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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 142: Summer 2023 Book Preview with Catherine (@GilmoreGuide)

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

Arts, Books

4.7 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Announcement

  • In addition to my annual 2023 Summer Reading Guide, I'm once again offering Superstars Patrons ($7/mo) exclusive access to Summer Shelves, featuring even more recommendations for the season.
  • Summer Shelves features BACKLIST summer reading recommendations from 17 former podcast guests, our team members, and — for the first time — 20+ Superstars patrons!
  • The Summer Shelves design is clean, crisp, and unique and you'll receive it in a PDF file format via Patreon.
  • If you'd like to get the Summer Shelves companion guide, you can sign up to be a Superstars patron here. You'll also get access to a monthly bonus podcast series called Double Booked (where Catherine or Susie and I share our own book recommendations in the same format as the big show) and my Rock Your Reading Tracker.
  • Also, one of the many benefits to joining our Patreon Community is that you get access to several bonus podcast episode series, including Book Preview Extras! In these episodes, Catherine and I share at least 4 bonus books we are excited about that we did not share in the big show preview episode. Get more details about all the goodies available to all patrons (Stars and Superstars) and sign up here!

Get Summer Shelves

Highlights

  • Catherine's picks include 4 repeat authors!
  • Sarah picked some debuts and several repeat authors.
  • With no July picks, August might be the new September and July might be the new December.
  • Sarah continues with a variety of genres and micro genres, but on the lighter side this season.
  • Two books Sarah has already read, loved, and included in her 2023 Summer Reading Guide, including a 5-star book!
  • Plus, their #1 picks for summer!

Summer 2023 Book Preview [5:13]

June

Sarah's Picks:

Catherine's Picks:

Other Books Mentioned:

August

Sarah's Picks:

Catherine's Picks:

Other Books Mentioned:

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

0:15.6

guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they do not love,

0:22.2

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

0:27.0

books. If you like the show, I'd love it if you follow the show in your podcast player,

0:31.9

spread the word to your reader friends, post about it on your social media, or support the show on Patreon at patreon.com slash Sarah's

0:41.9

bookshelves. Supporting the show on Patreon gets you access to bonus podcast episodes and lots of

0:47.4

other goodies. There's also a link in the show notes and in my Instagram bio. Let's get rolling.

0:53.5

Welcome to the 2023 summer book preview. As usual,

0:57.2

for these quarterly preview episodes, Catherine from the Gilmer Guide to Books, is joining me. Hi, Catherine.

1:03.2

Hi. Today we are highlighting the books we are excited about that are coming out from June through

1:09.1

mid-August. And before we get to that, I wanted to

1:12.6

give you all a quick reminder that I talked about summer shelves, our companion to my summer

1:18.1

reading guide on the summer reading special episode and last week's circleback episode. You can still

1:24.7

get summer shelves by becoming a $7 a month Superstars patron.

1:29.3

We have got 40 or so backlist summer reading recommendations from former podcast guest, team members, and this part is new this year from fellow patrons.

1:41.2

And that is the biggest section in the guide this year.

1:44.1

How fun. I'm excited to see that.

1:46.8

It's a good list of books. I went through it and there were a number of books on there

1:51.8

that I had not even heard of. Uh-oh. No, that's a good thing. That's what we want for this.

1:57.6

Well, it absolutely is. It just means my TBR is going to become even more

2:02.0

unmanageable. I got it. And then some that I've heard of, but didn't really know much about. So I don't

2:09.6

know. It was just a great variety on that list. So I think people are really going to love it.

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