Ep. 136: Winter 2023 Circle Back with Catherine (@GilmoreGuide)
Sarah's Bookshelves Live
Sarah Dickinson
4.9 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, Catherine (Gilmore Guide to Books) and I circle back to the 16 books we featured in the Winter 2023 Book Preview. We’ll be sharing our reading stats and thoughts on the books we’ve read (or attempted), to help you decide which ones to add to your reading list and which ones to skip.
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Highlights
- How Sarah’s favorite books from 2022 are impacting her expectations.
- Catherine and Sarah share their Winter 2023 reading stats and success rates.
- Sarah had stellar results with four 5-star books!
- Plus, their #1 picks from winter!
- They name their best and worst books from the Preview.
Books We Read Before the Preview [5:03]
Sarah’s Picks:
- Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (January 17) | Amazon
| Bookshop.org [5:25]
- Maame by Jessica George (January 31) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [8:31]
Winter 2023 Circle Back [10:31]
January
Sarah’s Pick:
- The Sense of Wonder by Matthew Salesses (January 17) | Amazon
Catherine’s Picks:
- Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas (January 10) | Amazon
- Margot
by Wendell Steavenson (January 24) | Amazon | Bookshop.org
February
Sarah’s Picks:
- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai (February 21) | Amazon
- Time’s Undoing by Cheryl A. Head (February 28) | Amazon
Catherine’s Picks:
- Victory City
- Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes (February 7) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [30:39]
- On the Savage Side by Tiffany McDaniel (February 14) | Amazon
- All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley (February 14) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [42:05]
March
Sarah’s Picks:
- Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson (March 7) | Amazon
- All That Is Mine I Carry with Me by William Landay (March 7) | Amazon
- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (March 14) | Amazon
Catherine’s Picks:
- Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (March 14) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [48:02]
- The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi (March 28) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [53:08]
Other Books Mentioned
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus [2:58]
- Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett [2:59]
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin [3:01]
- The Measure by Nikki Erlick [3:06]
- The One by John Marrs [3:11]
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai [26:34]
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt [29:36]
- Circe by Madeline Miller [33:16]
- Betty by Tiffany McDaniel [37:54]
- Watergate by Garrett M. Graff [44:26]
- The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne [51:05]
- Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane [51:08]
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott [51:28]
- Dear Edward by Ann Nepolitano [53:01]
- The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi [53:58]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. I'm Sarah of Sarah's Bookshelves. Each week, I talk with a bookish |
| 0:15.4 | guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they do not love, and one new release |
| 0:22.0 | they're excited about. We're going to get real and sometimes a bit snarky about all things, |
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| 0:46.6 | lots of other goodies. There's also a link in the show notes and in my Instagram bio. Let's get rolling. |
| 0:53.4 | Welcome to the Winter 2020-3 Circleback episode, |
| 0:56.5 | where we share our thoughts on books we shared in the winter preview |
| 1:00.2 | now that we've had a chance to read them. |
| 1:02.9 | Catherine from Gilmore Guide to Books is joining me, as usual. |
| 1:06.8 | Welcome back, Catherine. |
| 1:08.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:08.8 | I am so excited to be here. |
| 1:29.9 | Me too. I've had a good winter. Oh, stop it. I know. I know. I'm going to be the counterpoint. Should I talk about my good winter first, or do you want to talk about your bad winter first? Oh, let's start with the good. Okay, we'll start with the good. My numbers were absolutely off the charts. I think the highest I've ever had, because I've never had 100% preview like you |
| 1:36.8 | have. 88% of my books were successful. That's seven out of eight. Of my seven successes, four of them were five-star reads. |
| 1:47.1 | That's insane. Isn't it? It's just almost scary because it makes you think, all right, have I |
| 1:52.0 | used up my allotment of five-star reads? No, I haven't. Okay. Good to know. Yeah, I have not, |
| 1:59.0 | because I actually did look at the numbers for that. Okay. But there is |
| 2:03.3 | kind of a flip side negative to this that is sort of strange to talk about given how good my numbers are for this winter. |
| 2:14.3 | Despite having all of these five-star reads, I've had this sort of nagging feeling that |
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