198. New Books For A New Year + What We Are Reading Right Now
Soul and Wit
Bailey Carver
4.8 • 681 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Courtney and Bailey are talking about one of their favorite topics – books. They discuss new books for the new year, what they are reading, new release books they are excited to read, and more. Think of this episode as your book guide for 2024!
Favorite Things Bailey:
Embracing a marinade
Tote from Salted Books
Favorite Things Courtney:
The new feature on StoryGraph you shared with me
The fact that when we share this episode, my jetlag will be long gone!
Episode Notes and Resources:
Recently Read
Bailey
- Alone With You In The Ether by Olivie Blake
- Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar
- Under the Influence by Noelle Crooks
- Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn
Courtney
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
- Help Yourself By Curtis Sittenfeld
- Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop
New Release Books We Are Excited For
- First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
- That Sucked, Now What by Dr. Neeta Bhushan
- Come and Get It by Kiley Reid Jan 30th
- Good Material by Dolly Alderton Jan 30th
- Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renee Watson Feb 13th
- How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang Feb 27th
- Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott Apr 11th
- Funny Story by Emily Henry Apr 23rd
- This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune May 7th
- Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan June 4th
- Such a Bad Influence by Olivia Muenter June 4th
- One Star Romance by Laura Hankin June 18th
- Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine by Thao Votang Jul 23
- The Pairing by Casey McQuinston Aug 11th
Books From the Archives We Are Excited For
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
- Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
- One By One by Ruth Ware
- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
- Rebecca, Not Becky by Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene
- The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
Book(ish) People to Follow
- Mychal
- Nnenna
- Taylor from Books With Tay
- Famous People Reading
- Little Free Library
- I like following publishers like Penguin Random House and Reeses Book Club and Book Of The Month for good recommendations and book memes.
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Bailey: @beautifuldetour or www.beautifuldetour.com
Courtney: @bemorewithless or www.bemorewithless.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Soul and Witt. I'm Courtney. And I'm Bailey. We are the mother-daughter duo here to make you laugh, grow, and feel more connected to your favorite things. |
| 0:29.6 | Hi, Mom. Hi, Bailey. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. I'm excited because we're recording this on a Monday, |
| 0:35.3 | and I feel like we don't normally record on Mondays. But did we used to always record on Mondays? Okay. |
| 0:37.6 | So we're just getting back to our roots. Yeah. |
| 0:43.8 | Okay. It's really coming around. Uh, guess what I did this weekend? Tell me. I had major plant care going on. Oh, interesting. Yes. January. I know, but everybody is, |
| 0:51.4 | they're really kind of thriving right now. |
| 0:54.5 | I mean, it's been warm out. |
| 0:57.1 | I know. |
| 0:57.8 | And it's sunny. |
| 0:58.3 | And it's kind of like sunnier. |
| 1:00.1 | And so everyone is confused. |
| 1:02.2 | And so I did a lot of like plant leaf dusting. |
| 1:05.9 | Yep. |
| 1:06.2 | Good. |
| 1:06.7 | And I have a tree, like a bigger tree. |
| 1:09.9 | And she always gets like on one branch that sticky stuff. |
| 1:13.9 | Okay. |
| 1:14.6 | Which is not good. |
| 1:15.8 | Yeah, we don't like that. |
| 1:16.8 | That at all. |
| 1:17.6 | No. |
| 1:18.0 | But I got it before it went further and really cleaned that. |
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