Episode 69 - A Joint Jaunt to Yale University aka "Searching for Rory Gilmore"

Episode Sixty Nine Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine

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– 10th Readalong –

True Grit – Charles Portis
Send in questions or comments by March 28, 2019 – we will discuss on April 2nd episode.

– Just Read –
We each had a DNF:

An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery – Rachel May (CW)

I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff – Abi Jacobson (EF)

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love – Dani Shapiro (EF)

The River – Peter Heller (CW)(EF) (release date 3/5/19)

Read Chris’s review of the book on her blog

French Exit – Patrick Dewitt (EF)

A Student of History – Nina Revoyr (CW) (release date 3/5/19)

The Best American Short Stories 2018 – edited by Roxane Gay (EF)

– Currently Reading –
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir – Ruth Reichl (EF) (release date 4/2/19)

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays – Alexander Chee (CW)

Salt Fat Acid Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking – Samin Nosrat (EF)

11/22/63 – Stephen King (EF)(audio)

– Biblio Adventures –

Chris visited the Newberry Library while she was visiting Chicago

January 19, 2019 at RJ Julia in Madison – Dani Shapiro with her new book Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

January 28, 2019 – Michael Chabon at Yale University

Emily watched the movie The Wife based on the book of the same name by Meg Wolitzer

Chris stayed close to home and cleaned up her Goodreads TBR list

– Upcoming Jaunts –

Chris is going to see Roxane Gay at Yale University on 2/5/19

On February 13, 2019 at RJ Julia Madison, Emily is going to see Linda Cohen Loigman, author of The Wartime Sisters, and Jane Healey, author of The Saturday Evening Girls Club, moderated by Robin Kall

Chris and Emily are heading to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston

– Upcoming Reads –

Golden Child – Claire Adam (EF)

Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter – Tom Clavin (CW)

Jonah’s Gourd Vine – Zora Neale Hurston (CW)

Willa Cather Selected Stories – Willa Cather (CW)

Willa Cather Short Story Project on WildmooBooks

– Also Mentioned –

Just the Right Book podcast with Dani Shapiro

Celine – Peter Heller

Deliverance – James Dickey

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River – Peter Heller

Sisters Brothers – Patrick Dewitt

Broad City

The Odyssey – Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

Delicious! – Ruth Reichl

Elevation – Stephen King

American Writers Museum

Kathleen Rooney

Martin Seay

Amazing Adventures of Cavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon

Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West – Tom Clavin

Shawn the Book Maniac

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

Lee Israel

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Poet Mary Oliver passed away

Mornings at Blackwater

For years, every morning, I drank
from Blackwater Pond.
It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt,
the feet of ducks.
And always it assuaged me
from the dry bowl of the very far past.

What I want to say is
that the past is the past,
and the present is what your life is,
and you are capable
of choosing what that will be,
darling citizen.

So come to the pond,
or the river of your imagination,
or the harbor of your longing,
and put your lips to the world.

And live
your life.