Season 2, Episode 12: Meredith’s Big Reading “Pause” + Books By Authors from Other Countries
Kaytee and Meredith are back into their routine after some guests and a big shake-up, and we’re excited to be here!
You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us: moving and the big changes it brings, a #bookstagram challenge.
Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. This week is going to feel a little different for a number of reasons. Take a listen to hear about 2 books Kaytee read recently and then we’ll talk about what’s happening with Meredith’s reading life.
We’ll move on to a short Slow But Steady update from each of us, with a funny update from a couple listeners.
For our deep dive this week, we are checking out the eleventh category of the #readerstatus side of the Currently Reading Challenge, books by authors from other countries. We have a lot of great authors here and we know you’ll have a bunch to add to our list!
Finally, this week, we are Bellying Up to the Book Bar with listener Jami Dabbs. She loves “stories well-told with characters you can sink your teeth into” and we think we’ve got some great recs for her.
As per 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! *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*
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2:35 - Currently Reading Challenge
3:55 - Book People in Austin, TX
4:36 - Fabled Book Shop in Waco, TX
5:08 - Texas Book Festival
5:33 - #book10gram challenge with @howjessreads
5:38 - Jessica Howard on Episode 3 of Season 2
9:36 - After the Flood by Kassandra Montag
13:32 - The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
13:40- Episode 31 of Ten Things to Tell You
15:41 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
18:09 - A Better Man by Louise Penny
29:23 - Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
29:33 - Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
31:38 - Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
31:59 - Anne of Avonlea by LM Montgomery
32:02 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
33:05 - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
33:13 - A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
33:14 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
34:11 - Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast
34:25 - Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
35:37 - Currently Reading Challenge
36:18 - Murmur of Bees by Sophia Segovia
36:44 - Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
37:20 - Chocolat by Joanne Harris
38:10 - A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
38:36 - Frederick Backman (Beartown, A Man Called Ove, etc)
38:54 - Stieg Larsson Millennium Series (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
39:14 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah, We Should All Be Feminists, etc)
39:29 - Abraham Verghese - Cutting for Stone
39:33 - Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner, And The Mountains Echoed
39:57 - Alexander McCall Smith - The Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency
40:26 - John Boyne - The Heart’s Invisible Furies
40:54 - Junot Diaz - The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
41:06 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
41:11 - Jose Saramago - Blindness
41:30 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
41:31 - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
41:32 - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
41:35 - Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, etc)
41:36 - Charles Dickens (Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, etc)
42:44 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
42:47 - Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
42:51 - We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
42:53 - The Dry by Jane Harper
42:54 - Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
42:56 - Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
43:01 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
43:03 - Harry Potter by JK Rowling
43:56 - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
44:04 - The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
44:20 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
44:38 - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
45:46 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
44:49 - The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
44:55 - The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak
45:36 - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
45:52 - A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
46:27 - Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
46:39 - The Current by Tim Johnston
47:07 - The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
47:33 - North and South by John Jakes
47:56 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
48:08 - East of Eden by John Steinbeck
48:43 - Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
48:50 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
49:10 - All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
49:26 - The Snowman by Jo Nesbo