Ep. 12: Hannah from Book Nerd Native
Sarah's Bookshelves Live
Sarah Dickinson
4.7 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 12, Hannah from @BookNerdNative talks about moving her book collection and shares her three 2019 reading goals!
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Highlights
- How Hannah purged her physical book collection before moving.
- How Sarah originally got converted into a strictly e-reader.
- Why Sarah had to buy books to fill her shelves when she moved.
- On only buying books you've already read and loved.
- Hannah's three reading goals for 2019.
- The rule of thumb for how many pages you need to read per day to read a certain number of books a year.
- A former Mormon's (Hannah used to be a part of the Mormon church) thoughts on Educated by Tara Westover.
- Hannah co-signs one of Ashley Spivey's recommendations.
Hannah's Book Recommendations
Two OLD Books She Loves
- Girls Burn Brighter
by Shobha Rao | Buy from Amazon [13:12]
- In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park | Buy from Amazon [16:03]
Two NEW Books She Loves
- The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [21:11]
- Educated
by Tara Westover (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [25:43]
One Book She Didn't Love
- One Day in December
[32:46]
One Upcoming Release She's Excited About
- Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (Publication Date: March 19, 2019) | Buy from Amazon[36:16]
Other Books Mentioned
- Jane Eyre
- The Secret History
- Dark Matter
[7:29]
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Without You, There Is No Us
[18:27]
- Little Fires Everywhere
- The Mothers by Brit Bennett (My Review) | Buy from Amazon
[24:19]
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [24:19]
- The Glass Castle
- The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvais Graves | Buy from Amazon [35:50]
- Option B
- The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck
- Yes, Please
- Bossypants
- The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Woman in the Window
Other Links
- The Stacks Podcast
- Tracey from The Stacks Podcast on What Should I Read Next? Podcast
- Winter 2019 Preview Podcast
- Book of the Month March 2019 Selections
- Author Brene Brown
- Author Hank Green
- "A Suspense Novelist's Trail of Deceptions" in The New Yorker (article about Dan Mallory aka AJ Finn)
About Hannah
Hannah is a Michigander now living in the Land of the Long Leaf Pine, with her husband and daughter, enjoying Southern living to its fullest. She runs the book blog on Instagram called @booknerdnative and enjoys talking books with absolutely everyone. She also loves renting too many library books, anything with peanut butter in it, and of course, is always seeking her new favorite book to read.
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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 |
| 0:16.9 | talking with one bookish guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, |
| 0:22.3 | one book they don't love, and one new release they're excited about. |
| 0:26.3 | We're going to get real and sometimes a little bit snarky about all things books. |
| 0:30.8 | This is a brand new podcast. |
| 0:32.7 | So if you like it, I'd really love your support. |
| 0:35.2 | Please spread the word to your reader friends. |
| 0:37.3 | Subscribe to the show, |
| 0:38.7 | and rate and review it wherever you listen to podcasts. Rating, reviewing, and subscribing |
| 0:43.2 | really helps new listeners find us. All right, let's get rolling. Hey everyone. This week we have |
| 0:51.0 | Hannah, otherwise known on Instagram as book nerd native, joining me. I'm so excited to |
| 0:56.8 | talk to her. She's a fellow Southerner, just like me, and she reads incredibly widely. I'm going to |
| 1:02.6 | just tick off all the genres she likes to read for you so you can get an appreciation for how |
| 1:09.0 | widely she likes to read. She loves historical fiction, thrillers, |
| 1:12.6 | literary fiction, memoirs, and other nonfiction, fantasy and sci-fi, young adult, and new adult. |
| 1:19.2 | So we're going to be branching out into some areas today where I don't normally go. Welcome, Hannah. |
| 1:24.8 | Hi, I'm so happy to be here. I am thrilled to talk to you. So I know that you just moved, |
| 1:31.6 | which is one of the most stressful things I feel like in life. Yes, especially for us bookworms. |
| 1:40.7 | Yeah, definitely. Moving the books was, it always is a challenge. This is actually the fourth move that my husband and I have gone through. And we've only been married for four years. So a move a year. |
| 1:56.8 | Yeah, I'm really hoping that this is our last move for a while because especially moving the books |
| 2:03.6 | is quite a challenge. And that's where I was going. Are you somebody that packs up gazillions of boxes |
| 2:10.4 | of books and has your husband move them? Or are you somebody that takes this opportunity to purge your |
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