Episode 29 - Library Sale Booty, Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon and more

Episode 29 - Library Sale Booty, Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon and more

Episode Twenty Nine Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Join our Goodreads Group! Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page. – Just Read – OSS Operation Black Mail: One Woman’s Covert War Against the Imperial Japanese Army – Ann Todd (CW) Chris reviewed the book on her blog. Read it here. My Absolute Darling – Gabriel Tallent (EF) The Blank Wall – Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (CW) Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone – Brené Brown (EF) – Currently Reading/Listening – What Happened – Hillary Rodham Clinton (audio) (CW) Scary Old Sex – Arlene Hyman (EF) And Fire Came Down (Caleb Zelic #2) – Emma Viskic (CW) The Last Chinese Chef – Nicole Mones (EF) How To Read Water: Clues, Signs & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea – Tristan Gooley (CW) The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World – Peter Wohlleben (CW) – Biblio Adventures – September 15 – Chris and Emily will be heading to the New Haven Public library for a discussion with winners of the Windham-Campbell prize. Check out the winners of the Windham-Campbell prize here. Panelists: Too Afraid to Cry – Ali Cobby Eckermann Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War - Maya Jasanoff Nothings Mat – Erna Brodber Can You Tolerate This? - Ashleigh Young September 22-24 – Guilford Free Library Friends of the Library Annual Book and Bake Sale Chris purchases: Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival – Velma Wallis Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood – Delphine Red Shirt (CW) They Wrote the Book: Thirteen Women Mystery Writer’s Tell All – Helen Windrath Outlander: Stories and Essays – Jane Rule The Professor’s House – Willa Cather Emily purchases: 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement – Jane Ziegelman Who the Hell is Pansy O’Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World’s Best-Loved Books – Jenny Bond Emily visited Jabberwocky Bookshop in Newburyport, MA and Yellow Umbrella Books in Chatham, MA September 28 – October 1 – Blackstone Library Annual Book Sale – Upcoming Jaunts – October 17 – Gabrielle Zevin author of Young Jane Young at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT October 21 – Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon – Upcoming Reads – Death Comes: A Willa Cather and Edith Lewis Mystery – Sue Hallgrath (CW) Grace – Natashia Deón (EF) – Also Mentioned – Article about debut novelist Gabriel Tallent: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/27/books/gabriel-tallent-my-absolute-darling.html Review of My Absolut Darling: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/books/review-my-absolute-darling-gabriel-tallent.html The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry – Gabrielle Zevin Chris blog’s at Wildmoobooks.com

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Episode 232 - Author Spotlight with Eowyn Ivey

Episode 232 - Author Spotlight with Eowyn Ivey

We were thrilled to talk with author Eowyn Ivey about her new book, BLACK WOODS BLUE SKY. During our conversation, Eowyn shared her writing habits, including a description of her writing cottage, and ...

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Episode 231 - Author Spotlight with Ruth Franklin

Episode 231 - Author Spotlight with Ruth Franklin

We were thrilled and a little nervous to sit down with Ruth Franklin to talk about her work and share our origin story. The Book Cougars may not have been born without Ruth Franklin. Or, come to think...

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Episode 230:  "Come for the Skiing, Stay for the Library"

Episode 230: "Come for the Skiing, Stay for the Library"

Welcome to Episode 230 where we talk about some books. As this is another tenth episode, we are also hosting a giveaway! One lucky newsletter subscriber will win a paperback copy of our second quarte...

25 Maalis 20251h 19min

Episode 229 - Announcing our 2nd Quarter Readalong in our year of reading Ghost Stories

Episode 229 - Announcing our 2nd Quarter Readalong in our year of reading Ghost Stories

Welcome to Episode 229! We kick off this episode with the announcement of our second quarter readalong pick for our year of reading Ghost Stories. We hope you’ll read along with us! Speaking of whi...

11 Maalis 20251h 5min

Episode 228 - Q1 Readalong: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Episode 228 - Q1 Readalong: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Welcome to Episode 228! 2025 is the year of the Ghost Story. We’ve created a tab on the website to keep you up-to-date on our quarterly readalongs, the schedule for the year-long buddy read of THE PE...

25 Helmi 20251h 4min

Episode 227 - Spotlight with Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Megan Marshall

Episode 227 - Spotlight with Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Megan Marshall

Welcome to Episode 227, featuring an author spotlight with Megan Marshall discussing her new collection of essays, After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart. Megan is a Pulitzer P...

11 Helmi 20252h 10min

Episode 226 - A Book-Packed Episode including Listener Top Ten Reads of 2024

Episode 226 - A Book-Packed Episode including Listener Top Ten Reads of 2024

This is a book-packed episode! Because we had not recorded a regular episode in a month due to our annual top ten with Russell (see Episode 225), we had a pile-up of books to discuss. But first, we s...

28 Tammi 20251h 30min

Episode 225 - Top Ten Books of 2024 with Russell from Ink and Paper Blog

Episode 225 - Top Ten Books of 2024 with Russell from Ink and Paper Blog

Welcome to Episode 225, featuring our Top Reads of 2024 with Russell from Ink and Paper Blog. This is an annual tradition, and we’ve been doing this long enough that we think we know that someone els...

14 Tammi 20251h 14min

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