RAD Reading Podcast
Episode #11 - Buying Books for Others + Our Favorite Bookish Gifts
Release Date: December 10, 2021
Episode Summary:
Books can make fantastic holiday gifts (obviously!) but knowing how to buy the right book for someone in your life can be harder than it looks. Today we’re tackling the challenge of buying books for others and sharing our best tips. And we also have a Santa-worthy list of our favorite bookish gifts. Oh, and you’re totally allowed to buy all of these things for yourself if you have no bookish person to buy for in your life. We won’t tell. ;)
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Highlights:
Gift-giving is a love language and one of us doesn’t know how to speak it fluently
How to know if Roni loves you and what she hasn’t done with her husband in fifteen years
Dad books
The key to the “also boughts” on Amazon
When that person in your life only reads one author or one series exclusively
Dawn is a fail at hiding gifts
Making a book gift feel extra personal
Roni can’t seem to conjugate a verb
Buying for the non-readers in your life
A good ebook reader’s power to reignite a reading life
A drool-worthy list of bookish gifts (no, we weren’t putting stuff in our carts for ourselves as we recorded, hush.)
What gift makes Roni feel like she has a little taste of the library in her office
Dawn gets attacked by a fly
Out of town library cards
Don’t put your address in a used book or Dawn will stalk you
The joy of bookmail and our favorite bookish subscriptions
We have feelings about the Amazon First Reads
Go for the gold type gifts
Making it easier for your family and friends to buy the right gift for you
Our RAD Reading Recs of the week
Stay tuned for bloopers at the end
*below here, lie episode spoilers*
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books mentioned:
Authors David Baldacci and Clive Cussler
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
The Martian by Andy Weir
Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series
Glen Cook’s The Black Company
The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tom DeTerlizzi
Company Assassin by Claudia Blood
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
It’s So Easy:and Other Lies by Duff McKagan on audiobook
The Curious Viewer by Mental Floss (book about bingeable shows from last 20 years)
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Stephen Jay Schneider
I Wrote a Book About You fill in journal
Yes & I Love You by Roni Loren
What If You & Me by Roni Loren
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Year of Yes by Shonda Rimes
Bookish Gifts
Reading journals (make sure and listen to our reading journal episode for product suggestions)
Bookish coffee mugs (First lines , Last lines, Jane Austen quotes, Banned books)
Book subscriptions:
The Shelf Subscription from The Bookshelf in Thomasville, GA
The Bookworm Box by Colleen Hoover (charitable cause)
Other Things Mentioned:
Book People, an indie bookstore in Austin, TX
RAD Reading Recs of the Week:
Blame by Jeff Abbott (Dawn pic)
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin (Roni pic)
Photos
Roni’s bookish mugs
Find us online:
Connect with Roni on her website or @roniloren on Instagram
Connect with Dawn on her website or @dawnalexanderbooks on Instagram
Another note: Because we are both in the publishing industry, sometimes the books we recommend might be by an author we know personally, an author who shares a publisher, editor, or agent with Roni, or an author whom Dawn has edited. Publishing is a small world, so that will happen from time to time. However, we guarantee that we only recommend books we love. We have not been asked to promote any of these books and none are paid ads. However, some books we review may be ARCs (advanced reading copies provided by publishers to reviewers for honest reviews.)