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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 78: Deep Backlist Books with Catherine (@GilmoreGuide)

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

Arts, Books

4.7 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 78, Catherine Gilmore (@gilmoreguide) and I go deep into our backlists to share some of our favorite older books we haven't talked about in a long time!

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Highlights

  • Catherine's take on why classics are so long.
  • A book that totally shocked both of us when we read it years ago, but we wonder if would shock as much today given other books and movies that have come out since.
  • Our inverse initial experiences with Anna Quindlen.
  • Sarah's "unicorn" book.

Deep Backlist Books [2:25]

Sarah

Catherine

Other Books Mentioned

About Catherine

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Catherine started The Gilmore Guide to Books over 6 years ago after wrapping up a career as a corporate librarian. She loves books and reading (surprise!) and currently lives in Ann Arbor, MI.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. I'm talking with one bookish guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they don't love, and one new release they're excited about. We're going to get real, and sometimes a bit snarky,

0:21.8

about all things books. If you like the show, I'd really love your support. Spread the word

0:27.0

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

0:32.8

Let's get rolling. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the first special episode of 2021. Catherine from Gilmore Guide to Books is back again. We are going to be talking about deep backlist books today. Welcome back, Catherine. Thank you. I am so excited to be back.

0:50.3

Y'all spoke loud and clear in the podcast survey that I sent out a couple weeks ago now,

0:56.5

maybe it was a month ago, about how much you love Catherine and how much you love us together.

1:01.5

And she is going to be doing more than double the number of episodes this year than she did last year with me.

1:08.6

Thank you.

1:09.4

I have to say a quick thank you to everyone who enjoys our conversations.

1:13.7

I'm really flattered.

1:15.6

This year, y'all will hear Catherine, as usual, on the four quarterly preview episodes,

1:20.8

just like last year.

1:21.5

You will also hear her on four quarterly episodes called Circle Back episodes.

1:30.5

These are new episodes that will go along with the quarterly previews. We will update you on all the books that we presented in the previous

1:37.8

quarterly preview episode now that we have read them. So for example, next week will be our first circle back episode,

1:46.7

and we will be sharing our thoughts on all of the books we shared in the winter preview,

1:52.1

since at that time we had only read a couple of them. But now we have at least tried all of them.

1:57.2

That's right. Y'all, that will be an episode you get once per quarter in addition to the biweekly

2:02.7

episodes. It will not replace a biweekly episode. So you'll be getting four extra episodes this year.

2:08.2

We're also going to be doing a couple more special episodes just like we're doing today.

2:12.5

All right. So we are doing this episode today because, again, going back to that podcast survey,

2:18.0

I asked you topics you wanted to hear more about. And one of the most frequent responses I got was

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