CTL Episode 67- The Reading Life with Anne Bogel
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Show Notes-
This week on Cultivating the Lovely, MacKenzie chats with Anne Bogel. Anne is the popular writer and podcaster behind Modern Mrs. Darcy and What Should I Read Next? She is wife to Will and mom to 4 kids, living in Louisville, KY, along with their yellow Labrador retriever. She and MacKenzie chat all things books and reading, podcasting and personality types, including:
- How Anne started her blog and how it developed into what it is today
- Blogging and building online community that turns into in-person relationship
- The development What Should I Read Next podcast and its fun format
- How Anne goes about making individualized book recommendations
- Anne’s book Reading People, all about personality frameworks
- How reading a book is similar to learning about personality types
- Whether or not personality typing plays into Anne’s books’ recommendations
- The challenge of being honest about your actual tendencies and what you wish were your tendencies
- Anne’s daily life and how she keeps up with all the various demands on her time by using block scheduling and time budgeting
- How Anne chooses books for her Summer Reading Guide
- Digging back into books after you’ve been away from reading for a while
- Find out what kind of books you really like to read
- Make time in your schedule for reading as self-care
- Getting more out of your reading life
- Keeping a reading journal to notice patterns
Current Lovelies-
Anne: cutting flowers from her yard and making bouquets with them, doing contemplative reading first thing in the morning then leaving the house to work out
MacKenzie: enjoying getting out and about in her town now that the weather is warmer and spending time with her family
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Find Anne-
You can find Anne on her podcast, What Should I Read Next. You can also find Anne on her website Modern Mrs. Darcy, as well as across social media on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.
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