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 234 - Author Spotlight with Elissa Altman

Episode 234 - Author Spotlight with Elissa Altman

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Episode 233 - Author Spotlight with Matthew Goodman

Episode 233 - Author Spotlight with Matthew Goodman

On Episode 233, we are thrilled to welcome back, MATTHEW GOODMAN! We are so grateful that Zoom and, before them, Skype (remember them?) opened up the world to conversations with authors. That said, th...

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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

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

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

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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 Mar 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 Feb 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...

11 Feb 20252h 10min

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