Hey everyone and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Kind of Ass Traveler.

I'm Meredith Carey, and we took a break last week because I was off in Colombia with Women

Who Travel. I had an amazing time. And if you checked it out on Instagram, you can book your own

spot on Women Who Travel Trip to Columbia this December. And we also launched trips to Mexico, which are going out this fall.

So check those out as well at el Camino.com.

Finally, back from her trip to Bermuda is my co-host, Aliaqoglu.

Hello.

And we have both been traveling so much, which means it is summer, a prime travel time,

and prime reading time, and prime

reading time more than anything. So this week, we decided to return to one of our favorite

topics, books, as we've discussed on this podcast before with this exact panel of people.

Any book can be a beatread. So to give you some summer inspo, we have two of our favorite bookworms

in the studio. We are joined by Jin Dilling Martin, Associate Publisher at Riverhead Books, and Polly

Dibner, Travelers, Director of Operations. As always, our picks are exclusively written by women.

Gin, I'd like to kick it off with you. What book have you loved most so far this year?

Oh, thanks so much. It's so nice to be back with you guys. So I'm going to go

straight to the classics, actually, because I'm just back from some time in Germany and Austria.

And we might have said this last time, but when you're traveling on a plane, you want to make sure

the book you have is actually a really good read.

And so I often pick up, like, Penguin Classics when I'm traveling.

And I was rereading Edith Warden's Custom of the Country.

I haven't done that one.

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