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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 83: 2021 Summer Reading Special with Susie from @NovelVisits

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

Arts, Books

4.7 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 83, Susie Boutry (@NovelVisits) and I share our favorite books that missed last year's Summer Reading Guides, books for people who have time to dig into something big in the summer, and our #1 picks for the four of the five categories featured in Sarah's 2021 Summer Reading Guide.

This post 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!).

Our Summer Reading Guides

Books That Missed Last Year's Summer Reading Guides [4:12]

Sarah

Susie

Books For People Who Have More Time to Dig Into Something Big in Summer (i.e. "Teacher Books") [17:36]

Sarah

Susie

Our #1 Picks for Each Summer Reading Guide Category [37:56]

Something Light / Fun

Something Intense / Fast-Paced

Something with a Bit More Substance

Something Different

Other Books Mentioned

Other Links

About Susie

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Susie has loved reading for as long as she can remember. Some of her fondest childhood memories involve long afternoons at the library and then reading late into the night. More than ten years ago, she began journaling about the books I read and turned that passion into writing about books. Her first forays were as a guest reviewer on a friend's blog, but she soon realized she wanted to be reviewing and talking about books on a blog of my own. From there, Novel Visits was born. That was in 2016 and, though the learning curve was steep, she loves being a part of the book community. Novel Visits focuses on new novel reviews (print and audio), previews of upcoming releases, and musings on all things bookish.

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,

0:21.6

and one new release they're excited about. We're going to get real, and sometimes a bit

0:26.6

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

0:32.0

Spread the word to your reader friends, subscribe to the show, rate and review it wherever you

0:36.9

listen to podcasts, or get bonus podcast episodes

0:40.9

by supporting the podcast on Patreon. There's a link in the show notes and in my Instagram bio to my

0:47.5

Patreon page. Let's get rolling. Hey everyone, welcome to our 2021 summer reading special episode. If you follow my blog, you saw that I posted my annual summer reading guide yesterday. I have been putting this guide together for about nine years now. I've got over 30 books for you that I think would make great summer reading picks and they fall into five categories, something light

1:12.0

slash fun, something fast paced slash intense, slow burn suspense, which is a new category this year.

1:19.5

And for the purposes of today's podcast, we will be combining that category with something fast pace

1:25.9

slash intense. But in the summer reading guide,

1:28.9

it's got its own bracket, something with a bit more substance and something different.

1:34.6

And I will leak to the summer reading guide in the show notes.

1:38.5

And there's also a link in my Instagram bio as well.

1:41.7

Susie from Novel Visits, who joined me for last year's summer reading

1:45.0

guide special, is back again. Susie is one of my top recommendation sources, and actually for the

1:50.8

first quarter of 2021 was my number one recommendation source. Welcome back, Susie. Oh, it's so nice to be

1:57.4

back, and I love being at the top of your recommendation source.

2:06.8

It's a coveted spot. You and Tina from TBR, et cetera, are vying for it. You have a summer reading guide as well. Can you share a little bit about it? Yeah, my summer reading guide is coming out

2:12.1

today on novelvisits.com. And I divide mine up just a little bit differently than you. I have four

2:19.2

categories, smart suspense, loving literary, delightfully different, and backlist beauties.

2:27.1

Well, I can't wait because knowing you and I's reading taste, I'm sure I'll be adding some of

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