Episode 34: Engrossing Non-fiction + How We Rate our Books (and an Unplanned Rant about Bookstagram)

Published: April 15, 2019, 9 a.m.

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Kaytee and Meredith are back in your earbuds for some more great book chat this week!

You\\u2019ll hear a \\u201cbookish moment of the week\\u201d from each of us: Meredith\\u2019s Little Free Library update and Kaytee\\u2019s piano lesson reading.

Next, we discuss our current reads for the week: there\\u2019s a lot of interesting non-fiction in this week\\u2019s selections, as well as a number of titles that friends and family had pressed into our hands a few episodes ago!

For our deep dive this week, we are focusing on book ratings. What does 1-star mean to you and what does 5-star mean to you? We also take an unexpected detour into the bookstagram world and the way that \\u201cbookstagrammers\\u201d follow-up on their book posts.

As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we\\u2019d like to press into every reader\\u2019s hands. We\\u2019ve got a title that has Amazon all confused and one that serves as a companion to a previous book press.

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you\\u2019d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don\\u2019t scroll down!\\xa0

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1:09 - Lost Boy by Christina Henry

1:46 - Episode 19 with Meredith\\u2019s brother Scott

6:33 - Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley

9:33 - Episode 29 with Anna Hithersay

9:35 - White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

13:11 - The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson

16:20 - Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl

17:28 - Currently Reading Challenge for 2019!

17:57 - Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

20:14 - Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain

21:00 - Big Nate: In A Class By Himself by Lincoln Peirce

23:27 - A Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindburgh

32:51 - The Clockmaker\\u2019s Daughter by Kate Morton

34:28 - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

34:31 - He Said/She Said by Erin Kelly

43:10 - North and South by John Jakes

43:15 - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

47:46 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

48:18 - The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton

*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\\u202fsupport!*\\u202f\\xa0

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