Zibby's Book Club pick! Ann Leary, I'VE TRIED BEING NICE: Essays
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary returns to the podcast, this time to discuss I’VE TRIED BEING NICE, a light-hearted, vulnerable, and wise collection of essays about being a people-pleaser—and Zibby’s September Book Club pick! Ann reveals the origins of her essays, many of which were inspired by past blog posts and memorable personal experiences. She discusses the challenges of people-pleasing and standing up for herself and then shares anecdotes from her life (including gardening, alcoholism, ballroom dancing, a home bat invasion, moving from a beloved family home, and being an empty-nester.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:08.1 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
| 0:14.2 | I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. |
| 0:21.9 | Learn more at Zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zibby Owens or join the community at Zibby Readers. |
| 0:31.2 | Anne Leary is the author of I've Tried Being Nice Essays. |
| 0:35.5 | This is actually one of the Zibby's book club picks, so I hope you will join us for our |
| 0:39.3 | book club discussion. |
| 0:40.3 | You can find all the details on Zibbimedia.com. |
| 0:44.4 | Anne Leary is the New York Times bestselling author of a memoir and four novels, including |
| 0:48.8 | The Goodhouse. |
| 0:49.9 | Her work has been translated into 18 languages, and she has written for the New York Times, |
| 0:57.7 | Plow shares, NPR, Red Book, and Real Simple, among other publications. |
| 1:03.8 | Her essay, Rallying to Keep the Game Alive, was adapted for Prime Videos television series Modern Love. |
| 1:09.0 | Her novel The Goodhouse was adapted as a motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Klein. |
| 1:39.1 | She lives with her husband in New York. Visit her online at anlyarie.com. Today we have Anne Leary. I'm so excited. This is a book club pick of mine. I'm obsessed with this book. I've tried being nice essays. Congratulations. Thank you, Sue. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. I'm so excited that you've picked my book for your book club. It's awesome. And it's very exciting now to be on your podcast. This is my first actual interview for this book. So what better person to do it will. |
| 1:45.5 | Oh, perfect. Thank you. So what, first of all, I just, I saw the cover and the title and all of it, and I just got it right away. And I was like, I'm going to love this. This is, this speaks to me, as it |
| 1:50.2 | will for so many other people. Tell listeners what this is about. Okay. Yeah. So this is an essay |
| 1:56.8 | collection and I usually write fiction. And so, But these are some essays that have been previously, |
| 2:02.6 | a few have been previously published. And a few were actually prompted. I had a blog years ago |
| 2:07.6 | that doesn't exist anymore, but I still had, you know, so I had some of the things I blogged |
| 2:13.7 | about, I used as prompts for these essays, but the title comes from the title essay, |
| 2:18.1 | which is called I've tried being nice. And it's about a little dispute I had with one of my |
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