Books Are My People
Find your next great read. Book recommendations, book news and guests, including top authors and other book enthusiasts who discuss what’s happening in the world of books with a focus on frontlist and backlist fiction including literary fiction, suspense, historical, memoir and nonfiction.
Books Are My People
96 - Books Are My People with Amy Poeppel, author of The Sweet Spot
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
This week, Amy Poeppel and I discuss her new novel, The Sweet Spot, how monologues can help a writer find their character's voice and find out which one of us feels compelled to finish all the books they begin!
Sign up here for my newsletter for more book titles delivered to your inbox!
Books Discussed:
The Matchmaker’s Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman
The World According to Fanny Davis by Bridgett M. Davis
The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
The Sweet Spot by Amy Peoppel
Other Books Mentioned:
Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel
Bad Mexicans by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Night of the Living Rez Morgan Talty
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
Vacuum in the Dark by Jen Beagin
Link to Amy Poeppel on social media:
Website
Instagram
Twitter
Link to National Book Critics Circle Awards
First look at Naomi Alderman's The Power TV series
Link to the high cost of books in Egypt
Get your Books Are My People merch here!
I hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!