Ep 251: I love books and books love me back

What Should I Read Next?

Anne Bogel

Arts, Leisure, Books

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is a self-proclaimed “book glutton” who reads in between everyday moments at home, at work, and even while she’s walking. Grettel Castro is a biostatistician living in Miami, Florida. She emigrated to the United States from Cuba at the age of 14, but her voracious appetite for reading started much earlier. Readers, I’m sure many of you will relate to Grettel’s story of falling in love with books as a young reader, as well as her current mixed feelings on big literary award-winning novels. Grettel loves backlist books, or as she says, older novels that have “simmered” for a while, and has mixed feelings on which books take home the big literary awards... so today, in addition to getting tips on reading with an open novel in my hands, I’m recommending three great books with literary staying power. Visit the podcast website at whatshouldireadnextpodcast.com/251 to see the full list of titles we discussed, an episode transcript, and more. You can snoop on Grettel's reading life on Instagram @6wordsbookreviews We're going back to Book School! This season we’re learning to read better, together—excessively nerdy and super enjoyable classes that will help you go deeper with your books, brighten your book talk, and have more fun in your reading life! Book School is part of the Modern Mrs Darcy Book Club, so you’ll get to pair what you’re learning with the books we’re reading and the authors we’re chatting with this fall. Book school is under way so join now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I mean, I hear you saying you want the book recommendations, and yet I keep thinking about
0:03.8	how that TBR might crush you.
0:05.6	It's okay, I'm strong.
0:07.0	Hey readers, I'm Ann Bogall, and this is What Should I Read Next Episode 251.
0:15.9	Welcome to the show that's dedicated to answering the question that plagues every reader.
0:20.4	What Should I Read Next?
0:22.5	We don't get bossy on the show.
0:24.1	What we will do here is give you the information you need to choose your next read.
0:29.0	Every week we'll talk all things books and reading and do a little literary matchmaking
0:32.8	with one guest.
0:36.5	Readers, fall is here.
0:38.4	If stacks of books and freshly sharpened pencils make your heart go pitter-patter, we have
0:42.2	a treat for you.
0:43.7	Right now in the Modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club, we are going back to book school.
0:48.1	This season, we're learning to read better together, in excessively nerdy and super enjoyable
0:53.0	classes that will help you go deeper with your books, brighten your book talk, and have
0:57.2	more fun in your reading life.
0:59.5	And since book school is part of the Modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club, you'll get to pair
1:02.8	what you're learning with the books we're reading, and the authors we're chatting with
1:06.4	this fall.
1:07.4	Book school is underway, so join now.
1:10.0	Go to WhatShouldIReadNextPodcast.com slash book school, or click the link in the show notes.
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