Spring Bookshelf

The Girl Next Door Podcast

Kelsey Wharton

Kids & Family, Working, Books, Family, Creative, Cooking, Work, Mom, Honest, Life, Society & Culture, Married, Personal Journals, Conversation

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another bookish episode! We check in on our reading lives, chat about what we're reading lately, and what we're looking forward to reading. Plus we share what our kids are reading lately. We mention what else we're listening to (besides audiobooks) and our recent memorable reading moment.

For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're sharing our favorite reading and bookish accessories Plus, get bonus book club episodes this year as a Friend of the Show! We'll be reading and discussing The New Menopause and The Frozen River.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. In every episode, we bring our different
0:09.0	perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. We started the show
0:14.1	years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and laugh about
0:19.0	yet. It's time for another episode all about
0:23.1	what we've been reading lately and what we're looking forward to reading. For years, we have
0:28.0	called these reading roundups, but we like to keep things fresh. So going forward, we're going
0:33.6	to call these bookshelf episodes. So this is our spring bookshelf.
0:39.0	And for those of you who love our bookish episodes, we want to tell you about the two book club
0:43.4	episodes we'll be doing this year for Friends of the Show over on Patreon.
0:47.2	So in May, we'll be discussing the new menopause by Mary Claire Haver, which is a nonfiction
0:53.5	book, all about surprise, menopause.
0:56.5	So many of you have asked us to talk more about women's health and menopause. So here we go.
1:01.0	That book club episode is going to go along with an episode about perimenopause that everyone will
1:05.9	get. So Friends of the Show will get to do an even deeper dive with us. And then in August for Friends of the Show on Patreon, we'll be discussing The Frozen River by Ariel Lahun.
1:16.7	This book is getting a lot of buzz and is described as a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote
1:29.2	herself into American history. Erica loved this. I actually just finished it last night and also
1:35.2	loved it. So we can highly recommend it. And yes, we are reading a book about the frozen river
1:41.5	and wintertime set in New England in the middle of summer.
1:45.9	Yes, we are. That's exactly when we're going to need to be discussing it. So get a copy of
1:50.4	the new menopause and of the frozen river and join us for Book Club on Patreon this year.
1:56.2	Okay, let's talk books and reading. I like to start with this. How is your reading life lately?
2:02.0	Okay. It's going well. Still my absolute favorite hobby, hands down. I think I've read 16 books so
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