Episode 173 - Emily's Hidden Reading Slump and Chris's Return to Practical Magic

Episode 173 - Emily's Hidden Reading Slump and Chris's Return to Practical Magic

Emily started 2023 with a bit of a reading slump, but you’d never know it! Some of the books she enjoyed since our last regular episode are Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore, Trespasses by Louise Kennedy, The Change by Kirsten Miller, Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (coming out 3/14/2023), and What the Fortune Teller Would Have Said by Shuly Cawood. For the third year in a row, Chris kicked off her January reading with a novel from Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic Series: The Rules of Magic. She’s also brushing up on her stirfrying skills with The Wok: Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt. Speaking of cooking, Emily attended a cooking class with the cookbook author Julia Turshen. Chris visited a couple of used bookstores: The Book Barn in Niantic, CT, and Bennett’s Books in Deep River, CT. We also had a lovely joint jaunt to New Haven, where we checked in on a large Little Free Library in Wooster Square after a yummy lunch at Haven Hot Chicken. We are extending our listener top reads of 2022 submissions until January 22nd, so if you haven’t submitted your Top 10 Reads, please send them our way! We’ll share highlights on Episode 174 (Google form - https://bit.ly/BookCougarsTopTen2022 or email us at bookcougars@gmail.com). Reminder that our next readalong is Parnassus on Wheels by Christoper Morley (Zoom convo on Feb 26th at 7 pm ET). Your purchase of the paperback from Bookshop.org or the audiobook from Libro.fm will help support us (the links go to our affiliate page). Thanks for listening and Happy Reading! Emily & Chris

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Episode 250 - In podcasting years, we’re older than America250

Episode 250 - In podcasting years, we’re older than America250

Welcome to Episode 250! We joke that we turned “250” before “America250,” the moniker given to the United States’s anniversary celebration. The country is celebrating 250 years in 2026. This is also...

30 Joulu 20251h 17min

Episode 249 - It’s Our Ninth Anniversary!

Episode 249 - It’s Our Ninth Anniversary!

Welcome to Episode 249–we are now NINE! That’s right, December is our anniversary month. Episode 1 launched on December 6, 2016, and we’ve published a new episode every other Tuesday since then. Tha...

16 Joulu 20251h 39min

Episode 248 - Author Spotlight with Natalie Dykstra

Episode 248 - Author Spotlight with Natalie Dykstra

Welcome to Episode 248! This episode is a bit different. We have an Author Spotlight with biographer Natalie Dykstra. If you’ve been listening to the podcast since this summer, you know that we both...

2 Joulu 202554min

Episode 247 -  2025 Holiday Gift Ideas & Q4 Readalong (How to Sell A Haunted House)

Episode 247 - 2025 Holiday Gift Ideas & Q4 Readalong (How to Sell A Haunted House)

18 Marras 20251h 10min

Episode 246 - A Flock of Words

Episode 246 - A Flock of Words

Welcome to Episode 246! We recap some fun Biblioadventures in this episode. Emily got to see Mel Rosenthal in conversation with Virginia Evans about her debut novel The Correspondent at an event host...

4 Marras 20251h 25min

Episode 245 - Henry James is dead (to us)

Episode 245 - Henry James is dead (to us)

Welcome to Episode 245! A highlight of this episode, if you want to call it that, is our discussion of Henry James’s ghost story, “The Jolly Corner,” from THE PENGUIN BOOK OF GHOST STORIES. Chris als...

21 Loka 20251h 23min

Episode 244 - Spooky Stories with Our Mystery Man

Episode 244 - Spooky Stories with Our Mystery Man

Welcome to Episode 244! In years past, the cooler temps and changing leaves were indicators that the year was winding down. This year, we also have THE PENGUIN BOOK OF GHOST STORIES: From Elizabeth G...

7 Loka 20251h 37min

Episode 243 - Ghosts, Ghosts, and More Ghosts

Episode 243 - Ghosts, Ghosts, and More Ghosts

Welcome to Episode 243! Rejoice, it's officially fall, which we think is the best time of the year to read ghost stories! In the last episode, when we announced our fourth quarter readalong pick – H...

23 Syys 20251h 18min

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