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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 17: The Pingel Sisters

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

Arts, Books

4.7 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In Episode 17, Jaclyn and Rachael (aka the Pingel Sisters) join me to talk sisterly reading and share their book recommendations.

This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!).

Highlights

  • Why the Pingel Sisters transitioned their blog from a lifestyle blog to a book blog.
  • Our feelings about book reviews vs. book lists (reading them and writing them).
  • Rachael and Jaclyn's vastly different reading quantities.
  • Rachael and Jaclyn's different approaches to DNFing books (although Rachael is trying to come around).
  • Why reading so many books a year causes Rachael not to be quite as picky.
  • Rachael and Jaclyn's very different reading tastes.
  • The classic Jaclyn couldn't stand (and Sarah plans to never pick up).
  • Rachael's Type A Book Club tendencies (which introduced her to contemporary fiction).
  • The mother of all Reading Challenges.
  • Why we all do not participate in Readathons.

Rachael's and Jaclyn's Book Recommendations

Two OLD Books They Love

Two NEW Books They Love

Two Books They Didn't Love

Two New Releases They're Excited About

Other Books Mentioned

Other Links

About The Pingel Sisters (Jaclyn and Rachael)

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About Jaclyn

Jaclyn and her husband Steve met while studying psychology in college. They graduated together and were married the very next day. From there, they decided Steve would get a PhD while Jaclyn would pursue her career in higher education fundraising. She's currently the Annual Giving Manager at UNC School of the Arts – a fabulous job where she can combine her nonprofit expertise with her love for the arts. Of the two of us, Jaclyn is much more the creative soul behind our blog inspiring all our visuals as well as our overall vision for our book blog.

Jaclyn and Steve are the proud parents of an energetic Little Boy, a dog and two cats. You'll often find Jaclyn volunteering at a local nonprofit, re-reading her favorite books again and again, convincing herself she likes the gym, or playing Pokemon Go.

About Rachael

Ever since started this book blog, people often ask Rachael if she studied English or writing in college. Actually, Rachael graduated with a bachelor's degree in Mathematics. She still acts as a math tutor for the neighborhood kids from time to time. In fact, her math degree has given her computer programming experience and a meticulous eye for detail. All these skills have combined to make her excellent at all the behind-the-scenes aspects of blogging.

Rachael currently lives in Utah, married to her favorite person in the entire world – Mark, the engineer. (Though, Jaclyn comes in at a close second.) They have four adorable little children ages 7 and under. Rachael loves to read in her pajamas, explore the outdoors with her little ones, and scheme up vacations to every inch of the globe.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. I'm Sarah of the blog Sarah's Bookshelves. Each week, I'm

0:12.5

talking with one bookish guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they

0:18.6

don't love, and one new release they're excited about.

0:22.0

We're going to get real and sometimes a little bit snarky about all things books.

0:26.4

This is a brand new podcast. So if you like it, I'd really love your support.

0:30.8

Please spread the word to your reader friends, subscribe to the show, and rate and review it

0:35.3

wherever you listen to podcasts. Let's get rolling.

0:38.9

Hey everyone. This week, Rachel and Jacqueline, otherwise known as the Pingle Sisters, are joining

0:44.7

me. They run the blog called Pingle Sisters, which started as a lifestyle blog for millennial

0:49.9

women and transitioned into the book blog that it is now. Rachel has a degree in math and still

0:55.4

tutors occasionally, so y'all, not all book bloggers are English majors, and I'm not an English

1:01.1

major either. So there you go. And Jacqueline has a degree in psychology and works as the annual

1:06.1

giving manager at UNC School of the Arts, which I just learned is not, in fact, a division of UNC Chapel Hill.

1:13.1

It is a school in Winston-Salem. Welcome, Rachel, and Jacqueline.

1:16.3

Thanks for having us. Yeah, it's great to be here. So glad we could get y'all on.

1:20.6

I've seen a lot of blogs start as book blogs and then expand into lifestyle blogs. But you all

1:27.4

basically did the reverse. Can you tell me

1:29.6

a little bit about your original idea and how you transitioned from lifestyle to book blogging?

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So the blogging was my idea. I really wanted a new project to start and I'd read a lot about

1:41.4

how to start a blog. And so I roped Jacqueline into it and said,

1:45.9

let's do a blog together. It'll be fun. Oh, no. What she actually did was saying, hey, Jacqueline,

1:51.0

I think I want to start this project and went into all the details and why I said, hey, Rachel,

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