Episode 30 - Our 3rd Giveaway and 3rd Read-along!

Episode 30 - Our 3rd Giveaway and 3rd Read-along!

Episode Thirty 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. We have two upcoming read-along’s: December – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. Send in questions or comments by Dec 7th – we will discuss on December 12th episode. February – Maurice by E.M. Forster. GIVEAWAY for our 30th episode is a copy of each of the read-along books noted above. Please email us at bookcougars@gmail.com to throw your hat in the ring. – Just Read – And Fire Came Down (Caleb Zelic #2) – Emma Viskic (CW) The Last Chinese Chef – Nicole Mones (EF) The Child Finder – Rene Denfeld (EF) Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward (EF) – Currently Reading/Listening – Death Comes: A Willa Cather and Edith Lewis Mystery – Sue Hallgrath (CW) The Leader’s Bookshelf – James Stavridis, R Manning Ancell Her Body and Other Parties – Carmen Maria Machado (EF) Peregrine Island – Diane B. Saxton (EF) – Biblio Adventures – Chris missed an event with Nelson Demille – his new book is The Cuban Affair. Chris went to the Yale Bookstore to see Aaron Mahnke discuss his new book The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures and his podcast Lore. Emily has been working at the Noah P. Webster Library in West Hartford Library and got the chance to visit the Welles Turner Memorial Library in Glastonbury. – Upcoming Jaunts – October 16 – Denise Kiernan author of The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home October 17 – Gabrielle Zevin author of Young Jane Young at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT October 19 – Anna Quindlen – West Hartford Reads at Town Hall October 21 – Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon October 24 – Tisa Joy Wenger author of Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal at Yale Bookstore – Upcoming Reads – Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula – Bram Stoker (CW) The Pink Marine: One Boy’s Journey Through Boot Camp to Manhood – Greg Cope White (CW) Bluebird, Bluebird – Attica Locke (EF) – Also Mentioned – 2017 Connecticut Center for the Book awards Fiction nominees are: Back Lash by Chris Knopf I’ll Take You There by Wally Lamb Shadows of Paris by Eric D. Lehman Cajun Waltz by Robert H. Patton Beneath a Shooting Star by Susan Harrison Rashid Literary Disco podcast – specifically the two-part poetry episode #112 and #113 Too Afraid to Cry – Ali Cobby Eckermann Russell Gray – Inkandpaperblog.com Salvage the Bones – Jesmyn Ward Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon is coming up on October 21. Check out this hashtag – #30daysofreadathon

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