2023 Summer Reading
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Book lovers and casual readers alike will delight in this annual episode that serves up a dozen new book suggestions. Before switching to the literary conversation around 8:52, hosts Sarah and Ellison talk about E’s upcoming trip to Sweden to visit her beloved best running friend.
Here are the dozen new books the hosts discuss.
Tom Lake: Ann Patchett
Such Kindness: Andre Dubus III
The Guest: Emma Cline
The Covenant of Water: Abraham Verghese
Bad Summer People: Emma Rosenblum
Lucky Red: Claudia Cravens
The Celebrants: Steven Rowley
You Are Here: Karin Lin-Greenberg
Romantic Comedy: Curtis Sittenfeld
King: A Life: Jonathan Eig
We Were Once a Family: Roxanna Asgarian
Wannabe: Aisha Harris
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| 1:11.3 | Welcome to another Mother Runner. This is Sarah Bowen-Sham joined today by |
| 1:15.0 | Ellison Weast. Hello, Ellison. Hello, Sarah. So happy to be here. |
| 1:19.8 | Yeah. So time of year. Yes. Yes. And as you mentioned beforehand, as we record |
| 1:24.9 | this June 28th, today is your father's 94th birthday and it would have been my |
| 1:29.7 | mother's 97th birthday. That's exactly right. Yes. And it is Dimitri's daughter's |
| 1:35.6 | birthday. Oh my goodness. Wow. Where she must be an awesome person. |
| 1:45.8 | Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to our parents who really instilled us with the love of |
| 1:51.4 | reading. Exactly. Oh, look at that little hint as to what this episode might be about. |
| 1:59.9 | Yes, folks, this is our annual summer reading episode. |
| 2:05.2 | But I'm glad I caught you before you jetted off to Sweden, Ellison. |
| 2:11.0 | That's right. That's right. Yes. A week from today, Carl and I head over to visit my |
| 2:17.0 | dearest friend and BFR. B-R-F. No. B-R-F, sorry. And that's Monica, who lives over in |
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