Ep. 164: Winter 2024 Circle Back with Catherine (@GilmoreGuide)
Sarah's Bookshelves Live
Sarah Dickinson
4.9 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, Catherine (@GilmoreGuide) and I circle back to the 16 books we featured in the Winter 2024 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
- Catherine and Sarah share their Winter 2024 reading stats and success rates.
- Despite some trouble in her reading early on, Catherine ended up with a successful winter.
- Sarah’s reading had a mix of fiction and nonfiction with several debuts.
- We’ve got a total of 3 five-star books!
- Does a mythology retelling always work for Catherine?
- Was Sarah’s wildcard pick a little too out there for her?
- Plus, don’t miss their #1 picks for winter.
Books We Read Before the Preview [3:44]
Sarah’s Picks
- Mercury by Amy Jo Burns (January 2) | Amazon
| Bookshop.org [3:49]
- The Fortune Seller by Rachel Kapelke-Dale (February 13) | Amazon
Other Books Mentioned
- Shiner by Amy Jo Burns [3:54]
- Cinderland by Amy Jo Burns [5:30]
- The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale [8:34]
- The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale [8:35]
Winter 2024 Circle Back [9:14]
January
Sarah’s Picks
- River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure (January 9) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [13:00]
- Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson (January 30) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [22:52]
Catherine’s Picks
- The Fury by Alex Michaelides (January 16) | Amazon
- Family Family by Laurie Frankel (January 23) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [18:35]
Other Books Mentioned
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides [11:32]
- This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel [22:42]
- One Two Three by Laurie Frankel [22:43]
- Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson [22:57]
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie [23:14]
February
Sarah’s Picks
- Dixon, Descending
by Karen Outen (February 6) | Amazon | Bookshop.org
- Leaving by Roxana Robinson (February 13) | Amazon
Catherine’s Picks
- The Things We Didn’t Know
- Medea by Eilish Quin (February 13) | Amazon
- Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa (February 27) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [39:29]
- Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange (February 27) | Amazon
- After Annie by Anna Quindlen (February 27) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [45:20]
Other Books Mentioned
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer [33:13]
- There There by Tommy Orange [41:02]
March
Sarah’s Picks
- Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennine Capó Crucet (March 5) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [43:23]
- Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel (March 12) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [47:55]
Catherine’s Pick
- James by Percival Everett (March 19) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [50:13]
Other Books Mentioned
- My Time Among the Whites by Jennine Capó Crucet [45:10]
- The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe [48:26]
- Good for a Girl by Lauren Fleshman [49:52]
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain [50:29]
Other Links
About Catherine Gilmore
Blog | Facebook | Instagram | X (formerly Twitter)
Catherine started The Gilmore Guide to Books over 10 years ago after wrapping up a career as a corporate librarian. She loves books and reading (surprise!) and currently lives in Seattle, WA.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm your host, Sarah Dickinson. |
| 0:13.8 | Join me every other week as we get real and sometimes a bit snarky about books and reading. |
| 0:19.3 | Sometimes I'm joined by one of my co-hosts, Catherine, |
| 0:22.0 | from Gilmer Guide to Books, or Susie from Novel Visits. Other times, I talk with a bookish guest, |
| 0:28.4 | including authors and publishing insiders who give us a behind-the-scenes peek into different |
| 0:33.4 | corners of the book world. But always, we're bringing you great book recommendations in every |
| 0:39.3 | single episode. Let's get rolling. Welcome to the Winter 2024 Circleback episode, where we share |
| 0:47.4 | our thoughts on books we talked about in the winter preview now that we've had a chance to read |
| 0:52.7 | them. Catherine from Gilmore Guide is joining me |
| 0:55.8 | today. Welcome back, Catherine. Hi, thank you. How did your winter reading turn out? |
| 1:05.0 | I think everyone knows if I start out by laughing, that's probably not a good sign. One word, bizarre. |
| 1:13.2 | Interesting. |
| 1:14.7 | Why bizarre? |
| 1:16.2 | Because I was a very impatient reader, kind of a la crank. |
| 1:22.5 | Oh, so you were like me? |
| 1:23.9 | Well, maybe even a little bit more in that I'm kind of like a cranky toddler who needs a nap. |
| 1:30.0 | Also like me. |
| 1:32.5 | All the time, right? |
| 1:34.6 | I was giving books 10% or less to grab me, and then I dumped them. |
| 1:39.3 | My first three winter books were DNFs and a hate read. |
| 1:43.8 | Oh, my gosh. Okay. Right. I was so worried. I think I, |
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