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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 4: Tina from TBR, etc.

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

Arts, Books

4.7 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In Episode 4, Tina from the blog TBR, etc. and I talk book recommendations, break down #bookstagram (including when her engagement photo went viral!), and compare our reading tastes.

This contains affiliate links (plus: here's your Amazon Smile-specific affiliate link), through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!).

Highlights

  • When Tina's engagement photo (featuring books) went viral on #bookstagram.
  • When Tina inadvertently ending up listening to the same audiobook as her husband.
  • Sarah's husband's favorite reading material.
  • Behind the scenes of #bookstagram…including what we like and what we don't (i.e. the Instagram post Tina thought was going to do great, but didn't).
  • How to see every post from the people you actually want to on Instagram.
  • We compare our reading taste by debating 2 thrillers we felt differently about.
  • How we both feel about WWII fiction.
  • When publisher marketing sets inaccurate expectations for a book.

Tina's Fiction Audiobook Recommendations

Two OLD Books She Loves

Two NEW Books She Loves

One Book She Didn't Love

One Upcoming Release She's Excited About

Other Books Mentioned

Other Links

About Tina

Blog | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter 

Tina is happiest when reading and reviewing books – especially thrillers and new releases. She's a blogger at tbretc.com and Bookstagrammer @tbretc. That's TBR (as in to be read) Etc.

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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 with one bookish

0:20.1

guest about two old books they love,

0:22.7

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

0:28.3

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

0:33.3

brand new podcast. So if you like it, I'd really love your support. Please spread the word to your

0:38.4

reader friends, subscribe to the show, and rate and review it wherever you listen to podcasts. Rating,

0:44.2

reviewing, and subscribing really helps new listeners find us. All right, let's get rolling.

0:51.6

This week, Tina from the blog and Instagram account, TBR, etc., is joining me from Chicago.

0:58.0

And I first found Tina on Bookstagram. And for those of you that have not really experienced the Bookstagram world yet, it's basically Instagram for book people, and it does have its very own hashtag. And Tina has a massive

1:12.1

following over on Bookstagram. And I think actually she was one of the first bloggers that I

1:17.0

discovered on Instagram first, and then I started reading her blog after I discovered her on

1:21.9

Instagram. But she reads a lot of the same kind of books as I do, maybe a few more mysteries and

1:26.8

thrillers. But we're going to

1:27.8

talk about that a little bit more later. And the most recent things she might be most well known

1:33.0

for is a really cute engagement picture she took with her fiancé that was reposted by a book

1:40.3

of the month. Welcome, Tina. Hey, thank you so much. What an introduction. Well, we're so glad to

1:47.3

have you here. Tell me the story behind the engagement picture. Of course. So for those that don't know,

1:52.5

we were posted on a couple of accounts, Book of the Month, St. Martin's Press, and basically

1:57.6

in the photo, it's me and my now husband. And I don't know, I had an idea. I wanted some

2:03.8

props in our photo. And so I grabbed the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reed and

2:10.1

then the wife between us by Greer Hendrix and Sarah Peckinan. And I liked both of these. I knew I wanted

2:16.7

to have a photo with an open book and kind of doing something cute with it.

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