Episode 91 - Announcing our 12th Readalong!

Episode Ninety One Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine
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– 12th Readalong –
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator) The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE. Our conversation about the book will air on February 18th.
– Currently Reading –
The Hollows (Kinship #2) – Jess Montgomery (EF)
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder – Caroline Fraser (CW)
The Yellow House – Sarah M. Broom (EF)
Farmer Boy – Laura Ingalls Wilder (CW)

– Just Read –
Thin Ice: A Mystery – Paige Shelton (CW)

The Great Believers – Rebecca Makkai (EF)
The Sculptor’s Funeral – Willa Cather (CW)
part of the Willa Cather Short Story ProjectThe Great Santini – Pat Conroy (EF)
Sourdough – Robin Sloan (EF)

– Biblio Adventures –
Emily took a trip to Portland, Maine and visited Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops and Longfellow Books
Aunt Ellen discovered the Common Books Bookcart where she bought us a copy of Margaret Atwood’s Selected Poems which was published in 1976. You can follow the cart and purchase books by going to Brittany’s Instagram account.

– Upcoming Jaunts –
Chris will attend an adaptation of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory at the Theatre Artists Workshop in Norwalk, CT

– Upcoming Reads –
How Not to Die Alone – Richard Roper (EF)
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition – Buddy Levy (CW)
The Night Watchman – Louise Erdrich (EF) release date March 3, 2020
Darkness for Light – Emma Viskic release date June 9, 2020

– Also Mentioned –
Nobel Prize in Literature
Peter Handke
Canada – Richard Ford
Harper Lee
Jacqueline Woodson
The Booker Prizes
Margaret Atwood
Bernardine Evaristo
Shamus Award
Road to Perdition – Max Allen Collins
Flights – Olga Tokarczuk
The Widows (Kinship #1) – Jess Montgomery
Wifey – Judy Blume
National Book Awards
Patricia Cornwell
Youth and the Bright Medusa – Willa Cather
South of Broad – Pat Conroy
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel – Robin Sloan
Print: A Bookstore in Portland, Maine
Osprey Island – Thisby Niessen
Louise Penny
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Every Man Dies Alone – Hans Fallada
Resurrection Bay and And Fire Came Down – Emma Viskic
Book Depository
Harry Potter
A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Book Review Podcast
Motherless Brooklyn – Jonathan Lethem