Episode 13 - Birds, Dickinson, The Dude Diet, Playboy, Steinbeck (and books)

Episode 13 - Birds, Dickinson, The Dude Diet, Playboy, Steinbeck (and books)

Episode Thirteen Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Just Read – Celine – Peter Heller (CW) (EF) The Impossible Fortress – Jason Rekulak (EF) Our Short History – Lauren Grodstein (EF) (audio) Book of Aron – Jim Shepard (EF) The Leavers – Lisa Ko (CW) Just Mercy: The Story of Justice and Redemption (CW) (audio) The Lotterys Plus One - Emma Donoghue (CW) – DNF’d (did not finish, but passed it on to Emily) – Currently Reading/Listening – You are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life – Jen Sincero (CW) (audio) The Women in the Castle – Jessica Shattuck (CW) The Opposite of Everyone – Joshilyn Jackson (EF) The Dude Diet Cookbook – Serena Wolf (CW) – Chris wrote about her foray into cooking from this on her blog. – Biblio Adventures – April 6 – Chris went to the Mark Twain House to hear Ann M. Ryan discuss The Haunted Mark Twain April 20th – RJ Julia Booksellers – Jennifer Ackerman author of The Genius of Emily watched A Quiet Passion – the new film about the life of Emily Dickinson. You can watch the trailer here. – Upcoming Jaunts – April 28-29 – Newburyport Literary Festival in Newburyport, MA April 29 – Independent Bookstore day – GO SHOPPING! Chris is heading to Bookclub Bookstore for their grand opening that day. Emily will be shopping at Jabberwocky Bookshop in Newburyport, MA. May 5-6 – BOOKTOPIA – at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT Chris is hoping to see A Quiet Passion – the film that Emily already got to see. Then we can discuss! On the way home from Vermont we will stop by the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, MA. AND, Amherst Books in Amherst, MA. – Upcoming Reads – Blue Light Yokohama – Nicolás Obregón (EF) Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk – Kathleen Rooney (CW) – Also Mentioned – Upstream – Mary Oliver Ready Player One – Ernest Cline Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck Middlemarch – George Eliot Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin

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Episode 241 - The Yellow Wallpaper

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Episode 240 - The Nightmare Touch

Episode 240 - The Nightmare Touch

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Episode 239 - Playwright Spotlight with Laura Thoma

Episode 239 - Playwright Spotlight with Laura Thoma

Welcome to Episode 239! Playwright Laura Thoma joins us to talk about her first commissioned play, Letter to My Soul, which will premiere at the GreenStage Guilford Live Arts Festival on August 10th....

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Episode 238 - Author Spotlight with Clare Beams

Episode 238 - Author Spotlight with Clare Beams

Welcome to Episode 238 which features an Author Spotlight with the wonderfully creepy Clare Beams! To clarify: it’s her work that’s creepy, in a good way. As you’ll hear in the interview, Clare is lov...

15 Jul 20251h 59min

Episode 237 - From Connecticut to Carbondale

Episode 237 - From Connecticut to Carbondale

Welcome to Episode 237 where we DO NOT talk about the scheduled ghost story, “Thrawn Janet” by Robert Louis Stevenson due to human error. We’ll discuss it on the next episode along with “The Open Door...

1 Jul 202554min

Episode 236 - From Nyack to Nebraska

Episode 236 - From Nyack to Nebraska

Welcome to Episode 236, where we are both back at Book Cougars HQ and happy to be sitting across the table from one another again. We did some Biblio Adventuring since the last episode! Emily joined...

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Episode 235 - Hello, Pittsburgh Calling!

Episode 235 - Hello, Pittsburgh Calling!

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