Season 2, Episode 33: Books That Make You Sob on the Floor
Today, Kaytee and Mindy are discussing:
Bookish Moments: books as anti-depressants, and meeting an internet friend in real life
Current Reads: each of us shares three books we’ve been reading lately.
Deep Dive: The books that made us sob on the floor!
Book Presses: a middle grade and a WWII sob fest, to keep you going with your cathartic cries!
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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Bookish Moments:
2:32 - A Good Neighborhood by Therese Ann Fowler
2:33 - Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
3:53 - Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe, NM
Current Reads:
4:59 - Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
9:13 - Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
11:03 - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
11:10 - The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
12:03 - Changeling by Molly Harper
15:14 - Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
15:43 - Notes From A Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwauchi
16:28 - Currently Reading 2020 Challenge
18:23 - Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes) by Lorna Landvik
22:15 - Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
Deep Dive - Books that will Make You Bawl:
25:52 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
25:55 - Far From the Tree by Robin Benway
25:59 - This Is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
26:02 - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
26:15 - Us Against You and Beartown by Fredrick Backman
26:25 - Castle of Water by Dane Hucklebridge
27:04 - Shogun by James Clavell
27:52 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
28:44 - My Sister’s Keeper and Change of Heart by Jodi Piccoult
29:02 - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
29:52 - Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
30:59 - Charlotte’s Web by EB White
31:14 - Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
31:16 - Marley and Me by John Grogan
31:18 - The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
31:20 - Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
31:21 - The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlins
32:04 - The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert Dejong
33:48 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding
34:14 - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
34:16 - Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippencott, Mikki Daughtry, and Tobias Iaconis
34:26 - Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
35:08 - Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
37:08 - When I’m Gone by Emily Bleeker
37:40 - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
38:41 - The Chosen by Chaim Potok
38:50 - A Single Shard by Lin Sue Park
39:23 - The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M Graff
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
41:55 - Nory Ryan’s Song by Patricia Reilly Giff
43:22 - Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly