Today’s guest has found herself avoiding heavier topics in her reading life lately, and she’d love my help to find books that align with her word of the year, which is “light.”
Angela Frith is joining me today from Lexington, North Carolina, where she works as a K-12 curriculum developer and is a member of our Modern Mrs Darcy Book Club and What Should I Read Next? Patreon communities.
As she considers her reading life this year, Angela would love her book picks to feel light, warm, and stimulating, but not overly stressful. Whether this means memoirs, found family stories, historical fiction, or fantasy, Angela is hoping for titles that feature the warmth she loves, without the chaos that also sometimes marks titles in these favorite genres. I have ideas to share.
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Books mentioned in this episode:
• Sarah Addison Allen (try The Sugar Queen)
• H Is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• Grown Women by Sarai Johnson
• A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
• Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach
• The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
• Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
• The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
❤ I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott
• Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott
❤ Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
❤ The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
▵ Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Family of Spies by Christine Kuehn (Audio edition)
• Awake by Jen Hatmaker
• Far and Away by Amy Poeppel
• Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel
• The Sweet Spot by Amy Poeppel
• Limelight by Amy Poeppel
• Search by Michelle Huneven
• Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
• Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson
• Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin (Audio edition)
• The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
• Shopgirls by Jessica Anya Blau
• The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
❤: Guest favorite book
▵: A book they didn’t love
Also mentioned:
• Bookmarks Festival of Books & Authors
• MMD Book Club
• Patreon Community
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