Ep. 38 The best of books in 2015 with Modern Mrs. Darcy & Hollywood Housewife

Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Anne Bogel joins Megan and Laura to dish on the best in books for 2015. From their favorite authors and most-beloved reads to the books that surprised and disappointed them, you’ll hear all their big feelings about the best reads of the year. All of that, plus awesome of the week!

SHOW NOTES

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Awesome of the Week

Laura: TripIt App
Anne: Girls’ Night In
Megan: Switched on Pop podcast

Anne’s favorite authors:
Jane Austen
Wendell Berry
Kate Morton
Louise Penny
Jojo Moyes
Madeline L’Engle
Kate Atkinson

Anne’s favorite books:
Crossing to Safety, Wallace Earle Stegner
Jayber Crow; Port William series, Wendell Berry
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Emma, Jane Austen

Laura’s favorite authors:
J. D. Salinger
Stephen King

Laura’s favorite books:
A Woman of Independent Means, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
Personal History, Katharine Graham 

Hollywood Housewife: Favorite Books of All Time
Modern Mrs. Darcy: Book Lists category

Popular books in 2015:
A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson
All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
The Martian, Andy Weir
The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins

Other favorites:
Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Love and Other Ways of Dying, Michael Paterniti
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
Fates and Furies,  Lauren Groff
Walkable City, Jeff Speck
Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr
The Puffin in Bloom Collection children’s classics

Find Anne on her blog, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

Find Laura on her blog, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

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Ep. 22 Break-ups, Favorites, and Other Confessions

This week, Laura joins Megan on the show, and they take some follow-up questions from listeners. What do you do when a friendship comes to an end? How can you work on a friendship the same way you would work on a marriage? Then the topic turns to books and they compare notes on all-time favorite authors and books. Finally, both of them reveal their lists of pop culture guilty pleasures.

SHOW NOTES

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1) Hollywood Housewife: birkenstocks are (back) in style

Women’s birks on Amazon (affiliate link)

2) Facebook Groups app

3) The Mid: The Meta Friend

4) Hollywood Housewife: favorite books of all time

5) SortaCrunchy: Gatsby in the springtime

Find Laura on her blogFacebookInstagram, and Twitter!

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Ep. 04 Awesome Podcasts & Books for Babes

SHOW NOTES:

We have a TON of links this week, so I’m keeping the commentary brief:

Afterbuzz’s TV’s The Bachelor After Show

Rob Has a Podcast

LOST Rewatch Podcast

The Popcast

 

Some of Megan’s current favorites

Rewatch

How to Do Everything

Start-Up

First Day Back

(See the full list here)

Some of Rebekah’s current favorites

This American Life

Longest Shortest Time

Spilled Milk

How They Blog

Inspired to Action

Books for Toddlers

Anything Sandra Boynton (we especially love Moo Ba La La La and Dinosaurs to Go)

Dr. Seuss collection

Pete the Cat: I love my white shoes (video), Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons

Llama Llama books

Red Truck

Maisy

Find Rebekah on her blog, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

As always, thanks to Progger for allowing us to use the song Strut! Find more about Progger on their website and at BandCamp

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