Reading Through Life
We’re Carrie and Mia and we’re two friends who met online and share a love for all things books. We read widely across genres and believe that everyone should read what they want, no judgments here. Come and join us as we read through life!
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RTL BOOK CLUB: September Replay (opens the original)
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Hello there, book friends! We had our Mood Reader Book Club meeting today and, as always, it was such a fun conversation about books, authors we’ve been meaning to read, and the never-ending TBR.Our prompt for this round was: An author you’ve been meaning to try. We each picked an author we’d heard about or had sitting on our TBR for ages and finally gave them a shot. Click on the video at the top to catch the replay ⬆️ .Here are some of the books we shared:Carrie: Beloved by Toni Mo
Weekly Reading Journal: Time loops, family curses, and dark histories (opens the original)
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Welcome to our Weekly Reading Journal, where we share a few reviews on what we read this week, give updates on what happened in our reading lives, and also share any readerly news that we think is interesting/important.Books mentioned in this week’s update:BadAsstronauts by Grady HendrixKiss Slay Replay by Rachel HarrisonI Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene SolaOld Soul by Susan BarkerThose We Thought We Knew by David Joy<s
A September Shelf Reset (opens the original)
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September is that in-between reading month where summer energy starts fading fast and fall tastes are creeping in. We’re picturing cool, crisp autumn nights, bonfires, football games, sweater weather, the whole nine yards. And for us, some of those summer reading moods are starting to give way to longer, darker fare, with some spookiness thrown in.But before we put summer completely to bed, let’s talk about what our summer reading looked like. What we’re leaving behind in our summer readingMia:
Author Interview: UNSPOKEN PERSPECTIVES by Robert Fernandez (opens the original)
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You might have seen me write about my love for UNSPOKEN PERSPECTIVES in my recent poetry roundup or in my weekly journal review earlier this month. I just can’t stop gushing about it because I felt so seen when I read it. The author’s words deeply resonated with me and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. So, I reached out to Robert Fernandez to see if he’d be open to an interview and thankfully he said YES, and here we are. IR
Weekly Reading Journal: Witches, motherhood, betrayal, and books that got under our skin (opens the original)
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Welcome to our Weekly Reading Journal, where we share a few reviews on what we read this week, give updates on what happened in our reading lives, and also share any readerly news that we think is interesting/important.Books mentioned in this week’s update:The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha PhilyawThe Need by Helen PhillipsMay We Feed the King by Rebecca PerryMaggie’s Grave by David SodergrenNatural Selection by Elin Hilderbrand
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