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What Should I Read Next?

Ep 85: When your best friend hates your favorite book (and you hate hers)

What Should I Read Next?

Anne Bogel

Leisure, Arts, Books

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

WSIRN goes international once more! Today's guest is Charity Dušíková, an art teacher and mother residing in a small town in the Czech Republic*. Anne and Charity talk about the impact of big life changes on their reading lives, what to do when you HATE your best friend’s favorite book, what it takes for a book that collects dust on your shelves to finally get picked up and read, and more.  Click over to the podcast website for the full list of titles discussed in this episode, and leave us a comment to let us know what YOU think Charity should read next! Connect with Charity on her blog.  Connect with Anne: Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | WSIRN Instagram  *Charity asked to add the following footnote: "Ostrava is an industrial city with a history of mining and with a steel industry. Though the mining has ceased, the steel industry is still at work (hence the connection to Detroit). My dear Ostrova has much more to offer than just mining and steel!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey readers, I'm Ann Boko, and this is What Should I Read Next Episode 85.

0:09.5

Welcome to the show that's dedicated to answering the question that plugs every reader.

0:13.7

What should I read next? We don't get bossy on the show. What we will do here is give you the

0:19.3

information you need to choose your next read. Every week we'll talk all things books and reading

0:24.2

and do a little literary matchmaking with one guest. We have a great show for you today,

0:28.8

and before we get started, I wanted to share an email I got from Claire Diaz Ortiz,

0:32.8

my guest a few weeks back on Episode 82. She said, writing to me,

0:37.1

your listeners are amazing. She went on to say, I wrote down all of their recommendations on the

0:42.5

blog post and Instagram, and it's overwhelmingly awesome. She used for exclamation points, so I think

0:48.0

she meant it. They really were amazing. Claire said in that episode that she felt like she already

0:52.6

knew about and had already read almost everything in her very favorite genre, and I think many of

0:57.3

you took that as a personal challenge. Thank you so much for showing up and really making another

1:01.9

reader's day and exploding her to be read list in the best possible way. If you want to see those

1:07.2

show notes for yourself that Claire was talking about, with the list of books we discussed in that

1:11.0

episode, plus your abundant recommendations, visit whatshould I read nextpodcast.com slash 82.

1:18.4

And thank you all again so much for all the great reviews you've been leaving over on iTunes.

1:22.8

You've added several hundred in the past month, and that is a huge deal for the show, so thank you.

1:27.5

And you may get something out of it too. We are giving away five deluxe reading journal kits.

1:32.1

That's the best selling item in our shop at whatshould I read nextpodcast.com slash shop.

1:37.7

We're giving away one each to five different winners and to enter just leave us a review on iTunes.

1:43.6

We will randomly choose five different winners and each will win their very own deluxe reading

1:48.2

journal kit. And we'll announce those winners in the future episode and share how you can get in touch

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