August 2, 2025 • 8 mins
Lisa always has so many books she needs to read for Lisa’s Book Club that they had to discuss how to get out of a reading slump! Ryley has a few tips to share, and Lisa tends to just power through; she’s so busy no time to stop!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, welcome into Lisa's a book Club podcast, a bonus
chapter edition. We're here with producer Riley. It's Saturday, and
that means we get to talk about anything, right Riley?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Who? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We were like chatting after the show on Friday. It
was a long week.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh my god, yeah, what we did? Well. I was
in Nashville this weekend. So I have been so tired this.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Week Wait, because you were out late and you're not
getting enough sleep in the hotel.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Just I well, I slept at my friend's house and
I shared a bed with her. I know, I shared
a bed with her. I'm not like super used to
sleeping with people. And I love her. I hate her mattress.
Her mattress is like a touch too hard for me.
So like the entire weekend, I was just like, oh
my god, my shoulders hurt.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It's such a restless sleep.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, I totally hear you.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And we were at like bars are like out like
these were like very late nights for me, like on Broadway.
We're like we were out till like three am. One night.
I was like, I don't do this, Like I need
to go home.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
There was a lot going on down there, a lot
of like stimulation when you're watching Oh my God, Broadway,
it just hits you from every direction.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And there was five of us, so it wasn't even
like it's not even like it was just a small
group of us that like we could kind of just
like like it was a lot of us and.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
We were be bobbing around, not chilling.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
No, we really weren't.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh my God. All right, So in all of our
sort of like fogginess of this week, we thought we
would talk about how you get out of a reading slump,
Like I'm looking forward to reading, like I have to
read like three books, Yeah, in the next couple of weeks.
One for a podcast. This guy David Campbell is coming
(01:49):
in for my podcast next week and he started a
charity which is really cool called All Hands, and he's
going to comit and tell us about it. So I
have to read that book, and then the Jody Peak book,
which is by any other name. It's over six hundred pages.
She's coming to my book club at the end of
the month. I'm halfway through it, and then I have
to revisit the Chris Whitaker All the Colors of the
(02:09):
Dark even though I read it last November, I got
to like, I gotta revisit it and refresh. He's coming
and refresh because he's coming September eighth to josin Maine.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So you've got so much going on, and I have
a couple of ways that I try to get out
of reading.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So. A couple of things that I try to do
is if i'm like, really, just like nothing's working for me.
I've tried. I've tried to open a couple books, nothing's working.
I'll go back to a book that I've already read,
something that's like a real comfort read, or something that
I've been like, oh, i've read this before, I don't
really remember what happened. Let me give it another shot,
like read it again. That way, you're not like putting
(02:44):
so much pressure on yourself to be like I need
to read a book. I need to read a book,
like I'm not reading and you're like, well, I've already
read this and I liked it, so let's just do
that again, Like, let's rewind it back. We'll reread this one.
I do that a lot. I reread a lot of books.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So Riley also shared with me that she can read
while listening to music.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, I do that a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh my god, I can't do it. My kids can
do it too, Like you can do homework listening to music.
I need like a quiet space, like I need to
be like laying in my bed. I'm laying on the sofa,
everything quiet, or even like on a plane where I'm
like I have my earbuds in but nothing's playing, so
like no one's bothering me and I can just like
totally focus on this story. Yeah, otherwise I get distracted.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I was saying to Lisa that I can read in
like my living room while somebody else is watching TV
or a movie or something like I'm good to focus,
but like sometimes i'll you like you'll get a little distracted.
But like, yeah, I don't really know how I do that.
Maybe that's just like like an I don't have ADHD
or anything, but like maybe just like I got a
lot going on in my brain so I can handle more,
(03:45):
like but so to you. So I don't know, Like
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
A place I cannot read is that by a pool
or at a beach. I see all these people reading
their books by the pool, and I am just so
distracted at the pool or the beach by what's going
on around me, by you know, the kids playing in
the pool or somebody throwing the football on the beach,
And I'm constantly looking up and checking people out. And
it's like I get through like four pages and I
(04:09):
don't even know what I've read.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I feel like the beach is like a place where
everybody says that they read too, like that that's a
whole demographic of books like the beach read quote unquote.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well, I know, but I never do it unless you know,
I would be sitting by myself, like which I'm You're
never there by yourself. I mean unless it's like late
day and you stroll down there and you put your
chair in and you read a book. I feel that's
what you want to do that down Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I feel like as a parent, maybe you're just so
you're always thinking about your kids and stuff, like even
though obviously your kids are old enough to take care
of themselves at this point, but like still like if
you're with them, you're just in mom mode out relax.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Even though they're teenagers. It's like, where are we going
for lunch? I don't have any money, Well, kind of
you give me some money because I want to go
here and I want to do this, and oh do
you want to play football? Yeah? So there's like no
down day at any age.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Whereas I'm what I'm looking out for myself. So I'm
just nose in a book, feeding the sand and no problem.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Right, like on your time. Yeah, yeah, well that is
so anyway, I say, yeah, so we've got a lot,
We've got a lot of books to cover in the
next couple of months.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah. Well. Another thing that I do, I'll just mention
it real quick is if I'm watching a TV show
that I'm like really into, I'll try to read a
book that's like similar. Like if I'm watching like a
romance about I don't know, like the hospital, like a
Gra's anatomy type like, then I'll try to find something
that might be like a similar type of romance that
way my head I'm already in that headspace or the
(05:36):
other way around. If I like want to read a
book but I like can't get myself to read it,
I'll watch something of a similar nature to be like
maybe I'll like jog myself into Do you ever get
in reading slumps? Though, because you have do you just
power through?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I power through, Like I give myself a space to
where I'm not reading and I'm just like binge watching
something on Netflix. But then you have to, like you
have to get back into it.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, because you kind of just have to put your
head down and just muscle your way through. But you're
also taking notes and stuff like.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I'm annotating, yeah, my little notebook next to it.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, Like you're not always one reading just for pleasure.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
No, yeah, yeah, I do that occasionally. Like over Christmas,
we I was I didn't have to read anything specifically. Yeah,
so I read it and I read Funny Story by
Emily Henry and I loved it because it was literally
just for pure fun.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Do you have a book that you have been wanting
to read you just haven't had the time because you're.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
So so many Go go go read book Club The
Wedding People. I started it, and I again, I that
was a book for fun, and it's like sitting on
my shop, So I want to get back to that.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I've seen a lot about that one on Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I really, Well that's being made into something.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That's maybe why I've been seeing it.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah. Ooh yeah, Well I met her. She was at
the Jenna Bushager Book Festival.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Oh yeah, yep, she was great. So yeah, I don't
I could just power through like that. I feel like
i'd resented a little really. Yeah, you're good about that. Though.
When you read a lot of different types of books
for the book club, it's not like you're only reading
one certain thing and you're like, oh, I'm sick of this.
The next book that you have to read is going
to be something completely completely different, yeah, which is kind
(07:18):
of nice. Yeah, and then the entire time you're reading it,
you're like, oh, I can't wait to pick their brain
about this.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Well, the two coming up, I mean, actually the three
books I'm excited to read. But I mean, you know,
Jody Pico, her books are just so chock full of
just so many amazing stories. And then if you haven't
read the Chris Whitaker book, that book is I think
book of the year, I really do.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, all the Colors of the Dark. I want to
read the Jodi Pico before Big Night Live. Yeah, I
want to read it. That way, I can like really
lock in with what she's saying. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, well you should start reading because it's over six
hundred pages.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
If it's something that I'm interested in. Honestly, six hundred
pages I can fly through pretty decently within like a
couple of days. If I'm locked in.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
It's cool. It's a good it's it's it's a cool promise.
Well this was fun. So anyway, we've got a lot
going on. Like I said, we have a new podcast
up this week with mother daughter, Terry and Ella. They
started this really amazing charity called Chasing Red Flags, and
they came out with this really cool journal, journaling kind
of book that helps you figure out what's going on
(08:25):
with yourself with a lot of really fun question prompts
that you can write your answers down.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
To and they gave us one for free. It was
really nice to them. I'm excited to dive in.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah. I like the prompts. I thought the questions really
thought provoking.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
So if you're suffering with anxiety or you are looking
to strengthen you know your mental health, their journal can
really help you. But anyway, check out the podcast. It's
up right now.
Hey, welcome into Lisa's a book Club podcast, a bonus
chapter edition. We're here with producer Riley. It's Saturday, and
that means we get to talk about anything, right Riley?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Who? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We were like chatting after the show on Friday. It
was a long week.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh my god, yeah, what we did? Well. I was
in Nashville this weekend. So I have been so tired this.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Week Wait, because you were out late and you're not
getting enough sleep in the hotel.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Just I well, I slept at my friend's house and
I shared a bed with her. I know, I shared
a bed with her. I'm not like super used to
sleeping with people. And I love her. I hate her mattress.
Her mattress is like a touch too hard for me.
So like the entire weekend, I was just like, oh
my god, my shoulders hurt.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It's such a restless sleep.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, I totally hear you.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And we were at like bars are like out like
these were like very late nights for me, like on Broadway.
We're like we were out till like three am. One night.
I was like, I don't do this, Like I need
to go home.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
There was a lot going on down there, a lot
of like stimulation when you're watching Oh my God, Broadway,
it just hits you from every direction.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And there was five of us, so it wasn't even
like it's not even like it was just a small
group of us that like we could kind of just
like like it was a lot of us and.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
We were be bobbing around, not chilling.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
No, we really weren't.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh my God. All right, So in all of our
sort of like fogginess of this week, we thought we
would talk about how you get out of a reading slump,
Like I'm looking forward to reading, like I have to
read like three books, Yeah, in the next couple of weeks.
One for a podcast. This guy David Campbell is coming
(01:49):
in for my podcast next week and he started a
charity which is really cool called All Hands, and he's
going to comit and tell us about it. So I
have to read that book, and then the Jody Peak book,
which is by any other name. It's over six hundred pages.
She's coming to my book club at the end of
the month. I'm halfway through it, and then I have
to revisit the Chris Whitaker All the Colors of the
(02:09):
Dark even though I read it last November, I got
to like, I gotta revisit it and refresh. He's coming
and refresh because he's coming September eighth to josin Maine.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So you've got so much going on, and I have
a couple of ways that I try to get out
of reading.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So. A couple of things that I try to do
is if i'm like, really, just like nothing's working for me.
I've tried. I've tried to open a couple books, nothing's working.
I'll go back to a book that I've already read,
something that's like a real comfort read, or something that
I've been like, oh, i've read this before, I don't
really remember what happened. Let me give it another shot,
like read it again. That way, you're not like putting
(02:44):
so much pressure on yourself to be like I need
to read a book. I need to read a book,
like I'm not reading and you're like, well, I've already
read this and I liked it, so let's just do
that again, Like, let's rewind it back. We'll reread this one.
I do that a lot. I reread a lot of books.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So Riley also shared with me that she can read
while listening to music.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, I do that a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh my god, I can't do it. My kids can
do it too, Like you can do homework listening to music.
I need like a quiet space, like I need to
be like laying in my bed. I'm laying on the sofa,
everything quiet, or even like on a plane where I'm
like I have my earbuds in but nothing's playing, so
like no one's bothering me and I can just like
totally focus on this story. Yeah, otherwise I get distracted.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I was saying to Lisa that I can read in
like my living room while somebody else is watching TV
or a movie or something like I'm good to focus,
but like sometimes i'll you like you'll get a little distracted.
But like, yeah, I don't really know how I do that.
Maybe that's just like like an I don't have ADHD
or anything, but like maybe just like I got a
lot going on in my brain so I can handle more,
(03:45):
like but so to you. So I don't know, Like
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
A place I cannot read is that by a pool
or at a beach. I see all these people reading
their books by the pool, and I am just so
distracted at the pool or the beach by what's going
on around me, by you know, the kids playing in
the pool or somebody throwing the football on the beach,
And I'm constantly looking up and checking people out. And
it's like I get through like four pages and I
(04:09):
don't even know what I've read.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I feel like the beach is like a place where
everybody says that they read too, like that that's a
whole demographic of books like the beach read quote unquote.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well, I know, but I never do it unless you know,
I would be sitting by myself, like which I'm You're
never there by yourself. I mean unless it's like late
day and you stroll down there and you put your
chair in and you read a book. I feel that's
what you want to do that down Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I feel like as a parent, maybe you're just so
you're always thinking about your kids and stuff, like even
though obviously your kids are old enough to take care
of themselves at this point, but like still like if
you're with them, you're just in mom mode out relax.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Even though they're teenagers. It's like, where are we going
for lunch? I don't have any money, Well, kind of
you give me some money because I want to go
here and I want to do this, and oh do
you want to play football? Yeah? So there's like no
down day at any age.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Whereas I'm what I'm looking out for myself. So I'm
just nose in a book, feeding the sand and no problem.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Right, like on your time. Yeah, yeah, well that is
so anyway, I say, yeah, so we've got a lot,
We've got a lot of books to cover in the
next couple of months.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah. Well. Another thing that I do, I'll just mention
it real quick is if I'm watching a TV show
that I'm like really into, I'll try to read a
book that's like similar. Like if I'm watching like a
romance about I don't know, like the hospital, like a
Gra's anatomy type like, then I'll try to find something
that might be like a similar type of romance that
way my head I'm already in that headspace or the
(05:36):
other way around. If I like want to read a
book but I like can't get myself to read it,
I'll watch something of a similar nature to be like
maybe I'll like jog myself into Do you ever get
in reading slumps? Though, because you have do you just
power through?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I power through, Like I give myself a space to
where I'm not reading and I'm just like binge watching
something on Netflix. But then you have to, like you
have to get back into it.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, because you kind of just have to put your
head down and just muscle your way through. But you're
also taking notes and stuff like.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I'm annotating, yeah, my little notebook next to it.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, Like you're not always one reading just for pleasure.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
No, yeah, yeah, I do that occasionally. Like over Christmas,
we I was I didn't have to read anything specifically. Yeah,
so I read it and I read Funny Story by
Emily Henry and I loved it because it was literally
just for pure fun.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Do you have a book that you have been wanting
to read you just haven't had the time because you're.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
So so many Go go go read book Club The
Wedding People. I started it, and I again, I that
was a book for fun, and it's like sitting on
my shop, So I want to get back to that.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I've seen a lot about that one on Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I really, Well that's being made into something.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That's maybe why I've been seeing it.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah. Ooh yeah, Well I met her. She was at
the Jenna Bushager Book Festival.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Oh yeah, yep, she was great. So yeah, I don't
I could just power through like that. I feel like
i'd resented a little really. Yeah, you're good about that. Though.
When you read a lot of different types of books
for the book club, it's not like you're only reading
one certain thing and you're like, oh, I'm sick of this.
The next book that you have to read is going
to be something completely completely different, yeah, which is kind
(07:18):
of nice. Yeah, and then the entire time you're reading it,
you're like, oh, I can't wait to pick their brain
about this.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Well, the two coming up, I mean, actually the three
books I'm excited to read. But I mean, you know,
Jody Pico, her books are just so chock full of
just so many amazing stories. And then if you haven't
read the Chris Whitaker book, that book is I think
book of the year, I really do.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, all the Colors of the Dark. I want to
read the Jodi Pico before Big Night Live. Yeah, I
want to read it. That way, I can like really
lock in with what she's saying. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, well you should start reading because it's over six
hundred pages.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
If it's something that I'm interested in. Honestly, six hundred
pages I can fly through pretty decently within like a
couple of days. If I'm locked in.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
It's cool. It's a good it's it's it's a cool promise.
Well this was fun. So anyway, we've got a lot
going on. Like I said, we have a new podcast
up this week with mother daughter, Terry and Ella. They
started this really amazing charity called Chasing Red Flags, and
they came out with this really cool journal, journaling kind
of book that helps you figure out what's going on
(08:25):
with yourself with a lot of really fun question prompts
that you can write your answers down.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
To and they gave us one for free. It was
really nice to them. I'm excited to dive in.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah. I like the prompts. I thought the questions really
thought provoking.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
So if you're suffering with anxiety or you are looking
to strengthen you know your mental health, their journal can
really help you. But anyway, check out the podcast. It's
up right now.
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