Bookaholic Podcast
✨ Deirdre Pippins — better known as Bookaholic — is your guide to the bookish world! She shares author interviews, book reviews, and the latest book news to help you find your next great read. Through her channel, you’ll also get a peek into her bookish lifestyle — from author adventures and bookish field trips to conversations around mental health and encouragement for aspiring writers. 📚 Whether you’re here for book recommendations, author interviews, book news, literary merchandise, inspiration, or community, Deirdre’s goal is simple: to celebrate books and the people who love them. #bookreview #booknews #booktube #bookstagram #booktok #authortube #authorinterviews #bookrecommendations #podcast #blackbooktubers #merch #merchandise #literarymerch
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Bookaholic Podcast
✨ Deirdre Pippins — better known as Bookaholic — is your guide to the bookish world! She shares author interviews, book reviews, and the latest book news to help you find your next great read.
Through her channel, you’ll also get a peek into her bookish lifestyle — from author adventures and bookish field trips to conversations around mental health and encouragement for aspiring writers.
📚 Whether you’re here for book recommendations, author interviews, book news, literary merchandise, inspiration, or community, Deirdre’s goal is simple: to celebrate books and the people who love them.
#bookreview #booknews #booktube #bookstagram #booktok #authortube #authorinterviews #bookrecommendations #podcast #blackbooktubers #merch
#merchandise #literarymerch
Sept. 4, 2026
Her Husband Left Her For A Man! | Episode 159
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https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-jjjx4-1b50ac7
Are you an author who needs a website or website refresh? Tertulia has created a platform designed specifically for authors—not businesses, photographers, or restaurants—but writers. Instead of forcing authors to adapt a generic website builder, Tertulia automatically creates a professional author website using your book's ISBN or ASIN. Within minutes, your books, cover images, metadata, and author information are imported, giving you a polis
Sept. 4, 2026
Her Husband Left Her for a Man. Then Her Life Really Began. | Episode 159
Are you an author who needs a website or website refresh? Tertulia has created a platform designed specifically for authors—not businesses, photographers, or restaurants—but writers. Instead of forcing authors to adapt a generic website builder, Tertulia automatically creates a professional author website using your book's ISBN or ASIN. Within minutes, your books, cover images, metadata, and author information are imported, giving you a polished starting point without the technical headaches. Ch
Aug. 14, 2026
From Breaking News to Finding Herself: Carol Lin’s Untold Story | Episode 158
Are you an author who needs a website or website refresh?
Tertulia has created a platform designed specifically for authors—not businesses, photographers, or restaurants—but writers.
Instead of forcing authors to adapt a generic website builder, Tertulia automatically creates a professional author website using your book's ISBN or ASIN.
Within minutes, your books, cover images, metadata, and author information are imported, giving you a polished starting point without the technical headaches.
Tertulia has created a platform designed specifically for authors—not businesses, photographers, or restaurants—but writers.
Instead of forcing authors to adapt a generic website builder, Tertulia automatically creates a professional author website using your book's ISBN or ASIN.
Within minutes, your books, cover images, metadata, and author information are imported, giving you a polished starting point without the technical headaches.
Aug. 7, 2026
Reboot Your Story | Episode 157
Are you an author who needs a website or website refresh? Tertulia has created a platform designed specifically for authors—not businesses, photographers, or restaurants—but writers. Instead of forcing authors to adapt a generic website builder, Tertulia automatically creates a professional author website using your book's ISBN or ASIN. Within minutes, your books, cover images, metadata, and author information are imported, giving you a polished starting point without the technical headaches. Ch
July 31, 2026
Calling All Dog Moms! | Episode 156
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July 26, 2026
From Cab Driver To Carnegie Hall | Episode 155
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// PINTEREST: @truebookaholic
// TIKTOK: @truebookaholic
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July 17, 2026
How to Build Real Self-Confidence | Michal Bardavid Self-Love & Becoming a Peacock | Episode 154
What if confidence isn't something you have to earn?
In this inspiring episode of The Bookaholic Podcast, author and dance movement therapist Michal Bardavid discusses her book Becoming a Peacock: Strut Your Way into Self-Love.
Learn why self-love is the foundation of confidence, how to stop seeking validation from others, build healthy boundaries, embrace authenticity, and discover your true worth.
If you've ever struggled with confidence, rejection, people-pleasing, or believing you're enou
In this inspiring episode of The Bookaholic Podcast, author and dance movement therapist Michal Bardavid discusses her book Becoming a Peacock: Strut Your Way into Self-Love.
Learn why self-love is the foundation of confidence, how to stop seeking validation from others, build healthy boundaries, embrace authenticity, and discover your true worth.
If you've ever struggled with confidence, rejection, people-pleasing, or believing you're enou
July 10, 2026
Brain Fog on Steroids, Demystifying Perimenopause | Episode 153
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Christy makes humor out of a totally non-humorous life event, perimenopause. She and Deirdre talk honestly about perimenopau
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📚 BUY THE BOOK 👉Why Did I Walk Into This Room? https://amzn.to/3QNJ57v
Christy makes humor out of a totally non-humorous life event, perimenopause. She and Deirdre talk honestly about perimenopau
July 3, 2026
A Hidden Town. Retired Spies. One Impossible Choice. | Episode 152
Is your TBR list giving you anxiety? Find out how you can read FASTER! Check it out! https://speechify.com/text-to-speech-online/?utm_campaign=partners&utm_content=rewardful&via=deirdre
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📚 BUY THE BOOK 👉Purchase Welcome To Cottonmouth https://amzn.to/4p0VoKf
What does the US government do with spies and special operators when they pass their expiration date? They
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📚 BUY THE BOOK 👉Purchase Welcome To Cottonmouth https://amzn.to/4p0VoKf
What does the US government do with spies and special operators when they pass their expiration date? They
June 26, 2026
The BEST Non-Fiction Book I Read This Year...So Far...
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📚 BUY THE BOOK 👉Purchase Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage here: https://amzn.to/4aeWBaI
Check out my review of Belle Burden's, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage. This episode is also a behind the scenes look at me recording a podcast (unfiltered).
It's summer! Here are my beach read recommendations! Summer Reads
📚 BUY THE BOOK 👉Purchase Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage here: https://amzn.to/4aeWBaI
Check out my review of Belle Burden's, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage. This episode is also a behind the scenes look at me recording a podcast (unfiltered).
It's summer! Here are my beach read recommendations! Summer Reads
June 12, 2026
Her Family Talks To The Dead | Irish Ghost Story | Episode 150
In this episode of the Bookaholic Podcast, host Deirdre sits down with author Gail Grant Park to discuss her cozy paranormal mystery trilogy — We Are Shadows: An Irish Ghost Story and its sequels.
Gail shares how real-life family experiences with the afterlife inspired her stories, including a breathtaking account of a spirit saving a cousin from a car accident, and a humorous but heartwarming visit from her late father. She also dives into how her 24 years following her husband's military care
Gail shares how real-life family experiences with the afterlife inspired her stories, including a breathtaking account of a spirit saving a cousin from a car accident, and a humorous but heartwarming visit from her late father. She also dives into how her 24 years following her husband's military care
April 28, 2026
Sasha Preston on Cozy Heist Mysteries, Female Friendship, and Diverse Leads | Episode 149
In this episode of the Bookaholic Podcast, I’m joined by Sasha Preston author of The Sweetest Escape. We talk about her cozy, female, caper, what inspired this story, and why readers who love cozy mysteries will absolutely want to add this book to their list.
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Why Self-Love Isn't Selfish: Lessons from Becoming a Peacock by Michal Bar-David
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About the Host
Deirdre Pippins
Deirdre is a UNC Tarheel superfan and a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., The Links, Incorporated, an associate member, and past regional officer of Jack and Jill of America, and a board member of Friends of the Gaston County Public Library. She is also a community advocate, world traveler, luxury handbag fanatic, wife, and mother of two adult sons.
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