Episode 222 - 2024 Holiday Gift Ideas

Episode 222 - 2024 Holiday Gift Ideas

The Holiday Season is upon us! In Episode 222, we continue our annual tradition of sharing bookish holiday gift ideas. We’ve given these items to loved ones or treated ourselves to them (or received them as gifts!). We hope you find our ideas helpful. Since our last episode, we’ve had some fun biblio adventures. Two highlights: Chris took a leisurely drive through the back roads of Connecticut to Hickory Stick Bookshop in Washington Depot (the town that inspired the Gilmore Girls), and Emily participated in the Cherry Bombe member book club discussion of Ina Garten’s memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens, featuring Ina’s co-writer Deborah Davis. In our “Just Read” segment, we discuss a gardening book, a YA novel, two picture books, and two novels, one a suspense thriller, the other literary fiction: Complete Starter Guide to Bonsai: Growing from Seed or Seedling--Wiring, Pruning, Care, and Display by David Squirer When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman Fight of the Century: Alice Paul Battles Woodrow Wilson for the Vote by Barb Rosenstock, illustrated by Sarah Green I Am Book by Joren Cull Trouble Island by Sharon Short The Weekend by Charlotte Wood Emily also discusses two short stories she’s read, “Johnny Christmas” by Ivy Pochoda from Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of Hanukkah Noir edited by Tod Goldberg and “Cat Brushing” from the collection Cat Brushing by Jane Campbell. Chris hasn’t read Gregory Magquire’s novel Wicked, but she’s curious about it after seeing the new Wicked movie. Have you read it? Thanks as always for listening!

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Episode 232 - Author Spotlight with Eowyn Ivey

Episode 232 - Author Spotlight with Eowyn Ivey

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Episode 231 - Author Spotlight with Ruth Franklin

Episode 231 - Author Spotlight with Ruth Franklin

We were thrilled and a little nervous to sit down with Ruth Franklin to talk about her work and share our origin story. The Book Cougars may not have been born without Ruth Franklin. Or, come to think...

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Episode 230:  "Come for the Skiing, Stay for the Library"

Episode 230: "Come for the Skiing, Stay for the Library"

Welcome to Episode 230 where we talk about some books. As this is another tenth episode, we are also hosting a giveaway! One lucky newsletter subscriber will win a paperback copy of our second quarte...

25 Maalis 20251h 19min

Episode 229 - Announcing our 2nd Quarter Readalong in our year of reading Ghost Stories

Episode 229 - Announcing our 2nd Quarter Readalong in our year of reading Ghost Stories

Welcome to Episode 229! We kick off this episode with the announcement of our second quarter readalong pick for our year of reading Ghost Stories. We hope you’ll read along with us! Speaking of whi...

11 Maalis 20251h 5min

Episode 228 - Q1 Readalong: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Episode 228 - Q1 Readalong: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Welcome to Episode 228! 2025 is the year of the Ghost Story. We’ve created a tab on the website to keep you up-to-date on our quarterly readalongs, the schedule for the year-long buddy read of THE PE...

25 Helmi 20251h 4min

Episode 227 - Spotlight with Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Megan Marshall

Episode 227 - Spotlight with Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Megan Marshall

Welcome to Episode 227, featuring an author spotlight with Megan Marshall discussing her new collection of essays, After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart. Megan is a Pulitzer P...

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Episode 226 - A Book-Packed Episode including Listener Top Ten Reads of 2024

Episode 226 - A Book-Packed Episode including Listener Top Ten Reads of 2024

This is a book-packed episode! Because we had not recorded a regular episode in a month due to our annual top ten with Russell (see Episode 225), we had a pile-up of books to discuss. But first, we s...

28 Tammi 20251h 30min

Episode 225 - Top Ten Books of 2024 with Russell from Ink and Paper Blog

Episode 225 - Top Ten Books of 2024 with Russell from Ink and Paper Blog

Welcome to Episode 225, featuring our Top Reads of 2024 with Russell from Ink and Paper Blog. This is an annual tradition, and we’ve been doing this long enough that we think we know that someone els...

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