Ep. 80: Spring 2021 Book Preview with Catherine (@GilmoreGuide)
Sarah's Bookshelves Live
Sarah Dickinson
4.7 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Spring 2021 Book Preview with Catherine of Gilmore Guide to Books!
Catherine and I share our most anticipated books coming out April – May 2021 (plus, 2 June 1 releases!).
Also, stay tuned for my Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2021 blog post, which is coming out soon. I'll share some of the books I talked about in this podcast, but also some that I didn't!
This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!).
Announcement
- Join our Patreon Community ($5/mo) to get our new bonus podcast episode series called Book Preview Extras! In these episodes, Catherine and I share at least 4 bonus books (we're sharing 5 this month) that we're excited about that we did not share in the regular Preview episode. Get more details about all the goodies available to our patrons and sign up here!
Highlights
- Catherine and I's prediction that books about the Roaring 20's will make a comeback (due to a similar feeling once COVID-19 dissipates a bit).
- Sarah's and Catherine's #1 Spring book picks.
Spring 2021 Book Preview [5:49]
April
Sarah's Picks:
- What Comes After
by JoAnne Tompkins (April 13) | Buy from Amazon
[5:49]
- When the Stars Go Dark
- Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend by Ben Phillipe (April 27) | Buy from Amazon
Catherine's Picks:
- The Bohemians
- Good Company
by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney (April 6) | Buy from Amazon
- Early Morning Riser
May
Sarah's Picks:
- Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann (May 4) | Buy from Amazon
Catherine's Picks:
- Ariadne by Jennifer Saint (May 4) | Buy from Amazon [32:27]
- The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker (May 18) | Buy from Amazon [42:21]
- Where the Grass is Green and the Girls are Pretty by Lauren Weisberger (May 18) | Buy from Amazon [48:39]
June 1
Sarah's Picks:
- Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (June 1) | Buy from Amazon
- Seven Days in June by Tia Williams (June 1) | Buy from Amazon [45:49]
Other Books Mentioned
- Song of a Captive Bird
- A Good Marriage
- Long Bright River by Liz Moore (My Review) | Buy from Amazon
[14:14]
- The Current by Tim Johnston (My Review) | Buy from Amazon
- The Paris Wife
- Circling the Sun
- The Body Keeps the Score
- The Nest
- Field Guide to the North American Teenager
- I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [22:36]
- Standard Deviation
- All Adults Here by Emma Straub | Buy from Amazon
- The Vacationers by Emma Straub | Buy from Amazon
- The Big Rich by Bryan Burrough | Buy from Amazon
- The Push
- Dark Horses by Susan Mihalic | Buy from Amazon [42:26]
- The Time in Between by Nancy Tucker | Buy from Amazon [43:44]
About Catherine Gilmore
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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 Sarah of the blog Sarah's Bookshelves. Each week I'm |
| 0:15.5 | 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 |
| 0:22.7 | release they're excited about. We're going to get real, and sometimes a bit snarky, about all |
| 0:27.9 | things books. If you like the show, I'd really love your support. Spread the word to your |
| 0:32.9 | reader friends, subscribe to the show, rate and review it wherever you listen to podcasts, or get bonus podcast |
| 0:40.3 | episodes by supporting the podcast on Patreon. There's a link in the show notes and in my |
| 0:45.8 | Instagram bio to my Patreon page. Let's get rolling. Hey everyone, welcome to the 2021 spring book preview. As usual for these quarterly preview episodes, |
| 0:57.4 | Catherine, from the blog Gilmore Guide to Books, is joining me. Welcome back, Catherine. |
| 1:02.1 | Thank you. So today we are highlighting the books that we are excited about that are coming out |
| 1:07.1 | in April and May, with two exceptions, which I will explain later. And y'all, I've got to tell you this episode was mayhem leading up to recording. |
| 1:18.2 | This has actually never happened before. We are usually, we'll trade our books that we're going to share on the show via email before the episode. I don't know, probably a week before. We usually |
| 1:28.9 | stick somewhat closely to those lists, but I mean, emails and text messages were flying back and |
| 1:35.2 | forth right up until recording. It was chaos. Like, oh, I'm switching a book here. I'm taking this one out. |
| 1:40.1 | I'm subbing this one in. I'm moving this one to bonus books. |
| 1:48.8 | Woo. Why was that the case for you this time around? Do you know of a reason? |
| 1:55.7 | I feel like I'm pretty distracted these days. So there were some things that went under the radar for me, |
| 2:05.0 | and I didn't realize it until the last minute. Or I think like with you, I then heard things about a book and thought, oh, no, no, no, no, no. |
| 2:06.0 | I've heard enough. |
| 2:07.3 | I'm going to back off on it. |
| 2:09.0 | Yes, that happened to me. |
| 2:12.5 | I did DNF a book I had planned to share on the show. |
| 2:14.2 | So I took that one out. |
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