Ep. 11: Katharine from @ReadWithKat (Book Clubs & Living with Cystic Fibrosis)
Sarah's Bookshelves Live
Sarah Dickinson
4.7 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 11, Katharine from @ReadWithKat joins me to talk about living with cystic fibrosis and her real-life book club that's been going strong for 10 years.
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Highlights
- Are we Team Lyla or Team Tyra (Friday Night Lights)?
- Living with Cystic Fibrosis…and how it impacts Katharine's reading.
- An online book club for readers who like to read seasonally (Bookly Club).
- Katharine's real life book club, which has been together for 10 years!
- Why Sarah dropped out of her real life book club.
- Two things we think might be the secret sauce to keeping a book club thriving (and one of them is totally counterintuitive).
- Katharine's experience singing karaoke with author Elizabeth Gilbert.
Katharine's Book Recommendations
Two OLD Books She Loves
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [20:59]
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi | Buy from Amazon [25:15]
Two NEW Books She Loves
- Eloquent Rage
by Brittney Cooper | Buy from Amazon [28:42]
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [30:40]
One Book She Didn't Love
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (My Review) | Buy from Amazon
[34:30]
One Upcoming Releases She's Excited About
- City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (Publication Date: June 4) | Buy from Amazon [37:31]
Other Books Mentioned
- A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman | Buy from Amazon [21:29]
- Us Against You
- The Bright Hour
- This Will Be My Undoing
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo | Buy from Amazon [29:56]
- White Fragility
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [3:54]
- The Prince of Tides
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (My Quick Thoughts) | Buy from Amazon
- Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstances
- The Secret History
- Big Magic
- Eat, Pray, Love
- The Signature of All Things
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger | Buy from Amazon [43:11]
- The Wedding Date
- One Day in December by Josie Silver | Buy from Amazon [44:21]
- How to Walk Away by Katherine Center (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [44:28]
Other Links
- The Bookly Club (Blog, Instagram)
- Friday Night Lights on Amazon Prime
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- Sarah's Book Club Recommendations List
- The Washington Post article about Paul Kalanithi's widow and Nina Riggs' widower finding love
- A Cup of Jo (Paul Kalanithi's wife's twin sister's blog)
About Katharine
Instagram | Twitter | Blog | Goodreads
Katharine lives in Baltimore with her husband and miniature schnauzer. She works in higher education doing communications, and spends the rest of her time hoarding books (and reading as many as she can). She runs the instagram account @readwithkat, and is also 1/4 of @thebooklyclub. Katharine is also a cystic fibrosis patient and advocate, sharing her story of life with CF at local events and online. Her dream is to open up a bookstore.
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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 |
| 0:13.7 | talking with one bookish guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they |
| 0:19.8 | don't love, and one new release they're excited |
| 0:22.4 | about. We're going to get real and sometimes a little bit snarky about all things books. |
| 0:27.6 | This is a brand new podcast, so if you like it, I'd really love your support. |
| 0:32.1 | Please spread the word to your reader friends, subscribe to the show, and rate and review it |
| 0:36.5 | wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:38.6 | Rating, reviewing, and subscribing really helps new listeners find us. Let's get rolling. |
| 0:44.2 | This week, Catherine, otherwise known as Read With Cat on Bookstagram, is joining me. |
| 0:50.4 | She has a blog called From A to Pink, where she writes about books and life as a cystic fibrosis |
| 0:56.4 | patient. And she's one of the four Catharines who founded the Bookly Club, which is an online |
| 1:02.4 | book club that has a seasonal theme for each month's selection. And we'll talk a little bit more |
| 1:07.4 | about that later in the podcast. Welcome, Catherine. Hi, thank you for having me. |
| 1:12.6 | I saw on your Instagram that you are a big Friday Night Lights fan. I am a huge Friday Night Lights fan. |
| 1:18.2 | I just finished rewatching it for the third time. I'm so jealous. I'm a huge fan as well. And if |
| 1:24.3 | anybody that reads my blog probably knows that by now. But I rewatched it. I think |
| 1:29.3 | ESPN 2 might have re-aired it a couple years ago. And I rewatched it. And I did try to go find it on |
| 1:36.1 | Netflix recently and I couldn't, which upset me. I think it's on Amazon Prime is maybe I watched it. Yeah, |
| 1:44.0 | I think you should be able to watch it through that. |
| 1:46.0 | So you like Tim Riggins, right? I do. I mean, I also like Matt Therison, but they're just very different. |
| 1:53.2 | They are. There's so many guys to love on that show. There really are. It's such a great group of characters. |
| 2:00.4 | I mean, that's really what drives the show, |
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