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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 6: Tara from Running N Reading (Book Recommendations)

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

Arts, Books

4.7 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In Episode 6, Tara from the blog Running N Reading and I talk about Tara's job as a clinical chaplain, finding the right listening material for long runs, and a bit about The Bachelor…plus, book recommendations!

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Highlights

  • How Tara's job as a clinical chaplain influences what she reads.
  • Her listening content of choice for long runs.
  • Our issues with listening to fiction on audio while exercising.
  • Tara's Go-To Nonfiction Audiobooks to listen to while running.
  • Tara's simple method for deciding when to DNF a book.
  • And, a bit of The Bachelor talk.

Tara's Book 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 Tara

Blog | Instagram | Twitter 

When she's not working as a hospital chaplain, Tara is usually outside running, often with an audiobook, or reading with two dogs curled around her lap. Her favorite reads are usually literary fiction but she also enjoys engaging thrillers and nonfiction, with a few historical fiction and YA titles thrown in for an occasional break. 

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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

0:18.9

talking with one bookish guest about two old books they love,

0:22.8

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

0:28.4

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

0:33.6

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

0:38.5

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

0:43.8

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

0:50.6

This week's guest is Tara from the blog Running and Reading.

0:54.9

I'm so excited to have her on the show because she is one of the very few bloggers I've met face to face.

1:01.5

She came to my hometown last year to run the half marathon here and we met for coffee and talked

1:07.5

for two hours and we actually did not talk about books all that much.

1:12.1

We got to the very end of the conversation and realized we had not covered books at all,

1:16.6

so we quickly shoved in some book conversation.

1:19.0

The point being, Tara and I have a lot in common outside of reading.

1:22.3

So Tara, welcome.

1:23.7

Thanks so much, Sarah.

1:25.1

It's really fun to be able to do this with you. As you could tell by the title of her blog, she blogs about running and books. I am a ex-runner. I'm also an ex-triathlete, and Tara has recently picked up triathlons. So we've been chatting about that. We also have a very unhealthy, shared obsession with The Bachelor.

1:45.7

Yes. Yes. We don't like to admit that on our blogs, although I think we have gotten over that

1:51.6

by now, right? Well, I think more people are sort of coming out of the closet. So then I feel

1:57.0

encouraged. I feel empowered to talk more about my love, hate relationship with it.

2:03.2

It doesn't necessarily mean you are unintellectual anymore if you watch The Bachelor, right?

2:08.3

That's right. Yeah, it's a cool thing now. Yeah. I agree. It's definitely an unhealthy obsession of

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