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Sorta Awesome

Ep. 61 The best books to read right now!

Sorta Awesome

Cloud10

Education, Society & Culture, Arts

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Track down your library cards, charge up the Kindles, and find a bag big enough to haul all of your books to the pool this summer! This week, Megan welcomes regular co-host Laura Tremaine and returning guest Cara Pence to Sorta Awesome to spill on the best books you're going to want to read right now. From gorgeously crafted fiction to engaging true stories to books they can't wait to be released, this list won't let you down! Awesome of the Week Unreal Raise You Up/Just Be, Kinky Boots A Color Story SHOW NOTES Voxer app SortaLiterary Facebook group Books mentioned in this episode (in order of discussion) Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson East of Eden, John Steinbeck A Man Called Ove, Fredrick Backman The Neopolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante Pretty Baby, The Good Girl, Mary Kubica Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty Ruby, Cynthia Bond Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi I Shall Not Hate, Izzeldin Abuelaish While The City Slept, Eli Sanders The Stranger Beside Me, Ann Rule Becoming Wise, Krista Tippett The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander Girls & Sex, Peggy Orenstein Life After Life, Kate Atkinson City On Fire, Garth Risk Hallberg The City of Mirrors, Justin Cronin Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty The Trespasser, Tana French Find Laura on her blog, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter! You can find Megan on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! Visit sortaawesomeshow.com for show notes on this and every episode. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook or @sortaawesomeshow on Instagram! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:42.1

Hey everyone, I'm Megan Teats and this is sort of awesome. Welcome to the show that is all about uncovering the awesome in the every day.

1:05.0

Each week my co-host and I give our favorite tips, share our best stories,

1:10.0

and confide our true confessions, as we invite you to join us in the pursuit of awesome.

1:18.1

This is episode 61 of the show.

1:20.9

I'm joined this week by our favorite Hollywood housewife Laura Tremaine and

1:25.0

another familiar voice to the show our dear and longtime friend Kara Pence.

1:30.9

You may remember that back in episode 24 of Sorta Awesome, Kara came on the show as a guest co-host

1:37.0

and we talked all about the incredibly awesome story of her answering the call to become a surgeon. Well, she has taken time out of her

1:45.5

very busy schedule to join us this week and she and Laura are here to tell you all

1:50.6

about what they have been reading that you're going to want to pick up and put on your summer reading list.

1:56.0

We're going to be mentioning a lot of books in this episode and links to all of them will be in our show notes that you can find at sort of awesome show

2:03.8

dot com. And just a reminder if you follow those links and buy your summer reading books through

2:08.8

Amazon a few pennies from your purchase will go to support our show.

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