It’s that time of year, and Two Booked Up is celebrating with a Christmas Special episode. Rowena and Shelley will be talking about some of the ways that you can make this holiday season a little more bookish!
If you want to read more this season and encourage friends and family to do the same, this episode has some fun ideas for you to try out.
Rowena and Shelley also have some book recommendations for the holiday season; they share some of their favourite fiction and non-fiction books from the last few months and will tell you what’s on each of their “To Be Read” lists for the holidays!
Join Shelley and Rowena as they celebrate the end of 2023 in this holiday special!
Episode Links Mentioned
Two Booked Up Episode 28: The Reading Challenge is ON
Two Booked Up Episode 35: 23 for 2023 Reading Challenge - here’s how we’re tracking
Book Links Mentioned
Avoiding the Friend Zone by Rowena Mabbott
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Rowena’s favourites
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman
Keep Moving by Maggie Smith
Shelley’s favourites
Space Band by Tom Fletcher
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
TBR lists
Shelley - Non-Fiction
When by Daniel Pink
Create Anyway by Ashlee Gadd
Cave of Bones by Lee Berger
Brain-Body Parenting by Mona DelaHooke (recommended on the excellent Wonderfully Wired Podcast)
You Should Write a Book by Katel LeDu and Lisa Maria Marquis
How to Grow Your Small Business by Donald Miller
Rowena - Non-Fiction
Bright Shining by Julia Baird
Life in Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin
Everything and Nothing by Heather Mitchell
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
On Writing by Stephen King
Shelley - Fiction
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Wool by Hugh Howey
Mansfield Park by Jane Austin
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
Rowena - Fiction
Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
The Wake-up Call by Beth O’Leary
Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
Resources Mentioned
Here’s Sarah’s RAR Podcast Episode on Jolabokaflod
And here's another great article on Jolabokaflod from All About Learning
Connect with us:
Find us online at twobookedup.com and keep in touch with Two Booked Up via email by signing up for the Two Booked Up Bookclub.
Connect with Rowena @rowenamabbott on IG and at rowenamabbott.com. You can also get Rowena’s FREE e-books, The A to Z of Career and Life Confidence and The Criteria List here.
Connect with Shelley on LinkedIn at Shelley Tonkin Smith. Her copywriting business is at shelleysmithcreative.com, and her writing and other musings are at shelleytonkinsmith.com.
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