Mini Ep. 46: Heart-Breaking, But Hopeful Books with Aubree Cheadle (@MNReadingMama)
Episode description
In Mini Episode 46, Aubree Cheadle (@mnreadingmama) shares her love for heart-breaking, but hopeful books and we talk about overdone literary comparisons.
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This month, I chose You Are Not Alone, The Holdout, and Anna K. Check out my commentary on all the February picks to help choose the right book for your reading taste.
Highlights- Why Aubree loves books that make her cry.
- The Glass Castle being the Gone Girl / Girl on the Train comparison book for memoirs…and many readers’ gateway to memoir.
- And, deep into the accuracy of marketing book comparisons in general.
Two OLD Books She Loves
- The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls | Buy from Amazon [6:27]
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [13:56]
Two NEW Books She Loves
- Pretty Guilty Women by Gina LaManna | Buy from Amazon [18:36]
- This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger | Buy from Amazon [21:47]
One Book She DIDN’T Love
- Regretting You by Colleen Hoover | Buy from Amazon [26:00]
One NEW RELEASE She’s Excited About
- The Dilemmaby B.A. Paris (Released June 30, 2020) | Buy from Amazon [28:47]
- You Are Not Aloneby Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (Out March 3) | Buy from Amazon [1:18]
- The Holdoutby Graham Greene | Buy from Amazon [1:24]
- Anna Kby Jenny Lee | Buy from Amazon [1:24]
- A Little Lifeby Hanya Yanagihara (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [4:43]
- Educatedby Tara Westover (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [12:09]
- Wild Gameby Adrienne Brodeur (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [12:43]
- The Sound of Gravelby Ruth Wariner | Buy from Amazon [12:57]
- Where the Crawdads Singby Delia Owens (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [16:57]
- And the Mountains Echoedby Khaled Hosseini (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [17:34]
- A Thousand Splendid Sunsby Khaled Hosseini | Buy from Amazon [17:37]
- Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (My Review) | Buy from Amazon[19:02]
- The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth | Buy from Amazon [20:44]
- It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover | Buy from Amazon [28:10]
- Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover | Buy from Amazon [28:17]
- Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris | Buy from Amazon [30:10]
- The Breakdown by B.A. Paris | Buy from Amazon [30:10]
- We Wish You Luck by Caroline Zancan (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [31:19]
Full length episode featuring Caroline Zancan, author of We Wish You Luck (airing Wednesday, February 19).
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