Sunday Nice Things: How to Build a Bookish Community

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Jo Piazza, Influence Inc.

Society & Culture, Parenting, Kids & Family, Personal Journals, Technology

4.3 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

I genuinely believe that books bring people together and I want to create space for more book events, book clubs and book discussions. Robin Kall is amazing at this. She has been running the Reading With Robin series in Rhode Island for decades now and she regularly brings together hundreds of people to chat about books. Robin is first and foremost a book lover and today we are diving into how to build a bookish community, how we can use reading as self care during these trying times AND how to model good reading habits for your kids. Her simple tip, always have a book with you, is so easy and I still need the reminder. Follow Robin on Instagram here. Join our newsletter community here. Pre-order EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU here. Visit our lovely sponsors here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	hello joe here you're listening to Sunday Nice Things with Under the Influence.
0:44.4	I'm feeling pretty good this Sunday. I had a great night sleep last night. I have been staying away from the news as much as one can possibly stay away from the news this weekend.
0:56.4	And I just, I feel, I got a lot done. I got a lot done. Last week, I wrote a substack on the over
1:07.1	the influence substack called What Do We Do With All of This Rage? And I wrote it when I woke up in the
1:13.5	middle of the night and enraged because I am waking up in the middle of the night filled with rage right now.
1:19.3	I'm also waking up in the morning filled with rage. And it's something I haven't felt in a really
1:27.0	long time. It's exhausting. It's breaking my brain on a
1:32.5	regular basis. And a lot of you really responded to this newsletter. I think I wrote it just for
1:42.6	myself, right? To just put the rage out there.
1:47.3	And that's what so many of you said.
1:49.5	So many of you responded and just said, same, same, same, same.
1:54.1	I feel this deeply so much rage.
1:56.8	I'm so mad right now.
1:59.2	And I think I'm bringing this up just to say, I think we're all in this together.
2:06.4	I think we're all feeling all of the feelings.
2:09.6	But one thing that was really uplifting to me was, was people talking about what they're doing to, to escape the rage. I mean, meds, yes,
2:20.0	yes, I increased, increased my dose of certraline. People also said a lot of lifting weights,
2:29.1	getting outside, planning my garden. Planning my garden inspired me. I'm going to do a rooftop garden. This year,
2:38.2	I just, Nick Astor is building some raised bed planters, which I'm very, very excited about.
2:45.9	People also told me that they're walking their dogs more. They're going to school board meetings.
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