Miles of Books: Four Novels Written by Women
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Your favorite book-recommendation podcast is back! Hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Ellison Weist kick things off by talking about four novels from women writers, including a buzzy one Sarah enjoyed listening to on her runs.
- The Elopement: Gill Hornby
- Kin: Tayari Jones
- Good People: Patmeena Sabit
- Murder Bimbo: Rebecca Novack
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Miles of Books, a book-centric show to take along on your run from another mother runner and Feisty Media. I'm your host, Sarah Bowen-Shay. Today, Ellison Weist and I are going to talk about three new novels and one new audiobook. |
| 0:22.1 | Hello, Alison. I am so, so happy to be back talking fiction with you. |
| 0:27.2 | I am too. It's been way too long. We got a lot of catching up to do. |
| 0:31.9 | We do. And, you know, we were talking about before that I'm feeling a little nervous about this. |
| 0:38.2 | It's been, what, close to four months now. |
| 0:41.7 | Oh, that's true. |
| 0:42.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.7 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:44.2 | Yeah, since we went off the air. |
| 0:46.7 | And, but now we are back and we'll be coming to you. |
| 0:50.8 | You and I will be coming to listeners every other Tuesday. And then, because now Miles |
| 0:57.6 | of Books is going to be every Tuesday. So one week, I will talk to you about fiction and the |
| 1:03.6 | following week. I will talk with Coach Liz Waterstrot about nonfiction. And yeah, so we're back. And then I hope people know that the |
| 1:14.3 | Friday show is also back. Just kick that off last week with a episode that we recorded in front |
| 1:21.5 | of a live studio audience at a podcast recording party here in Portland. So we are back. |
| 1:28.2 | So let's jump into books, Alison. |
| 1:30.3 | Sounds good. |
| 1:31.7 | Yeah, let's kick things off with a novel we both adored. |
| 1:34.6 | And that is Kin by Toyari Jones. |
| 1:38.0 | And let's add that we're also now on YouTube. |
| 1:40.9 | So people who are watching can actually see a copy of the book. It is a beautiful cover. |
| 1:46.2 | It is. It is. And this was an amazing book. I really let you go ahead and give a little synopsis of it. |
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