Ep 132: Best Books of the Summer 2021

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Unknown, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This summer I read NINE books that I gave a 5-star rating. NINE. This is unheard of, to read such incredible books all in the same couple of months. But now I'm so excited to share them with you! Join SECRET STUFF, where you'll get access to: My list of Meh Bestsellers to Skip Stephen King Summer book club recaps Fall nonfiction book club Personal updates I don't share anywhere else List of books that I talk about on this episode: The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey The Happiness Equation by Neil Pasricha The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker Misery by Stephen King Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Billy Summers by Stephen King Who is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller FULL SHOW NOTES HERE Other Episodes related to this one: Ep 107: 10 Reasons to Read (with @fictionmatters Sara Hildreth) Ep 119: Best Books Lately with Anne Bogel Ep 121: Stephen King Starter Kit Ep 126: Books We Wish We'd Written (with Shawn Smucker) SPONSORS: Noom. Go to Noom.com/10Things to start your trial Skillshare. Go to Skillshare.com/YOU for a free month of premium membership * Thanks so much for listening to 10 Things To Tell You! Rating, reviewing, and sharing the podcast really helps to grow the show. Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on IG Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on FB Sign Up for Episode Emails Join the Connection Group Listen to SECRET STUFF Buy SHARE YOUR STUFF. I'LL GO FIRST. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you and you have 10 things to tell
0:27.8	This show is about connection with each other and with ourselves and the hope is that the things we talk about here will be fuel
0:35.9	for better conversations and a personal awareness. This is an interactive
0:42.0	podcast.
0:43.0	Each episode has a prompt and a topic that I want you to take to your journal,
0:48.0	text to your best friend, or answer on social media using the hashtag 10 things to tell you.
0:55.2	This is a show about digging deeper and sharing our stuff. I'll go first.
1:12.0	A very strange and unusual thing has happened in my reading life in the last two months. I have read nine, yes, nine five Starbooks. That has never happened. I cannot even remember the last time that I've read so many five
1:25.8	star books in such a short time period. It's been dizzying actually in the very
1:32.2	best way because five of those books, the last five novels I have read have been five star reads.
1:42.0	I don't even know what to say about that. It feels like the best gift of
1:46.2	the book gods that I can imagine. There are years that go by that I don't have nine five star reads. And this feels even more notable, especially because I had
1:58.0	a bunch of disappointing three star reads in the first half of this year. I really was kind of in a reading
2:06.0	rut the beginning of 2021. I was not following the reading plan but I talked about
2:12.4	at the beginning of the year where I wanted to read
2:14.7	backlist titles of authors I already loved that was going to be my goal for 2021 but I did not do
2:20.9	that I found myself having a lot of concentration issues, a lot of, you know, just reading discontent.
2:29.5	And so I reached for some of those buzzy bestsellers that everyone else was reading and
2:34.8	raving about and for the most part they were only just okay for me. They were like
2:39.9	me. I have a whole episode over on secret stuff. Secret stuff is my private
2:45.1	podcast on Patreon. I have a whole episode over there that I put out last week
2:50.0	listing those me bestsellers that I didn't like because if you're a longtime
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