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Melanie Shankle

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Melanie Shankle is a 4 time New York Times bestselling author, speaker and co-host of The Big Boo podcast.

She is the author of multiple memoirs about friendship, motherhood, marriage and life, including Nobody’s Cuter Than You, Church of the Small Things and On the Bright Side.

Her newest book, Here Be Dragons, was in released in February of 2025 and debuted on the New York Times bestseller list.

Melanie is a 1993 graduate of Texas A&M. She lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband, Perry. Her daughter Caroline is a 2025 graduate of Texas A&M and has written a 100 day devotional entitled The Lion and The Bear which was released in October 2025.

Big Boo Cast: Episode 380

On this episode Sophie and I discuss her recent trip to NYC: why Tedeschi Trucks Band is the best ever, all the wonderful things about the hotel where she stayed, and the fact that she found herself feeling actual feelings before she left Saturday morning. We also talk about my determination to clean my house and our current challenges with reading.

Plus, I share some thoughts about trying to figur

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“Sometimes the best families are the ones God builds using unexpected pieces of our hearts.”
Melanie Shankle

“Real motherhood is different. It's better and it's messier and it's more complicated. It will break your heart and make you laugh harder than you ever imagined. You find yourself alternating between feeling like your friends talked you into some sort of pyramid scheme so you could share in their misery and thinking this is the most fulfilling thing you've ever done in your life.”
Melanie Shankle, Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn

“There are probably only a handful of times in our lives when someone who will change us forever walks in—when we find someone we can love with our whole hearts, who will challenge us and shape us and make us feel like the world is safer and brighter just because they are in it. A person who loves us for exactly who we are, yet teaches us to be better because of who they are and how they live their life.”
Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship

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“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!”
C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
C.S. Lewis

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
C.S. Lewis

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
C.S. Lewis

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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