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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 100: Ask Me Anything with Catherine from @GilmoreGuide

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

Arts, Books

4.7 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Today, we're celebrating the 100th episode of Sarah's Bookshelves Live with a very special Ask Me Anything episode co-hosted by Catherine of Gilmore Guide to Books. Catherine turns the tables to ask me all the questions you submitted. We go behind the scenes of the podcast, talk about my reading life, and my life outside of reading. Plus, Catherine answers a few questions!

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Announcements

Highlights

  • Lots of behind-the-scenes questions about the podcast.
  • Sarah's original plan for the podcast included a co-host!
  • Authors Sarah was nervous to interview and those who put her at ease.
  • The thing that amps up Sarah's anxiety as she is recording.
  • Most enjoyed episodes and the things Sarah hates about podcasting.
  • Sarah's current rating system — all those quarter-stars!
  • Sarah talks about reading droughts and how she gets herself out of a slump.
  • The fun way Sarah offloads the physical books she no longer needs.
  • Sarah's and Catherine's pre-blog and pre-podcast lives.
  • How Sarah manages her reading-life, work-life, and home-life balance.
  • The job that influenced the Reading Tracker.
  • Sarah's swimming events and Sarah's and Catherine's current hobbies/interests.

Topic Highlights

Behind the Scenes of the Podcast [05:47]
A few of the questions answered:

  • What inspired Sarah to start the podcast. [05:53]
  • Sarah's plans and preparations for podcast episodes. [10:16]
  • Unexpected moments while recording the podcast episodes [14:35]
  • Dream author and non-author guests [17:43]

Reading Life & History [37:37]
A few of the questions answered:

  • Has Sarah always been a reader? [37:45]
  • A breakdown on Sarah's book quarter-star rating system. [38:37]
  • Does Sarah automatically get Advanced Reader Copies (ARCs) from publishers? [41:01]
  • What did Sarah's reading life look like before the podcast and blog, and how has it changed? [42:12]

Life Outside of Reading [50:30]
A few of the questions answered:

  • What Sarah's and Catherine's pre-podcast lives looked like. [50:40]
  • How Sarah manages balancing being a mom, wife, and a businesswoman. [53:55]
  • Did Sarah always want a career related to books? [55:23]
  • Sarah's and Catherine's non-reading hobbies. [58:18]

Books Mentioned

Other Links

About Catherine Gilmore

Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

Catherine started The Gilmore Guide to Books over 6 years ago after wrapping up a career as a corporate librarian. She loves books and reading (surprise!) and currently lives in Ann Arbor, MI.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. I'm Sarah of the blog Sarah's Bookshelves. Each week I'm

0:15.5

talking with one bookish guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they don't love, and

0:22.1

one new release they're excited about. We're going to get real, and sometimes a bit snarky,

0:27.4

about all things books. If you like the show, I'd really love your support. Spread the

0:32.4

word to your reader friends, subscribe to the show, rate and review it wherever you listen to

0:37.3

podcasts. Let's get rolling.

0:39.8

Hey everyone. Welcome to a very special episode of Sarah's Bookshelves Live. Maybe the most

0:46.3

special episode we've ever done because today we're celebrating the 100th episode of the show.

0:53.4

And we're doing that by doing an Ask Me Anything episode.

0:57.1

I've never done one of these before, so I'm really excited. And I'm especially excited that

1:02.4

Catherine is here with me. And she is going to be interviewing me today more or less.

1:09.1

Welcome, Catherine. Thank you. I am so excited. And there are some questions for

1:15.8

Catherine as well. You won't be doing 100% of the interviewing. We'll see how you like this. Maybe we can

1:21.3

switch roles. Oh gosh. No, I don't think so. Before we get into all the questions, which you all submitted, and I thank you so much for doing that, we got so many questions.

1:32.6

I wanted to do a quick commercial for my 2022 Rock Your Reading tracker, which is available now.

1:39.0

It came out last week.

1:40.8

You can either purchase it at sarah's bookshelves.com for 1499 or, and this is new this year,

1:48.9

you can get it for free if you are a superstar's patron for $7 a month. You don't have to have

1:56.5

already been a superstar's patron to get the tracker. You can still sign up and still get the

2:01.2

tracker for free if you're interested. So my reading tracker obviously tracks all the books

2:08.3

you've read and DNFed and compiles all kinds of cool and interesting reading stats together

2:14.9

and automatically creates pie charts and bar charts. So it does all that,

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