Two Great Summer Reads Arrive in Spring

The Book Case

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Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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It’s a two for one show and do bear with us, because it’s two books we loved, AND you get two authors in one podcast. One book is a darkly comic novel, All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman, and the other is Homestand, which is a wonderful nonfiction read about the loss of minor league baseball in small town America by Will Bardenwerper. Please tune in, because we believe that spring is in the air and these two great summer reads came a touch early. Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned in this week's episode: Homestand: Small Town Baseball and The Fight for the Soul of America by Will Bardenwerper All The Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman The Prisoner in His Palace by Will Bardenwerper Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris Jayne Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.6	Welcome listeners. It's good to have you back with us. I know you've set your alarm clock for Thursday.
0:41.3	I don't know if you can set your alarm clock for a specific day, but Thursdays are always a red-letter day for us because that means a new, a new episode of the bookcase with Kate and Charlie.
0:51.3	I'm Charlie. Boy, that really, I'm Kate, by the way, and that'd really be showing your age, isn't it? It's like I've lost days of the week so much
0:57.7	that I need my calendar to remind me when it is Thursday, and it is Thursday. And it is a very
1:03.5	special episode of the bookcase. I'm going to call it the two, two, two for one episode.
1:09.4	Sounds like a double mid-gum commercial. The like a double-mid-gum commercial.
1:11.7	The old commercials for double-mit-gum.
1:14.3	Yeah, in retirement, basically life is six Saturdays interrupted by a Sunday.
1:20.5	But Thursday is a special day for us because it's a new edition of the bookcase with Kate and Charlie.
1:24.7	And to use a baseball term, we have a double header for
1:28.7	you, two brand new books, two authors, two very interesting reads, and one is a baseball book.
1:34.7	We have a first novel from author Sarah Harmon, who was a former network news reporter, and I root
1:40.3	for those, with a most provocative title, All the Other Mothers Hate Me.
1:45.3	And then, as I mentioned, a book ostensibly about baseball, but really a whole lot more.
1:51.1	Will Bardenwerper is the author. He's a Princeton grad. I root for those too.
1:55.3	Homestand is the title of his book. So which one do you want to describe, Kate?
1:59.6	Well, I'll do all the other mothers hate me
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