Mini Ep. 48: Genevieve Trono (@GenTheBookworm)
Sarah's Bookshelves Live
Sarah Dickinson
4.7 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In Mini Episode 48, Genevieve Trono (@genthebookworm) talks mood reading and shares her thoughts about Brit Bennett's new book (which she's already read)!
Sponsor
This episode is sponsored by Book of the Month. Use the code SARAHSBOOKSHELVES at checkout to get your first book for just $9.99!
This month, I chose You Are Not Alone, The Holdout, and Anna K. Check out my commentary on all the February picks to help choose the right book for your reading taste.
Highlights
- Mood reading and how Genevieve builds in time / space to mood read within her books she's reading for review.
- Genevieve's thoughts on one of Sarah's most anticipated books of 2020 (Genevieve has already read it, while Sarah hasn't)
- How it's easy to forget the details of the books we read…even ones we love.
- How some teachers these days are talking to their students about the importance of loving what you're reading.
- A bonus review of an upcoming release by a well-known author.
- Authors publishing new books too quickly / frequently.
Genevieve's Book Recommendations
Two OLD Books She Loves
- Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win
by Jo Piazza (My Review) | Buy from Amazon
[5:07]
- Midwives
by Chris Bohjalian | Buy from Amazon
[9:25]
Two NEW Books She Loves
- Burnout
by Emily and Amelia Nagoski (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [15:20]
- To Have and To Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma
by Molly Millwood | Buy from Amazon
[20:47]
One Book She DIDN'T Love
- The Other's Gold by Elizabeth Ames (My Review) | Buy from Amazon
One NEW RELEASE She's Excited About
- The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett (Release Date: June 2, 2020) | Buy from Amazon [28:29]
Other Books Mentioned
- The Red Lotus
- The Flight Attendant
- A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams (My Review) | Buy from Amazon
[14:34]
- She Said
- Prep
- The Mothers by Brit Bennett (My Review) | Buy from Amazon
[28:45]
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (My Review) | Buy from Amazon
Other Links
- Committed Podcast (hosted by Jo Piazza)
- My 2018 Summer Reading Guide
About Genevieve
Genevieve is a mom, wife, professional photographer, book blogger, library volunteer, and a motherhood book club facilitator. She lives with her husband of 10+ years, their two sons who are 7 & 9 and their springer spaniel named Buzz.
She is a photographer and mostly does behind the scenes work now. She spends a lot of her work days editing in Lightroom and Photoshop which makes plenty of time for audiobooks! She also teaches photography classes.
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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 talking |
| 0:14.1 | with one bookish guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they don't |
| 0:19.6 | love, and one new release they're excited |
| 0:22.1 | about. We're going to get real, and sometimes a bit snarky, about all things books. If you like |
| 0:27.9 | the show, I'd really love your support. Spread the word to your reader friends, subscribe to the |
| 0:33.1 | show, rate and review it wherever you listen to podcasts or get bonus podcast episodes by supporting the |
| 0:40.2 | podcast on Patreon. There's a link in the show notes and in my Instagram bio to my Patreon page. |
| 0:47.1 | Let's get rolling. Hey everyone, welcome to a mini episode of Sarah's Bookshelves Live. Many episodes |
| 0:53.1 | feature book bloggers, Instagramers, or regular |
| 0:55.6 | readers that apply to be on the show and focus solely on book recommendations. And this week, |
| 1:02.2 | I am thrilled that Book of the Month is back as a sponsor. Book of the Month is a book subscription |
| 1:07.5 | service that I have been a paying customer for for years now. You all know I love |
| 1:13.4 | researching their monthly picks and sharing my thoughts with you in my commentary posts that I do |
| 1:18.6 | around the first of every single month. So book of the month has been a big part of my life well before |
| 1:23.6 | they have become a sponsor of the podcast. They vet hundreds of books every month and select |
| 1:28.7 | the best five to feature as their monthly picks. And I have found so many books through them |
| 1:33.2 | that were not previously on my radar. Miracle Creek being one of them and Wild Game being another |
| 1:39.1 | that kind of are the most recent examples of this. Members pick one or more books that gets shipped to them |
| 1:45.2 | directly each month. And if you don't like the picks one month, you can skip it and your credit |
| 1:50.2 | will just roll over to the following month. And this is one of my very favorite features of book |
| 1:54.3 | of the month. I even ended up skipping January this year. And then I turned around and got three |
| 1:59.9 | books in February. So it's really |
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