10 - A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast or online book club

[Mahi]

Shannon wrote: "What do y'all think of a book recommended by an instagram account? It's not a book-based insta, it's about enneagram, but it is one I'm a fan of. I got the book she recommended for my personality t..."

I think that fits perfectly!

[TomHServo]

I'm reading The Murder of Roger Ackroyd for this one. As recommended on The Big Picture Podcast when they were talking about Knives Out.

[Kate]

I just finished The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester and recommend it.
I kind of fudged on this prompt and used my IRL book club recommendation.

[Lilith]

NPR is a great source of podcasts. I like Code Switch, and they review and recommend books for seasons and months. The recommendation I went with was: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo. It can be a heavy and/or uncomfortable read, depending on your personal life story. But it's a tremendously engaging and important book.

For a biracial person like myself, Ms. DiAngelo is respectful enough of the nuances and complexities that cannot be covered due to the scope of her book. The book is written for white people by a white woman, but I did like the way she dismantled some terms to expand the worldview and self-reflection for her readers. Highly recommend!

[Julia]

My choice:
Always Too Much and Never Enough by Jasmin Singer


Recommended by Evanna Lynch, my favourite actress of the HP series, aka the personification of Luna Lovegood.

I'm halfway through and really like it. It's about the struggles of being "too big", veganism, growing-up, feeling different and self-worth. Written by a strong woman.

[Angelina]

Kristy wrote: "Katy wrote: "I don't really do blogs, vlogs, podcasts or online book clubs. So, I think I'll just steal a book that's listed here. Would that be cheating? I'm not sure I much care, just curious."

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Follow the author on here if you don’t use Twitter Facebook , for example I follow authors and when they review books it shows up for me, I’ll probably read something from there.

Also this mystery crime group I’m in we have group reads each month we can join in on so I count this as my online book club. Lots of nice people and good books recommended.
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

[Cheryl A.]

My choice for this prompt was The Way Back to You by Sharon Sala. It was the January book for the Brenda Novak's 2020 Reading Challenge as I am in that book club.

[Trish]

I'm another one who doesn't really follow blogs, podcasts, vlogs, et al. :-)

I am in some other challenges, which usually have monthly or quarterly group reads, but I'm not sure if they really count as online book clubs. If they do, fine, I'm set.

If they don't, then I might just grab something random from the listopia in message #1.

[Jane]

I think a recommendation on this site would qualify.

[Sarah]

So yesterday I finished a book that I was reading on the Libby App and I always have at least one book going that way at a time. I found this book Lean on Me as a recommendation its the current selection for the US book club, Together We Read so I was like BINGO. I haven't gotten very far in it yet but it looks like it will be an enjoyable read.

[Shelley]

A book club I used to belong to has a list of all of their past books so that people don't recommend repeats. I read The Left Hand of Darknessfrom that. It was OK. After looking over some reviews of it, I think it fell into the trap of being original when it was written, but now it feels kinda generic because so many people have done similar things since.

[Emily]

Last Podcast on the Left has a lot of books they recommend, but the best one I've read so far was (oddly) The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride. I always had a mild fascination with the story of the Donner Party, but never looked into it much outside of history class. LPotL did a series on the Donner Party and referenced this book, and both the series and this book are really really good. I may reread it for this prompt, or The Last Book on the Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History’s Most Notorious Serial Killers (their own recently-published book).

[Erica]

For those that don't partake in the weekly checkins, the Murderbot series is beloved many readers in this book club.

[Britany]

Finished Long Bright River by Liz Moore

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Evil Secret]

I read The Ten Thousand Doors of Januray by Alix E. Harrow

[Sara]

I also read White Fragility and loved Robin DiAngelo's ways of describing the exercises she'd taught about racism. I really understood her book and highly recommend it as well!

[Lilith]

I read White Fragility in late January. It works for book recommended by a podcast. See below:


NPR is a great source of podcasts. I like Code Switch, and they review and recommend books for seasons and months. The recommendation I went with was: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo. It can be a heavy and/or uncomfortable read, depending on your personal life story. But it's a tremendously engaging and important book.

For a biracial person like myself, Ms. DiAngelo is respectful enough of the nuances and complexities that cannot be covered due to the scope of her book. The book is written for white people by a white woman, but I did like the way she dismantled some terms to expand the worldview and self-reflection for her readers. Highly recommend!

[Renee]

ReadThe Woman in Cabin 10

[K.L.]

I've recently gotten interested in the Nerdist Book Club, which livestreams on YouTube every Wednesday night (at 8 PM EST). You can find videos of past livestreams at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list....

The Nerdist Book Club is currently reading and discussing their third book this year, which is Black Leopard, Red Wolf. They have also read The Hobbit, or There and Back Again and Dune.

[Melissa]

I finished Wolfpack by Abby Wambach. This was recommended by the women of Basic Witches podcast

[Delia]

Well, I don't belong to this particular book club anymore but, earlier this year, I read All the Bad Apples.

[Cornerofmadness]

Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie was on a lot of my rec lists. I really enjoyed it til mid way then it took a bounce that didn't work for me much.

[Pam]

I'm reading Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley. I think it was recommended on the What Should I Read Next? podcast. I keep a shelf of podcast recommendations but I follow a few of them. My other favorite literary podcast is Strong Sense of Place.

[Tamara]

I read "I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays" by Michael Arceneaux (recommended on Gettin' Grown podcast)

[Jessica]

I don’t belong to a blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club. I know Goodreads gives you recommendations based on what you are reading- would this count?

I did belong to a book club at one point and we were talking about doing online at one point. If I read one of the books that were were voting on but didn’t pick, would this count?

***I just don’t like to cheat 😉

[Virginia]

I read Essentialism which was recommended by Michael Kitces on his annual reading list for financial planners: https://www.kitces.com/blog/summer-re.... He is the only person I follow who gets their own "shelf" in my TBR, and I've read several from his lists this year!