Episode 96 - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Readalong and Booktopia 2020

Episode Ninety Six Show Notes KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine

– Currently Reading –The End of Your Life Book Club – Will Schwalbe (CW)
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home – Tembi Locke (EF)
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel – Grady Hendrix (CW) release date April 7, 2020
A Good Marriage: A Novel – Kimberly McCreight (EF) release date May 5, 2020

– Just Read –Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know – Malcolm Gladwell (EF) (audio)
The Sun Down Motel – Simone St. James (CW)
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed – Lori Gottlieb (CW)
My Name is Lucy Barton – Elizabeth Strouth (CW)
Chris DNF’d:
River – Esther Kinsky, Iain Galbraith (translator)
Blood Countess (A Ldy Slayers Novel) – Lana Popovic

– Biblio Adventures –We went on a joint jaunt to see the Broadway production of My Name is Lucy Barton based on the book by Elizabeth Strout.
Chris visited the New York Public Library and worked in the Dewitt Wallace Periodical Room before the play and also visited Books Kinokuniya
Emily took Aunt Ellen and the Gentleman Caller to McNally Jackson where she purchased two books:
Black is the Body: Stories of My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and My Time – Emily Bernard
Night Theater – Vikram Paralkar

– Upcoming Jaunts –May 1-2 – Booktopia 2020 at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT

– Conversation with Dafydd Wood from Northshire Bookstore –Here is the newsletter that shares everything you need to know about Booktopia 2020.
Or, you can see the list of books and authors that will be featured on the website HERE.
Note: You need to purchase tickets before you can receive the 20% discount.

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Dafydd also mentions:
The Guest Book: A Novel – Sarah Blake
Who is Vera Kelly? – Rosalie Knecht

– 12th Readalong discussion– Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE.
Sloan Croasley NY Times review
New Yorker profile on Olga by author Ruth Franklin
William Blake poem Proverbs of HellThe book has been made into a film titled: Pokot (Spoor)

– Also Mentioned –Bryan at Still an Unfinished Person Blog
American Dirt – Jeanine Cummins
The Street – Ann Petry
Passing – Nella Larsen
Phillis Wheatley
Attica Locke
See more about Kimberly McCreight’s novels HERE
Revisionist History podcast
See more about Elizabeth Strout’s novels HERE
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder – Caroline Fraser
Reading Envy podcast

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