My Reading Life Right Now: Favorites, Goals & Fermented Cookbooks?! - S4, E39

Finding Joy in Your Home

Jami Balmet

Religion & Spirituality, Homemaking, Living, Kids & Family, Christian, Mother, Healthy, Christianity, Joy, Homemaker, Wife

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

After a few years in a reading slump, I’m finally excited about books again, and this episode is a joyful deep dive into what’s been fueling that spark! I’m sharing my current reading stats (57 books and counting!), how I track my progress, and the quirky way I rotate between fiction and nonfiction to stay motivated.

You’ll hear about the nerdy rabbit trail I’ve been down with fermented and cultured foods (hello, nine cookbooks in a row), the new Hunger Games prequels I couldn’t put down, and the Trim Healthy Mama book that might just be my favorite read of the year. Plus: a sneak peek at my next cookbook project and our upcoming fantasy novel Hearthstead—coming to the app this fall!

If you love books, need a little reading inspiration, or just want to peek at what I’m geeking out over right now, grab your cup of tea (or kefir 😉) and enjoy this cozy, bookish episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Belmay, and this is the podcast where we blend
0:06.5	deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.
0:12.8	Hey friends, welcome back to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. I am Jamie Belmay. I'm your host, and today
0:19.8	we're going to be talking about reading and
0:21.8	reading goals. And I'm really excited to say I am more excited about my reading currently than I
0:28.8	have been in a very long time. You guys know in the last few years I haven't hit my reading
0:33.1	goal, which is fine. But I just, I've had a like a slump. Not completely, but just not, I haven't been
0:40.0	super excited about reading. And right now I'm really excited about reading. So today will be fun.
0:45.3	We're going to talk about kind of my current reading. I'm going to share some of the books I've been
0:50.3	reading and what's kind of on my stack to read next. This is going to be fun. First, I want to
0:56.1	share with you guys that this week is the last week to get our super awesome mega sale for the
1:02.1	Joyful Home app. It is Joyful Home App 2.0. We have relaunched, rebuilt the app from the ground up
1:09.8	to just make it so much more usable. But the thing I want to
1:12.6	tell you about is all of the audiobooks. So if you're like, I really want to read some more this
1:17.1	year, but I want to be able to listen while I'm cleaning and doing things because you guys,
1:21.1	audiobooks 100% completely count in your reading goals. Then you need to check out our app
1:27.2	because it's, you know, it's not like
1:29.3	Audible where you have to pay for every single book. You don't have limits. You can mean just
1:33.4	you can binge list and everything on our app all at once if you wanted to. But I have all of my
1:38.2	books on there. I have written three books. All five of my cookbooks are on there. Jason has theology guides that are on there.
1:46.9	My books, I've got a book on Proverbs 31, a book on women's hormones, and a Christian's guide
1:51.4	to natural living. And then Jason has, oh, and I have homemaking how-to guides on there.
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