BONUS SNEAK PEEK: Beyond Bookstagram (June 2021)
Sarah's Bookshelves Live
Sarah Dickinson
4.9 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
I’m thrilled to share the first episode of what will be a new bonus podcast episode series for $5/mo patrons of the show. To hear these episodes every month, join the Sarah’s Bookshelves Live Patreon Community!
BEYOND BOOKSTAGRAM is a bonus podcast series that highlights lesser known books that are not splashed all over Instagram (either backlist or under-the-radar newer books). A rotating featured patron shares 3 books she/he loves that are not splashed all over Bookstagram. And, I add my own commentary or research on the 3 books.
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If you join our Patreon Community (sign up here!), you also get:
- Sarah’s monthly Book Recommendations bonus podcast episode series…where I share my own book recommendations in the same format as the big show. I often share my thoughts on books here that I don’t share anywhere else.
- Monthly Superlatives bonus podcast episodes…each big show guest shares their picks for 5 bookish superlative categories (and I add in my own picks for some categories via editing).
- Our semi-new quarterly bonus podcast episode series called BOOK PREVIEW EXTRAS! In these episodes, Catherine and I share at least 4 bonus books that we’re excited about that we did not share in the regular Preview episode.
- Weekly Real-Time Reading Newsletter…I share the books I’m reading (and DNF’ing) in real time. And, patrons share their own current reads in a Facebook discussion. This is the only place I share every single book I read and DNF.
June Featured Patron
Kristi Phillips is a 46 year old pediatric nurse practitioner living in the Chicago suburbs. She’s the mother of 3 kids ages 6-12. She reads pretty much anything except fantasy, science fiction, romance. Her favorite genres are literary fiction, literary mystery, memoir, and true crime. A couple of her all-time favorite books are: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne, and The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. She doesn’t mind crying when she reads!
Kristi’s Beyond Bookstagram Recommendations [3:04]
- Dear Child by Romy Hausmann | Amazon | Bookshop.org [6:25]
- Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis by Dr. Ross Slotten | Amazon | Bookshop.org [8:26]
- The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue | Amazon | Bookshop.org
[12:17]
Other Books Mentioned
- The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai | Buy from Amazon
[5:38]
- The Heart’s Invisible Furies
- The Prettiest Star
- Sorrow & Bliss
- Last Call
- Who is Maud Dixon?
- Caste
- The Dreamers
- The Age of Miracles
- Station Eleven
- The Glass Hotel
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. I'm talking with one bookish guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they don't love, and one new release they're excited about. |
| 0:19.5 | We're going to get real and sometimes a bit snarky, |
| 0:22.4 | about all things books. If you like the show, I'd really love your support. Spread the word |
| 0:27.6 | to your reader friends, subscribe to the show, rate and review it wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:33.3 | Let's get rolling. Surprise! Y'all are getting a bonus treat today. I am sharing the first |
| 0:39.8 | episode of my new bonus series for patrons beyond Bookstagram in the main feed today. Moving forward, |
| 0:46.9 | this podcast will be available every month but to patrons only. That means if you support the show |
| 0:52.7 | for $5 a month on Patreon, you will get access to |
| 0:56.2 | three bonus podcast episodes a month and one additional bonus episode per quarter, plus a ton of |
| 1:03.4 | other goodies. For my new listeners, I want to quickly run through the bonus podcast episodes |
| 1:08.6 | that you get as a patron. So first, as I mentioned, you will get this monthly series called Beyond Bookstagram, |
| 1:15.8 | which I will go into more detail about in a moment. |
| 1:19.5 | You will also get my monthly book recommendations episodes where I share my own book |
| 1:25.1 | recommendations in the format of the big show. Like I will share two old |
| 1:30.0 | books I love, two new books I love, one book I do not love, and one upcoming release I'm |
| 1:34.5 | excited about. And this is where I share a lot of books I don't end up talking about anywhere |
| 1:39.1 | else. So that's a big bonus. The third bonus podcast is monthly superlatives episodes where I ask each of my |
| 1:48.0 | big show guest to answer five superlative questions that have been specially selected for them. |
| 1:53.5 | And I splice in my own answers to many of those questions via editing. |
| 1:58.5 | And finally, the quarterly book preview extras episodes. |
| 2:02.9 | These are an extension of our quarterly book previews where Catherine and I share at least |
| 2:07.7 | four additional upcoming releases that we are excited about. The Patreon community is also |
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