Summer Reading Recommendations 2024
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Avid and casual readers alike will enjoy listening to this annual episode (12th year running!), in which hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Ellison Weist serve up 14 book suggestions. Before switching to the literary conversation around 08:55, Sarah shares why her son’s life is a bit like Tom Lake these days. Sarah shares why her son’s life is a bit like Tom Lake these days. Need more book-talk? Miles of Books is at the end of the episode, and Coach Liz recommends two books about finding balance in a busy life.
Here are the fiction and non-fiction books the hosts dive into:
James by Percival Everett
Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden
Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
The Stolen Child by Ann Hood
Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz
Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberley McCreight
Chasing Beauty by Natalie Dykstra
The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne
Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson
Shakespeare’s Sisters by Ramie Targoff
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| 0:48.8 | Coach Liz Waterstrad and me for miles of books. Welcome to another mother runner. |
| 0:55.0 | This is Sarah Bo and Shay. |
| 0:56.0 | I am joined by Ellison Weast. |
| 0:58.0 | Hello Ellison. |
| 0:59.0 | Sarah, it's been too long. |
| 1:02.0 | It has been too long. Yes, and just to kill the suspense folks this is our annual summer reading episode |
| 1:21.9 | Yes, so anyway, but, but Allison, I just kind of feel like I'm a little bit of living the real life ripped from the pages of Tom Lake scenario one of our favorite books. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.0 | Do tell. |
| 1:30.0 | So my son John is at Summerstock Theater in New Hampshire, not Michigan. |
| 1:35.0 | So it's not quite parallel to Tom Lake. |
| 1:39.0 | He's also not in our town. |
| 1:41.0 | What is he in? |
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