What Should I Read Next? is the show for every reader who has ever finished a book and faced the problem of not knowing what to read next. Each week, Anne Bogel, of the blog Modern Mrs Darcy, interviews a reader about the books they love, the books they hate, and the books they’re reading now. Then, she makes recommendations about what to read next. The real purpose of the show is to help YOU find your next read.
Today’s guest is Shaney Swift, a massage therapist and social justice advocate from Chicago, Illinois. If you’ve been around What Should I Read Next for a while, you know Anne can be a bit of a personality-type geek, and Shaney shares that enthusiasm — so prepare for a lot of nerding out! Today Anne and…
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This isa WSIRN first— arepeat guest! Today Anne chats with friend of the showand bookstore owner Holland Saltsman about everything you didn’t know you wanted to know about opening an independent bookstore, how to support indies this holiday season, the best three books we each read this year, and their favoritebookish gifts for this holiday…
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Around here, we don’t think you need an excuse to love Jane Austen, but boy does today’s guest Rebecca Smith have a great one –she is Jane Austen’s great great great great great niece!Rebecca is a longtime reader, a former writer in residence at Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, and she currently teaches creative…
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Today we’re back to literary matchmaking, with listenerMelodee Skiles here to representing all the avid audiobook lovers who want to know what to LISTEN to next! Melodee is a stay-at-home mom who owns an online literature tutorial business. Books are (clearly) her bag, and while she’s taking a short break from tutoring, she wants to…
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Here to help close out the Reading For A Lifetime week is Jenny Williams, who illustrates beloved literary heroines for a living as the charming artist and entrepreneurbehindCarrot Top Paper Shop. In this episode, Anne and Jenny talk all about why we love our literary heroines of literature so much(thinkAnne, Elizabeth,Jane,Hermione), wrestle with what makes…
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It’s Day 4 of our specialReading For A Lifetime series on WSIRN, and if our comment section has made one thing known, it’s this: Adults LOVE Kid Lit. Not just for kids, not just in a theoretical sense, but in honest-to-goodness, just-for-the-joy-of-it, everyday-reading-life practice. The guest here to chat with Anne about reading KidLit for…
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Day 3 of our special Reading For A Lifetime series is all about “guilty pleasure” kid lit – the series we read and re-read not because they were Great Literature, but because they weregosh-darn fun! Here to talk about not-so-serious gateway children’s literature are Jack Shepherd and Tanner Greenring, hosts of The Babysitters Club Club…
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Day2 of our Reading For A Lifetime series is about encouraging middle school and young adult kids to indulge in great books, and our guest Leigh Collazo has a LOT of wisdom to share on that topic.Leigh is a school librarian who serves children from over 30 different countries at an international school in China….
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Today kicksoff our special WSIRN 5-day miniseries: What Should I Read Next for Kids, and Kids at Heart. We’re focusing on a variety of young and young at heart topics this week: children’s literature, coming of age stories, literary heroines, kid lit for grown-ups, and more. Who better to jump-start the series than Sarah Mackenzie?…
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This week guest Maxwell Dunn (WellDoneBookson YouTube) introduces Anne to a whole new wonderful world of book lovers online—theBooktube community! Booktube is known best for its voracious YA fans, but there’s a book vlogger out there for every literary palate. Max is a great example of this; his videos coverserious award winners, challengingexperimental works, and…
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