Janine and Shannon love reading novels for pleasure and we have found ways to fit it into our busy lives. If you like to read but don’t seem to have time to read as much as you’d like, this episode might give you some ideas for squeezing in some enjoyable reading.
Discussion topics include:
- Our usual complaining about summer weather
- Reading: A great activity no matter what the weather
- Getting lost in a good book
- Our reading habits and frequency (we both read at least once a day)
- Reading while doing chores, thanks to audiobooks
- One benefit of having a Kindle: Not having to turn a light on
- Avoiding perfectionism when it comes to enjoying your reading
- Why we’re big advocates of e-books
- Shannon’s peculiar reading position
- Shannon’s foray into dystopian novels and psychological suspense
- Janine’s love for genealogical mysteries
- Using Trello to organize reading lists
- How the Libby app makes borrowing ebooks and audiobooks from your library so easy
- Reading Insights on the Kindle app
- Reading as a hobby, rather than a guilty pleasure
Links:
- The Libby library app
- Shannon’s latest reading, the Parable Series by Octavia Butler
- Janine’s latest reading, the Ancestry Detective Series by S.C. Perkins
