Weekly Roundup: “Better Than Fiction” and Our Series Finale

About this episode

In the final episode of the podcast, the hosts discuss their reading recommendations and reflect on the podcast's history.

Here's what we're reading, recommending, and revisiting this week, in the final episode EVER of this podcast. Catherine's library find is Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers , published in 2021 by The Lonely Planet. There's also a second volume of even more travel tales. Terri's random recommendation is all the ways you can keep up with us when we're no longer blabbing in your ears three times a week. Also mentioned: Bookmory and Authory . Terri's Substack, Too Old for Cool ; any future TV chats will live here Catherine's Instagram Terri on Twitter @mamatude Terri's website The podcast on Instagram and Twitter ; subscribe to see if Terri follows through on her eight-year replay plan In the archives , we talked about a couple of specific episodes while recalling the many permutations of the podcast over the past dozen years: Parenting Investigations and Are You a Soggy Mom? . While we won't be publishing new episodes, our archives will remain available. Thank you for listening!

People in this episode

Hosts: Catherine, Terri

Topics covered

• final episode
• book recommendations
• travel tales
• podcast history
• social media
• parenting

Keywords

• Parenting Roundabout
• Better Than Fiction
• The Lonely Planet
• book recommendations
• podcast finale
• travel stories
• social media
• parenting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Lonely Planet, Bookmory, Authory, Substack, Instagram, Twitter, archives

Books & works: Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers, Parenting Investigations, Are You a Soggy Mom?

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