Today’s episode from the WSIRN vault wraps up our summer rewind series, with my very first podcast conversation with Brigid Misselhorn. Like so many of our guests, Brigid came to the show through our WSIRN guest submission form. These days, she works on our team as our MMD Book Club Community Administrator.
This is a fitting role for Brigid, because as you’ll hear in today’s episode, Brigid is totally addicted to book clubs. When we originally recorded this episode, she was an active member of seven book clubs! Brigid really enjoys how participation in these communal reading groups, along with buddy reads, invites memorable conversation and a structured reading life.
Brigid describes herself as a naturally slow reader, and today she’s sharing a bunch of tips for finishing all those book club picks on time. We also discuss the origins of Brigid’s book club addiction, the benefits of audiobooks, and balancing personal reading with book club reading, before I recommend titles Brigid might enjoy reading next
Throughout the month of July we’ve also been catching up with each team member to hear about their reading life now. That’s all happening over on our Patreon page. Financial support from our patrons is a huge part of what keeps our show on the air each week, and bonus episodes like these team follow-ups are just one way we say thanks. Catch up with Brigid and explore our bonus archives at patreon.com/whatshouldireadnext.
You can follow Brigid on Instagram and Goodreads.
Books mentioned in this episode:
• Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Well Met by Jen DeLuca
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
• The Dry by Jane Harper
♥ Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (if you love the book, watch Knives Out)
• Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia
• The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
♥ Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (creator of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
♥ Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
△ Normal People by Sally Rooney
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Beach Read by Emily Henry
• Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
• Admission by Julie Buxbaum
• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• How to Catch a Queen by Alyssa Cole
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
• The Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, and Brooke A. Allen
• Check Please Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu
• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
• The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob
• The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
• Her Dark Lies by J.T. Ellison
Also mentioned:
• 10 romance novels that are perfect for summer reading
• Bookmarks, NC’s Romance Book Club
• The Modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club
• North and South buddy read with @stephaniereads
• “We Left New York With Clothes, Our Cat and Three Bottles of Disinfectant” by Mira Jacob
• “37 Difficult Questions From My Mixed-Race Son” by Mira Jacob
• “A Message about The Extraordinaries” from TJ Klune
More from Brigid and our team:
• 17 recommended reads for those traveling to Florida
• 21 spine-tingling but not TOO scary audiobooks for fall
• All of Brigid’s posts on the Modern Mrs Darcy blog
• Bonus Episode: Marvel, DC, and… L. M. Montgomery?
• Bonus Episode: Preferred reading formats with Leigh, Brigid, and Shannan
• WSIRN Episode 268: Our team’s best books of the year
• WSIRN Episode 316: Books we loved in 2021
• WSIRN Episode 344: Our team’s favorite summer reads
• WSIRN Episode 394: Our team’s best books of summer
This month we’re also sharing “Where are they now?” bonus episodes over on Patreon: find those and other bonuses from Brigid and the rest of our team members in our Patreon community.