2022: Our Year In Books
12/26/22 • 75 min
We thought we’d be back with a new season of Chasing Creative in 2022, but alas: it did not happen. Our lives are just too full right now with, well... life! We cannot, however, let the year go by without getting together to talk about books: our most favorite episode to record each season. So, we’ll dive in and talk about our reading wins this last year, our goals for next year, and what life *actually* looks like these days for both of us.
Where to connect with Abbie:
Goodreads | Instagram | Newsletter | Bookshop (affiliate)
Where to connect with Ashley:
Goodreads | Instagram | Newsletter
Books Mentioned:
The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
Wintering by Katherine May
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (audio narrated by Tom Hanks)
Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (on audio)
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Matrix by Lauren Groff
Sea Wife by Amity Gaige
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon
Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo
The Life We’re Looking For by Andy Crouch
The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
The Wild Robot & The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown
The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman
Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling (illustrated versions, too!)
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street Series by Karina Yan Glaser (audio)
The Henry Huggins Audio Collection by Beverly Cleary
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rewilding Motherhood by Shannon K Evans
State of Wonder by Anne Patchett
Attached to God by Krispin Mayfield
The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr
Try Softer by Aundi Kolber
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
We thought we’d be back with a new season of Chasing Creative in 2022, but alas: it did not happen. Our lives are just too full right now with, well... life! We cannot, however, let the year go by without getting together to talk about books: our most favorite episode to record each season. So, we’ll dive in and talk about our reading wins this last year, our goals for next year, and what life *actually* looks like these days for both of us.
Where to connect with Abbie:
Goodreads | Instagram | Newsletter | Bookshop (affiliate)
Where to connect with Ashley:
Goodreads | Instagram | Newsletter
Books Mentioned:
The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
Wintering by Katherine May
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (audio narrated by Tom Hanks)
Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (on audio)
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Matrix by Lauren Groff
Sea Wife by Amity Gaige
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon
Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo
The Life We’re Looking For by Andy Crouch
The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
The Wild Robot & The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown
The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman
Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling (illustrated versions, too!)
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street Series by Karina Yan Glaser (audio)
The Henry Huggins Audio Collection by Beverly Cleary
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rewilding Motherhood by Shannon K Evans
State of Wonder by Anne Patchett
Attached to God by Krispin Mayfield
The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr
Try Softer by Aundi Kolber
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
Previous Episode
2021: Our Year in Books
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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