#475: Summer Reading 2021
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and Ellison put their heads together for this beloved annual tradition: the Summer Reading episode. This year, the duo expanded their selections to include more non-fiction options and some poetry recommendations. Here are the books they highlight:
The Lost Boys of Montauk:Â Amanda M. Fairbanks
Four Hundred Souls:Â edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
How the Word is Passed: Clint Smith
The Third Pole: Mark Synott
The Premonition: Michael Lewis
The Plague Years: Lawrence Wright
Brat: Andrew McCarthy
Too Much Is Not Enough: Andrew Rannells
The Plot:Â Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Last Thing He Told Me: Laura Dave
The Other Black Girl: Zakiya Dalila Harris
Swim back to Trout River:Â Linda Rui Feng
Klara and the Sun: Kazuo Ishiguro
Summer on the Bluffs: Sunny Hostin
A Sitting in St. James:Â Rita Williams- Garcia
Ace of Spades: Faridah Abiké-Iyimidé
Head Off & Split: Nikky Finney
The Big Smoke: Adrian Matejka
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Ellison shares details about joining a running club and the first track workouts she’s done in years. The book babble kicks off at 18:04.
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| 0:41.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shea. I'm joined today by Ellison Weast. Hello Ellison. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello Sarah. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh my gosh. So the, you know, the apocalypse is upon us because it is warmer in Portland, Oregon than it is there in South Carolina where you know live. |
| 1:09.0 | Yes, I was just horrified when I looked, you know, I keep it on the weather app. I keep pulling on there and I kept, you know, shifting it thinking there was some state. |
| 1:21.0 | You're like, no, iPhone. This is South Carolina. This can't be Oregon. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.0 | It's against my thigh now. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah. It's, it's rough. It's going to be probably triple digits over the weekend here, which is nearly unheard of. Yeah. |
| 1:39.0 | Especially in Jane. |
| 1:41.0 | Oh, I know. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:44.0 | Remember it sometimes in July or August, but never in Jane. |
| 1:47.0 | Oh, yeah. In June, it could still be rainy and chilly here. |
| 1:50.0 | Exactly, you know, like that gal that I used to work with who moved from Atlanta and one time she said in about this time of year, she said, |
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