Miles of Books: Four Novels + Two "Riveting" True Tales
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Anyone looking for books to delve into during the holidays, look (and listen!) no further: Hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Ellison Weist serve up four compelling new novels—including one they both found exquisitely crafted—plus two non-fiction books they won’t soon forget.Â
The books the hosting duo recommends:
Heart of the Lover: Lily King
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai
The Ten Year Affair: Erin Somers
Flesh: David Szalay
A Marriage at Sea: Sophie Elmhirst
Empire of Pain: Patrick Radden Keefe
Head here to sign up for notifications about the future of AMR podcasts. Â
Â
When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR.
We appreciate your—and their—support!
Â
Check out the full Currex lineup +
get 15% off with code AMR15 at Currex.com
Use code AMR for up to 35% offÂ
first subscription order at livemomentous.com
Get 20% off, plus free shipping, on all
IQBAR products by texting AMR to 64-000
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Thanks to Kurex for its exclusive sponsorship of this episode. |
| 0:03.5 | Kurex is the best-selling insult in running stores. |
| 0:06.1 | And for good reason, Kurex insoles are highly customized and provide dynamic arch support. |
| 0:11.2 | For 15% off, visit Kurex.com and use code AMR 15. |
| 0:20.5 | Welcome to Miles of Books. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm your host, Sarah Bowen-Shea. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm joined by the book bully herself, Ellison Weist, to talk about novels and more. |
| 0:28.3 | Hello, Ellison. |
| 0:29.3 | Hey, Sarah. |
| 0:30.5 | Good to hear your voice. |
| 0:31.9 | Oh, yours as well. |
| 0:34.7 | So the upside down continues on the last miles of books with Liz. |
| 0:39.5 | She talked about two novels, Alison. |
| 0:43.8 | And on this episode, you and I are going to discuss four novels and two nonfiction books. |
| 0:51.2 | So go figure, folks. |
| 0:52.3 | Yeah, the world is flat. |
| 0:53.7 | Yeah. So, figure, folks. Yeah, the world is flat. |
| 1:04.9 | So, and we're leading with a novel we both really loved, or in my case, am loving, because I'm about three-quarters the way through it. So please, no spoilers. And it's called Heart of the Lover, and it's by Lily King. |
| 1:19.1 | And I'll start by saying it's immediately engaging, and King is so gifted at spooling out a story. |
| 1:19.8 | Oh, my gosh. Yes, she really is. |
| 1:20.8 | She really is. |
| 1:21.5 | And I think she's kind of an undiscovered, for some people, undiscovered treasure. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Feisty Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Feisty Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.