Minisode: An Interview with "The Bookish Life of Nina Hill" Author Abbi Waxman
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In today's spoiler-free mini-episode, you get to hear from author Abbi Waxman, who wrote this weeks' brand new release The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. Abbi is hysterically funny, so I'll apologize now for cackling into the microphone a few times. Ha!
In this "minisode", Kaytee and Abbi discuss the inspiration for Nina and her awesome personality, the pitfalls of social media, what it's like to be fangirled over, book clubs, planners, and even bed jackets… admit it, you're curious.
And, as always, we'll end with a book she wants to press into your hands, readers!
Minisode show notes are not timestamped, but linked titles are below for you to peruse.
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman
Other People's Houses by Abbi Waxman
Abbi's Cozy Bed Jacket
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Connect with Abbi: her website is www.abbiwaxman.com, she's at @abbiwaxman on Instagram (preferred) or email her at abbi@amplecat.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi listeners welcome to the currently reading podcast for two bookish best friends |
| 0:14.4 | who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently and you should |
| 0:17.9 | know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so be ready. I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama four aged 8 and under, living |
| 0:25.3 | in New Mexico, and I love reading books that have a protagonist that talks straight to me. |
| 0:31.3 | Today I'm here with Abby Waxman, author of the brand new novel The Bookish Life of |
| 0:35.6 | Nina Hell, which just released this week. This is Abby's third novel and she describes herself |
| 0:40.6 | as a chocolate-loving, dog-loving woman with three daughters, three dogs, and |
| 0:44.4 | three cats, and a patient husband. |
| 0:46.5 | So I'm pretty sure we're going to get along just fine. |
| 0:48.9 | Abby, welcome to currently reading. |
| 0:50.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:51.9 | I homeschooled my kids too. Did you really? That's fun. Are you |
| 0:57.0 | done homeschooling? No, I homeschooled them all through elementary and then one of them all the way to high school and then one went back in high school |
| 1:05.8 | one went back in middle school and now the third one is about to go back to traditional school. |
| 1:10.3 | Yeah, it's a journey. |
| 1:11.4 | Yeah, it's so it's I don't regret it at all. I don't regret it at all now that they're all sort of out of homeschool and I can see the benefit of doing it. I don't regret it for a second. So, oh man, I love meeting moms that are further along on this |
| 1:24.4 | journey than me and being like look she made it it's fine it's going to be so so |
| 1:29.2 | glad like you're never gonna regret that time ever ever. Oh, I'm so glad. |
| 1:33.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:34.3 | That's so encouraging. |
| 1:36.2 | All right, so thanks also for taking the time |
| 1:38.6 | to chat with me today. |
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