ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Today's guest is living out a reality many in our audience have dreamed of. Jeff Wheeldon is on the path to bookstore ownership, and will soon be the proud owner of Brighton, Ontario's Lighthouse Books. Jeff is thrilled about this new career path, but as an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy, he is feeling a little bit nervous about recommending titles in genres he doesn't often reach for.
Jeff's an involved member of his community and an active councilman in Brighton, where he lives with his librarian wife and two kids. Like many readers, Jeff turned to comfort reading as a way to recover from burnout during the pandemic, and since then he's been hesitant to dip his toes back into the kinds of literary fiction that, as he wrote in his submission, just doesn't feel safe right now.
Jeff wants to read more broadly, but without making the world feel harder. He also wants to be able to connect with readers who enter his bookstore about books that exist in a wide range of genres, and he'd love to find a few new right-for-him reads that might be categorized as literary, contemporary, or upmarket fiction. Jeff is thinking there must be a way to expand his reading into these genres in a way that still feels comfortable. Today Anne aims to recommend specific titles that will help him do so.
Find the list of titles discussed today at our show notes page at whatshouldireadnextpodcast.com.
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