Episode 90 - Our 2019 Holiday Gift Ideas!

Episode Ninety Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine

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– 90th Episode Giveaway – enter to win by December 1, 2019
Through the Bookstore Window – Bill Petrocelli
In Pieces – Sally Field
Kingdom of the Blind – Louise Penny

– Currently Reading –
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder – Caroline Fraser (CW)
Farmer Boy – Laura Ingalls Wilder (CW)
The Great Santini – Pat Conroy (EF)

– Just Read –
Little House in the Big Woods – Laura Ingalls Wilder illustrated by Garth Williams( CW)
This Tender Land – William Kent Kreuger (EF)
Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo (CW)
Friday Black – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (EF)
Women Who Think Too Much: How to Break Free of Overthinking and Reclaim Your Life – Susan Nolen-Hoeksema (CW)
The Last Book Party – Karen Dukess (EF)
Smedley – Jeff McComsey (CW)
Red at the Bone – Jaqueline Woodson (EF) (audio)

– Biblio Adventures –
Chris and Emily went on a joint jaunt to Happier Hour an Evening with Gretchen Rubin and Elizabeth Craft hosts of the Happier Podcast in Providence, RI. You can look for their upcoming events HERE.

Chris went to see Richard J. King at Bank Square Books to hear him discuss his new book Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of “Moby-Dick” .

Emily went to the Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival highlights included:
The Price of Everything movie – director Nathaniel Kahn
Authors: Lionel Shriver, Deborah Eisenberg, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, David W. Blight, Judge Richard Gergel, Joyce Carol Oates, Rebecca Makkai, Bill Goldstein. She also visited Buxton Books and Blue Bicycle Books in Charleston.

Emily went to Breakwater Books to hear Juliet Grames discuss her book The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna.

– Holiday Gift Ideas –
1. Custom Embossed Leather Notebook
2. Panasonic Earbuds with microphone model RP-TCM125-K
3. Literary Card Decks
4. Believer Magazine
5. Rolling Library Cart (check out these suppliers: Demco, Brodart, The Library Store)
6. DIY project: watercolor paper and put quotes on them. Cut them into small pieces and place magnets behind or make into bookmarks.
7. Take a friend on a bookish jaunt

– Also Mentioned –
Gibson’s Bookstore
South of Broad – Pat Conroy
Bear Pond Books
Stuart Little – EB White
Ordinary Grace – William Kent Kreuger
Ink and Paper Blog Booktube
Fubar, Volume 2: Empire of the Rising Dead – Jeff McComsey
War is a Racket – General Smedley D. Butler
The Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History – Richard King