Hi everyone and welcome to a new episode of Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler.

I'm Meredith Carey and with me as always is my co-host, Bala Eric Coglou.

Hello.

Somehow we are nearing the halfway point of August as summer's end is approaching and we're looking towards final beach days

and future cozy fall trips, we thought it was high time to catch you up on all the books we've read

recently and the ones we're looking forward to reading throughout the rest of the year to offer

a little bit of inspiration. As a reminder, all of the authors that will mention today are women.

Joining us are Gin Deilling Martin, an associate publisher

at Riverhead Books, and Kalima DeSuz, activist and founder of the Intersectional Feminist

Bookstore at Cafe Cone Libros in Brooklyn to give us all of their suggestions. Thank you both so much

for joining us. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited. Thanks, Meredith.

Firstly, before we get into Birx, how are both of your summers going?

I feel like I haven't had a summer yet because it feels like every time I go to plan a vacation, something comes up.

First, it was that we couldn't get a passport for the baby. I didn't even know he needed a passport. I was like, babies need passports? Yes, they do. And now it's COVID and, you know, the ups and downs of owning a small business. So I feel like I have not yet had

a full on summer with the exception of Reese Beach, People's Beach, completely laid out with my friends.

So I'm really hoping to sort of end the summer on a bang.

I'm hoping.

And I'm hoping you all are having a better summer than I am.

I mean, I've also been to Reese Beach.

It's my favorite beach.

Oh! Jinz, how's your summer going? Well, I've also been to Reese Beach. It's my favorite beach. Oh!

Jins, how's your summer going?

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