Episode 3 - Wherein We Go Wild For Middle Grade Fiction
Meredith and Kaytee are back in your earbuds for more bookish chat. You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us – something readerly in our lives that we want to highlight, and a few of the books we’ve finished reading lately. Then we’ll chat about what’s next up on the TBR pile. This episode we truly begin to show our love for middle-grade fiction. We hadn’t planned it this way, but we recommend a plethora of fantastic titles for your kids - or for the lover of kit lit in you. Next, we both divulge our worst bookish habits, and chat a little bit about how we try to “combat” those habits. We finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we’d like to put into every reader’s hands: something that has consistently ranked on our favorites list or been well-beloved by the people in our lives that we’ve convinced to read it. Perhaps it will become one of your favorites as well. Time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! . . . . . 1:08 – Great Illustrated Classics, especially Robin Hood 2:30 – Robin Hood book giveaway on Instagram 3:00 – Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling 3:09 – Lunch Money by Andrew Clements 3:30 – Audible subscription 3:53 – Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White 3:57 – The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary 4:09 – Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney 4:38 – Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume 5:10 – Otherwise Known As Sheila the Great by Judy Blume 5:59 – The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley 8:45 – The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller 9:32 – The Late Bloomer’s Club by Louise Miller 10:04 – The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan 10:07 – How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry 10:51 – War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 12:10 – Jane Austen 13:34 – Nevermoor: The Tales of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend 14:50 – Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling 14:53 – The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 15:18 – The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 18:52 – These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine by Nancy Turner 20:25 – Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder 22:33 – Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist 24:13 – Jen Hatmaker 24:24 – The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown 24:30 – Daring Greatly by Brene Brown 24:57 – A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold 25:25 – The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley 25:30 – So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 25:45 – Bahni Turpin narrator 26:16 – This Could Hurt by Jillian Medoff 28:52 – Serial Reader App 30:04 – The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 30:08 – The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 34:20 – Matilda by Roald Dahl 36:40 – Louise Penny Inspector Gamache Series 36:58 - Still Life – first in Inspector Gamache series 37:06 – Deborah Crombie series 37:49 – Inspector Thanet Series by Dorothy Simpson 39:03 – The Night She Died – first in Inspector Thanet series *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!*
