Episode 56 - Baby, It's Steamy Outside!

Episode Fifty Six Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Join our Goodreads Group! Purchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! Please subscribe to our email list here. – Currently Reading/Listening – The Prisoner in the Castle – Susan Elia MacNeal (CW) Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting Pot – Edward Lee (EF) All About Boats: The Evacuation of Manhattan Island on September 11, 2001 – edited by Mike Magee (CW) The Stars Are Fire – Anita Shreve (EF) Middlemarch – George Eliot (CW) – Just Read – Crazy Rich Asians – Kevin Kwan (CW) The Masterpiece – Fiona Davis (EF) – Biblio Adventures – Emily went to RJ Julia’s Booksellers in Madison, CT to see James R. Benn author of the Billy Boyle series in conversation with Cara Black author of the Aimee Leduc series. Emily went to Vermont and visited Crow Bookshop in Burlington, VT. She also walked passed, but was unable to go inside, Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shop in Portland, ME. Chris went to Chicago and visited the Pritzker Military Museum and Library, American Writers Museum and saw the Gwendolyn Brooks statue. She also visited Anderson’s Bookshops in Naperville, IL and Barbara’s Bookstore O’Hare. Chris went to Bookclub Bookstore & More to see our Mystery Man, John Valeri, in conversation with Emily Arsenault author of The Last Thing I Told You. Chris attended the grand opening of That Bookstore in Wethersfield, CT. – Upcoming Jaunts – August 8 – Chris will be headed to Bank Square Books to see Wick Griswold & Stephen Jones discuss their book Connecticut Ferries. August 24 – Institute Library in New Haven is hosting a Library Thing-a-Thon. Help them digitize their catalog! September 12-14 – Wyndham Campbell Prizes Festival September 15 – Chris will moderate a session with Kimberly McCreight, author of the Outliers Trilogy, at Book Club Bookstore & More. September 27, 2018 – The Book Cougars will be hosting an historical fiction author event in partnership with Bank Square Books at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT. Please join us along with Fiona Davis, James R. Benn, Melodie Winnawer and Marie Benedict. You can order your tickets here. – Upcoming Reads – The Still Point of the Turning World – Emily Rapp (EF) Courageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors and More – Kathryn J. Atwood (CW) Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Wolff (CW) Song of Kali – Dan Simmons (CW) – Also Mentioned – Books Are Magic Bookstore Smoke and Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen – cookbook by Edward Lee Reading Envy Podcast The Book Barn in Niantic, CT Fiona Davis: The Address and The Dollhouse Rosemary’s Baby– Ira Levin A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving Maud Martha – Gwendolyn Brooks Chris blogs at WildmooBooks Poster Child: A Memoir – Emily Rapp The Classics Club Maurice – E.M. Forster