In Episode 9, Nicole Bonia and Gayle Weiswasser from The Readerly Report Podcast join me to discuss their reading tastes and share book recommendations…prepare for some potentially unpopular opinions! 

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Highlights

• How Gayle and Nicole went from bookish friends to podcast co-hosts.
• Gayle’s vs. Nicole’s reading taste.
• The book Nicole and Gayle both violently hated.
• Gayle shares a very popular book she didn’t like – which I didn’t agree with her about.
• We all talk about some huge books we didn’t love.
• How we don’t generally like Pulitzer Prize-winning books.
• How we feel about World War II books.
• How we feel about real life book clubs.
• Goodreads Choice Awards.

Gayle and Nicole’s Book Recommendations

Two OLD Books They Love

• Nicole: Words by Heart by Ouida Sebestyen | Buy from Amazon [13:02]
• Gayle: Evening by Susan Minot | Buy from Amazon [14:29]

Two NEW Books They Love

• Nicole: The Caregiver by Samuel Park | Buy from Amazon [17:32]
• Gayle: One Day in December by Josie Silver | Buy from Amazon [20:15]

Two Books They Didn’t Love

• Nicole: Little Bee by Chris Cleave | Buy from Amazon [23:07]
• Gayle: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [24:49]

Two New Releases They’re Excited About

• Nicole: At the Wolf’s Table by Rosella Postorino (Release Date: January 29, 2019) | Buy from Amazon [28:04]
• Gayle: Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Release Date: March 5, 2019) | Buy from Amazon [31:33]

Other Books Mentioned

• Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane Crosley (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [8:45]
• Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [10:06]
• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [11:11]
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [12:17]
• The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker | Buy from Amazon [12:17]
• The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [12:35]
• Monkeys by Susan Minot | Buy from Amazon [15:36]
• Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [16:31]
• Hourglass: Time, Memory, and Marriage by Dani Shapiro | Buy from Amazon [17:03]
• Red Clocks by Leni Zumas | Buy from Amazon [20:23]
• The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [21:45]
• One Day in September by Simon Reeve | Buy from Amazon [22:38]
• Fates & Furies by Lauren Groff (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [25:19]
• Everybody’s Son by Thrity Umrigar | Buy from Amazon [26:10]
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [26:36]
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr | Buy from Amazon [27:43]
• We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [29:48]
• These Guys Have All the Fun by James A. Miller & Tom Shales | Buy from Amazon [33:01]
• Live From New York: An Oral History of Saturday Night Live by James A. Miller & Tom Shales | Buy from Amazon [33:01]
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [33:34]
• One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Buy from Amazon [33:45]
• After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Buy from Amazon [34:12]

Other Links

• Book Expo
• Eight 2018 Books That Deserved the Hype…and Five That Didn’t (Sarah’s blog post)
• Anne Flosnik (audiobook narrator – Little Bee)
• The Gilmore Guide to Books review of Everybody’s Son
• Spivey’s Book Club
• It’s Book Talk review of Daisy Jones & the Six
• The Readerly Report Goodreads Choice Awards episode

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About Gayle

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Gayle has been blogging about books at Everyday I Write the Book since 2006, and co-hosts The Readerly Report Podcast with Nicole Bonia. I love to read, and I love to talk about books and what other people are reading. I live in Washington, DC with my husband, fourteen year-old twin daughters and six year-old son. I run communications and business development at a real estate technology company called Homesnap, which keeps me busy when I am not parenting or reading.

About Nicole

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Nicole is co-host at The Readerly Report,  a podcast featuring the latest literary news, candid book discussions and scads of eclectic book recommendations. She loves travel, reading on the beach, and catching up with friends over dinner and a bottle of red. Nicole writes about books and other things at NicoleBonia.com.

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