Meg's Reading Room

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by bestselling author, Natalie Jenner to discuss her newest novel, AUSTEN AT SEA and how Jane Austen continues to shape and heal her life. Mentioned in this episode: Austen at Sea The Jane Austen Society Bloomsbury Girls Every Time We Say Goodbye Jane Austen Louisa May Alcott American Bloomsbury Harriet the Sp...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by poet and author, David Gate to discuss his debut poetry collection, A REBELLION OF CARE . Mentioned in this episode: Like Every Selfie A Rebellion of Care Enneagram Beatitudes Star Wars - Andor The Fire of Joy We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live The Magician Little Simz - Lotus Joan Didion Notes to J...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by Amy ( @livingwellread ) and Jeannie ( @reidallday ). Mentioned in this episode: All That Life Can Afford How to Read a Book Candle Island Middle Grade Matters Podcast: Lauren Wolk The Mother Act Everything is Tuberculosis - Audiobook Becoming Mrs. Lewis Patti Callahan Henry - Becoming Mrs. Lewis Podcast Ser...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by author, Frances Quinn to discuss her newest novel, THE LOST PASSENGER . Mentioned in this episode: The Lost Passenger The Smallest Man The Famous Five The Other Side of Mrs. Wood Miss Aldridge Regrets Harlem After Midnight Anne Tyler Curtis Sittenfeld The Wedding People ~~ Connect with me on Instagram  @meg...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by award-winning author and journalist,  Brooke Lea Foster ( @brookeleafoster ). Mentioned in this episode: Our Last Vineyard Summer McNally Jackson Books Dawson's Creek The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau Murder Takes a Vacation Under the Stars Far and Away The Academy Something in the Water - Audiobook Wh...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by Deidre ( @libraryaroundthecorner ) Mentioned in this episode: My Chapter House Nancy Drew The Book Thief Drinker of Ink The Language of Flowers The Notebook It's a Love Story A Place to Hang the Moon The Tale of Desperaux The Correspondent The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion ~~ Connect with me on In...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by Brittany Dahl ( @themiraculousjourneyofbooks ) Mentioned in this episode: The Literary Moms' Bookclub The Secret Garden Their Eyes Were Watching God Till We Have Faces Nancy Drew Olive Kitteridge Tell Me Everything The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Farmyard Tales Poppy and Sam Kate DiCamillo Orris an...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by award-winning New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author, Hazel Gaynor . Mentioned in this episode: Before Dorothy The Wizard of Oz Heather Webb The Other Boleyn Girl Girl with a Pearl Earring Lessons in Chemistry Great Circle Life After Life ~~ Connect with me on Instagram  @megsreading...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by Sarah Damoff to discuss her debut novel, THE BRIGHT YEARS . Mentioned in this episode: The Bright Years Lost Children Archive The Poisonwood Bible A Grief Observed Mary Oliver Dani Shapiro Sipsworth Fabled Bookshop Commonplace Books ~~ Connect with me on Instagram  @megsreadingroom Connect with Sarah on Ins...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by Ethan Joella . Mentioned in this episode: A Little Hope A Quiet Life The Same Bright Stars Bear Snores On All the Light We Cannot See Everything is Tuberculosis Show Don't Tell Browseabout Books Home of the American Circus The Correspondent ~~ Connect with me on Instagram  @megsreadingroom Connect with...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by climate journalist and writer, Emma Pattee to discuss her debut novel, TILT . Mentioned in this episode: Tilt Ducks, Newburyport Fever Dream Weather Rejection ~~ Connect with me on Instagram  @megsreadingroom Connect with Emma on Instagram @emmapattee ~~ Music credit:  Clavin Clavier

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by Joanna Miller to discuss her debut novel, THE EIGHTS . Mentioned in this episode: The Eights Ali Lowe, Author Little Women Margaret Atwood Sarah Waters Pat Barker Sarah Mackintosh The Road Still Life Confessions The Glass Maker ~~ Connect with me on Instagram  @megsreadingroom Connect with Joanna on Instagr...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by artist and author, Jenny Williams ( Carrot Top Paper Shop ). Mentioned in this episode: Carrot Top Paper Shop Eat Like a Heroine Anne of Green Gables Little Women Pride and Prejudice A Wrinkle in Time The American Girls Collection American Girl History Mysteries American Girl Pastimes (Craft Books) Unbroken...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by author, Nancy Tupper Ling & illustrator, Shirley Ng-Benitez to discuss their picture book collaboration, HEARTS IN MY POCKET . Mentioned in this episode: Hearts in My Pocket The Blue Bunny Books & Toys Mister Rogers visits Eric Carle The Story of Ferdinand Crow Boy 11-year old boy wows classmates wi...

On this special bonus episode, Mommy Meg is reading LLAMA LLAMA RED PAJAMA by Anna Dewdney. Connect with me on Instagram @megsreadingroom

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by Grammy Award-winning musician, Joe Mailander ( The Okee Dokee Brothers ). Mentioned in this episode: The Okee Dokee Brothers House of Light, Mary Oliver Brambletown, PBS KIDS The Wind in the Willows Winnie-the-Pooh Martin Shaw Sophie Strand John O'Donohue Kate DiCamillo ~~ Connect with me on Instagram ...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by author and illustrator, Katie Wray Schon . Mentioned in this episode: Painting Wonder, How Pauline Baynes Illustrated the Worlds of C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien Pauline Baynes Waxwing Books Fabled Bookshop The Chronicles of Narnia The Lord of the Rings Wingfeather Saga On Stories The Mythmakers: The Remar...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by writer, Anna Mitchael . Mentioned in this episode: They Will Tell You the World Is Yours Magnolia Journal Fabled Bookshop, Waco TX Harriet the Spy Judy Blume ~~ Connect with me on Instagram  @megsreadingroom Connect with Anna on Instagram @anna_mitchael Follow Anna on Substack ~~ Music credit:  Clavin Clavi...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. For my 50th (!!!) episode, I am joined by one of my favorite authors and people, Kerry Winfrey Mentioned in this episode: Waiting for Tom Hanks Faking Christmas Early Morning Riser Little Women (1994) vs. Little Women (2019) A recap of one particularly weird episode of Full House I Survived Series We All Live Here Jojo Moyes Wants Readers to Fin...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by Katie @thebookwormkatie Mentioned in this episode: The Night Before Christmas Sweet Valley Kids Alone Island of the Blue Dolphins The Glass Castle Beartown Throne of Glass Katherine Center Wild Geese Bookshop ~~ Connect with me on Instagram  @megsreadingroom Connect with Katie on Instagram @thebookwormkatie...

On this special bonus episode, Mommy Meg is reading Are You My Mother ? by P.D. Eastman. Happy Mother's Day from our family to yours! Connect with me on Instagram @megsreadingroom

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by my dear friend, Marianne. Marianne is a Career Coach and Career Development Lead at Indeed.com. She is also a new mom and leaning into her new season -- on and off the page. Mentioned in this episode: Liz Career Coaching Podcast Anne of Green Gables Untamed The Universe Has Your Back The Alchemist Pride and...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by writer and poet, Rachel Beachy . Mentioned in this episode: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Little Women Sharon Creech Dutch House Tom Lake Wild Dark Shore Dear Writer Upstream Kate Baer ~~ Connect with me on Instagram  @megsreadingroom Connect with Rachel Beachy on Instagram @rachelbeachywrites ~~ Music credit: ...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by author, Virginia Evans to discuss her epistolary debut novel, THE CORRESPONDENT . Mentioned in this episode: The Correspondent Stoner Small Things Like These 84, Charing Cross Road Dear Committee Members Ann Patchett Commonwealth Parnassus Books ~~ Connect with me on Instagram  @megsreadingroom Connect with...

Welcome in! I'm so glad you're here with me. On today's episode, I am joined by Sister Monica Clare to discuss her debut memoir, A Change of Habit: Leaving Behind My Husband, My Career, and Everything I Owned to Become a Nun . Mentioned in this episode: A Change of Habit: Leaving Behind My Husband, My Career, and Everything I Owned to Become a Nun The Community of St. John Baptist A Nu...