Ep. 408 The books that shaped who we are

Sorta Awesome

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Education, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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From picture books read to us as children to our first visits to the public library to the school-assigned reading that ended up changing out lives, all of us can point to books that have made us the people we have grown to be. This week, Meg welcomes Sorta Awesome regular for books and reading Katie Proctor back to the show, and they each bring a list of books that have shaped the people (and the readers) they are today. Don’t miss this conversation about their most meaningful reads! Come be a part of our Patreon community and join in our FIRST book club discussion of Tabitha Carvan’s This Is NOT A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: the joy of loving something - anything - like your life depends on it.! You’ll get exclusive content every month plus hundreds of hours of Super Star episodes to download and binge right now! And bonus - get our texting number so you can send us your thoughts anytime! Go to patreon.com/sortaawesome to become a Super Star Awesome! THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: *Rocket Money: Cancel unneccessary subscriptions with Rocket Money today. Go to RockeyMoney.com/awesome. *Foria: Get 20% off your first order by visiting foriawellness.com/AWESOME or use code AWESOME at checkout SHOW NOTES: contains affiliate links Katie’s AotW: Liquid IV Meg’s AotW: Sephora #LIPSTORIES Lipstick Katie’s list: Babysitter’s Club Series by Ann M Martin Amazon | Bookshop American Girl Series Amazon Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech Amazon | Bookshop The Iliad by Homer Amazon Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Amazon | Bookshop One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Amazon | Bookshop The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares Amazon | Bookshop The Hurried Child by David Elkind Amazon | Bookshop A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Amazon | Bookshop Daring Greatly by Brené Brown Amazon | Bookshop Inspired by Rachel Held Evans Amazon | Bookshop The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer Amazon | Bookshop Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Amazon | Bookshop Meg’s list Face on the Milk Carton by Carolyn B Cooney Amazon | Bookshop The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Amazon | Bookshop The Road from Home by David Kherdian Amazon | Bookshop Beloved by Toni Morrison Amazon | Bookshop Complete Poems of ee. Cummings Amazon | Bookshop The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Amazon | Bookshop Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw Amazon Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning Amazon | Bookshop Jesus Feminist by Sarah Bessey Amazon | Bookshop Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosch Amazon | Bookshop Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Amazon | Bookshop The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr Amazon | Bookshop You can find Meg on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! You can find Katie at her website or on Facebook and Instagram! And be sure to check out her latest book Hand in Hand! Visit sortaawesomeshow.com for show notes on this and every episode. And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook or @sortaawesomeshow on Instagram, and @sortaawesomepod on Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, awesome. So I've got one more reminder for you that this Sunday, September 18th at 4 p.m. Eastern, 1 p.m. Pacific.
0:08.4	We are having our first ever superstar, awesoms book club gathering. As a reminder, we'll be discussing Tabitha Carvin's amazing book.
0:18.0	This is not a book about Benedict Cumberbatch, the joy of loving something, anything like your life depends on it.
0:25.6	I have loved getting messages and getting tagged by superstars who are reading this book. They are sending me their highlighted passages.
0:32.4	Their notes. People are loving this book. I loved it so much too. I cannot wait to discuss it with our community.
0:39.1	Again, this is for our superstar awesoms. The superstars are the ones who support us on Patreon.
0:44.0	So if you'd like to join us on Sunday, September 18th at 4 o'clock Eastern time on Zoom to discuss this book,
0:50.1	it's super easy to get signed up. Go over to patreon.com slash sort of awesome to be part of our first ever superstar awesom book club.
0:57.1	And hopefully it will be the first of many now on to the show.
1:03.4	It's September 16th, 2022. And awesoms, I hope that you are ready to talk books and reading because I have here with me today.
1:12.4	Our books and reading specialists are regular Katie Proctor. Hi, Katie. How are you?
1:18.4	Great. How are you, Meg?
1:19.9	Doing great, very excited about our conversation today. As I always am when it's time to talk books and reading.
1:27.4	As you and I were kind of going back and forth and sharing some ideas and some books that we're going to talk about today,
1:32.8	I just started getting that nerdy excitement just bubbling up in me.
1:37.4	Same. This list was really fun to make and it was hard, but it was really fun to make. So I'm excited to get to it.
1:43.1	It was really hard for me to you guys. Sometimes when we talk books and reading with Katie,
1:48.0	it's all about discovery. Katie is out there reading the books that are getting the buzz.
1:52.6	The ones that we need to know about she's helping us put together lists for the season ahead of what we need to be reading.
1:57.8	But sometimes when Katie and I get together, we're talking nostalgia and books from our past.
2:04.2	And that is exactly what we're going to be talking about in our conversation today.
2:08.0	Katie and I are going to share with you all the books that have really shaped who we are as readers.
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