Episode 52 - What Does 70 Pounds of Books Look Like?!

Episode Fifty Two 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. Upcoming Readalongs Little Women – Louisa May Alcott – have comments to us by June 21st March – Geraldine Brooks – have comments to us by July 19th Congratulations to our 5oth Episode Giveaway winner – Jennifer and her daughter Lilly! Upcoming Book Release and Event Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women – Anne Boyd Rioux (release date August 21st) Check out upcoming events for the 150th anniversary of Little Women at Orchard House. Purchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! – Currently Reading/Listening – Fatal Crossing (Nora Sand #1) – Lone Theils, Translated by Charlotte Barslund (CW) Unsheltered – Barbara Kingsolver (EF) release date October 16, 2018 The American Byron: Homosexuality The Fall of Fitz-Green Halleck – John Hallock (CW) It Happened at Two in the Morning – Alan Hruska (EF) Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II – Liza Mundy (CW)(audio) Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (EF) (audio narrator Lorelei King) (upcoming narrator Justine Eyre) (EF) – Just Read – Dream More – Dolly Parton (EF) (audio) District VIII – Adam LeBor (CW) From the Wreck – Jane Rawson (CW) Gift from the Sea – Anne Morrow Lindbergh (CW) Trench Dogs – Ian Densford (CW) – See other graphic novels being released from Naval Institute Press new imprint Dead Wreckening – Biblio Adventures – Chris and Emily went to NYC for Book Expo 2018, May 30-June 1, 2018. Check out our YouTube videos from Book Expo. Some authors, imprints, etc. from the week: Blackwing Pencils Out of Print Clothing But That’s Another Story – Will Schwalbe’s podcast Leigh Bardugo Wayetu Moore Rich Benjamin Susan Orlean Caroline Fraser Deborah Harkness Ibi Zoboi Sally Field Tony Kushner Michelle Obama Fiona Davis – The Masterpiece, The Dollhouse and The Address Tommy Orange – There, There Minotaur Books Alison Law – Literary Atlanta Podcast Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman – The Greatest Love Story Ever Told Abbi Jacobson Chris Gethard Len Riggio – CEO of Barnes and Noble We brought home 70 pounds of books! – Upcoming Jaunts – The Book Cougars will be hosting an historical fiction author event in partnership with Bank Square Books at Mohegan Sun on September 27, 2018. June 16, 2018 Chris will be attending a Behind the Scenes Tour of The Blackstone Library in Branford, CT. Chris and Emily are hoping to head to the Noah Webster House in West Hartford, CT June 19, 2018 Emily is planning to see Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach, sponsored by Bank Square Books. June 20, 2018 Emily is planning to see Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl, sponsored by Bank Square Books. – Upcoming Reads – The Lost Family – Jenna Blum (EF) Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – Anthony Bourdain (EF) Middlemarch – George Eliot (CW) Little Women – Louise May Alcott (CW) – Also Mentioned – Book Women Magazine Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life – Barbara Kingsolver Lydia Maria Francis Child Moby Dick Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X, Alex Haley Hunt for Red October – Tom Clancy Literary Disco podcast A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan The Woman Upstairs The Thurber House Adam Bede – George Eliot Book By Book blog – Sue Jackson – Join her Big Book Summer Challenge Broad City