2021: Our Year in Books

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Hi! It has been *an entire year* since we last appeared in your podcast feed.

We’re wading through Pandemic Year 2 just like everyone else, complete with all the day-to-day negotiations and risk calculations like everyone else. And also: a fourth baby for Ashley, a smattering of kids entering the public school system for both of us, and entire routines shifting overnight.

We gave ourselves a break and didn’t record a single thing together in all of 2021 – but it didn’t feel right to finish a year on the calendar without talking together about books. So let’s talk books!

Resources Mentioned:

Pantsuit Politics Extra Credit Book Club

The Anthropocene Reviewed podcast by John Green

Books Mentioned:

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Rewilding Motherhood by Shannon K. Evans

No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler

Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley

What You Wish For by Katherine Center

It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn (DNF for Ashley)

Fair Play by Eve Rodsky (skimmed by Abbie)

Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham

The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson

Harry Potter Book 1-3

The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi

Keep Going by Austin Kleon

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton

Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

Who Made This Cake? by Chihiro Nakagawa

The Wordless Trilogy by Aaron Becker

The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control our Lives by Michael A. Heller and James Salzman

12 Tiny Things by Ellie Rosher and Heidi Barr

The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary

These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

Where to connect with Abbie:

Goodreads | Instagram | Monthly Newsletter | Bookshop Storefront (affiliate link)

Where to connect with Ashley:

Goodreads | Instagram | Blog | Newsletter

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