Bookends, Zibby Owens
Bookends, Zibby Owens
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Bookends
A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature

Author: Zibby Owens

Narrator: Zibby Owens

Unabridged: 6 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2022

Synopsis

A deeply personal memoir about one woman’s journey to finding her voice and rewriting her story by the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books™.Zibby Owens has become a well-known personality in the publishing world. Her infectious energy, tasteful authenticity, and smart, steadfast support of authors started in childhood, a precedent set by the profound effect books and libraries had on her own family.But after losing her closest friend on 9/11 and later becoming utterly stressed out and overwhelmed by motherhood, Zibby was forgetting what made her her. She turned to books and writing for help.Just when things seemed particularly bleak, Zibby unexpectedly fell in love with a tennis pro turned movie producer who showed her the path to happiness: away from type-A perfectionism and toward letting things unfold organically. What unfolded was a meaningful career, a great love, and finally, her voice, now heard by millions of listeners.An honest and moving story about relationships, love, food issues, the writing life, and finding one’s true calling, Bookends will inspire and uplift.

About Zibby Owens

Zibby Owens is the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books. Zibby, named “NYC’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer” by New York magazine’s Vulture, conducts warm, inquisitive conversations with authors, making her daily show a top literary podcast as selected by Oprah.com in 2019 and 2020. Zibby is the cofounder and CEO of Zibby Books, a publishing home for fiction and memoir. She’s also the CEO of Moms Don’t Have Time To, a media company that includes the Zcast podcast network, the Zibby Awards, Moms Don’t Have Time to Write on Medium, Moms Don’t Have Time to Grieve, and Moms Don’t Have Time to Lose Weight on Instagram, Zibby’s Virtual Book Club, and two anthologies, Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology and Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology. A regular contributor to Good Morning America and Katie Couric Media, Zibby has also contributed to the Washington Post, Real Simple, Parents, Marie Claire, Slate, and many other publications. She has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, the BBC, and other news outlets. Her first children’s book, Princess Charming, will soon be followed by a second. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, Zibby currently lives in New York with her husband and four children. She always has a book nearby. For more information, visit www.zibbyowens.com and follow her on Instagram @zibbyowens. Just don’t ask her how she does it all; she has no clue.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Katelyn on December 26, 2021

I love reading about these two pioneering women and best of friends who made a living in the rare book trade in the 1900s.......more

Goodreads review by Stuart on August 03, 2024

This book is a treat for those who have read the authors’ previous memoir Old Books, Rare Friends about their long shared lives and partnership as antiquarian book dealers, independent scholars, and literary sleuths. This sequel presents a fuller and interesting picture of their personal lives and e......more

Goodreads review by Gregory on November 19, 2012

The authors of this book are long-time booksellers who have operated a business together for many years, as well as co-authoring a number of books on their experiences in buying and selling books. Nicholas Basbanes, illustrating the precept that blurb-writers often don’t read the book, says on the b......more

Goodreads review by Patty on August 05, 2016

I was given this book when I retired. I know my friend thought it would appeal because I am a great lover of books as were Rostenberg and Stern. I also thought I would like this book a lot. I remember when their book, Old Books, Rare Friends was published. I am pretty sure that I read that and enjoy......more

Goodreads review by Ashleigh on February 22, 2009

So wonderful. Two women who loved books. The chapter, "The Men we Didn't Marry" was particularly amusing.......more

Quotes

“[Owens] treats listeners to her characteristic honesty whether she's describing crippling self-consciousness or later love and finding her métier. Owens's style is gentle, easy on the ears, and relatable.” —AudioFile Magazine“This gut-wrenching yet beautiful memoir, narrated by the author herself, gives listeners a look into the life of a well-known personality. What makes this audiobook stand out is that as Owens reads, she shows genuine emotion at the many losses, and triumphs, in her life.… This memoir is a must-listen for any lover of literature.” —Library Journal“Owens (Princess Charming), host of the podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books and cofounder of Zibby Books, chronicles her path from shy, bookish child to busy mom and media company CEO in this zippy debut…Owens’s infectious enthusiasm radiates with charm, as do her earnest reflections on motherhood. Bibliophiles will breeze through this.” —Publishers Weekly

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