When We Read Fiction
We've been reading too many self-help books, so we're excited about today's conversation. Fiction is super woo woo if you think about it! What else gives us access to other places, eras, creatures, and magical lands? We are chatting all about our favorite fiction books. Jordan and Kaileen each reveal a few scandalous personal stories related to reading... which was an unexpected plot twist for us!
INSIDE THE EPISODE
Listening on Audible vs. reading actual books
Our favorite fiction genres
Reading when growing up: the magic of being read to vs. forced fiction
A plot twist: we talk about steamy sex scenes in books
Deep discussion on movies vs. books
Jordan's client @hellojewlie living the teen dream and the joy in YA novels
How we find our next book
Books Mentioned
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey
Aesop's Stories for Little Children
Illustrated Stories from Aesop
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Hunger Games on Audible
Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Where the Crawdad Sings by Delia Owens
Elizabeth Gilbert: City of Girls and The Signature of All Things
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Graeme Simsion: The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect
The Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Fifty Shades of Grey on Audible
Rainbow Rowell: Attachments, Fangirl, Eleanor & Park
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Liane Moriarty: Big Little Lies and The Hypnotist Love Story
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects
There Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Celeste Ng: Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Way We Read
We love reading on our Kindles and listening to books on Audible. (Most of the links above are to Amazon for consistency and to earn referral commission… feel free to shop our links!) If you’re buying a hardcopy of a book, we recommend shopping local. We love BookPeople in Austin.
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Credits
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