017. “That Thing with Hillary Clinton and Romance Novels...” HuffPost (blog). December 8, 2017. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/that-thing-with-hillary-clinton-and-romance-novels_b_5a2a862de4b04e0bc8f3b3b5."'He's a little obsessed with me': Hillary Clinton reflects with raw honesty on Trump and 2016." Washingtonpost.com, November 28, 2017.https://www.lucymonroe.com/lucy-at-the-heart/romance-conventions-reader-expectations/Radway, Janice A. 1991. Reading the Romance Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. 2nd ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.https://uncpress.org/book/9780807843499/reading-the-romance/
We talk about our personal experiences with reading romance, the history of the genre, and discuss questions like, what defines romance today? Do men write romance? Is romance, even in its modern form, still limiting women? Or is it just harmless entertainment? Join us as we tackle a topic we've been circling around since we started the podcast.
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Books we're reading in this episode:
Elements of Cadence duology by Rebecca Ross (A River Enchanted; A Fire Endless)
Flying Solo by Linda Holmes
Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
The League of Gentlewoman Witches by India Holton (Dangerous Damsels series)
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Berkeman
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If you're a reader, you know the feeling: you turn the last page of a book and want to cry that it's over. You immediately feel bereft. You can't stop thinking (and even talking) about the characters, the story. You wish you could turn back time to when you were still reading or somehow enter the pages of the book and live in the world. No other book appeals to you, and you might even start and then abandon books trying to move on. You have a book hangover!
https://www.bookbub.com/blog/signs-of-a-book-hangoverhttps://www.rd.com/article/book-hangover/https://bookriot.com/psychology-of-a-book-hangover/https://bookriot.com/7-cures-book-hangover/
In this episode, we're talking all about book hangovers. What are they? What books have we gotten them from? What kinds of books tend to give us hangovers? Are book hangovers even a real phenomenon? If so, why do they happen? And, perhaps most importantly, what can we do to get over them? Join us to find out!
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Books we're reading in this episode:
A Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong
The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
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The idea that "the kids just don't read anymore" is a tale as old as time. And, it is something that Elizabeth decided to investigate head-on in her role as an academic librarian. The results of the research study she designed and ran, interviewing just under 100 university students in the U.S. and the U.K., were published a few months ago and we talk about them in this episode.
Spoiler alert: young people (even when they're in college and even during the semester) do still read for fun! We get into the details of the study results and talk about what they read, how much they read, how they find new books, what they want from their reading lives, how they see themselves as readers, and more.
We also figure out that a conversation we had in 2019 about this study design was actually the seed that led to us starting this podcast! It's a very full-circle moment <3
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Books we're reading in this episode:
Main Character Energy by Jamie Varon
The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
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Brookbank, E. 2023. “It makes you feel like more of a person:” The leisure reading habits of university students in the US and UK and how academic libraries can support them, College & Undergraduate Libraries, 30:3, 53-94, DOI: 10.1080/10691316.2023.2261918-----------------------
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Happy New Year! Who doesn't love a good year-end round up?! Join us as we talk about our year in reading, our favorite books of 2023, and what we're looking forward to reading in 2024. We discuss the pros and cons of setting reading goals, complete with research that will not only let you off the hook with your yearly reading goal (if that's what you want) but will also get you out of having to walk 10,000 steps a day :)
Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez Ready Player One by Ernest Cline In The Likely Event by Rebecca Yarros Homegoing Yaa Gyasi A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf by Emily Midorikawa, Emma Claire Sweeney, Margaret Atwood (Foreword)Under the Henfluence by Tove DanovichThe Hobbit, Fellowship of the Ring, Two Towers by J.R.R. TolkienThe House in the Cerulean SeaA Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong
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Books we talk about in this episode:
2023 reads we haven't talked about on the podcast:Our favorite books of 2023:
Happy Place by Emily HenryRomantic Comedy by Curtis SittenfeldBooks on our TBRs for 2024:
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis HallThe Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane HowardDeath Comes to Marlow by Robert ThorogoodSong of the Huntress by Lucy Holland1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round by Jami AttenbergThe Paris Novel by Ruth ReichlThe Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu MandannaMain Character Energy by Jamie VaronMy Life in France by Julia ChildRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power #1) by V.E. SchwabRuthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment #2) by Rebecca RossHouse of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City, #3) by Sarah J. MaasFunny Story by Emily HenryThy Empyrean (The Empyrean #3) by Rebecca YarrosLe Fay (Morgan Le Fay #2) by Sophie Keetch-----------------------
Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. 2015. "Why Counting Your Steps Could Make You Unhappier." Dec 21, 2015. https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/duke-fuqua-insights/etkin-counting-steps. Etkin, Jordan. 2016. “The Hidden Cost of Personal Quantification.” Journal of Consumer Research 42 (6): 967–84. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucv095.Maintenance Phase. April 25, 2023. "The 10,000 Steps Myth." https://maintenancephase.buzzsp
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We say yes! But there's a way to do it well. As with any type of gift-giving, there are some pitfalls to avoid... For example, arbitrarily giving a book to someone because you like it, or because you've latched on to one detail about them and thus neglected the bigger picture. But never fear! We’ll help you match the right book to the right person using reading doorways. (If you haven't listened to our bonus episode about reading doorways...what are you waiting for?!)
Bonus: we’re offering a bookish holiday gift guide as a supplement to this episode. Check it out on our website at: allbooksaloudpod.com/giftguide
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Books we're reading in this episode:
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Morgan Is My Name by Sophie Keech
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
Main Character Energy by Jamie Varon-----------------------
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Do you have thoughts, questions, or ideas for future episodes? Email us at [email protected]. And if you want to learn more about the podcast, visit our website at allbooksaloudpod.com.
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If you're a reader, you've probably had someone ask you this question. We unpack what this question sometimes really means (How do you have so much free time? Must be nice having no obligations! I'm so busy I could never find time to read. You must be some kind of a superhero!) and explore the roots of some of these false beliefs about reading. We then talk about tips and tricks for reading more if you or someone you know is asking this question in earnest. Part sass, part research, and part practical suggestions - this episode has it all!
Quote Investigator®. 2010. “Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Wasted Time.” June 11, 2010. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/. Tucker, Ian. 2011. “The Shallows by Nicholas Carr – Review.” The Guardian, July 2 2011. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/03/shallows-nicholas-carr-internet-neurology.Mills, Kim. 2023. “Why Our Attention Spans Are Shrinking, with Gloria Mark, PhD.” American Psychological Association, February 2023. https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/attention-spans.
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Books we're reading in this episode:
And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi with Bruce Henderson
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
In Love with George Eliot by Kathy O'Shaughnessy
Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women series book #3) by Evie Dunmore
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Intro and outro music: "The Chase," by Aves.
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In this bonus episode, we talk about something that didn't come up in the genres episode but should have. It’s a concept called the four reading doorways. Could it be an alternative to genres? Nancy Pearl thinks so! Join as we talk about what the four reading doorways are, learn how they're useful when recommending books to others, and explore how they show up in our own reading.
Pearl, Nancy. “Check It Out with Nancy Pearl: Finding That Next Good Book.” March 16, 2012. Publishers Weekly. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/nancy-pearl/article/51109-check-it-out-with-nancy-pearl-finding-that-next-good-book.html. Childs, Tera Lynn. “Nancy Pearl’s Four Doors to Reading.” February 20, 2014. https://teralynnchilds.com/nancy-pearls-four-doors-reading/.
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CW: discussions of sexual assault and other crimes, racism, antisemitism, and other forms of bigotry, as well as Zionism (all in reference to books and authors from the 19th/20th centuries, rather than to current news).
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/ https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2009/feb/10/zionism-deronda-george-eliothttps://www.bl.uk/collection-items/silly-novels-by-lady-novelists-essay-by-george-eliothttps://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-september-9-2018-1.4806985/the-forgotten-real-life-story-behind-lolita-1.4807124 https://hazlitt.net/longreads/real-lolita https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/roald-dahl-children-books-offensive-b2284965.html
Can you separate the book from the author? The art from the artist? What do we do with books that were written by people with views that we disagree with or who have done things we find morally objectionable? Can we entirely put these scruples aside and appreciate art on it's aesthetic merits alone? If not, and we stop consuming all art created by people who have done or said things we don't like, will there be any art left? Can we make some kind of rule or sliding scale (severity of crime vs. greatness of art...?) that will work for every situation? What about when the art was formative for us and holds a very important place in our life? What about when the art is based on something that really happened? What about when the offense the artist committed is something that we have personally survived?
You might not be surprised to learn that we were not able to answer all these questions and solve the world's problems in this episode! But, we did grapple mightily with these questions and ended up in a place we both feel comfortable with. Will you feel the same? Listen to find out!
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Books we're reading in this episode:
In Love with George Eliot by Kathy O'Shaughnessy
Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women series book #3) by Evie Dunmore
Babel by R.F. Kuang
The Crown of Gilded Bones (Blood And Ash Series Book #3) by Jennifer L Armentrout
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Intro and outro music: "The Chase," by Aves.
Do you have thoughts, questions, or ideas for future episodes? Email us at [email protected]. And if you want to learn more about the podcast, visit our website at allbooksaloudpod.com.
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