Episode 29 - Library Sale Booty, Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon and more

Episode 29 - Library Sale Booty, Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon and more

Episode Twenty Nine Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Join our Goodreads Group! Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page. – Just Read – OSS Operation Black Mail: One Woman’s Covert War Against the Imperial Japanese Army – Ann Todd (CW) Chris reviewed the book on her blog. Read it here. My Absolute Darling – Gabriel Tallent (EF) The Blank Wall – Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (CW) Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone – Brené Brown (EF) – Currently Reading/Listening – What Happened – Hillary Rodham Clinton (audio) (CW) Scary Old Sex – Arlene Hyman (EF) And Fire Came Down (Caleb Zelic #2) – Emma Viskic (CW) The Last Chinese Chef – Nicole Mones (EF) How To Read Water: Clues, Signs & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea – Tristan Gooley (CW) The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World – Peter Wohlleben (CW) – Biblio Adventures – September 15 – Chris and Emily will be heading to the New Haven Public library for a discussion with winners of the Windham-Campbell prize. Check out the winners of the Windham-Campbell prize here. Panelists: Too Afraid to Cry – Ali Cobby Eckermann Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War - Maya Jasanoff Nothings Mat – Erna Brodber Can You Tolerate This? - Ashleigh Young September 22-24 – Guilford Free Library Friends of the Library Annual Book and Bake Sale Chris purchases: Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival – Velma Wallis Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood – Delphine Red Shirt (CW) They Wrote the Book: Thirteen Women Mystery Writer’s Tell All – Helen Windrath Outlander: Stories and Essays – Jane Rule The Professor’s House – Willa Cather Emily purchases: 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement – Jane Ziegelman Who the Hell is Pansy O’Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World’s Best-Loved Books – Jenny Bond Emily visited Jabberwocky Bookshop in Newburyport, MA and Yellow Umbrella Books in Chatham, MA September 28 – October 1 – Blackstone Library Annual Book Sale – Upcoming Jaunts – October 17 – Gabrielle Zevin author of Young Jane Young at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT October 21 – Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon – Upcoming Reads – Death Comes: A Willa Cather and Edith Lewis Mystery – Sue Hallgrath (CW) Grace – Natashia Deón (EF) – Also Mentioned – Article about debut novelist Gabriel Tallent: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/27/books/gabriel-tallent-my-absolute-darling.html Review of My Absolut Darling: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/books/review-my-absolute-darling-gabriel-tallent.html The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry – Gabrielle Zevin Chris blog’s at Wildmoobooks.com

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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

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Episode 238 - Author Spotlight with Clare Beams

Episode 238 - Author Spotlight with Clare Beams

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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...

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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!

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 ...

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Episode 234 - Author Spotlight with Elissa Altman

Episode 234 - Author Spotlight with Elissa Altman

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