Episode 235 - Hello, Pittsburgh Calling!

Episode 235 - Hello, Pittsburgh Calling!

Chris and Emily recorded Episode 235 over Zoom. Emily was holding down the fort at Book Cougars HQ in Connecticut and Chris dialed in from Pittsburgh, PA. She was on the road back to Connecticut from Illinois and had some fun Biblio Adventures to share including a visit to Van Wert, Ohio where she visited The Brumback Library and had lunch with Linda, the BC’s librarian. She also visited the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and got to browse Caliban Bookshop. Emily saved the day or at least story time at Wesleyan R.J. Julia. She was there with her daughter to share her granddaughter’s first bookstore story time and ended up hosting said story time! Books we’ve read since the last episode and discuss include: — RENEGADE GIRLS: A QUEER TALE OF ROMANCE AND RABBLE-ROUSING by Nora Neus and illustrated by Julie Robine — THE GOOD HOUSE by Tananarive Due — A FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND: THE KU KLUX KLAN'S PLOT TO TAKE OVER AMERICA, AND THE WOMAN WHO STOPPED THEM byTimothy Egan — A DOG IN GEORGIA by Lauren Grodstein (forthcoming 8/5) — THE GREAT GATSBY AT 100 by Sheila Liming — THE WRITING LIFE by Annie Dillard This episode’s ghost story is “The Ghost in the Cap’n Brown House” by Harriet Beecher Stowe from THE PENGUIN BOOK OF GHOST STORIES FROM ELIZABETH GASKELL TO AMBROSE BIERCE. We also talk about meeting up for coffee with Deanna (a listener from Virginia), our upcoming jaunts, and mention the books we’ve chosen to kick off the #BigBookSummer Reading Challenge. Many thanks to Shirley Russak Wachtel, author of THE BAKER OF LOST MEMORIES, for sponsoring this episode! We hope that if you go on a road trip this summer, you’re able to drive at your preferred pace, on your preferred type of road, and listen to the audiobook of your choice. Happy Reading!

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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...

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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

Episode 193 - Book Club Fundamentals with Davina Morgan-Witts Founder & Publisher of BookBrowse

Episode 193 - Book Club Fundamentals with Davina Morgan-Witts Founder & Publisher of BookBrowse

Chris and Emily were thrilled to sit down and talk with Davina Morgan-Witts, the Founder and Publisher of BookBrowse. Founded in 1998, BookBrowse is one of the earliest independent online book resourc...

24 Loka 20231h 2min

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