Mini Ep. 52: A Couple Differing Opinions with Sarah Verity Collica (@seize_the_page)
Sarah's Bookshelves Live
Sarah Dickinson
4.9 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In Mini Episode 52, Sarah Verity Collica (@seize_the_page) and I talk about a couple books we have differing opinions about…plus, She Said vs. Catch and Kill.
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Highlights
- A couple books that Sarah C. and I had different opinions about.
- Sarah D’s issues with Liane Moriarty.
- The similarities and differences between Catch and Kill and She Said…and Sarah C’s favorite of the two.
- Ronan Farrow’s dispute with his publisher about Woody Allen’s memoir.
- A quick overview of the differences between publishers and imprints.
- Where Sarah D. goes for book reviews from regular readers vs. critics.
- Sarah D.’s speculation about the Transcendent Kingdom’s shifting publication date.
- Edelweiss benefits beyond just requesting e-galleys from publishers.
Sarah’s Book Recommendations
Two OLD Books She Loves
- Eligible
by Curtis Sittenfeld | Buy from Amazon
[4:54]
- What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (My Review) | Buy from Amazon
[8:42]
Two NEW Books She Loves
- Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner | Buy from Amazon [14:04]
- Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow | Buy from Amazon
[18:57]
One Book She DIDN’T Love
- The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon | Buy from Amazon
One NEW RELEASE She’s Excited About
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (Release Date: September 8, 2020) | Buy from Amazon [27:05]
Other Books Mentioned
- Pride & Prejudice
by Jane Austen | Buy from Amazon [5:04]
- You Think It, I’ll Say It: Stories
by Curtis Sittenfeld (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [8:10]
- An American Wife
- Rodham
- Brain on Fire
- Hungry Heart
- Big Summer
- She Said
- Homegoing
Other Links
- Episode 32: Cristina Arreola
- “Publisher Drops Woody Allen’s Book After Ronan Farrow Objects, Employees Walk Out” (NPR)
- “Ronan Farrow Dumps Publisher Over Its Book Deal With His Father, Woody Allen”, (The Washington Post)
- Two articles mentioning a July 2020 publication date for Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom: Article 1, Article 2
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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 talking |
| 0:10.7 | with one bookish guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they don't |
| 0:16.2 | love, and one new release they're excited about. We're going to get real, and sometimes a bit snarky, about all things books. |
| 0:24.0 | If you like the show, I'd really love your support. |
| 0:26.9 | Spread the word to your reader friends, subscribe to the show, |
| 0:30.4 | rate and review it wherever you listen to podcasts, |
| 0:33.2 | or get bonus podcast episodes by supporting the podcast on Patreon. There's a link in the show notes |
| 0:39.9 | and in my Instagram bio to my Patreon page. Let's get rolling. Hey everyone, welcome to a mini |
| 0:46.8 | episode of Sarah's Bookshelves Live. Many episodes feature book bloggers, Instagrammers, or regular |
| 0:52.9 | readers that apply to be on the show, and focus solely on book |
| 0:56.9 | recommendations. Before we get to today's guests, I just wanted to remind you all quickly that the podcast |
| 1:02.5 | survey is still live. So if you have not gotten a chance to complete the survey yet, I would love it |
| 1:08.1 | if you could take a moment to do that. This will really help me |
| 1:11.2 | figure out what's going well, what's not going well, and the types of episodes and guests |
| 1:17.2 | you would like to see moving forward as I think about planning for next year. And there's a link in my |
| 1:23.3 | Instagram bio and a link in the show notes. Today's guest is Sarah Verity Colica and she is known on |
| 1:30.7 | Instagram as C's underscore the underscore page. Sarah works full time for a summer camp and a year-round |
| 1:38.9 | retreat center. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two daughters and two dogs. |
| 1:45.4 | She read babysitters club books until she was way too old. And she stayed up late reading her mom's Danielle |
| 1:51.0 | Steel novels when she was way too young. She sounds like me in this respect. I read some |
| 1:55.4 | really inappropriate books when I was really young. And she is also a patron of the podcast, so she got bumped to the |
| 2:02.9 | top of the waiting list to be a guest on the show. Welcome, Sarah. Hi, Sarah. Thanks so much for having me. |
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