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Episode 11: Buying Books for Others + Our Favorite Bookish Gifts

December 10, 2021 Roni Loren

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

  • James Patterson

  • 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

  • Bob’s Burgers cookbook

  • Dungeons and Dragons cookbook

  • 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

  • Wreck This 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

  • Kindle Paperwhite

  • Booklight

  • Reading journals (make sure and listen to our reading journal episode for product suggestions)

  • Book Beau

  • Literary AF pen

  • Bookish coffee mugs (First lines , Last lines, Jane Austen quotes, Banned books) 

  • Banned books socks

  • Book cart/TBR cart 

  • Miseyo date stamp

  • This Book Belongs To stamp 

  • Library check-out kit for home library



Book subscriptions:

  • Book of the Month

  • The Book Drop

  • The Shelf Subscription from The Bookshelf in Thomasville, GA

  • Owl Crate

  • The Bookworm Box by Colleen Hoover (charitable cause)

  • The Brenda Novak book box

  • Audible subscription

  • Libro.fm audiobook subscription

  • Kindle Unlimited



Other Things Mentioned:

  • Book People, an indie bookstore in Austin, TX

  • Austin Kleon newsletter

  • Roni’s Romantic Movie marathon 

  • Fated Mates podcast

  • The Happier podcast




RAD Reading Recs of the Week: 

  • Blame by Jeff Abbott (Dawn pic)

  • The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin (Roni pic)



Photos

The TBR cart

Roni’s bookish mugs

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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.)

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