Episode 11: The Joy of the Buddy Read Featuring All Four Members of Our Buddy Read Group

Medium Lady Reads

Hello, hi, and welcome to Medium Lady Reads this is episode 11, The Joy of the Buddy Read; Featuring Ali Oppenlaender and Stephanie Cunningham.

This week’s episode is extra special, because not only do you have Erin and Jillian, but you have the other two members of their Buddy Read Group, Ali and Stef. Together they’re going to be discussing Buddy Reads, what they are and how they work for Jillian, Erin, Ali and Stef.

Even more exciting, this was recorded all in person, so you get the opportunity to peek inside the group and what they’re all about.

In This Episode:

• The four women check-in with one another to see how their reading lives are going.
• Erin introduces what a buddy read is and where she got the idea to start a buddy read group (aka: Bossy Big Sisters Book Club) of her own.
• Jillian briefly describes the process of how they work their buddy reads.
• As a group, they discuss what they feel are the strengths of the buddy reads group.
• They also discuss what small changes they’d make to the buddy read process – There aren’t many things they change, though.
• This group has meant so much to each of the woman, they each share how it has positively affected their lives.
• They each share the favorite book they’ve read together so far.
• Next up, they discuss the Hot Take for the week, you’ll need to listen to this episode to hear what their dishing on.
• Finally, they end the show discussing their holds list, what they have waiting and what’s coming up.

Books in This Episode:

• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
• All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
• I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
• Drive Your Own Darn Bus! by Julia Kristina
• Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
• One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• In the Company of Witches by Auralee Wallace
• Wreck the Halls Tessa Bailey
• What Wild women Do by Karma Brown
• Three Holidays & a Wedding by Uzma Jalaluddin & Marissa Stapley
• Champions of the Fox by Kevin Sands

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Tune in on November 27th for the next episode of the Medium Lady Reads Podcast.

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