Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live.

I'm your host, Sarah Dickinson.

Join me every other week as we get real and sometimes a bit snarky about books and reading.

Sometimes I'm joined by one of my co-hosts, Catherine,

from Gilmer Guide to Books, or Susie from Novel Visits. Other times, I talk with a bookish guest,

including authors and publishing insiders who give us a behind-the-scenes peek into different

corners of the book world. But always, we're bringing you great book recommendations in every

single episode. Let's get rolling. Welcome to the summer 24 circle back episode, where we

discuss books we shared in the summer preview now that we've had a chance to read them,

or at least attempted to read them. Catherine from Gilmore Guide is joining me, as always, for these episodes. Welcome, Catherine.

Hi, thank you. How did your summer reading turn out?

I'm going to call it my hummingbird summer, because my reading for much of June and July

was just like those tiny birds. Their wings and my

reading brain were a blur. And in the same way they flit from flower to flower, I went from book

to book to book. I could not settle on a single book. At one point, I was reading four books at the same time without really

reading any of them. Oh, wow. It was like, yeah, okay, this is all right. No, you know what, I don't

care about this and switching to something else. Do you really read multiple books at once?

No, unless they're very, very different. I used to read nonfiction and fiction. That was no

problem. Now in my fiction, because I'm getting more into fantasy, that's very easy to keep separate

from a contemporary, so sometimes I do, but not like that. Okay. But yeah, but having said all that,

I landed on a success rate of 67%, which is fine,

but they were almost all 3.5. Got it. Which is my lowest success rating. Fairly successful.

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