Episode 64 - Our First Book Launch with Shuly Xochitl Cawood!

Episode Sixty Four Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Purchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! AND at Bookclub Bookstore & More. If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email bookcougars@gmail.com for instructions. Join our Goodreads Group! Please subscribe to our email newsletter here. – Readalong #9 – Hum If You Don’t Know the Words – Bianca Marais Have comments to us by December 6, 2018 – Currently Reading – Becoming – Michelle Obama (CW)(audio) His Favorites – Kate Walbert (EF) The Stan – Kevin Knodell, David Axe, Blue Delliquanti (CW) The Grain Bowl – Nik Williamson (EF) America: The Cookbook – Gabrielle Langholtz (EF) – Just Read – Becoming – Michelle Obama (EF) Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert (CW) Lift and Separate - Marilyn Simon Rothstein (EF) Starting From Scratch – Rita Mae Brown (CW) The Proposal – Jasmine Guillory (EF) The Vampires Heart (A Paranormal Lesbian Romance) – C.M. Blackwood (CW) Sea Prayer – Khaled Hosseini, Dan Williams (EF) The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World – Sarah Weinman (CW) – Biblio Adventures – Sadly, the weather foiled our plans on November 15, 2018. Due to a snowstorm, we were unable to make it to Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT to see Jean P. Moore (Tilda’s Promise) in conversation with Cheryl Suchors (48 Peaks). Chris and Emily went on a joint jaunt to see the movie Can You Ever Forgive Me? Chris met up with Our Mystery Man, John Valeri, at Wesleyan RJ Julia in Middletown, CT. Emily went to Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT for small business Saturday. Chris attended the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair and also had a chance to walk through the Boston Central Public Library in Copley Square. – Upcoming Jaunts – November 27, 2018 Emily would like to visit RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT to see Virginia Sole-Smith discuss her book The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America. December 9, 2018 Chris and Emily will head on a joint jaunt to Concord, New Hampshire to see Louise Penny discuss her new book Kingdom of the Blind. The event is sponsored by the Capital Center for the Arts and Gibson’s Bookstore. – Upcoming Reads – Kingdom of the Blind – Louise Penny (CW) Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (CW) Middlemarch – George Eliot (CW) Hum If You Don’t Know the Words – Bianca Marais (EF) The Perfect Mother – Aimee Molloy (EF) Conversations with Friends – Sally Rooney (EF) Heads of the Colored People – Nafissa Thompson-Spires (EF) The Patch – John McPhee (EF) – Book Launch – We had a chance to chat with Shuly Xochitl Cawood about her new book, 52 Things I wish I Could Have Told Myself When I Was 17, which is now available in Paperback and Kindle. You can order it HERE. Shuly’s other book is The Going and Goodbye: A Memoir. You can learn more about her at https://www.shulycawood.com/. – Also Mentioned – Ohio – Stephen Markley Also by Marilyn Simon Rothstein: Husbands and Other Sharp Objects Also by Jasmine Guillory: The Wedding Date Roxane Gay Also by Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov My Absolute Darling – Gabriel Tallent A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara Russell at Ink and Paper Blog Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) – Susan Smith Also by Lee Israel: Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger The Overstory – Richard Powers Kimberly McCreight Bookclub Bookstore & More Also by John McPhee: Oranges George Saunders