Ep 26: Elin Hilderbrand
Gee Thanks, Just Bought It!
Caroline Moss
4.6 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
If you haven’t heard me evangelize the brilliantly beachy books of Elin Hilderbrand, you are not paying attention. But now you’re going to have to, because Elin joins us today! Her 24th novel, 28 Summers, is out June 16! If you haven’t read your first Elin yet, what are you waiting for!
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Elin and I discuss cooking, writing, exercise, and her product pick (which makes a great gift for you OR for someone else). Also I just fangirl out like no tomorrow.
Mentioned On This Episode!
- The Elin Hilderbrand Book Collection: https://www.elinhilderbrand.net/ and https://www.amazon.com/shop/geethanksjustboughtit?listId=2WFY67Z0LEID6&ref=idea_share_inf
- The Food52 Pepper Grinder: https://fave.co/2Zn6ijH
- The Peloton Bike: https://www.onepeloton.com/
- Pre-order 28 Summers from my favorite indie, Amherst Books!: https://www.amherstbooks.com/
Elin Hilderbrand in New York Magazine: https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/how-elin-hilderbrand-became-the-queen-of-beach-reads.html
PS. If you aren’t listening to Doree and Kate’s new podcast, HERE FOR YOU, it’s a great way to both acknowledge the state of the world while also not overwhelming yourself (as I tend to do). Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/here-for-you/id1503438711
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| 0:14.6 | Hi everyone welcome it to another episode of G Thanks Just Bought It, the podcast where we talk about stuff I love and stuff you love and what we're buying |
| 0:17.8 | and what we're gonna buy next. I'm so excited to welcome today's guest. |
| 0:22.0 | This will come as no surprise to any of you who |
| 0:24.8 | follow the G Thanks Just Bought It POD Instagram. My favorite author, Ellen |
| 0:28.9 | Hildebrand, live from Nantucket, she's here. Hi, Ellen, I'm |
| 0:33.7 | This is so exciting for me. |
| 0:36.4 | Ellen, I have probably, I mean, I know that a lot of people |
| 0:39.1 | say that they're your biggest fan, but I would say that I'm your biggest fan. I love that. I'm a huge fan. A lot of people do say it but you know there I I I have known you for a while as my biggest fan. Thank you. That, oh my gosh, this validates me incredibly. I will look back on whatever, whatever kind of clouds my memory of this pandemic, I will be able to remember I talked to my favorite |
| 1:04.4 | author and she recognized me as her biggest fan I remember my my journey with you |
| 1:09.6 | began in 2011 I was at Target I was going to Martha's Vineyard, that's where my family spent a week |
| 1:15.9 | every summer since I was in utero. And, you know, Target always has sort of like the best of the best like mainstream |
| 1:24.9 | best selling books and the island was sitting right there and I thought that sounds |
| 1:30.6 | appropriate Martha's Vineyards in island and it I read the back of the book I said cool I'm sold and that was the first year I actually got a Kindle so like I finished the island |
| 1:40.7 | I think on the drive up like I was done before we got on the ferry and so I spent the rest of the week just being like okay, you know at that point's 2011 so that's probably the midway you probably |
| 1:55.0 | had like what six or seven books by then before the island or a little bit more it |
| 1:59.6 | was my night okay I think it was my night book. Okay. I'm going to go with nine. So I'm going to go with nine. |
| 2:06.0 | So I got to go back and I bought everything on the Kindle and I think I read all of them that |
| 2:12.4 | week and just one after the other after the other it was the best and I've and like then when I realized you come out with a at that point you came out with a book every kind of Memorial Day time. |
| 2:24.4 | I was so excited and then the winter book started coming out and I was so excited. |
| 2:29.2 | I befriended your publicist. |
| 2:31.2 | I emailed Catherine at your publisher all the time. Yeah, I just can't get enough and now I like I have |
| 2:39.7 | gotten so many people on board with Ellen. I am like do you want a good read that like will |
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