Today we’re excited to continue our mid-summer series featuring our team members!
Whether you’re new around here or you’ve been listening for awhile, we hope these introductions will help you get to know some of our team members. Identifying other readers who share your taste is a great way to discover good books that might not land on your radar otherwise.
Today I’m revisiting my very first conversation with Alabama reader Shannan Malone. Since this episode originally aired, Shannan has joined our team as our co-host and contributor, but in today’s show, Shannan and I go back to where it all began.
Shannan has broad taste and high standards: even authors that she’s loved in the past don’t get a free pass. If you’re like Shannan and enjoy hopping between genres, I think you’ll especially enjoy our conversation today. We discuss the struggle of pinpointing what you dislike about a book that everyone else thinks is amazing, awkward characters that are endearing to introverted readers, and much, much more.
If today’s conversation has you curious about what Shannan’s been reading lately, be sure to join us over on Patreon for our follow-up conversation this month.
This episode originally aired as episode 179 on April 9, 2019.
Connect with Shannon on Goodreads and Instagram.
Books mentioned in this episode:
• Eat Pray Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia, by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
• Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
• Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
• Everything, Everything, by Nicola Yoon
• What Alice Forgot, by Liane Moriarty
• Big Little Lies, by Liane Moriarty
♥ The Lost Book of the Grail, by Charlie Lovett
♥ The Bookman’s Tale: A Novel of Obsession, by Charlie Lovett
♥ The Almost Sisters, by Joshilyn Jackson
• Gods in Alabama, by Joshilyn Jackson
♥ Circe, by Madeline Miller
• The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
• The Odyssey, by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
▵ The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The Storied Life of A.J. Fickry, by Gabrielle Zevin
• The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions, by Emily P. Freeman
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, by Marie Kondō
• Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up, by Marie Kondō
• The Ensemble, by Aja Gabel
• Daisy Jones & the Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Mother-in-Law, by Sally Hepworth
• Calling Me Home, by Julie Kibler
• Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, by Balli Kaur Jaswal
• The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters, by Balli Kaur Jaswal
More from Shannan and our team:
• Science Fiction/Fantasy for beginners
• The books that shaped me: Shannan edition
• All of Shannan’s posts on the Modern Mrs Darcy blog
• Bonus Episode: Six memoirs that changed my life
• Bonus Episode: I’m spectacularly failing my reading challenge… now what?
• Bonus Episode: One Great Book: How to Keep House While Drowning
• Bonus Episode: Tuning into the seasons with Shannan and Holly
• WSIRN Episode 268: Our team’s best books of the year
• WSIRN Episode 316: Books we loved in 2021
• WSIRN Episode 344: Our team’s favorite summer reads
• WSIRN Episode 394: Our team’s best books of summer
This month we’ll be sharing “Where are they now?” bonus episodes over on Patreon: find those and other bonuses from Shannan and the rest of our team members in our Patreon community.