Everyone Loved It But Me
In Everyone Loved It But Me, we discuss one popular book each week. Lisa chats with guests whose opinions go against the grain. We don't book bash, but we discuss beloved books with a critical eye. At the end of each podcast, we flip the narrative and discuss books that "Everyone Hated But Me." These are books that are likely less popular and haven't gotten as much attention.
Episodes
Lisa discusses We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. This is a mystery about the ultra-wealthy family the Sinclairs. Cadence Sinclair Eastman is the eldest daughter of the Sinclair family. The entire family spends each summer on the family’s island and one summer a mystery occurs.
In this episode, Lisa compares the book versus the TV show. In a previous episode, Lisa and her guest Molly Shea had a deep dive into the book and you can find i...
Lisa discusses the book Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. It was an immediate best-seller. The book was published in 2023 and highlights three daughters who are in northern Michigan with their mom and she shares the stories of you her youth when she dated a famous actor.
Books Discussed:
Bomb Shelter; Love, Time and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott
Lisa discusses The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka. This book was awarded the Booker Prize in 2022, which is one of the most prestigious literature awards internationally.
Other books discussed:
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Lisa discusses None of This is True by Lisa Jewell, which is a thriller, but Lisa discusses how it is more of a slow-burn than a thriller and the title certainly sets you up for some predictable events.
Books discussed:
The Last House on Needless Street By Catriona Ward
Lisa discusses The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon, which is a historical fiction book about Martha Ballard, who was a real midwife, who delivered more than 800 babies. The book is fiction, but Martha wrote a journal for more than 25 years.
A Midwife's Tale, the Life of Martha Ballard – based on the diary 1785 to 1812.
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Lisa and Boston artist Julia Purdy discuss Still Life by Louise Penny, the first Inspector Gamache series. This was published in 2005 and there are 18 books in this series. It is an internationally recognized series.
This article in Vox discusses how Louise Penny has perfected the literary genre with combining murder mysteries in a small town idyllic town filled with artists.
Julia is an artist and you can find her on her website ...
Lisa discusses the popular memoir Be Ready When The Luck Happens by Ina Garten. Garten is a longtime Food Network star and and Instagram star. She delves into her career, and talks a great deal about real estate.
This blog post from Eater describes how much of Garten’s “luck” is really more related to privilege and wealth. She’s able to make many decisions because of her wealth. She quits a job at the White House to purchase the...
Lisa discusses 10 books that will be released in 2025 that she thinks should be ones you consider for different reasons. Some are very popular authors and some are quite uniqute.
Here’s the list of books that Lisa suggests you consider reading this year.
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward by Melinda French Gates
Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates
The Lamb by Lucy Rose
Lisa discusses and ranks the books she read in January from least favorite to most favorite. And, she discusses three books that will be released this year, that she believes will be super popular.
Books discussed:
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr.
The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrew
Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II (Scholastic Focus) by Candace Fleming
Lisa discusses Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. This was published in 2021 and brings together a wide range of characters ranging from Constantinople 1453 to Idaho in 2020. These characters will ultimately be connected by the fictional book Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Books discussed:
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Overstory by Richard Powers
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Lisa and special guest Emily Binder discuss All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker. They have an in-depth discussion about this book, which is billed as a thriller, but they feel the pacing is much slower than they anticipated.
Emily is a marketer, entrepreneur and founder of boutique agency Beetle Moment Marketing and the marketing platform WealthVoice. She is on LinkedIn and X. She's also on Instagram @EmilyBinder.
Bo...
Lisa ranks the books she read in December 2024 from least favorite to most favorite. She read a number of young adult books this month and ranked those and then ranked the adult books. This eposide doesn't contain any spoilers of books.
Books discussed on this episode:
Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
Ramona and her Mother by Bevery Cleary
Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
The Littl...
Lisa discusses her five favorite and least favorite books she read in 2024. There are no spoilers discussed for any books in this episode.
Books discussed.
Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
Finding Me by Viola Davis
After Annie by Anna Quindlen
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham
The Last Black Unicorn...
Lisa discusses several books that could be on the screen in 2025. These are all extraordinarily popular. It’s not guaranteed that these onscreen adaptations will come out in 2025. But they are in the works.
Books discussed:
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Verity by Colleen Hoover.
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
I Know What You Did Last Summer by...
Lisa discusses one of the most popular books of 2024 – James by Percival Everett. This book is a retelling of Huckleberry Finn.
Other books discussed:
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Intuitionist b Colson Whitehead
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Lisa discusses the books she read in November and ranks them from worst to best. She doesn’t share any spoilers on these books, but instead offers up a synopsis for each book and shares what readers might like about each one.
James by Percival Everett just won the National Book Award for fiction. It is a retelling of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of James.
Books Discussed
Salem's Lot by St...
On this episode, Lisa discusses Salem's Lot by Stephen King. This was the second book he wrote and is about what transpires when residents in the small town of Salem’s Lot in Maine become vampires.
In this blog, the reviewer writes about how much they love the book.
Books discussed:
Hatchet Girls by Diana Rodriguez Wallach
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*The bo...
Lisa discusses The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition by Agatha Christie
The New York Times discusses how riveting this book is even though it doesn’t have the gruesome details of some murder mystery books. Another article in the LA Review - Getting Fooled Again, rereading Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in the Age of Trump – highlights how Christie focuses on peop...
Lisa discussed the books she read in October and ranked them from worst to best.
Books Discussed:
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
The Night in Question by Susan Fletcher
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim
Out on a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition by Agatha Christie
Lisa discusses Sandwich by Catherine Newman, published June 18, 2024. It’s been described as the perfect beach book. It highlights Rocky, who is in her mid-50s and struggling with menopause, anger and grief.
The Washington Post discusses the witty banter and the issues that Rocky faces, thanks to Menopause.
Books Discussed:
Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
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