Episode 142 - O Beautiful Pub Day Conversation with Jung Yun

Episode 142 - O Beautiful Pub Day Conversation with Jung Yun

Both Chris and Emily inhaled Alice Henderson’s second Alex Carter novel, A BLIZZARD OF POLAR BEARS, which is out today, 11/9! Emily has been partaking in the Laurie Colwin renaissance and read HOME COOKING: A WRITER IN THE KITCHEN and her novel, HAPPY ALL THE TIME. Chris enjoyed Our Mystery Man John’s recent recommendation, THE VAMPYRES OF HOLLYWOOD by Adrienne Barbeau and Michael Scott. And we recount our Joint Jaunt to The Montague Bookmill, a used bookstore located alongside the Sawmill River in Massachusetts. The Book Cougars were thrilled to sit down and talk with Jung Yun about her second novel, O BEAUTIFUL, which is out today, 11/9. This novel is centered around the oil boom in North Dakota. Elinor is a 40-something Korean-American woman who is reinventing herself as a journalist after leaving her first career as a model. She finds herself back in her home state of North Dakota where an important assignment and investigation into the boom prompts a collision between Elinor’s own past and present. The result is a dark and complex story about identity, gender, race, class, and violence, both inter-personal and environmental. O BEAUTIFUL is a masterful exploration into a woman’s experience that sheds light not only on one place and time, but on so much of the discontent and pain in American culture today.

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Episode 256 - Author Spotlight with Sara Catterall & Q2 Readalong Announcement

Episode 256 - Author Spotlight with Sara Catterall & Q2 Readalong Announcement

Welcome to Episode 256 featuring our Author Spotlight with biographer Sara Catterall! Sara’s new book, AMELIA BLOOMER: Journalist, Suffragist, Anti-Fashion Icon, was on Chris’s Top Ten list, and Emily...

24 Mar 1h 34min

Episode 255 - Q1 Readalong: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Episode 255 - Q1 Readalong: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Welcome to Episode 255, where we dig into talking about FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley! We also discuss two adaptations that we’ve watched. We both plan to watch more adaptations and remain fascinated b...

10 Mar 1h 15min

Episode 254 - Author Spotlight with Tiya Miles

Episode 254 - Author Spotlight with Tiya Miles

Welcome to Episode 254! We are so excited to welcome Tiya Miles to the podcast to discuss her most recent book, NIGHT FLYER: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People. Don’t miss our conver...

24 Feb 1h 43min

Episode 253 - Author Spotlight with Sharon M. Harris

Episode 253 - Author Spotlight with Sharon M. Harris

Welcome to Episode 247! Can you believe it is already time to share our annual Holiday Gift Ideas?? Each year, starting with Episode 2 back in 2016, we share some bookish (or biblioadventuring) gifts...

10 Feb 1h 37min

Episode 252 - Listener Top Tens of 2025 and New Year Reading Intentions

Episode 252 - Listener Top Tens of 2025 and New Year Reading Intentions

Welcome to Episode 252, where we share LISTENER TOP TEN READS of 2025! In past years, there hasn’t been much of a spread between the first and second place books on the list. But this year there is a ...

27 Jan 1h 37min

Episode 251 - Top Ten Reads of 2025 with Russell of Ink and Paper Blog

Episode 251 - Top Ten Reads of 2025 with Russell of Ink and Paper Blog

Welcome to Episode 251 – Another Annual Top Ten Celebration with Russell of Ink and Paper Blog! We each share our list of Top Ten books read in 2025 and a favorite Biblio Adventure. Of course, more t...

13 Jan 1h 51min

Episode 250 - In podcasting years, we’re older than America250

Episode 250 - In podcasting years, we’re older than America250

Welcome to Episode 250! We joke that we turned “250” before “America250,” the moniker given to the United States’s anniversary celebration. The country is celebrating 250 years in 2026. This is also...

30 Des 20251h 17min

Episode 249 - It’s Our Ninth Anniversary!

Episode 249 - It’s Our Ninth Anniversary!

Welcome to Episode 249–we are now NINE! That’s right, December is our anniversary month. Episode 1 launched on December 6, 2016, and we’ve published a new episode every other Tuesday since then. Tha...

16 Des 20251h 39min

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