Episode 147 - Q1 Readalong Pick, 2022 Reading Plans, and 2021 Listener Top 10s

Episode 147 - Q1 Readalong Pick, 2022 Reading Plans, and 2021 Listener Top 10s

Our 2022 reading is off to an excellent start! We read and discuss five novels, two memoirs, a biography, and a children’s picture book in this episode. They are:

HOPE AT SEA by Daniel Miyares
I CAME ALL THIS WAY TO MEET YOU by Jami Attenberg
MAGIC LESSONS by Alice Hoffman
FALLING by T.J. Newman
REBECCA HARDING DAVIS: A LIFE AMONG WRITERS by Sharon M. Harris
IN LOVE: A MEMOIR OF LOVE & LOSS by Amy Bloom
RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE by Rita Mae Brown (audiobook narrated by Anna Paquin)
THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DuBOIS, Honorée Fanzine Jeffers
THE SWELLS, Will Aitken

We also announce our theme for 2022 — Indigenous Writers. Our first Readalong title for the first quarter is A SNAKE FALLS TO EARTH by Darcie Little Badger.

And like many readers, we spent some time at the end of 2021 thinking about what directions we’d like our reading adventures to take us this year. Call them plans, goals, determinations, or intentions, we’ve got some and share them with you.

Thanks to all of the listeners who submitted their Top 10(ish) reads of 2021. Emily compiled them all into a spreadsheet and we discuss highlights. If you’d like a copy of the spreadsheet, email us, or you can see all of the books on our Bookshop.org List: org list: Listeners Top Books of 2021.

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Episode 192 - Author Spotlight with Fancy Feast

Episode 192 - Author Spotlight with Fancy Feast

Author Spotlight: Chris and Emily have a great time talking with Fancy Feast about her new (and debut) essay collection, NAKED: ON SEX, WORK, AND OTHER BURLESQUES. We bid adieu to Scarlet Summer wit...

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Episode 191 - Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough with Poet Shuly Cawood

Episode 191 - Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough with Poet Shuly Cawood

Chris and Emily are happy to welcome back author SHULY CAWOOD to talk about her new poetry collection, SOMETHING SO GOOD IT CAN NEVER BE ENOUGH. Shuly reads a poem and talks about her poetic process, ...

26 Syys 20231h 45min

Episode 190 - Haunted by Hawthorne & The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

Episode 190 - Haunted by Hawthorne & The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

It’s another 10th episode which means we’re hosting a giveaway for newsletter subscribers! One lucky winner will receive a copy of DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth ...

12 Syys 20231h 14min

Episode 189 - Author Spotlight with Laurie Lico Albanese

Episode 189 - Author Spotlight with Laurie Lico Albanese

The Book Cougars are thrilled to welcome Laurie Lico Albanese, author of HESTER, our second readalong for Scarlet Summer. Laurie dishes on Hawthorne, shares her inspiration for Isobel, and talks about...

29 Elo 20231h 26min

Episode 188 - Author Spotlight with Erin Flanagan and Katrina Kittle

Episode 188 - Author Spotlight with Erin Flanagan and Katrina Kittle

We had a great time talking with Erin Flanagan and Katrina Kittle. Both authors have new books coming out: COME WITH ME (8/22) and MORNING IN THIS BROKEN WORLD (9/1). Don’t miss our Author Spotlight c...

15 Elo 20231h 22min

Episode 187 - Author Spotlight with Alli Frank & Asha Youmans

Episode 187 - Author Spotlight with Alli Frank & Asha Youmans

A Book Cougars first: we interview a writing duo! In our Author Spotlight segment, we talk with Alli Frank and Asha Youmans about their new novel THE BETTER HALF, how they started writing together, th...

1 Elo 20231h 25min

Episode 186 - The Long Afterlife of The Scarlet Letter

Episode 186 - The Long Afterlife of The Scarlet Letter

Welcome to Episode 186! We chat about what we’re currently reading (How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens and Come with Me by Erin Flanagan) and books we’ve finished ( Morning in This Broken World b...

18 Heinä 20231h 42min

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...

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