Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W19

“I read his books, and so I didn’t would not have guessed personally, you know, that Vivek would have—and again, no shade on him; he's a super successful guy.”

“And in the book Give and Take, Adam has this typology: there are three kinds of people.”

“And I think maybe that very famous book, The Giving Tree, if you'll remember the book, is about this tree.”

“So you wrote a memoir about your years as a firefighter called Fighting Fire, and you tell one incredibly powerful story after another about your experiences. Do you have your own personal favorite story from that book?”

“Now, that can get toxic for sure, but later I wrote a book about instilling bravery in girls because it was becoming really clear to me when I looked around that women defaulted to fear and that women were really missing out on something important. So the book you're talking about now is The Gutsy Girl.”

“You wrote a book about, of all things, your cat running away; it's called Lost Cat, and I have to say, being just totally honest, in a million years I never would have read that book if I didn't know I was going to talk to you today.”

“Your most recent book is called Tough Broad, and one thing I like about your books is they're also different from one another, but this one starts with an observation which I think is 100% true but almost never talked about, which is that our society is incredibly dismissive of older women.”

“I did read Annie Murphy Paul’s book, The Extended Mind, and she talks about awe in there. It turns out awe is really good for us and is really easily triggered by going outside.”

“We're back with a brand new episode featuring Suad Jwad. Her incredible book, Between Two Kingdoms, documents her battle with cancer, and she's also the subject of the recent documentary film American Symphony.”

“Cheryl Sandberg got into it with Lean In; all of these publications have written about it. Dan, only a man with a brain worm would think, 'You know what?”

“Politico reported that, do you know she wrote a first book? This was her second book and in the first book her team got her to take the story of killing the puppy out.”

“Kelly is also the author of a book called Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crisis.”

“Uh and it appears, uh I looked into this because I was you know my book before the underworld was called voices in the ocean, it's about dolphins, uh and orcas are of course the biggest and wiliest dolphins!”

“Now they've had to pull all that from the audiobook; it'll be on the bookshelves in Barnes & Noble and elsewhere today because they couldn't get it out of the written book, but it's out of the electronic.”

“You might think of him as like Dr. Spock, if you're old enough to remember Dr. Spock, not the one from Star Trek but like the child development doctor who was kind of huge. I think in the 80s and 90s, I think my parents had a Dr. Spock book or two around.”

“There's a very popular book among the Christian right called To Train Up a Child, and the basis of it is you should, when children are infants, do stuff like lay them down on a mat, and if they like wiggle to such a point that any part of their body is off of it, you like whip them! Basically,”

“I wrote a YA novel without any bad things—of course there are bad things; it's a novel and bad things have to happen in a story—called 'The Sapling Cage.' It's great, by the way. Robert actually read it; it is my favorite piece of your writing so far.”

“There’s a wonderful book called "The End of Cravings" by Mark Schatzker, who also wrote "The Dorito Effect."”

“There’s a wonderful book called "The End of Cravings" by Mark Schatzker, who also wrote "The Dorito Effect."”

“Um, and number one is walking, uh, Steve's new book is for Tracy. Uh, that's—that's what they call two years old!”

“Yeah, I went, um, speaking about receipts, I went to the, when Marty's biography came out, um, he didn't send me one, so I went to the bookstore, bought it, and while I was at the cash register, put the book and the receipt, took a photo of it, emailed him and said that's okay, I got it. [Laughter] Very”

“Louise Hay, I love me some Louise Hay! That lady, oh, if she was still alive!”