Shameless Reading - Liking What You Like + Our Shameless Recs
11/19/21 • 56 min
This week we’re talking about dropping reader shame and reading what you want to read. Plus, we’re giving our top shameless reading recs! Make sure the kids aren’t in the room for this one, y’all. ;) Join us and read shameless!
Highlights:
- The language/terms used to shame readers about certain types of books
- Roni gets on her soapbox about the word “cheesy”
- How genres read primarily by women are often shamed the most
- Shame about book covers, titles, taboos, and uncomfortable topics
- Self-help books and why they shouldn’t be shamed
- Graphic novels count as reading
- Romance novels and mental health
- People who watch romance on the screen but won’t read a romance novel
- Ways to keep things private if you really can’t been outwardly shameless
- Finding your people
- Our shameless book recs including Dawn’s blue aliens and Roni’s kinky picks
- Our RAD Reading recs of the week
Find us online:
Connect with Roni on her website or @roniloren on Instagram
Connect with Dawn on her website or @dawnalexanderbooks on Instagram
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week we’re talking about dropping reader shame and reading what you want to read. Plus, we’re giving our top shameless reading recs! Make sure the kids aren’t in the room for this one, y’all. ;) Join us and read shameless!
Highlights:
- The language/terms used to shame readers about certain types of books
- Roni gets on her soapbox about the word “cheesy”
- How genres read primarily by women are often shamed the most
- Shame about book covers, titles, taboos, and uncomfortable topics
- Self-help books and why they shouldn’t be shamed
- Graphic novels count as reading
- Romance novels and mental health
- People who watch romance on the screen but won’t read a romance novel
- Ways to keep things private if you really can’t been outwardly shameless
- Finding your people
- Our shameless book recs including Dawn’s blue aliens and Roni’s kinky picks
- Our RAD Reading recs of the week
Find us online:
Connect with Roni on her website or @roniloren on Instagram
Connect with Dawn on her website or @dawnalexanderbooks on Instagram
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Previous Episode
Fuzzy Sock Books: Reading for Comfort
Grab your fuzzy socks, cozy blanket, and a cup of something warm. Today is all about fuzzy sock books, AKA comfort reading. We’re talking about the types of books that lend themselves best to comfort reading, sharing cozy bookish activities, and then giving you a pile of recommendations to snuggle up with, including our RAD recs of the week! Also, Roni gets somewhat electrocuted while recording...so that happened. 0_0
Highlights:
- Our favorite comfort reading categories
- The odd things we see posted on the neighborhood pages in our small towns
- Black moments vs. gray moments in a story
- What’s comforting can vary widely from person to person
- To reread or not to reread
- Watching the movie/TV show of a book (gasp!) first
- Dawn’s daughter’s shocking reading habit
- Roni’s deep secret she keeps from her husband ;)
- Comforting bookish activities
- Dawn gives us an update on her book journaling
- Dawn hunting down hero-inspired body wash
- Roni’s book-inspired food emergency
- Bookish girls’ night out
- Our cozy book recommendations
- Roni is shocked--no, like literally with electricity--and blows out her microphone
- Our RAD Reading Recs of the week
Find us online:
Connect with Roni on her website or @roniloren on Instagram
Connect with Dawn on her website or @dawnalexanderbooks on Instagram
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Next Episode
November's Read/Watch/Listen Recommendations
It’s time for our November round-up of all the great things we’ve been reading, watching, or listening to this month.
Highlights:
- We took a used bookstore field trip and ended up in very different aisles
- Roni reads a book Dawn recommended on the podcast and Dawn reads one of Roni’s recs
- Roni feels slightly betrayed
- Trigger warnings involving spiders who wear top hats
- A movie that gives a character a perfect goal to strive for
- A TV show about a writer
- Roni needs a hotter Darkling
- A scarier than expected kids movie
- Roni’s Romantic Movie Marathon
- Dawn’s cozy watch
- Cooking without recipes
- Fabio hunting
- Roni remembers she’s part of the Rhythm Nation
- Our RAD Reading Recs of the week
Find us online:
Connect with Roni on her website or @roniloren on Instagram
Connect with Dawn on her website or @dawnalexanderbooks on Instagram
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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