Ep 15: The audacity to tell people what to read

What Should I Read Next?

Anne Bogel

Books, Arts, Leisure

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Anne chats with Marybeth Whalen and Ariel Lawhon of SheReads.org, an online reading site and book club for women. Under Marybeth and Ariel's leadership, She Reads does a terrific job of highlighting excellent titles you've never heard of. These women are writers as well as curators and reviewers: Ariel is the author of Flight of Dreams and The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress. Marybeth is the author of The Things We Wish Were True. This is a special episode: it's WSIRN's first freewheeling conversation about book recommendations and the reading life. Anne talks with Marybeth and Ariel about how they became a go-to book resource for thousands of readers, why you have to be a little bossy to recommend books (and why Marybeth and Ariel are overqualified for the job), and how they keep reading FUN even when—and especially when—it's a job. Click over to the podcast website for the full list of titles discussed in this episode. Check out She Reads: SheReads.org | Facebook | Twitter Connect with Marybeth: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Connect with Ariel: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Connect with Anne: Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | WSIRN Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Ann Bogall and this is What Should I Read Next, Episode 15.
0:07.0	Welcome to the show that's dedicated to answering the question that plagues every reader.
0:15.0	What Should I Read Next?
0:17.0	We don't get bossy on this show.
0:19.0	What we will do here is give you the information you need to choose your next read.
0:24.0	Today we have a special episode for you.
0:26.0	My guests are Mary Beth Weyland and Ariel Laughan, who have been running an online book club at Shereads.org for almost nine years.
0:35.0	Mary Beth and Ariel know all about the joys and pressures of recommending books to other readers.
0:40.0	And in today's episode, we talk it all out.
0:43.0	We cover the joy of reading, the bad things that happen when you use the word should in conversations about books,
0:49.0	the surprising vulnerability that goes with talking about your favorite titles, and the best books we've read lately.
0:55.0	Now on to the show.
0:58.0	Ariel, Mary Beth, welcome to the show.
1:01.0	Thanks, Glad to be here. Very glad to be here. Thank you for having us.
1:05.0	Oh, well, I just can't wait to talk books with you.
1:08.0	It's so fun to connect with fellow readers to get to talk about books and reading, not just specific titles, but the big picture, like how we choose the books we read.
1:16.0	And in our case is how we choose which books to recommend to others.
1:20.0	But you all have a long history of doing just that, of recommending books to others.
1:25.0	Obviously, you guys like to talk about books and reading at I do too.
1:28.0	But today we get to talk about what it's like to recommend books to other people, the joys and the perils.
1:36.0	And there are so many perils and recommending books to other people.
1:39.0	So I'm sure we'll have plenty to talk about here.
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