Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read29 Loka 2019

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– 11th Readalong –
Free Food for Millionnaires – Min Jin Lee
The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE. We will record with Min on October 30th.

– Currently Reading –
Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo (CW)
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life – Anne Lamott (EF)

– Just Read –
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather (CW)
The Gifted School – Bruce Holsinger (EF)
A Wagner Matinée – Willa Cather (CW)
part of the Willa Cather Short Story Project
American Dirt – Jeanine Cummins (EF) release date January 21, 2020
Thoughts in Solitude – Thomas Murton (CW)
In Pieces – Sally Field (EF)

– Biblio Adventures –
Emily went to RJ Julia Booksellers to see Karl Marlantes talk about his new book Deep River and to see Daniel Leader discuss his new book Living Bread: Tradition and Innovation in Artisan Bread Making.

Chris watched the movie Late Night

Chris hosted The Willa Cather Book Club at Wood Memorial Library where they discussed The Professor’s House

Emily watched the first part of Big Little Lies based on the novel by Liane Moriarty

Emily went on a jaunt to NYC and saw the Jefferson Market Library and saw the play Sunday by Jack Thorne

Chris and Emily attended the Hachette Book Group Bookclub Brunch in New York City:
Sally Field in conversation with her editor Millicent Bennett
Emma Straub in conversation with Susannah Cahalan discussing her books The Great Pretender and Brain On Fire
Nonfiction Panel:
Moderator Bill Goldstein – The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the Year that Changed Literature
Ryan Leigh Dostie – Formation: A Woman’s Memoir of Stepping Out of Line
Leslie Jamison – Make It Scream, Make It Burn
Mychal Denzel Smith – Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education
Fiction Panel:
Moderator Karen Kosztolnyik, VP, Editor in Chief for Grand Central Publishing
Kira Jane Buxton – Hollow Kingdom
Leni Zumas – Red Clocks
Alix E. Harrow – The Ten Thousand Doors of January

– Upcoming Adventures –
November 1, 2019 – Happier Hour an Evening with Gretchen Rubin and Elizabeth Craft hosts of the Happier Podcast
November 7-10, 2019 – Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival

– Upcoming Reads –
Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State – Nick Neely (CW)
The Shape of Night – Tess Gerritsen (EF)
All the F*cking Mistakes: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life – Gigi Engle (EF)

– Also Mentioned –
How We Fight For Our Lives – Saeed Jones
On Writing: A Memoir on the Craft – Stephen King
BOOK CLUB On the Go
A Lantern in Her Hand – Bess Streeter Aldrich
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions – Valeria Luiselli
The Seven Storey Mountain – Thomas Murton
Matterhorn – Karl Marlantes
Pritzker Military Museum & Library
NaNoWriMo
Maxwell Perkins
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant – Anne Tyler
DSM: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder
Will Schwalbe

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