📚 4 Books mentioned in "149. Is It Harder to Make Friends as an Adult? (Replay) | No Stupid Questions" of No Stupid Questions

I am dying to ask you a question that has actually been simmering as I read through like essays that you've published in The Times and of course I read Blood, Bones, and Butter.

Angela mentions her reading of Gabrielle Hamilton's book, *Blood, Bones, and Butter*, while introducing a discussion about the challenges of being a chef, within the second half of the episode featuring her conversation with Gabrielle.

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Let me then give the Bob Putnam answer; Bob Putnam, who wrote Bowling Alone about how, as you know, I guess Mike, that Americans are spending time alone that they used to spend with friends, and this is going to get all the way back to pubs and churches.

Angela discusses Bob Putnam's book, *Bowling Alone*, while examining the reasons why individuals are increasingly spending time alone instead of socializing with friends, connecting it to the broader theme of adult friendships in the podcast.

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Angela shares that she wrote only one book, Grit, and won't write another because the first nearly killed her; she is now in the middle of writing her second book.

In this segment, Angela discusses her first book, *Grit*, and humorously reflects on how challenging it was to write. She clarifies that, although she has been working on her second book, she initially thought she would only write one.

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I knew you were going to either invoke Bob Putnam or Ray Oldenburg, who wrote The Great Good Place and talked about the loss of third places, so home being the first place, work being the second place, and we used to have all of these third places to which we would go, like bowling leagues or churches or pubs or bookstores, barber shops or whatever that was, and that's where we would gather in these areas that were more a neutral ground, a leveler.

During the conversation, Mike references *The Great Good Place* by Ray Oldenburg, discussing its insights on the decline of communal spaces known as third places, which serve as vital social environments beyond home and work.

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