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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 23: 2019 So Far's Hyped Books and Underrated Gems with Carla (@HappiestWhenReading)

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

Arts, Books

4.7 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In Episode 23, Carla from Happiest When Reading joins me to break down the 2019 books so far that most deserve the hype, least deserve the hype, and the best underrated gems. 

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Highlights

2019 Books that MOST Deserved the Hype (So Far)

Sarah's Picks

Carla's Picks

Our Co-Sign Pick

2019 Books that LEAST Deserved the Hype (So Far)

Sarah's Picks

Carla's Picks

2019 Underrated Gems (So Far)

Sarah's Picks

Carla's Picks

Our Co-Sign Pick

Other Books Mentioned

Other Links

About Carla

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As a stay-at-home mama to two "tween" kids, I finally have more time to dedicate to reading. I have loved getting back into a passion of mine that I've had since I was a small girl. But sadly, what I quickly came to realize is that I really don't have a lot of local reading friends. As a way to connect with others who love to read just as much as I do, I started my "Bookstagram" account (@happiestwhenreading). This community has given me a place to engage in bookish conversations, and I can truly say I have made so many online friendships that I'm truly grateful to have.

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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 talking

0:13.9

with one bookish guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they don't

0:19.9

love, and one new release they're excited

0:22.2

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

0:27.5

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

0:31.9

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

0:36.4

wherever you listen to podcasts. Let's get rolling. Hey everyone, welcome to the show, and rate and review it wherever you listen to podcasts. Let's get

0:38.7

rolling. Hey everyone, welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. We're more or less at the midpoint

0:44.6

of 2019, and what better way to celebrate half a year of reading than to call out the books,

0:51.1

and I don't mean call out in a bad way, call out the books that deserved the

0:54.7

books that did not deserve the hype, and share our favorite underrated gems. So that's what

1:01.0

we're going to do today. And here to help me do that is Carla from the blog Happiest When Reading.

1:06.8

Carla joined me back in episode 8, and she's back again to help me dig through the books that have come out so far this year. Welcome back, Carla.

1:15.1

Hello, I'm happy to be back. So glad you're here. And before we get going, I just want to give you all a quick reminder. Yesterday, I posted my best books of 2019 so far list on the blog. So go check that out. And I will also link to it in the

1:30.9

show notes. Carla, how has your reading been so far this year? I feel like I've had a pretty good

1:37.2

reading year so far. I was looking at the end of last month and using kind of your rating guide, I'm at like a 3.9, which I feel

1:48.4

pretty excited about. Good. That's awesome. I think that's my average rating right now as well.

1:53.8

I feel like I have not been reading as much this year, which is not surprising because doing the

1:59.6

podcast is eating into some of my reading time.

2:02.6

But I feel like the books that I have read, I've only not liked five books that I've finished.

2:09.3

Oh, really? Yeah. Okay, mine would be higher than that. I don't know how high, but it would be more than

2:13.4

that. The thing that I find interesting, we've talked about this before, that I'm trying to

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