Episode 142 - O Beautiful Pub Day Conversation with Jung Yun

Episode 142 - O Beautiful Pub Day Conversation with Jung Yun

Both Chris and Emily inhaled Alice Henderson’s second Alex Carter novel, A BLIZZARD OF POLAR BEARS, which is out today, 11/9! Emily has been partaking in the Laurie Colwin renaissance and read HOME COOKING: A WRITER IN THE KITCHEN and her novel, HAPPY ALL THE TIME. Chris enjoyed Our Mystery Man John’s recent recommendation, THE VAMPYRES OF HOLLYWOOD by Adrienne Barbeau and Michael Scott. And we recount our Joint Jaunt to The Montague Bookmill, a used bookstore located alongside the Sawmill River in Massachusetts. The Book Cougars were thrilled to sit down and talk with Jung Yun about her second novel, O BEAUTIFUL, which is out today, 11/9. This novel is centered around the oil boom in North Dakota. Elinor is a 40-something Korean-American woman who is reinventing herself as a journalist after leaving her first career as a model. She finds herself back in her home state of North Dakota where an important assignment and investigation into the boom prompts a collision between Elinor’s own past and present. The result is a dark and complex story about identity, gender, race, class, and violence, both inter-personal and environmental. O BEAUTIFUL is a masterful exploration into a woman’s experience that sheds light not only on one place and time, but on so much of the discontent and pain in American culture today.

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Episode 185 - Book Cougars Prowling in the Midwest

Episode 185 - Book Cougars Prowling in the Midwest

We both recently headed to the Midwest for some family & friend time. Chris went to Chicago and met up with Colleen, our guest on Episodes 27 and 145. We had a browse in Women & Children First, a le...

4 Heinä 202351min

Episode 184 - Author Spotlight with Bethanne Patrick

Episode 184 - Author Spotlight with Bethanne Patrick

SCARLET SUMMER kicks off Independence Day weekend! Nathaniel Hawthorne’s birthday is July 4th, so we consider it an auspicious start for our summer-long readalong. Our website has a new page, https://...

20 Kesä 20231h 24min

Episode 183 - Author Spotlight with Sara Nisha Adams

Episode 183 - Author Spotlight with Sara Nisha Adams

Mushrooms! Librarians! Serial killer victims brought back to life! New friends and life reinvigorated through reading! We’ve had some good reads since our last episode. We’re both digging into our #B...

6 Kesä 20231h 27min

Episode 182 - Biblio Adventure Bonanza: Making Lemonade Out of Lemons

Episode 182 - Biblio Adventure Bonanza: Making Lemonade Out of Lemons

Welcome to Episode 182! There is a lot of Biblio Adventure recapping in this episode, from author events (Mary Beth Keane at R.J. Julia) to movies (two book adaptations starring Kathy Bates), to book...

23 Touko 202357min

Episode 181 - Author Spotlight with Sharon Salzberg

Episode 181 - Author Spotlight with Sharon Salzberg

9 Touko 20231h 14min

Episode 180 - Travels with Chris, Emily, and Charley

Episode 180 - Travels with Chris, Emily, and Charley

We talk about a bunch of books and biblioadventures in Episode 180. What’s new, right? #wink Some highlights include books we just read, which took us from a memoir about caring for animals (THE OTHE...

25 Huhti 20231h 8min

Episode 179 - Deep Dive with Poet Shuly Cawood

Episode 179 - Deep Dive with Poet Shuly Cawood

Happy National Poetry Month! We kick off this episode with Emily reading Lucille Clifton’s poem, “Climbing,” and end with an in-depth conversation with poet Shuly Cawood about her poem, “Starter Marr...

11 Huhti 20231h 31min

Episode 178 - Author Spotlight with Jennifer Savran Kelly

Episode 178 - Author Spotlight with Jennifer Savran Kelly

Welcome to Episode 178! We are currently reading a variety of genres: Fiction (CHASE OF THE WILD GOOSE by Mary Gordon and VOYAGER by Diana Gabaldon), memoir (LIFE B: OVERCOMING DOUBLE DEPRESSION by ...

28 Maalis 20231h 37min

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