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.

Jaksot(257)

Episode 201 - A Great Last Night with Luanne Rice

Episode 201 - A Great Last Night with Luanne Rice

Welcome to Episode 201 featuring an Author Spotlight with LUANNE RICE recorded at the beautiful and welcoming Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library in Old Lyme, CT. Luanne’s new novel, LAST NIGHT, is out now. ...

13 Helmi 20241h 43min

Episode 200 - Two Books We Can't Wait for You to Read (times 18!)

Episode 200 - Two Books We Can't Wait for You to Read (times 18!)

Thank you for listening over the years and helping us reach our 200th episode! To celebrate this milestone, we invited special guests to call the Book Cougars hotline and recommend two forthcoming boo...

30 Tammi 20241h 40min

Episode 199 - Our 2024 Reading Intentions

Episode 199 - Our 2024 Reading Intentions

Welcome to Episode 199! We have read A LOT since our last regularly recorded episode in December, so be prepared! In our “Just Read” segment, we talk about books by Lois Hamill, Hisashi Kashiwai, Mart...

16 Tammi 20241h 25min

Episode 198 -  Top Ten Reads of 2023 with BookTuber Russell Gray of Ink and Paper Blog

Episode 198 - Top Ten Reads of 2023 with BookTuber Russell Gray of Ink and Paper Blog

Welcome to our fourth annual Top Ten Reads of the Year episode with BookTuber Russell Gray of Ink and Paper Blog! We each talk about our top ten reads of 2023. Some books were published in 2023, and o...

2 Tammi 20241h 49min

Episode 197 - Author Spotlight with Pip Williams

Episode 197 - Author Spotlight with Pip Williams

Welcome to our last episode of the year! We reflect on our 2023 reading intentions, announce our 2024 readalong theme, and have a delightful conversation with Australian author Pip Williams to cap off...

19 Joulu 20231h 42min

Episode 196 - Trying Not To Go Viral

Episode 196 - Trying Not To Go Viral

Once again, we are grateful for the miracle of modern technology that allowed us to record this episode from two locations. Chris was recovering from the flu and, to keep Emily healthy, we recorded ov...

5 Joulu 20231h 10min

Episode 195 - Hooked by Nonfiction November & 2023 Holiday Gift Ideas

Episode 195 - Hooked by Nonfiction November & 2023 Holiday Gift Ideas

Welcome to our 8th Annual Bookish Holiday Gifts episode! The first time we recommended holiday gift ideas was on Episode 2, way back in December 2016. Listeners enjoyed it so much that we’ve done it ...

21 Marras 20231h 1min

Episode 194 - Author Spotlight with Sarah MacLean

Episode 194 - Author Spotlight with Sarah MacLean

Episode 194 is bookended by Poetry and Romance. We begin with the poem “Only Love” by James Crews from the poetry collection, THE PATH TO KINDNESS: Poems of Connection and Joy. We end with an Aut...

7 Marras 20231h 15min

Suosittua kategoriassa Premium

nikotellen
anni-jaajo
tuplakaak
jaljilla
antin-matka
grekovit
hei-baby-3
olipa-kerran-otsikko
sita
maanantaimysteeri
palmujen-varjoissa
siita-on-vaikea-puhua
kaksi-aitia
gogin-ja-janin-maailmanhistoria
terveisia-perheesta
i-dont-like-mondays
the-harlin-show
murhan-anatomia
ihan-oikeesti
backmanholmavuo