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In Her Ellement
1 Bringing Your Whole Self to Work with Port of Rotterdam’s Saskia Mureau 21:38
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21:38People want to feel supported and safe at work – and inspired to innovate. What can people working at large corporations do to create this kind of environment? Saskia Mureau is the Director of Customer Digital at the Port of Rotterdam where she is harnessing digital systems to reduce emissions. She is passionate about creating inclusive workplaces where psychological safety and collaboration drive meaningful change. In this episode, Kamila sits down with Suchi to talk about why she chose to work at large corporations rather than startups. Saskia also reflects on her personal experiences, including navigating IVF while at work, and discusses how organizations can foster environments where employees feel empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Links: Saskia Mureau on Linkedin WHO infertility research BCG 2024 report on psychological safety in the workplace Suchi Srinivasan on LinkedIn Kamila Rakhimova on LinkedIn About In Her Ellement: In Her Ellement highlights the women and allies leading the charge in digital, business, and technology innovation. Through engaging conversations, the podcast explores their journeys—celebrating successes and acknowledging the balance between work and family. Most importantly, it asks: when was the moment you realized you hadn’t just arrived—you were truly in your element? About The Hosts: Suchi Srinivasan is an expert in AI and digital transformation. Originally from India, her career includes roles at trailblazing organizations like Bell Labs and Microsoft. In 2011, she co-founded the Cleanweb Hackathon, a global initiative driving IT-powered climate solutions with over 10,000 members across 25+ countries. She also advises Women in Cloud, aiming to create $1B in economic opportunities for women entrepreneurs by 2030. Kamila Rakhimova is a fintech leader whose journey took her from Tajikistan to the U.S., where she built a career on her own terms. Leveraging her English proficiency and international relations expertise, she discovered the power of microfinance and moved to the U.S., eventually leading Amazon's Alexa Fund to support underrepresented founders. Subscribe to In Her Ellement on your podcast app of choice to hear meaningful conversations with women in digital, business, and technology.…
Episode 216 - Guest Spotlight with Michael Kelleher, Director of the Windham Campbell Prizes
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İçerik Chris Wolak and Emily Fine and Book Cougars tarafından sağlanmıştır. Bölümler, grafikler ve podcast açıklamaları dahil tüm podcast içeriği doğrudan Chris Wolak and Emily Fine and Book Cougars veya podcast platform ortağı tarafından yüklenir ve sağlanır. Birinin telif hakkıyla korunan çalışmanızı izniniz olmadan kullandığını düşünüyorsanız burada https://tr.player.fm/legal özetlenen süreci takip edebilirsiniz.
Emily is back in Connecticut, which means she and Chris were able to record this episode together at Book Cougars HQ. We are grateful for long-distance recording technology, but talking about books in person is much more fun! Our special guest is Michael Kelleher, Director of the Windham Campbell Prizes. Mike explains that these awards are given to writers, not for a particular book, but in four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and playwriting. This year’s festival dates are September 17-20 at Yale in New Haven, CT. If you can’t make it to Connecticut, some events, like Lydia Davis’s keynote and the awards ceremony, will be live-streamed (links in the show notes). The books and stories we read since the last episode include: Envy by Sandra Brown Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez The Truth’s We Hold: An American Story by Kamala Harris Mrs. Saint and the Defectives by Julie Lawson Timmer Big by Vashti Harrison “Disaster Stamps of Pluto” by Louise Erdrich from the collection The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Otto Penzler “Double Birthday” by Willa Cather in The Best American Short Stories of the Century edited by John Updike As always, we also talk about what we’re #CurrentlyReading, what we want to read, and Biblio Adventures. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it. Happy Listening and Reading!
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Episode 216 - Guest Spotlight with Michael Kelleher, Director of the Windham Campbell Prizes
Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
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İçerik Chris Wolak and Emily Fine and Book Cougars tarafından sağlanmıştır. Bölümler, grafikler ve podcast açıklamaları dahil tüm podcast içeriği doğrudan Chris Wolak and Emily Fine and Book Cougars veya podcast platform ortağı tarafından yüklenir ve sağlanır. Birinin telif hakkıyla korunan çalışmanızı izniniz olmadan kullandığını düşünüyorsanız burada https://tr.player.fm/legal özetlenen süreci takip edebilirsiniz.
Emily is back in Connecticut, which means she and Chris were able to record this episode together at Book Cougars HQ. We are grateful for long-distance recording technology, but talking about books in person is much more fun! Our special guest is Michael Kelleher, Director of the Windham Campbell Prizes. Mike explains that these awards are given to writers, not for a particular book, but in four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and playwriting. This year’s festival dates are September 17-20 at Yale in New Haven, CT. If you can’t make it to Connecticut, some events, like Lydia Davis’s keynote and the awards ceremony, will be live-streamed (links in the show notes). The books and stories we read since the last episode include: Envy by Sandra Brown Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez The Truth’s We Hold: An American Story by Kamala Harris Mrs. Saint and the Defectives by Julie Lawson Timmer Big by Vashti Harrison “Disaster Stamps of Pluto” by Louise Erdrich from the collection The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Otto Penzler “Double Birthday” by Willa Cather in The Best American Short Stories of the Century edited by John Updike As always, we also talk about what we’re #CurrentlyReading, what we want to read, and Biblio Adventures. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it. Happy Listening and Reading!
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 225 - Top Ten Books of 2024 with Russell from Ink and Paper Blog 1:14:05
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1:14:05Welcome to Episode 225, featuring our Top Reads of 2024 with Russell from Ink and Paper Blog. This is an annual tradition, and we’ve been doing this long enough that we think we know that someone else will put a particular book on their list so that we can include some other book on our own list. It came down to the wire this year for one particular book that we all loved! As much as we try to “game the system,” we still manage to talk about over 40 books in this episode. Oh well. So it goes. #booksbooksbooks We would love to know your top ten reads of 2024. If you’d like to share them, please fill out this simple Google form, which asks only for the book title and author name. We will sort through the results and share our Listener’s Top Ten Reads on the next episode. Thank you so much for listening. We wish you lots of Happy Reading in 2025! https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2025/episode225…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 224 - Author Spotlight with Pamela D. Toler 1:45:34
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1:45:34We are thrilled to feature Dr. Pamela D. Toler who joined us to talk about her new book, THE DRAGON FROM CHICAGO: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AN AMERICAN REPORTER IN NAZI GERMANY. In a time when women were a rarity in the field, Sigrid Schultz was a print and broadcast journalist and the Chicago Tribune’s Berlin office bureau chief. She covered news from Europe and Germany from WWI through WWII and post-war years. Toler’s writing is accessible, and her subject’s life & work are amazing. Having read every byline that Schultz wrote, Toler was able to offer insights about how totalitarian governments gain power making this history book a must-read for those concerned about our present political climate. Before we get into our regular segments, we recap our 2024 reading intentions and talk about reading intentions for 2025. We like “intention” because it implies a direction or focus rather than a specific goal. We do, however, mention some specific titles and authors, so perhaps those could be considered goals. Anyway, the point is we don’t want to tie ourselves up in knots if our reading lives take unexpected but exciting twists and turns. What are your reading intentions for the New Year? Emily read two short stories from her Hingston and Olson Advent Calendar, “In the Stacks” by Robin Sloan and “The Hookup” by Katherine Heiny. She also discusses WE ALL WANT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS by Catherine Newman, CHECK, PLEASE! BOOK 1: #HOCKEY by Ngozi Ukazu, and LITTLE GREAT ISLAND by Kate Woodworth (not out until May). Chris shares her newfound love for an 1848 classic of Victorian Literature, THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL by Anne Brontë. She also revisits an old favorite, FINGERSMITH by Sarah Waters, which she listened to on audio. We also share two exciting reading projects hosted by listeners, what we’re currently reading, (couch) Biblio Adventures, and more. Thank you so much for listening. We hope you enjoy this episode and wish you lots of Happy Reading!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 223 - Author Spotlight with Brian D. Kennedy 1:19:36
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 222 - 2024 Holiday Gift Ideas 1:18:34
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1:18:34The Holiday Season is upon us! In Episode 222, we continue our annual tradition of sharing bookish holiday gift ideas. We’ve given these items to loved ones or treated ourselves to them (or received them as gifts!). We hope you find our ideas helpful. Since our last episode, we’ve had some fun biblio adventures. Two highlights: Chris took a leisurely drive through the back roads of Connecticut to Hickory Stick Bookshop in Washington Depot (the town that inspired the Gilmore Girls), and Emily participated in the Cherry Bombe member book club discussion of Ina Garten’s memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens, featuring Ina’s co-writer Deborah Davis. In our “Just Read” segment, we discuss a gardening book, a YA novel, two picture books, and two novels, one a suspense thriller, the other literary fiction: Complete Starter Guide to Bonsai: Growing from Seed or Seedling--Wiring, Pruning, Care, and Display by David Squirer When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman Fight of the Century: Alice Paul Battles Woodrow Wilson for the Vote by Barb Rosenstock, illustrated by Sarah Green I Am Book by Joren Cull Trouble Island by Sharon Short The Weekend by Charlotte Wood Emily also discusses two short stories she’s read, “Johnny Christmas” by Ivy Pochoda from Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of Hanukkah Noir edited by Tod Goldberg and “Cat Brushing” from the collection Cat Brushing by Jane Campbell. Chris hasn’t read Gregory Magquire’s novel Wicked, but she’s curious about it after seeing the new Wicked movie. Have you read it? Thanks as always for listening!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 221 - Trial by Ambush with Marcia Clark and John Valeri 1:51:55
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1:51:55We had the good fortune to talk with Marcia Clark and John Valeri about TRIAL BY AMBUSH, Marcia’s first foray into the true crime genre, for which John served as her researcher. TRIAL BY AMBUSH is an investigation into the 1953 trial of Barbara Graham, a petty criminal whose life took a hard turn the night of a home burglary that ended in murder. Graham’s trial was sensational, and the press coverage was a circus. Who better than famed prosecutor Marcia Clark to be the first to dig into the records to find out what really happened during the trial? Should Graham have ended up on death row? During Clark’s investigation, her prosecutorial hero, J. Miller Leavy, surprisingly ends up on trial himself. Neither Chris nor Emily is a true crime reader, but we were both riveted to the pages of TRIAL BY AMBUSH and think you will be, too! Emily has been carrying on with her short story project and discusses four stories: “The Statue and the Bust” from THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF SHIRLEY HAZZARD edited by Brigitta Olubas “Let the Chips Fall” by Emily Ross from the collection DEVIL’S SNARE: Best New England Crime Stories by 2024 edited by Ang Pompano, Leslie Wheeler, and Susan Oleksiw “Debris” from the collection A KIND OF MADNESS by Uche Okonkwo “Good Enough” from the collection A SMALL THING TO WANT by Shuly Cawood Chris finally finished her #Victober book, ARMADALE by Wilkie Collins, and then read two picture books, WHAT FEELING DO WHEN NO ONE’S LOOKING by Tina Oziewicz, illustrated by Aleksandra Zajac and translated by Jennifer Croft and SOMETHING, SOMEDAY by Amanda Gorman, illustrated by Christian Robinson. Some other books we discuss are: THIS CURSED HOUSE by Del Sandeen SHRED SISTERS by Betsy Lerner THE NEW MENOPAUSE by Mary Claire Haver, MD WHERE THEY LAST SAW HER by Marcie R. Rendon Chris also read A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY by Brian D. Kennedy. She loved it but doesn’t discuss it in detail as it’s our fourth quarter readalong. To join our Zoom discussion on December 8th at 7 pm ET, please email us (bookcougars@gmail.com). The conversation is free and open to all. As always, we discuss biblio adventures we’ve gone on and more books than we can include here. We hope you enjoy this episode. Happy Reading!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 220 - A Shocking Buddy-Read with Our Mystery Man John Valeri 1:32:25
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1:32:25Welcome to Episode 220 – It’s another 10th episode, which means it’s giveaway time! One lucky newsletter subscriber will win copies of The Gardener’s Plot: A Mystery by Deborah J. Benoit and The Author’s Guide to Murder by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. We send one newsletter per month, and it is free. Sign up on our website, and good luck! We also announce our Patreon giveaway for November: Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of Hanukkah Noir edited by Tod Goldberg. John Valeri, our Mystery Man, is back! He joins us to discuss Murder in the Smithsonian by Margaret Truman, which we buddy-read. John also shares some insider information that might shock Truman fans. Since the last episode, we’ve read several delightful romances, an eerie ghost story, a thought-provoking multigenerational novel, and a charming picture book: Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center “Afterward: A Ghost Story for Christmas” or from the collection Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton Real Americans by Rachel Khong What Feelings Do When No One’s Looking by Tina Oziewicz, illustrated by Aleksandra Zajac and translated by Jennifer Croft We also had some wonderful Biblio Adventures, including stops at Breakwater Books and Bennett’s Books and a great virtual event via the North Haven Memorial Library with Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. As always, this episode has more books and adventures than we can list in this blurb. If you don’t catch something while you’re listening, check out the show notes on our website, where you’ll find all the books and places we talk about listed, usually with links. Thank you for listening, and we wish you lots of Happy Reading!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 219 - Exploring Picture Book Art 1:10:13
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1:10:13Welcome to Episode 219! In this episode, we recap some exciting Biblio Adventures, including trips to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the Montague Book Mill, the Montague Center Library, and an author event at RJ Julia Booksellers with Betsy Lerner. Chris talks about a handful of picture books she read: The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs – written by Chana Stiefel, illustrated by Susan Gal The City Tree – written by Shira Boss, illustrated by Lorena Alvarez I Am Bat – written and illustrated by Morg Hood The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt – written by Riel Nason, illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein – written by Lynn Fulton, illustrated by Felicita Sala Emily read two short stories: “Loot” by Nadine Gordimer from the collection Loot and Other Stories “Seams” by Olga Tokarczuk from The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners And between the two of us, we read three novels: The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich If I Stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkens Sandwich by Catherine Newman We also discuss what we’re #currentlyreading, would like to read, and more. Reminder that the fourth quarter readalong for our Year of Reading Romance is A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy. See the show notes for details. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 218 - Playwright Spotlight with Laura Thoma 1:43:27
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1:43:27Welcome to Episode 218, featuring a Playwright Spotlight with Laura Thoma about her new Christmas play, MISS MARGARET’S BARTON COTTAGE CHRISTMAS SURPRISE, coming this December to Drama Works Theatre in Old Saybrook. We made up for lost time with a slew of Biblio Adventures, starting with a discussion with James R. Benn at the Mystic & Noank Library, after which we dashed over to see the new home of Bank Square Books in Stonington, who co-hosted the event. Next was the Windham-Campbell Literary Festival at Yale in New Haven, where we bought books curbside at the Possible Futures Bookmobile. Days later, we were thrilled to attend the grand opening of Montgomery & Taggert in Chester – Connecticut’s first Romance Bookstore! Lastly, we saw DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS at Legacy Theatre in Stony Creek. We did some reading, too, since our last episode. Short stories via the Decameron Project: “Clinical Notes” by Liz Moore “Recognition” by Victor LaValle Novels: 📕 THE PERILS OF LADY CATHERINE DE BOURGH by Claudia Gray 📗 LONG BRIGHT RIVER by Liz Moore 📘 A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens 📙SWAN SONG by Elin Hildebrand 📘 THE SECRET LIFE OF ALBERT ENTWISTLE: An Uplifting and Unforgettable Story of Love and Second Chances by Matt Cain Nonfiction: 📕 THAT LIBRARIAN: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones We also talk about upcoming Biblio Adventures, what we’re #currentlyreading, and plan to read. You can visit the show notes for everything we mention and links to good bookish stuff. Thanks for listening, and Happy Reading! https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2024/episode218…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 217 - Author Spotlight with James R. Benn 1:24:05
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1:24:05We are thrilled to welcome James R. Benn, author of the Billy Boyle World War II mystery series. The nineteenth book in the series, THE PHANTOM PATROL, is out today! It’s Winter 1944, and Boyle is on a mission that takes him from the beleaguered art world of Paris to the front lines of the Battle of the Bulge. Some of the novels we discuss in this episode include THE MOST by Jessica Anthony, THE GATHERING by C.J. Tudor, DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver, OUT AT THE PLATE: The Dot Wilkinson Story by Lynn Ames, and the third quarter readalong in our Year of Reading Romance, ENVY by Sandra Brown. Emily took a couple of older literary journals off her shelf and read two short stories: “The Miracle Years of Little Fork” by Rebecca Makkai in Ploughshares (Summer 2015 edition) and “Why Were They Throwing Bricks?” by Jenny Zhang in n+1 (Spring 2017). We also talk about what we are #currentlyreading, including two that are out now: A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens and, perfect for Banned Books Week: THAT LIBRARIAN: THE FIGHT AGAINST BOOK BANNING IN AMERICA by Amanda Jones. And two that are forthcoming: THE MIGHTY RED by Louise Erdrich (out 10/1/2024 from Harper) and JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF: A Rare Bookseller’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney (2/18/2025 from Marysue Rucci Books/Simon & Schuster). In #BiblioAdventures, Emily had a lovely visit to the New Canaan Public Library, and Chris continues to rewatch the Harry Potter movies. As always, we talk about more books and adventures than we can squeeze into this quick preview. We hope you enjoy this episode, and if you do, please leave a review on iTunes or wherever you listen or tell a friend about us. Happy Reading! Emily & Chris…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 216 - Guest Spotlight with Michael Kelleher, Director of the Windham Campbell Prizes 1:32:43
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1:32:43Emily is back in Connecticut, which means she and Chris were able to record this episode together at Book Cougars HQ. We are grateful for long-distance recording technology, but talking about books in person is much more fun! Our special guest is Michael Kelleher, Director of the Windham Campbell Prizes. Mike explains that these awards are given to writers, not for a particular book, but in four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and playwriting. This year’s festival dates are September 17-20 at Yale in New Haven, CT. If you can’t make it to Connecticut, some events, like Lydia Davis’s keynote and the awards ceremony, will be live-streamed (links in the show notes). The books and stories we read since the last episode include: Envy by Sandra Brown Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez The Truth’s We Hold: An American Story by Kamala Harris Mrs. Saint and the Defectives by Julie Lawson Timmer Big by Vashti Harrison “Disaster Stamps of Pluto” by Louise Erdrich from the collection The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Otto Penzler “Double Birthday” by Willa Cather in The Best American Short Stories of the Century edited by John Updike As always, we also talk about what we’re #CurrentlyReading, what we want to read, and Biblio Adventures. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it. Happy Listening and Reading!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 215 - The Midwest Episode 53:28
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53:28We’re calling this episode “The Midwest Episode” because we recorded it while both of us were visiting the Midwest. Emily is spending time with her daughter and granddaughter in Michigan, and Chris was visiting her mom in Chicago. Newer listeners might not realize that although we both now live in Connecticut, we are transplants from the Midwest. Emily is originally from Ohio, and Chris is from Illinois. Does any of this matter? Who knows. What does matter is that we’ve read some good books and short stories over the last two weeks. Books include HOT AIR by Marcy Dermansky, SO THIRSTY by Rachel Harrison, and SULWE by Lupita Nyong’o, illustrated by Vashti Harrison. Short stories are “The Hexter Girls” from GOODBYE PROCESS: STORIES by Mary Jones and “The Many Taste Grooves of the Chang Family” by Allison King via Levar Burton Reads. We also had some lovely #biblioadventures to libraries, bookstores, and a historic building with a literary past. Happy Listening!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 214 - Biblio Adventure Extravaganza 1:10:45
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1:10:45Welcome to Episode 214! This episode contains a lot of biblio adventuring. Emily is in Traverse City, Michigan, helping her daughter, getting to know her new granddaughter, and discovering the many excellent Little Free Libraries in the area. She also shopped at Horizon Books and has been spending time at the Traverse City Library. Meanwhile, back in New England, Chris and “Colleen from Chicago” hit the road for a four-day Biblio Adventure Extravaganza that included Melville’s Arrowhead, Wharton’s The Mount, Emily Dickinson’s family homes, The Homestead and The Evergreens, Amherst Books, and The Yiddish Book Center. The former bookstore coworkers capped it off with the annual Moby Dick marathon aboard the Charles W. Morgan at Mystic Seaport Museum. Oh, and she forgot to mention that they also went to the Odyssey Bookstore at Mount Holyoke. Phew, what a blast! We managed to finish a few books, too: Emily loved THE SNOW CHILD by Eowyn Ivey and appreciated its cold Alaska setting while reading in the heat of Michigan’s summer. She listened to the audiobook version of Ann Napolitano's first novel, WITHIN ARM’S REACH, which features six narrators, and then two Audible Original short stories by Alice Hoffman, "The Bookstore Sisters" and "The Bookstore Wedding.” Chris read MOBY DICK by Herman Melville (that’s twice this year) and a novelization about his relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne, THE WHALE: A Love Story by Mark Beauregard. She also read her first book club selection from Book Browse, THE ROSE ARBOR, by Rhys Bowen. Happy Listening!…
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1 Episode 213 - "I'll Have What You're Reading" with Booktuber Shawn Breathes Books 1:47:36
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1:47:36Welcome to Episode 213! BookTuber Shawn Breathes Books joins us to celebrate Jenny Colvin and “I’ll Have What You’re Reading,” the memorial buddy read we jointly hosted with him the last few months. We also discuss Andrea Robbin Skinner’s recent revelation about her mother, Alice Munro, and how it has impacted us as readers. Some other highlights: In #CurrentlyReading, we are each reading another chunkster for Sue Jackson’s #BigBookSummer: Emily is cooling off with THE SNOW CHILD by Eowyn Ivey, and Chris is going back in time with MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS by Antonia Fraser. We have a spoiler-free conversation about FELLOWSHIP POINT by Alice Elliot Dark which we both enjoyed. Short stories read since the last episode: “Janus” by Ann Beattie and “In the Gloaming” by Alice Elliott Dark both from the collection THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison. “A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You” by Amy Bloom from the collection A BLIND MAN COULD SEE HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU: STORIES. “Uncle Valentine” by Willa Cather in UNCLE VALENTINE AND OTHER STORIES, edited by Bernice Slote “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier from the collection THE BIRDS AND OTHER STORIES [This collection was first published in the UK in 1952 with the title, THE APPLE TREE: A SHORT NOVEL AND SEVERAL LONG STORIES] In Biblio Adventures, we recap the great day we had on Long Island, NY We took a ferry from New London, CT, to Orient Point, NY, then drove south to the Barnes and Noble in Bridgehampton to check out their new store layout. Then we headed north to Sag Harbor, where we were delighted by a John Steinbeck and Charley sculpture (“Assistant Editor” by Seward Johnson) and explored Sag Harbor Books. Other stops included Black Cat Books on Shelter Island and the Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport. Check out our vlog of the day on our YouTube channel Emily had a Couch Biblio Adventure, thanks to our listener Kathy who told us about a conversation with Percival Everett, Cord Jefferson, and Jelani Cobb via City Arts & Lectures Chris watched LETTERS TO JULIET, a rom-com inspired by the book of the same name by Eve Friedman and Ceil Jann Friedman. She also went on a quick shopping spree at McNally Jackson Books at Rockefeller Center. A reminder that our third quarter readalong is ENVY, by Sandra Brown. There are a few spots left for our Zoom discussion on Sunday, 9/15, at 7 pm ET. Email us if you’d like to join us. bookcougars at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening, and Happy Reading! https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2024/episode213…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 212 - Author Spotlight with Juliet Grames 47:58
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47:58Welcome to Episode 212! This episode is different from all of our previous shows because Emily was unexpectedly called out of town to attend her granddaughter’s birth! Baby Neena arrived three weeks early. She and her mom, Rachel, are doing great. And yes, Emily has already read a book to her, SPOT GOES TO THE FARM, by Eric Hill. Instead of recording our regular segments, we share reminders about our current buddy read of FELLOWSHIP POINT by Alice Elliott Dark, provide the date – 9/15 – for our Zoom discussion of ENVY by Sandra Brown (our third quarter readalong pick in our Year of Reading Romance), announce a BookTube vlog of our recent Biblio Adventure to Long Island, and then jump into our conversation with Juliet Grames. Juliet’s new novel, THE LOST BOY OF SANTA CHIONIA, is a fantastic mystery that has a strong sense of place and characters that leap off the page. We also created a video of our pre-interview chat with Juliet that was too fun and interesting not to share. It has info not discussed in the interview. The link is below if you’d like to watch it. We hope you enjoy this episode. We’ll be back to our regular programming on episode 213. Until then, we wish you lots of Happy Reading! https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2024/episode212 Long Island Biblio Adventure video https://youtu.be/vfO1JPFEBks Pre-interview video chat with Juliet https://youtu.be/MGnKlJiWL9M…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 211 - Deep Dive Into Summer Reading 1:22:47
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1:22:47We dove into summer with our first big Biblio Adventure of the season! It involved art by kids inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Hope is the thing with feathers,” lobster, a little free library, and Bank Square Books. A great day! In other Biblio Adventures, Emily went to see Ann Leary talk about her new essay collection, I’VE TRIED BEING NICE, at R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT. She also found an adorable #LFL in a tree stump! Chris attended a virtual panel discussion of NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION by the North Central Connecticut Chapter of The International Thomas Merton Society. In the Just Read segment, the books we talk about include: – PEARCE OYSTERS by Joselyn Takacs – THE GUNCLE by Steven Rowley – ARSENIC AND ADOBO by Mia P. Manansala – LOVE AND HOT CHICKEN: A Delicious Southern Novel by Mary Liza Hartong – DIVE! The Story of Breathing Underwater by Chris Gall Three reference books make brief but important appearances: THE READERS’ ADVISORY GUIDE TO ROMANCE by Robin Bradford and both the APA and MLA style guides. Short stories: – “Idle Hands” from the collection CRAFT: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima – “Why Won’t You Die?” by Jessica P. Pryde from the collection SOMEPLACE GENEROUS: An Inclusive Romance Anthology edited by Elaina Ellis and Amber Flame. – “Her Boss” by Willa Cather from the collection UNCLE VALENTINE AND OTHER STORIES: Willa Cather’s Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929 edited by Bernice Slote. We also talk about what we’re currently reading, want to read, and upcoming #biblioadventures. Oh, and we announce our THIRD QUARTER READALONG PICK for our Year of Reading Romance! We hope you enjoy the episode and if so, please consider leaving a review wherever you listen, as it really does help others find us. Happy Listening & Happy Reading! https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2024/episode211…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 210 - Getting Cozy with Our Mystery Man, John Valeri 1:45:19
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1:45:19Welcome to Episode 210, where we have the pleasure of welcoming back Our Mystery Man, John Valeri! For those of you who are new to the Book Cougars, John is a frequent guest. He’s a reader, professional reviewer, and interviewer extraordinaire (check out his BookTube channel, CENTRAL BOOKING). John joins us to not only recommend some hot new mystery/thrillers but also to share insights on the guiding principles of cozy mysteries, making this a conversation you won't want to miss! This episode is packed with a diverse range of books. We share our thoughts on THE AWAKENING: THE DRAGON HEART LEGACY, BOOK ONE by Nora Roberts, our second quarter readalong pick in our year of reading romance. We also delve into other intriguing reads such as THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS by Laurie Frankel, THE MYSTERY GUEST by Nita Prose, and LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL THE HAUNTED PLACES by Claire Kann. Emily also read two captivating short stories: “Lucky Girls” by Nell Freudenberger from LUCKY GIRLS: STORIES and “That of Which We Cannot Speak” by Alethea Black from I KNEW YOU’D BE LOVELY: STORIES. In Biblio Adventures, we recap an exciting Biblio Adventure to Hartford, CT, where we had the privilege of seeing Michael Harriot (BLACK AF HISTORY: THE UN-WHITEWASHED STORY OF AMERICA) in conversation with Percival Everett about his new novel, JAMES, thanks to the Mark Twain House. Chris attended CULTIVATING VOICES: LIVE POETRY hosted by Sandra Yannone via Facebook. Emily binged some PRESUMED INNOCENT movie/series adaptations. At the Book Barn in Niantic, CT, she found a copy of FELLOWSHIP POINT (which we’re both reading this summer) and a fantastic gift for Chris. Of course, we also talk about what we’re currently reading, want to read, and upcoming #biblioadventures. We hope you enjoy the episode and if so, please consider leaving a review wherever you listen, as it really does help others find us. Happy Listening & Happy Reading! https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2024/episode210…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 209 - Author Spotlight with Sara Paretsky 1:36:43
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1:36:43Welcome to Episode 209! We were thrilled and honored to talk with New York Times bestselling author, mystery legend, and social justice advocate Sara Paretsky. We talk with Sara about her newly published novel, PAY DIRT, the 22nd installment in her V.I. Warshawski series, founding Sisters in Crime, and so much more. Don’t miss our conversation at the end of the episode. We pay tribute to the late Canadian author Alice Munro by reading and discussing her story, “Train.” We try to avoid spoilers in our discussion. The story is available online at Harper’s Magazine. Emily also read “From Outside I Could See” and “The Next Husband Game” from the collection THE GOODBYE PROCESS by Mary Jones (release date 7/30/2024) and “Origin Story” from the ILL-FITTING SKIN by Shannon Robinson. Chris read “Ardessa” by Willa Cather. We also finished a few novels: –PAY DIRT by Sara Paretsky –THE HOUSE THAT HORROR BUILT by Christina Henry –THE AWAKENING by Nora Roberts Biblio Adventures include: – Our Mystery Man, John Valeri, in conversation with author Tom Straw about his new mystery/thriller, THE ACCIDENTAL JOE: THE TOP-SECRET LIFE OF A CELEBRITY CHEF, at R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT – A panel event, “On Writing: A Panel Discussion with Authors on Their Craft,” hosted by Bank Square Books and the Westerly Library in Westerly, RI – A poetry reading by Sandra Yannone from her new collection, THE GLASS STUDIO, at the Acton Public Library in Old Saybrook, CT We also talk about what we’re currently reading, hope to read, upcoming Biblio Adventures, and a bunch of other bookish things. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it. Happy Reading!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 208 - Author Spotlight with Sara B. Franklin 1:33:17
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1:33:17Welcome to Episode 208, which features a fantastic author spotlight with Sara B. Franklin. Her new biography, THE EDITOR: HOW PUBLISHING LEGEND JUDITH JONES SHAPED CULTURE IN AMERICA, is a must-read. It is not hyperbole to say that everyone reading and eating today has been touched by Judith Jones’s work, and Franklin’s writing is a delight to read. We had a great Biblio Adventure to Brooklyn with Aunt Ellen. Our goal of making it to THE RIPPED BODICE Bookstore has been achieved, and it was worth the wait! Many of our listeners were avid followers of or found us through Jenny Colvin’s podcast, READING ENVY: I’ll have what you’re reading. Jenny passed away in May of 2022. We miss her, and know that many of you do, too. To honor her memory, we are joining our BookTube friend SHAWN BREATHES BOOKS (formerly Shawn the Book Maniac) and doing something we think Jenny would love – reading books together! We are each choosing one book from Jenny’s Goodreads lists. The plan is to read the book by July 1st, Jenny’s birthday. We would love for you to join us by reading along with one of our selections or choosing a book of your own. We have a conversation thread on our Goodreads page, and we’ve created the hashtag #illhavewhatyourereading to use on social media. Let's keep Jenny's love for books alive in our hearts and our reading. In other reading news, you might remember from our last episode that Emily expressed her desire to read Monica Wood’s THE ONE-IN-A-MILLION BOY. And guess what? It magically appeared in one of her beloved Little Free Libraries. Isn’t it a delightful feeling when such serendipitous moments occur? Emily loved the novel. She also read two short stories, “Ernie’s Ark” by Monica Wood from the collection ERNIE’S ARK: THE ABBOTT FALLS STORIES and “Chapter Two” by Antonya Nelson in BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2013, edited by Elizabeth Strout. She savored THE PARIS NOVEL by Ruth Reichl, while Chris unexpectedly found herself engrossed in another book by Cal Newport, DEEP WORK: RULES FOR FOCUSED SUCCESS IN A DISTRACTED WORLD. Both Chris and Emily have been captivated by JAMES by Percival Everett, especially the audiobook narrated by Dominic Hoffman. Everett’s narrative is a brilliant reinterpretation and expansion of THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, and Hoffman’s performance is simply outstanding. Chris has completed her second reading of MOBY-DICK, an endeavor that was as equally challenging and rewarding as her first encounter with the book. As always, we also talk about what we’re currently reading and hoping to read soon. Happy Listening and Happy Reading! Emily and Chris…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 207 - Spotlight with Author & Rare Book Dealer Rebecca Romney 1:46:16
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1:46:16Welcome to Episode 207. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to talk with rare book dealer and author Rebecca Romney. Her first book was PRINTER’S ERROR: Irreverent Stories from Book History, and she made a significant contribution to the world of romance fiction with her collection, THE ROMANCE NOVEL IN ENGLISH: A Rare Book Survey, 1769-1999. You won’t want to miss our conversation with Rebecca at the end of the episode. Jane Austen fans will be particularly intrigued to hear about her current project! We have had some genuinely delightful Biblio Adventures since the last episode. Two were joint jaunts: seeing Caroline Leavitt discuss her new novel, DAYS OF WONDER, at R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT, and watching SHIRLEY, a trippy movie about a fictionalized Shirley Jackson based on the novel of the same name by Susan Scarf Merrell. Emily and Aunt Ellen visited Yu and Me Books in NYC’s Chinatown. We also each attended different virtual events through the North Haven Public Library. Chris attended “A Literary Examination of Power and Art” with Xochitl Gonzalez, discussing her books ANITA DE MONTE LAUGHS LAST and OLGA DIES DREAMING. Emily attended “The Foods, People, and Innovations That Feed Us – A Sweeping History of Food and Culture” with Smithsonian Curator Paula J. Johnson, discussing the book SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN TABLE. See the episode show notes for links to recordings of both events. In our reading lives, we finished a variety of books and stories. BLESS YOUR HEART (cozy horror) by Lindy Ryan, DIGITAL MINIMALISM (self-help/productivity) by Cal Newport, and JAMES (literary fiction) by Percival Everett (the audiobook is fantastic!), THE EDITOR: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America (biography) by Sara B. Franklin, PRIDE AND PRESTON LIN (romance) by Christina Hwang Dudley, HOW TO READ A BOOK (literary fiction/romance) by Monica Wood, and two short stories: “Vampires in the Lemon Grove” from the collection VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE: And Other Stories by Karen Russell and “The Bookeeper’s Wife” by Willa Cather. As always, we also talk about what we’re reading and hoping to read. We are super excited about an upcoming Biblio Adventure with Aunt Ellen to The Ripped Bodice bookstore in Brooklyn. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it. Happy Listening and Happy Reading! Emily & Chris https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2024/episode207…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 206 - Author Spotlight with Rebecca Rego Barry 1:37:21
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1:37:21Welcome to Episode 206 where we have a fantastic conversation with Rebecca Rego Barry, author of THE VANISHING OF CAROLYN WELLS: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author. One reviewer referred to Barry’s book as a “process biography.” It is true, Barry takes you along on her investigation into the life of Carolyn Wells who, it turns out, wrote more than mysteries. She wrote poetry, plays, screenplays, puzzles, children's books, and a YA series. Wells was also a serious book collector in a time when that pursuit was considered the domain of men. With Mother’s Day just around the corner, this biography would make a great gift. Along with our friend Kate, we did a buddy read of Carson McCullers’ novella, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE. This was part of our Biblio Adventure to Nyack, NY where McCuller’s lived for the last 30 years of her life (which wasn’t a very long long life: she died at 50, so she actually lived most of her life in Nyack). We explored the grounds of her home (it is not a public author home at this time) and paid our respects at the Oak Hill Cemetery where Carson is buried next to her mother. We visited Big Red Books, a Little Free Library, Pickwick Books, and the gorgeous Nyack Public Library. (Check out our social media for some pics.) We also recap our Biblio Adventure to NYC which was metamorphosed by an earthquake in New Jersey that was felt throughout the Northeast. As always, we talk about what we’ve read, are reading, and want to read. Highlights include PIGLET by Lottie Hazell, THE STOLEN CHILD by Ann Hood (out 5/7), MOBY DICK by Herman Melville, HOW TO READ by Monica Wood (out 5/7), SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY by Edgar Lee Masters, BLESS YOUR HEART by Lindy Ryan, THE EDITOR: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America by Sara B. Franklin (out 5/28), and two short stories: “Touchless Bidet” by Omar El Akkad from the collection SMALL ODYSSEYS: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories edited by Hannah Tinti and “A Simple Question” from the collection OLD CRIMES: And Other Stories by Jill McCorkle. If you’ve been enjoying our podcast, please share it with a friend and consider leaving a review on iTunes or whatever app you use to listen. Thanks for listening, and Happy Reading! Chris & Emily…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 205 - Author Spotlight with Yulin Kuang 1:35:11
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1:35:11Welcome to Episode 205! April is National Poetry Month and we are here for it. Emily is currently reading YOU ARE HERE: Poetry in the Natural World, a new anthology edited by Ada Limón, and Chris is reading BOATS FOR WOMEN by Sandra Yannone. Since our last episode, Chris finished listening to WAKE UP WITH PURPOSE! What I’ve Learned in my First Hundred Years by Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt. She also enjoyed the first issue of DEPROG by Tina Horn, Gab Contreras, Dani Strips, and Lisa Sterle, and dipped into RIVER EAST, RIVER WEST by Aube Rey Lescure (long listed for the Women’s Prize). Emily read two suspense thrillers: INTIMACIES by Katie Kitamura and WHEN THE CICADAS CRY by Caroline Cleveland, and then went to a happier place with A BAKER’S YEAR: Twelve Months of Baking and Living the Simple Life at the Smoke Signals Bakery by Tara Jensen. As always we talk about what we’re reading, what we want to read, and Biblio Adventures we’ve been on, like seeing Rachel Slade discuss her new book MAKING IT IN AMERICA: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. and How It Got That Way, at R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT. Happy Listening & Happy Reading!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 204 - Author Spotlight with Allison Pataki 1:24:00
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1:24:00We begin Episode 204 with the announcement of our second quarter readalong in our year of reading romance and end with a delightful conversation with author Allison Pataki about her fabulous new novel, FINDING MARGARET FULLER. Since our last episode, Emily has continued with her intention of reading a short story every Monday. She read “Lot” by Bryan Washington from the story collection LOT: Stories and “Postcards from Heaven” from REUNION BEACH: Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank. Chris also read a short story, “Consequences” by Willa Cather from the story collection UNCLE VALENTINE AND OTHER STORIES. We each read an excellent novel – we’re talking Top 10 contenders! Emily read THE FROZEN RIVERr by Ariel Lawhon and Chris finished WE GOT THE BEAT by Jenna Miller. In Biblio Adventures, Chris has rekindled a childhood fascination with Mary Stuart (aka Mary I of Scotland or Mary, Queen of Scots). She watched two movies: Mary, Queen of Scots starring Vanessa Redgrave, and Mary Queen of Scots starring Saoirse Ronan based on John Guy's biography QUEEN OF SCOTS: The True Life of Mary Stuart. She plans to read Antonia Fraser’s biography, Mary, Queen of Scots for Big Book Summer. Emily took a trip to Wilmington, NC where she tried unsuccessfully to shop at Papercuts Bookshop because it was closed for inventory. She did find two Little Free Libraries where she picked up THIRTEEN MOONS by Charles Frazier, INTIMACIES by Katie Kitamura, and EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Back in CT, Emily went to the North Haven public library where she purchased LOTt: Stories by Bryan Washington and WHO’S IRISH?: Stories by Gish Jen from the Friends of the Library sale, and attended a presentation with Linda Civitello author of BAKING POWDER WARS: The Cutthroat Food Fight That Revolutionized Cooking.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 203 - Romance Readalong with INDIGO by Beverly Jenkins 1:12:27
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1:12:27Welcome to Episode 203! Some highlights of this episode: Emily dives into the pages of THE FROZEN RIVER by Ariel Lawhon and the delicious world of baking with THE COOKIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE cookbook by Nancy Silverton and Carolynn Carreno. Meanwhile, Chris is back in high school with Jenna Miller's new sapphic YA romance, WE GOT THE BEAT. Emily devoured Elle Cosimano's new release, FINLAY DONOVAN ROLLS THE DICE, and was deeply moved by Suleika Jaouad's memoir BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS. She also read three short stories: "Itinerary" by Lucia Berlin in EVENING IN PARADISE and "Los Angeles" and "Office Hours" by Ling Ma in BLISS MONTAGE: Stories. Chris highly recommends the new and first biography of a once hugely popular woman writer, THE VANISHING OF CAROLYN WELLS by Rebecca Rego Barry. She also revisited ETHAN FROME before reading SUMMER by Edith Wharton. We also discuss INDIGO by Beverly Jenkins, our first-quarter readalong pick. A question for those of you who read it: do you think Hester’s name could be a nod to Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter? In Biblio Adventures, Chris explored The Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Over On Ingredient One, Emily sat down with Louise Miller, author of THE CITY BAKER’S GUIDE TO COUNTRY LIVING AND THE LATE BLOOMER’S CLUB.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 202 - Author & Editor Spotlight with Jessica Pryde 1:23:57
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1:23:57Welcome to Episode 202 of the Book Cougars, featuring an Author and Editor Spotlight with Jessica Pryde. Chris and Emily are enjoying and learning from Jess’s ground-breaking anthology, BLACK LOVE MATTERS: REAL TALK ON ROMANCE, BEING SEEN, AND HAPPILY EVER AFTERS. Thanks to listener Katie for putting this book on our radar. We’re both currently immersed in audiobooks. – Chris is reading a new biography, THE VANISHING OF CAROLYN WELLS by Rebecca Rego Barry (available now from Vibrance Press and narrated by Laura Jennings). – Emily is reading a memoir, BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS: A MEMOIR OF LIFE INTERRUPTED, by Suleika Jaouad (out 3/1 from Penguin Random House Audio and read by the author). And we are both #currentlyreading INDIGO by Beverly Jenkins, the first book in our year of Reading Romance. Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Catherine Oni, whose new romance novel, IF HER LOVE WAS ENOUGH, is available now. Meet Catherine at Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT, on Saturday, March 2nd, from 1-3 pm ET. As always, we talk about what we’ve read, what we want to read, and Biblio Adventures. Thanks for listening, and Happy Reading! https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2024/episode202…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 201 - A Great Last Night with Luanne Rice 1:43:21
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1:43:21Welcome to Episode 201 featuring an Author Spotlight with LUANNE RICE recorded at the beautiful and welcoming Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library in Old Lyme, CT. Luanne’s new novel, LAST NIGHT, is out now. You’ve heard us rave about it in recent episodes and we do our best to keep our conversation with Luanne spoiler free. Some highlights of this episode: After recording with Luanne, we headed to Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT to attend her book launch. She was in conversation with new-to-us author, VANESSA LILLIE. It was a great event and the reception afterwards at The Captain Daniel Packer Inne was filled with love, good conversation, and delicious food. Later that night we both started Vanessa’s new thriller, BLOOD SISTERS. We binged it and highly recommend you check it out. Other books and stories we’ve recently read include THE SICILIAN INHERITANCE by Jo Piazza (out 4/2/2024) and RIVER OF THE GODS: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard. Emily read two short stories:“The Irish Wedding” from the story collection THE SOUVENIR MUSEUM by Elizabeth McCracken and “Such Fun” from the story collection LAST NIGHT by James Salter. Chris also declared that she’s “finished” reading Emily Wilson’s new translation of THE ILIAD by Homer. In Biblio Adventures, Emily went to Charter Books in Newport, RI for the book launch of FLOAT UP, SING DOWN by Laird Hunt. Chris acquired a few more IKEA bookcases and immediately started filling them up with purchases from Barnes & Noble and Blackwell’s. Thanks to the sponsor of this episode, Anthony Ausiello, whose new novel, BROOKLYN ‘76, comes out on 2/20/2024. Thanks for listening, and Happy Reading! https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2024/episode201…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 200 - Two Books We Can't Wait for You to Read (times 18!) 1:40:09
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1:40:09Thank you for listening over the years and helping us reach our 200th episode! To celebrate this milestone, we invited special guests to call the Book Cougars hotline and recommend two forthcoming books they can’t wait for all of us to read. This idea was inspired by Ann Kingman and Michael Kindness, hosts of the podcast Books on the Nightstand, who had a segment called “Two Books We Can’t Wait for You to Read.” Chris and Emily met through Books on the Nightstand; their sunset inspired our sunrise. As an homage, we were thrilled to have Ann and Michael contribute to the segment along with other guests that have been featured on the podcast over the past seven years including Amy Tector, Andrea Wang, Bianca Marais, Caroline Leavitt, Davina from BookBrowse, Fiona Davis, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Jennifer Savran Kelly, Jenna Miller, Rachel Barenbaum, Kelcey Ervick, Luanne Rice, Jung Yun, and our Mystery Man – John Valeri. We asked our author friends to shout out their new or forthcoming books. Your TBR List just might explode! #SorryNotSorry And that’s not the only exciting segment in this episode. We crunched the numbers and share our Listener Top Ten Reads of 2023. They are: Tom Lake – Ann Patchett Hello Beautiful – Ann Napolitano Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver The Covenant of Water – Abraham Verghese Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store – James McBride Yellowface – R.F. Kuang The Reading List – Sara Nisha Adams Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt The Fraud – Zadie Smith Unlikely Animals – Annie Hartnett Signal Fires – Dani Shapiro Absolution – Alice McDermott The Postcard – Anne Berest As always, we share what we’re currently reading, what we’ve read, and Biblio Adventures we’ve been on. Emily visited White River Books and the Carbondale Public Library in Colorado. She also attended Aspen Words featuring Ann Patchett in conversation with Elizabeth McCracken. Chris paid her respects to the Barnes and Noble closing in Naperville, Illinois (they’re opening a new format store in nearby Oswego), and visited one of her favorite used bookstores, The Frugal Muse in Darien. She also attended Biography International Organization’s Biography Lab, an online forum about the craft. If you’re in the Connecticut area, join us on Friday, February 2nd at 5:30 pm ET at Bank Square Books for the launch of Luanne Rice’s new book Last Night. Then on Sunday, February 11th at 5 pm ET, Chris’s wife Laura Thoma will be reading from her work-in-progress as part of the Chester Arts & Literary Weekend. Reminder: our first quarter readalong book is Indigo by Beverly Jenkins. All the books we mention in this episode are in the show notes at https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2024/episode200. Thanks again for listening, and Happy Reading! Chris & Emily…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 199 - Our 2024 Reading Intentions 1:25:55
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1:25:55Welcome to Episode 199! We have read A LOT since our last regularly recorded episode in December, so be prepared! In our “Just Read” segment, we talk about books by Lois Hamill, Hisashi Kashiwai, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, Josie Silver, James R. Benn, Alice Hoffman, Kate Jacobs, Tiago Forte, Julie Alvarez, Luanne Rice, Elizabeth Acevedo, Ann Hood, and Abraham Verghese. Phew! Spot any of your favorite authors in that list? The funny thing is, we are also currently reading a bunch of books. Go figure! We also have some fun Biblio Adventures to tell you about. Chris went to the New Bedford Whaling Museum for part of their 2024 Moby-Dick Marathon and then had a lovely browse through the New Bedford Free Library. Emily attended Katherine May’s Book Club with special guest Diane Henry, author of the cookbook Roast Figs Sugar Snow. As always, there is a lot more in the episode than we include in our blurb. But we also want to remind you that our first quarter readalong for our year of reading romance is Indigo by Beverly Jenkins. We hope you’ll join us. Happy Listening & Happy Reading!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 198 - Top Ten Reads of 2023 with BookTuber Russell Gray of Ink and Paper Blog 1:49:51
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1:49:51Welcome to our fourth annual Top Ten Reads of the Year episode with BookTuber Russell Gray of Ink and Paper Blog! We each talk about our top ten reads of 2023. Some books were published in 2023, and others are a bit older, but they all stirred our hearts and minds and we want to sing their praises. Russell, Emily, and Chris all have such different reading tastes that there is sure to be at least one book in this bunch of 30+ (some people cheated) that you will want to add to your TBR list. We don’t know one another’s lists beforehand, so this is always an exciting episode for us. We also share some of our favorite Biblio Adventures and three books each that we are looking forward to in 2024. And we announce the first quarter pick for our 2024 Readalong theme, ROMANCE! Top Ten Lists are not just about us – we would love to know what your top 10 reads of 2023 were! If you’d like to share, please add them to this handy Google form: https://bit.ly/BookCougarsListenerTopTenBooksof2023. We’ll share Listener Top Ten Reads of 2023 in January.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 197 - Author Spotlight with Pip Williams 1:42:16
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1:42:16Welcome to our last episode of the year! We reflect on our 2023 reading intentions, announce our 2024 readalong theme, and have a delightful conversation with Australian author Pip Williams to cap off our year of reading Books About Books. Some of the books we just read & discuss: – THE HELSINKI AFFAIR by Anna Pitoniak – THE QUEEN OF DIRT ISLAND by Donal Ryan – UNNATURAL DEATH by Patricia Cornwell – THE MAID by Nita Prose – THE BOOKBINDER by Pip Williams In Biblio Adventures, we had a wonderful joint jaunt to Glastonbury, CT where we shopped at River Bend Bookshop’s new location and then walked wide-eyed through the gorgeously renovated Welles-Turner Memorial Library. Emily visited her daughter in Michigan and returned to Bay Books in Suttons Bay where she purchased THE RECIPE BOX by Viola Shipman. Chris attended two virtual events: Robert Darnton’s talk at the Boston Athenaeum about his new book, THE REVOLUTIONARY TEMPER: PARIS, 1748-1790, and Alan B. Farmer’s lecture on “Lost Books: The Dark Matter of the Early Modern English Book Trade” at the Harry Ransom Center. Thank you all for a fantastic year of books, authors, libraries, bookstores, and, in a few cases, mushrooms and mosquitos. Happy Reading!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 196 - Trying Not To Go Viral 1:10:44
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1:10:44Once again, we are grateful for the miracle of modern technology that allowed us to record this episode from two locations. Chris was recovering from the flu and, to keep Emily healthy, we recorded over Zoom. In our Just Read segment, we talk about nine very different books in a variety of genres: epic poetry, memoir, biography, and novels, including a graphic novel. Both Cougars finished THE BOOKBINDER by Pip Williams, our last readalong in our year of reading Books About Books. Chris finally finished THE PARADISO by Dante Alighieri and is happy to have THE DIVINE COMEDY under her belt. She also finished Megan Marshall’s fascinating biography, The PEABODY SISTERS: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism. Taking a break from historically-minded reading, she listened to Ruha Benjamin’s award-winning book, VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want. Emily dove into history and read THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester. Then she switched things up with a middle-grade graphic novel, SEA CHANGE by Frank Viva. She read two books that look at grief through very different windows: Sloan Crosley’s memoir about the death of her best friend, GRIEF IS FOR PEOPLE, and a new inspirational rom-com by Emma Grey, THE LAST LOVE NOTE. As always, we also discuss what we’re currently reading, what we look forward to reading, and Biblio Adventures. We hope you enjoy this episode, and we wish you lots of Happy Reading! Listen here https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2023/episode196 or wherever you get your podcasts.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 195 - Hooked by Nonfiction November & 2023 Holiday Gift Ideas 1:01:15
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1:01:15Welcome to our 8th Annual Bookish Holiday Gifts episode! The first time we recommended holiday gift ideas was on Episode 2, way back in December 2016. Listeners enjoyed it so much that we’ve done it every year since. We hope you enjoy our ideas this year. Links to items discussed are in the show notes. We would like to note that none of our suggestions are ads or affiliates. They are things we have used or, in the case of custom bobbleheads, something we would like to try! #NonfictionNovember hooked us this year and we are currently reading or have read: Big Heart Little Stove: Bringing Home Meals & Moments from the Lost Kitchen by Erin French The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy In Biblio Adventures, Emily attended some in-person author events. She went to Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT to see Sigrid Nunez discuss her newest novel, The Vulnerables, with Willard Spiegelman whose most recent book is Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt. She also saw Michael Cunningham discuss his new novel, Day, with Amy Bloom at R.J. Julia in Madison, CT. Chris had a lovely visit to Mystic Seaport Museum where she wandered aboard the last wooden whaleship in the world, The Charles W. Morgan, an experience that never gets old! She’s considering a re-read of Moby Dick in 2024. Reminder: our 4th quarter readalong discussion of The Bookbinder by Pip Williams is Sunday, December 3rd at 7 pm (ET). Email us if you’d like to participate in the Zoom discussion. Listen here – https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2023/episode195 – or wherever you get your podcasts. Happy Listening and Happy Reading!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 194 - Author Spotlight with Sarah MacLean 1:15:32
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1:15:32Episode 194 is bookended by Poetry and Romance. We begin with the poem “Only Love” by James Crews from the poetry collection, THE PATH TO KINDNESS: Poems of Connection and Joy. We end with an Author Spotlight with Sarah MacLean. Sarah is a powerhouse reader, advocate, and writer of romance fiction. Her new release is KNOCKOUT, book three in her Hell’s Belles series. We had a great time talking with Sarah about romance cover art, how she got into writing romance, and the un-patriarchal idea that we all deserve love and happy endings. It was both fun and enlightening for us, and we think you’ll enjoy our conversation whether or not you are a romance reader. In between, we talk about a bunch of books we’re currently reading – THE ART OF LIBROMANCY by Josh Cook, FAMILY LORE by Elizabeth Acevedo, and HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE VAMPIRE by Kerrelyn Sparks – and those we have finished reading like THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS by Pip Williams, THE GOLDEN GATE by Amy Chua, and COUNTRY PLACE by Ann Petry which we both read for the Vintage Book Club. We also recap some Couch Biblio Adventures we’ve enjoyed such as SLOW HORSES, RENFIELD, and KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON. We hope you are finding some peace, comfort, and stimulation through your reading. Happy Reading! Chris & Emily…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 193 - Book Club Fundamentals with Davina Morgan-Witts Founder & Publisher of BookBrowse 1:02:26
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1:02:26Chris and Emily were thrilled to sit down and talk with Davina Morgan-Witts, the Founder and Publisher of BookBrowse. Founded in 1998, BookBrowse is one of the earliest independent online book resources. Davina and her team of editors and reviewers are committed to being “Your guide to exceptional books.” If you are not yet familiar with BookBrowse, check it out. It is a helpful and fun resource for solo readers and book clubs. Since our last episode, Emily was on the road again and visited two public libraries in Maine. The Curtis Library in Brunswick had a Robert McCloskey exhibit featuring his books Blueberries for Sal, Time of Wonder, One Morning in Maine, Burt Dow Deep-Water Man, and Make Way for Ducklings. She also browsed the Wiscasset Public Library, which claims to be “the oldest continuous circulation library in the country.” (We understand such claims are dicey in the library world and so encourage you to research the matter for your own biblio-edification if you so desire.) Meanwhile, back in Connecticut, Chris enjoyed several Couch Biblio Adventures. She watched Eye of the Needle via Kanopy, a 1981 adaptation of Ken Follett’s novel of the same name; the first episode of Lessons in Chemistry an Apple TV series based on the novel by Bonnie Garmus; and The Fall of the House of Usher, Mike Flanagan’s new horror mini-series on Amazon Prime that’s an homage to several of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tales. And we have been reading some great books! Emily is currently reading C. Pam Zhang’s LAND OF MILK AND HONEY, a dystopian novel, while Chris is following Dante’s rise to the Light of God’s Divine Love via THE PARADISO. Some of the books we discuss include COUNTRY PLACE by Ann Petry, AFTERLIFE by Julia Alvarez, MY ROOMMATE IS A VAMPIRE by Jenna Levine, THE QUICKENING by Elizabeth Rush, THE PURGATORIO by Dante Alighieri, AND THE GOTH HOUSE EXPERIMENT by SJ Sindu. We hope you enjoy this episode. As always, if you have any questions or comments, find us on social media or email us at bookcougars@gmail.com. Happy Reading! Chris & Emily…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 192 - Author Spotlight with Fancy Feast 1:35:45
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1:35:45Author Spotlight: Chris and Emily have a great time talking with Fancy Feast about her new (and debut) essay collection, NAKED: ON SEX, WORK, AND OTHER BURLESQUES. We bid adieu to Scarlet Summer with a recap of our Biblio Adventure to Boston where we visited sites related to Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first stop was the land upon which Brook Farm operated in West Roxbury, MA where we hiked to the crumbling foundation of Margaret Fuller’s cottage. In Boston’s historic district, we had lunch at Chipotle, the current tenant of the Old Corner Bookstore, saw Elizebeth Pain’s headstone in King’s Chapel Burial Ground, and took a tour of the Boston Athenaeum. We ended the day with a stroll down Pinckney Street, a block where, at different times, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and the Thoreaus all lived and where Elizabeth Peabody held her kindergarten (the first in America). While on vacation at the Cape, Emily visited Herridge Bookstore, the Provincetown Bookshop, Tim’s Used Books, the Provincetown Public Library, and the Eldredge Public Library. She also read WELLNESS by Nathan Hill and NAKED by Fancy Feast. Chris was a guest on Shawn the Book Maniac’s BookTube channel where she shows and talks about two bookmarks from her childhood (which were made in Emily’s hometown!). She got a lot of reading in and finished ADVERSITY FOR SALE by Jay Jeezy Jenkins, MONSTERS: A FANS DILEMMA by Clair Dederer (which she buddy read with BookTuber Britta of The Second Shelf), THE SEPTEMBER HOUSE by Carissa Orlando, and two kids’s books: WHEN A PET DIES by Fred Rogers and STAIRWAY TO DOOM by Robert Quackenbush. Reminder that our 4th Quarter Readalong is THE BOOKBINDER by Pip Williams. Email us (bookcougars@gmail.com) if you’d like to join our Zoom discussion on Sunday, December 3rd at 7 p.m. ET.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 191 - Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough with Poet Shuly Cawood 1:45:36
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1:45:36Chris and Emily are happy to welcome back author SHULY CAWOOD to talk about her new poetry collection, SOMETHING SO GOOD IT CAN NEVER BE ENOUGH. Shuly reads a poem and talks about her poetic process, and we ask her to discuss our favorite(s) in the collection. We enjoy Shuly’s poetry in part because it is so accessible. Biblio Adventures are always fun and interesting, and we went on one that opened up a huge new-to-us genre, ROMANCE! We recap a conference we attended at Yale, Popular Romance Fiction: The Literature of Hope. Chris watched the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Hearing on Book Bans. We also had a great day in NYC with Aunt Ellen visiting The New York Society Library, The Corner Bookstore, and Kitchen Arts and Letters. Oysters were also involved. Some of the books we’ve read since the last episode include (not surprisingly) two romance novels. Chris read CLEAT CUTE by Meryl Wilsner and Emily read the first in the Hell’s Belles series by Sarah MacNeal, BOMBSHELL. Chris finished THE INFERNO by Dante. Emily goes out on a limb and declares that PROPERTIES OF THIRST by Marianne Wiggins might land on her top 10 list this year. She also finished THIN PLACES by Kerri Ní Dochartaigh and loved ZORRIE by Laird Hunt which was one of our BookTube buddy Russell of Ink and Paper Blog’s favorites in 2021. So many books! And we are thrilled about it. And also happy that it is Autumn, one of our favorite seasons.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 190 - Haunted by Hawthorne & The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman 1:14:34
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1:14:34It’s another 10th episode which means we’re hosting a giveaway for newsletter subscribers! One lucky winner will receive a copy of DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy Maclean and THE DANTE CLUB by Matthew Pearl. To be entered to win, head to www.bookcougars.com/subscriber to join our newsletter; the winner will be chosen on September 15th. In between some fantastic Biblio Adventures to Salem, MA, and a Couch Biblio Adventure where we watched the 1934 adaptation of THE SCARLET LETTER, we managed to do some reading. We both read Alice Hoffman’s new novel (and the book that sparked Scarlet Summer), THE INVISIBLE HOUR. Emily devoured LARK ASCENDING by Silas House and Chris took a deep dive into Nathaniel with Brenda Wineapple’s biography, HAWTHORNE: A LIFE. Chris is currently listening to ADVERSITY FOR SALE by Jay Jeezy Jenkins and Emily is listening to THIN PLACES by Kerri Ní Dochartaigh. Scarlet Summer is winding down, but we still have one more Hawthorne-themed Biblio Adventure coming up: on Thursday, 9/21 we are heading to Boston. See you there?…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 189 - Author Spotlight with Laurie Lico Albanese 1:26:12
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1:26:12The Book Cougars are thrilled to welcome Laurie Lico Albanese, author of HESTER, our second readalong for Scarlet Summer. Laurie dishes on Hawthorne, shares her inspiration for Isobel, and talks about her writing process. Don’t miss our Author Spotlight with Laurie at the end of the episode. Other highlights include: In our “Just Read” segment we talk about DEER SEASON by Erin Flanagan, THE VERY SECRET SOCIETY OF IRREGULAR WITCHES by Sangu Mandanna, THE RED GARDEN by Alice Hoffman, THE WITCHES OF MOONSHYNE MANOR by Bianca Marais, and two short stories: “The Profile” by Willa Cather and “The Wehrwolf” by Alma Katsu. We recap our two-day Biblio Adventure to the Berkshires that included finding Hawthorne’s Little Red Cottage, a tour of The Mount, a visit with librarian Nynke Dorhout, an author event with Stacy Schiff in conversation with André Bernard, and a truncated hike up Monument Mountain. In Upcoming Jaunts, we’re heading to Salem, Massachusetts to visit The House of the Seven Gables and other Hawthorne historic sites on Wednesday, 8/30. We’re also planning on attending a conference on our home turf here in New Haven, Popular Romance Fiction: The Literature of Hope at Yale University on September 8-9th. We hope you enjoy the episode!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 188 - Author Spotlight with Erin Flanagan and Katrina Kittle 1:22:24
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1:22:24We had a great time talking with Erin Flanagan and Katrina Kittle. Both authors have new books coming out: COME WITH ME (8/22) and MORNING IN THIS BROKEN WORLD (9/1). Don’t miss our Author Spotlight conversation with them at the end of the episode. What We’ve Just Read: Emily: LET US DESCEND by Jesmyn Ward (out 10/3), a tough but rewarding read, and Peter Heller’s new release THE LAST RANGER, set in Yellowstone National Park. Chris: A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS by Paul Tremblay – a contemporary twisty tale of possession set in Beverly, Massachusetts, a town that was swept up in the Witch Delusion of 1692 We had two fantastic Biblio Adventures. The first was a work day at Simmons University in Boston after which we saw Laura Sims (HOW CAN I HELP YOU) and Paul Tremblay (THE BEAST YOU ARE: STORIES) in conversation at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA. The second was local to us: we lunched at the French bistro Cocotte which is inside the historic James Pharmacy before heading across the street to the Hart House Museum to see their new exhibit, “Family Matters: Inspiration and Insights from the Lives of Anna Louise James and Ann Petry.” As always, we talk about a whole bunch of books. Happy listening, and then Happy Reading!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 187 - Author Spotlight with Alli Frank & Asha Youmans 1:25:53
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1:25:53A Book Cougars first: we interview a writing duo! In our Author Spotlight segment, we talk with Alli Frank and Asha Youmans about their new novel THE BETTER HALF, how they started writing together, their path to publication, and their writing process. Spoiler: matching pajamas! Some episode highlights: We both read Ann Petry’s powerful 1946 novel, THE STREET, for the Vintage Book Club (hosted by Book Club on the Go at Red Heat Tavern in South Windsor). This story about a struggling single mother in 1940s Harlem seems as relevant as ever and generated great discussion. We recommend the audio version narrated by Danielle Deadwyler. Emily read a novel about two women friends by Edgar Award-winning novelist Erin Flanagan. If you like twisty and dark stories about people who are not what they seem, COME WITH ME (out 8/22) is for you. She also enjoyed Jennifer Weiner’s forthcoming beach read, THE BREAKAWAY (out 8/29), about a fat-positive protagonist who leads a bike tour. Emily also crossed off another square on her Scarlet Summer Bingo Card by reading/listening to WE RIDE UPON THE STICKS by Quan Barry, a story set in Danvers, MA with lots of 1980s love. Chris ripped through Laura Sims’ new novel, HOW CAN I HELP YOU, a psychological mystery/thriller/suspense novel set in a small town library that revolves around two women who become obsessed with one another for very different reasons. Teaser: there’s more than a nod to Shirley Jackson. And while waiting out a thunderstorm at the Acton Public Library in Old Saybrook, Chris read WHAT DID IT TAKE? a short biography by Whitney McKendree Moore about Anna Louise James. James, a fascinating woman in her own right, was Ann Petry’s aunt. We recap our Biblio Adventure at the Grolier Club in NYC where we did some archival research (Emily is hooked!) and also had a browse at McNally Jackson Books at Rockefeller Center. On Wednesday, August 2nd, we’re heading to Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA to see Laura Sims and Paul Tremblay in conversation. Come join us!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 186 - The Long Afterlife of The Scarlet Letter 1:42:57
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1:42:57Welcome to Episode 186! We chat about what we’re currently reading (How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens and Come with Me by Erin Flanagan) and books we’ve finished ( Morning in This Broken World by Katrina Kittle, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, and Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King). We also discuss our third quarter readalong pick, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which means SCARLET SUMMER is in full swing! In Biblio Adventures, we Zoomed in from the Concord Free Public Library for a lively discussion with listeners of The Scarlet Letter that left us with great insights, lots of food for thought, and high anticipation for the other two novels we’ll read for Scarlet Summer: Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese and The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman. Our day in Concord began with a fantastic tour of The Old Manse, the house Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne rented and lived in as newlyweds (and from which they were evicted for not paying rent). Later in the day, we had a walk around the outside of The Wayside, a house the Hawthornes purchased some years later. It’s not currently open for visitors, but it was fun to peek in the window and then walk a path down the block to Orchard House, Louise May Alcott’s Home (which we visited in 2018). No visit to Concord is complete without a browse at The Concord Bookshop and a stop to pay respects at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery where Hawthorne and other famous 19th-century writers were laid to rest on Author’s Ridge. Our Biblio Adventure to Concord, Massachusetts was a near-perfect day. Our guest for this episode is Charles Baraw, Professor of American Literature and President of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, who joined us to talk about The Scarlet Letter and its long afterlife. We mention a lot of books and recap other Biblio Adventures in this episode. These are all listed in the show notes which you can find here, https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2023/episode186 Happy Listening!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 185 - Book Cougars Prowling in the Midwest 51:13
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51:13We both recently headed to the Midwest for some family & friend time. Chris went to Chicago and met up with Colleen, our guest on Episodes 27 and 145. We had a browse in Women & Children First, a legendary feminist bookstore and one of Chicago’s oldest indies, after which we had lunch across the street at Lady Gregory’s, an Irish pub named after the legendary Irish dramatist. Chris also got to visit one of her favorite used bookstores, Frugal Muse in Darien, IL, where she found two copies of THE RED GARDEN by Alice Hoffman (it’s a book on our Scarlet Summer Bingo! Card). Emily headed to Michigan to celebrate her daughter’s birthday and gifted her a Little Free Library! They went on a Biblio Adventure together to Blue Vase Book Exchange in Interlochen, MI, a used bookstore with a computer inventory database (so convenient!). Emily also got to visit Bay Books in Suttons Bay, MI where she discovered the books of Viola Shipman, a local author. Shipman is actually the pen name of Wade Rouse whose grandma inspired his writing so he writes under her name. What an amazing way to honor her. We also finished a few books. Chris feels quite accomplished for having finished ULYSSES by James Joyce. Phew! As she says in the episode, it is everything that everyone has ever said it is. Emily read THE RED GARDEN by Alice Hoffman, a collection of related stories that contain a few “Easter Eggs” that’ll show up in her forthcoming novel, THE INVISIBLE HOUR, which comes out in August. She also read THE BETTER HALF by Alli Frank and Asha Youmans, who will be our guests on Episode 186. As for upcoming reads and Biblio Adventures, we’ll both be reading THE SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne this week and are looking forward to our Biblio Adventure to Concord, MA. Reminder that our readalong discussion is on Wed, July 12, 4:30 pm ET at the Concord Public Library. If you’d like to join us in person or on the Zoom call, please email us at bookcougars@gmail.com.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 184 - Author Spotlight with Bethanne Patrick 1:24:23
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1:24:23SCARLET SUMMER kicks off Independence Day weekend! Nathaniel Hawthorne’s birthday is July 4th, so we consider it an auspicious start for our summer-long readalong. Our website has a new page, https://www.bookcougars.com/scarletsummer2023, where you can find all the info about SCARLET SUMMER, including a link to download your BINGO! card. As Emily noted in the episode, at least one reader is already making “witchy substitutions” on her card. We listed each of the three readalong books three times to make it easy to win, but feel free to swap out any of the repeat squares for other witch-related or Hawthorne or Albanese or Hoffman books. We are both making progress on our #BigBookSummer reads (DEVIL IN THE GROVE and ULYSSES) and we’ve read a few fun/interesting/thought-provoking books including: —EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THE END by C.L. Polk (https://bookshop.org/a/17535/9781250849458) —THE WHISPERS by Ashley Audrain (https://bookshop.org/a/17535/9781984881694) —THOUGHTS FROM THE OAK by Audrey Colasanti (https://bookshop.org/a/17535/9781913606602) —GRACELAND by Nancy Crochiere (https://bookshop.org/a/17535/9780063288430) In Biblio Adventures we recap our day in Newport, Rhode Island visiting the Redwood Library & Athenaeum, the Newport Public Library, and Charter Books where we attended their event with Claire Fuller for her new novel, THE MEMORY OF ANIMALS. (https://bookshop.org/a/17535/9781953534873) Chris watched the documentary Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb about their decades-long writer/editor relationship. We recorded this episode in the early afternoon of June 21st and were deeply saddened when news broke later in the day of Gottlieb’s death. Emily had a lovely trip to Manhattan to visit Aunt Ellen who is back on the East Coast for a visit. They went to P&T Knitwear Books (which has a podcast studio you can reserve for free) and Sweet Pickle Books (where you can trade books for pickles!). Our Author Spotlight features a conversation with Bethanne Patrick discussing her memoir LIFE B: OVERCOMING DOUBLE DEPRESSION. (https://bookshop.org/a/17535/9781640091290) As always, thank you for listening and we wish you lots of Happy Reading! Emily & Chris…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 183 - Author Spotlight with Sara Nisha Adams 1:27:01
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1:27:01Mushrooms! Librarians! Serial killer victims brought back to life! New friends and life reinvigorated through reading! We’ve had some good reads since our last episode. We’re both digging into our #BigBookSummer reading challenge books. Emily has started DEVIL IN THE GROVE by Gilbert King. Chris has thrown away the reading schedule for ULYSSES by James Joyce but is reading on. In Biblio Adventures, Chris had a browse at the Book Barn in Niantic, CT where she stumbled across TRAVELS WITHOUT CHARLEY by Bill Goralski. She also attended a fall preview event with Simon and Schuster where five authors talked with their editors about their forthcoming fall releases: Safiya Sinclair, Myriam Gurba, Stephanie Land, Nicole Walters, and Melissa Broder. We both enjoyed our 2nd quarter readalong pick, THE READING LIST and were delighted to talk with author Sara Nisha Adams! Just after our conversation with Sara, we announce our 3rd quarter readalong plans. Buckle up for SCARLET SUMMER!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 182 - Biblio Adventure Bonanza: Making Lemonade Out of Lemons 57:40
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57:40Welcome to Episode 182! There is a lot of Biblio Adventure recapping in this episode, from author events (Mary Beth Keane at R.J. Julia) to movies (two book adaptations starring Kathy Bates), to bookstore visits in Vermont (Northshire and Monroe Street Books) and New York (Rogers Book Barn and Oblong Books). In the midst of wrapping up library school and plugging away on a huge grant review project, we both managed to actually finish a book apiece: Emily: Budmo! Recipes from a Ukrainian Kitchen by Anna Voloshyna Chris: Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach We are also getting ready for Sue Jackson’s 11th Annual BIG BOOK SUMMER Reading Challenge! We’ve both picked a big book to kick off the summer. Chris chose a novel this year, one she never thought she’d read. It was published in Paris in 1922. Can you guess? Emily chose a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical best-seller about Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. (We’ll add links to the buddy reads for these books in the comments.) Emily also requests your help choosing which novel to read — she has a stack of four and can’t decide — so help a girl out and vote on our Goodreads poll! [vote here] What are your reading plans this summer? As we say in the episode, it doesn’t have to be a big book or anything fancy, we’re just curious if you have special reading plans this summer. Let us know in the comments. Thank you for listening, and we wish you lots of HAPPY READING! Chris & Emily P.S. Listen here https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2023/episode182 or wherever you get your podcasts.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 181 - Author Spotlight with Sharon Salzberg 1:14:41
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 180 - Travels with Chris, Emily, and Charley 1:08:31
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1:08:31We talk about a bunch of books and biblioadventures in Episode 180. What’s new, right? #wink Some highlights include books we just read, which took us from a memoir about caring for animals (THE OTHER FAMILY DOCTOR by Karen Fine) to an idiomatic fowl in search of freedom (CHASE OF THE WILD GOOSE by Mary Gordon) and from an island in the Atlantic (SUMMER STAGE by Meg Mitchell Moore) to a road trip around America (TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY by John Steinbeck). Speaking of travel, we had a two-day joint jaunt to Manhattan, where we went our separate ways during daylight hours – Emily volunteered at the CHERRY BOMBE JUBILEE and Chris worked at the STAVROS NIARCHOS FOUNDATION LIBRARY. Closer to home, Emily went to see THE QUIET GIRL at the Madison Cinemas and Chris did some archival research at The Beinecke. Some fun biblioadventures are coming up–like Emily moderating two author events at the Newburyport Literary Festival this weekend: Fur, Feathers, and Scales: A Lifetime of Caring for Pets with author Karen Fine and Shaped by Loss: How Tragedy Changed the Lives of Emerson, Thoreau, and William James with author Megan Marshall. Chris is planning to attend a virtual event with author Benjamin Taylor who will be discussing Cather’s MY ANTONIA on Thursday at 7pm CT via the National Willa Cather Center. Reminder: the show notes for each episode lists all of the books and events we mention. Happy Listening, and then, Happy Reading!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 179 - Deep Dive with Poet Shuly Cawood 1:31:06
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1:31:06Happy National Poetry Month! We kick off this episode with Emily reading Lucille Clifton’s poem, “Climbing,” and end with an in-depth conversation with poet Shuly Cawood about her poem, “Starter Marriage.” [The full text of Shuly’s poem is at the end of this description if you’d like to read it before or while listening to the episode.] Both of us have Writing and Creativity on our minds. Emily started Julia Cameron’s THE ARTIST’S WAY, and Chris is listening to WRITING FOR IMPACT by Bill Birchard. And we have some reading/writing synchronicity going on with Natalie Goldberg. Emily is reading & listening to her classic, WRITING DOWN THE BONES, and when visiting McNally Jackson at Rockefeller Center in NYC Chris picked up WRITING DOWN THE BONES DECK. More recently read books include WHY AM I SO ANXIOUS by Tracey Marks, MY DEAREST DARLING by Lisa Franco, BOOKSELLING IN AMERICA AND THE WORLD, ed. by Charles B. Anderson. And thanks to listener Colleen’s birthday book club tradition, we revisited a childhood favorite, Judy Blume’s ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET. There’s another #buddyread on our horizon: TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY IN SEARCH OF AMERICA. We’re reading this for the Vintage Book Club which is sponsored by Book Club on the Go and will meet on Thursday, April 20, 1 pm at the Wood Memorial Library and Museum in South Windsor, CT. All are welcome. We had a fantastic biblioadventure together in Boston. After spending the day working in Simmons University’s Beatley Library, we visited the amazing independent bookstore, Brookline Booksmith. Emily is going to be moderating two author sessions at the Newburyport Literary Festival, April 28-30: — The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us about Love, Life, and Mortality by Karen Fine, DVM —Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives by Robert D. Richardson with a foreword by Megan Marshall (Emily’s conversation will be with Megan). Chris is bummed that she won’t be able to attend the Newburyport Literary Festival or either of the two Willa Cather conferences this June. She is, however, planning to attend a series of four virtual events with author Benjamin Taylor that the National Willa Cather Center is offering beginning on April 27th. Taylor’s new book, CHASING BRIGHT MEDUSAS: A LIFE OF WILLA CATHER, is to be published in November. Visit the episode show notes for more details and links to the books, places, and events listed above.https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2023/episode179 Happy Reading! Chris & Emily ______ Starter Marriage by Shuly Cawood after Erin Adair-Hodges* First there was the word and the word was trying. Trying the apartment with white walls, popcorn ceilings, footsteps heavy above, thudding over our days. Trying the job I took filing papers into squeaking cabinets, the one you took answering phones for dentists. Trying the brown bag lunches with limp sandwiches and sliced cheese, the softening apple, the room-temperature soda. Consuming it all on church steps, hunched below the overhang as it rained. Trying the cold pool after work with dead insects needing to be netted. Unraveling towels, TJ Maxx suits, the walk back on the no-car driveway. All heat evaporated. Empty stomachs. No one wanted what the other craved. Trying the red Chevrolet with the bad battery, no parking without pay, the bus rides to and from work, your stop, my stop, the sun hitting hard, us squinting at the sky. Your last day, the blue electric toothbrush they gave you as goodbye. Buzzing in your mouth with all those trapped words. Trying the new queen mattress we could not afford but bought anyway. Trying the laundry we toted to the next building, plastic hampers in our arms full of every day’s dirt. Coffee but no creamer, bread but no toaster, sugar hardened in the bag. Day-old everything bagels, buy-one, get-one veggie burritos, dollar theater on Sundays. New job but less pay, new boss but no promotion. Saving for tickets for never vacations. Trying the places we gave up for each other: city salted by an ocean, all those fish and ferry rides; town with three stoplights, two policemen, a forest to get lost in. Your dreams, my dreams, weeds by the parking lot. Trying your face a broken banister, my hands an unused map. *The first nine words are borrowed from “Portrait of Mother: 1985” by Erin Adair-Hodges ______…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 178 - Author Spotlight with Jennifer Savran Kelly 1:37:15
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1:37:15Welcome to Episode 178! We are currently reading a variety of genres: Fiction (CHASE OF THE WILD GOOSE by Mary Gordon and VOYAGER by Diana Gabaldon), memoir (LIFE B: OVERCOMING DOUBLE DEPRESSION by Bethanne Patrick), self-help (WHY AM I SO ANXIOUS by Tracey Marks), and a cookbook (COOK AS YOU ARE by Ruby Tandoh). Emily discusses three gripping novels that she recently read: THE MEMORY OF ANIMALS by Claire Fuller, OUR BEST INTENTIONS by Vibhuti Jain, and I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU by Rebecca Makkai. Chris enjoyed a new biography that investigates Edgar Allan Poe’s death, A MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES by Mark Dawidziak. She also finished two novels: DRAGONFLY IN AMBER by Diana Gabaldon and THE WARDEN by Anthony Trollope. We are excited to giveaway a copy of our second quarter readalong pick, THE READING LIST by Sara Nisha Adams. To be entered to win, you simply need to be a newsletter subscriber. If you are not already, act quickly because we are picking the winner on March 29th! Easy sign up here: https://www.bookcougars.com/subscriber Don’t miss our Author Spotlight with Jennifer Savran Kelly. We both love her new novel, ENDPAPERS, a character-driven story about a genderqueer book conservator and book artist who finds a message under the endpapers of an old book that sets her off on an external investigation into the past that helps her solve some of her current internal mysteries.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 177 - Author Spotlight with Amy Tector 1:27:57
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1:27:57There are books and bookstores galore in this episode! Some highlights include – Emily went to see Aunt Ellen in Berkeley, CA, and together they visited two public libraries, a whole bunch of little free libraries, and TEN bookstores! Aunt Ellen gave Emily first dibs on her brand new copy of FINLAY DONOVAN JUMPS THE GUN by Elle Cosimano (now that’s love). Emily also read another book by Maggie O’Farrell, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX. Chris traveled to 1855 England via THE WARDEN, her first Anthony Trollope novel. She also enjoyed a virtual event via the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, “Understanding Katherine S. Days Identity: Interpreting Sexuality in Early 20th Century New England, Four Case Studies in LGBTQIA+ History.” Readalong: We talk about our first quarter readalong, PARNASSUS ON WHEELS (1917) by Christopher Morley. And we announce our second-quarter pick for our year of reading Books about Books. Hint: it was published in 2021 and involves a girl and her grandfather. Author Spotlight: We were thrilled to have a chat with Canadian writer Amy Tector, author of the Dominion Archives Mystery series. SPEAK FOR THE DEAD, the second book in the series, publishes today (March 14, 2023). Check out the show notes for links to all of the books and biblioadventures mentioned in this episode: https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2023/episode177…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 176 - We're in a New York State of Mind 1:06:49
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1:06:49On Episode 176 Chris and Emily give a full recap of their two-day Biblio Adventure in New York City. The trip was inspired by a research project that Chris is working on for school that created a need for her to spend time in the archives at the main branch of the New York Public library. Emily tagged along and they had some bookish fun together. Highlights include an abundance of time spent at the main branch of the New York Public Library with a stroll through the Virginia Woolf exhibit and the newly expanded gift shop. Emily attended an event with Elinor Lipman discussing her new novel, MS. DEMEANOR. While she was at the author event, Chris spent a couple glorious hours at Book Culture bookstore. The next morning they brunched at Russ & Daughters Café with the author Matthew Goodman, and before catching the train home stopped at Kinokuniya Books to browse through their seemingly endless aisles of office supplies. Both Chris and Emily are currently reading the first quarter readalong, PARNASSUS ON WHEELS by Christopher Morley. They are particularly enjoying the audiobook narrated by Nadia May. Chris is time traveling between Scotland and Paris with Claire Randall in book two of the OUTLANDER series, DRAGONFLY IN AMBER by Diana Gabaldon. Emily is spending time in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with Iliana Regan and FIELDWORK: A Forager’s Memoir. Happy Publication day to ENCHANTMENT: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age by our friend Katherine May!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 175 - He’s BAAACK! Our Mystery Man, John Valeri 1:30:39
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1:30:39We just read a stack of books with an interesting variety of subjects! In between mushrooms and swimming, we spent time with an Australian rare book expert, a New Yorker wandering in Ireland, a Queer book artist in Manhattan, restauranteers in Minnesota, and an American publishing legend. We also got to know some folks in a rural hockey town. These books are: Cooking with Mushrooms: A Fungi Lover’s Guide to the World’s Most Versatile, Flavorful, Health-Boosting Ingredients by Andrea Gentl, People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, This Must be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell, Endpapers by Jennifer Savran Kelly, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J Ryan Stradal, Alfred A. Knopf: A Quarter Century – designed by W.A. Dwiggins, Beartown by Fredrik Backman, and Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui. In Biblio Aventures, Chris talks about making some books for a class assignment (we also created a show-and-tell video on YouTube), and Emily has started watching Dear Edward on Apple TV (based on the novel by Ann Napolitano). We are thrilled, as always, to welcome back Our Mystery Man, John Valeri! John shares some 2023 releases he’s enjoyed and recommends to us all, and he talks about his new Little Free Library.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 174 - Author Spotlight with Jenna Miller 1:29:36
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1:29:36On Episode 174, we share LISTENER TOP 10s of 2022. Thanks to the 70+ listeners who contributed their top 10 lists. Out of 427 books, Emily shares not only what the combined top 10 titles are (actually, 11 titles because there was a tie) but also who the most frequently listed authors are. We also talk about our READING INTENTIONS & GOALS for 2023. Listeners shared their plans and intentions on a Goodreads thread (https://bit.ly/2023_Reading_Intentions_and_Goals). The discussion is ongoing and inspiring. Reminder: PARNASSUS ON WHEELS by Christopher Morley is our first quarter readalong. If you’d like to join our live Zoom conversation on February 26th at 7 PM (ET), send us an email (bookcougars at gmail dot com). Here’s the Goodreads discussion link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/22401319-parnassus-on-wheels-by-christopher-morley In our JUST READ segment, we talk about: ROUGH SLEEPERS: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People by Tracy Kidder HOW THE WORD IS PASSED: A Reckoning with Slavery Across America by Clint Smith A HEART THAT WORKS by Rob Delaney THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT by John Steinbeck And in BIBLOADVENTURES, we recap our day in Boston, where we visited three bookstores: Brattle Books, Beacon Hill Books & Cafe, and Commonwealth Books. We had a blast! Emily had a solo biblioadventure, also in Massachusetts, where she saw Tracy Kidder in conversation with Dr. O’Connell discussing his new book ROUGH SLEEPERS. Books that we have talked about on earlier episodes and are OUT NOW: Small World by Laura Zigman Decent People by De’shawn Charles Winslow Georgie, All Along: An Uplifting and Unforgettable Love Story by Kate Clayborn Exiles by Jane Harper Moonrise Over New Jessup by Jamila Minnicks AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT! We are so excited to introduce you to debut novelist JENNA MILLER! We talk with Jenna about her first novel, OUT OF CHARACTER, making friends online, her writing practice, and the growing controversy of butter boards. Happy Listening! Emily & Chris…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 173 - Emily's Hidden Reading Slump and Chris's Return to Practical Magic 52:47
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52:47Emily started 2023 with a bit of a reading slump, but you’d never know it! Some of the books she enjoyed since our last regular episode are Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore, Trespasses by Louise Kennedy, The Change by Kirsten Miller, Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (coming out 3/14/2023), and What the Fortune Teller Would Have Said by Shuly Cawood. For the third year in a row, Chris kicked off her January reading with a novel from Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic Series: The Rules of Magic. She’s also brushing up on her stirfrying skills with The Wok: Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt. Speaking of cooking, Emily attended a cooking class with the cookbook author Julia Turshen. Chris visited a couple of used bookstores: The Book Barn in Niantic, CT, and Bennett’s Books in Deep River, CT. We also had a lovely joint jaunt to New Haven, where we checked in on a large Little Free Library in Wooster Square after a yummy lunch at Haven Hot Chicken. We are extending our listener top reads of 2022 submissions until January 22nd, so if you haven’t submitted your Top 10 Reads, please send them our way! We’ll share highlights on Episode 174 (Google form - https://bit.ly/BookCougarsTopTen2022 or email us at bookcougars@gmail.com). Reminder that our next readalong is Parnassus on Wheels by Christoper Morley (Zoom convo on Feb 26th at 7 pm ET). Your purchase of the paperback from Bookshop.org or the audiobook from Libro.fm will help support us (the links go to our affiliate page). Thanks for listening and Happy Reading! Emily & Chris…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 172 - Top Ten Reads of 2022 with BookTuber Russell Gray 1:57:16
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1:57:16Happy New Year! Welcome to our third annual TOP TEN READS of the year episode with our special guest, BookTuber RUSSELL GRAY of Ink and Paper Blog. Emily, Chris, and Russell whittled down the books they read in 2022 to ten of our favorites. You’d think this would add up to thirty books, but you’d be wrong. As is customary, we cheated (some more than others) and talk about more than ten books a piece, but what else would you expect from a trio of bibliomanes? We each also share two books coming out in 2023 that we’re excited about. Russell: 1. THE DELUGE by Stephen Markley (1/10/2023 Simon & Schuster) 2. DECENT PEOPLE by De’Shawn Charles Winslow (2/14/2023 Bloomsbury Publishing) Emily: 1. THE WISE HOURS: A JOURNEY INTO THE WILD AND SECRET WORLD OF OWLS by Miriam Darlington (2/7/2023 Tin House Books) 2. CHAIN GANG ALL-STARS by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (4/4/2023 Pantheon Books) 3. THE INVISIBLE HOUR by Alice Hoffman (8/15/2023 Atria Books) Chris: 1. THE WRITING RETREAT by Julia Bartz (2/21/2023 Atria/Emily Bestler Books) 2. OUT OF CHARACTER by Jenna Miller (2/7/2023 Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins) All of the books mentioned in this episode are listed in the show notes https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2022/episode171 We also announce our 2023 Readalong Theme: BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS! Our pick for the first quarter was published in 1917 and is one of the first bibliomysteries. Thanks for listening!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 171 - Author Spotlight with Marcie R. Rendon 1:22:14
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1:22:14Welcome to our last episode of 2022! We surprised each other this week with some reading kismet. Each of us arrived at Book Cougars HQ with a poetry collection in hand and a poem we wanted to share. Chris reads the poem “The Margin” from The Historians: Poems by Eavan Boland. Emily reads “Improvement” by Danusha Laméris from How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope edited by James Crews. We’ve also been reading some exciting novels that are coming out in early 2023. Two that we highly recommend are debut novels: — Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton (Ecco Press, release date 1/10/23) — The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz (Atria Books, release date 2/21/23) Thanks to the publishers and NetGalley for the advance reader copies. In 2022, the focus of our quarterly readalongs were books written by Indigenous Authors. Our fourth and final book of the year was Murder on the Red River: A Cash Blackbear Mystery by Marcie R. Rendon. Both of us really enjoyed the book and had a great time chatting with Marcie on this episode. The next two books in the series are Girl Gone Missing and Sinister Graves. We wish you a Happy Holiday Season filled with lots of love, light, and happy reading!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 170 - 2022 Holiday Gift Ideas and Author Spotlight with Malinda Lo 1:33:00
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 169 - Author Spotlight with Marcia Clark and Our Mystery Man John Valeri 1:19:25
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1:19:25We were apart again while recording this episode. Emily was in Colorado visiting her son and daughter-in-law. She also shared part of her salad with a magpie at The Bookworm bookstore and cafe in Edward’s CO. We are so grateful for the technology that allows us to get together to talk about books from wherever we are. As for what we’re reading, Chris is nearing the end of OUTLANDER by Diana Gabaldon and Emily is reading TAKE WHAT YOU NEED by Idra Novey (release date is 3/14/2023). We both read SWEET THURSDAY by John Steinbeck and also listened to ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT by Stephen King. Chris is dipping into the Library of America edition of CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON: COLLECTED STORIES and Emily read THE SEAS by Samantha Hunt and SHAME by Annie Ernaux. In Biblio Adventures, after we recorded the last episode we realized we forgot to talk about visiting the fantastic Lenox Library in Lenox, MA! Emily attended a virtual event at the San Francisco Public Library in celebration of their One City One Book selection, THIS IS EAR HUSTLE:: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life; with Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods, moderated by Piper Kerman author of ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: My Year in a Women’s Prison. Meanwhile, back in Connecticut, Chris returned books to The Institute Library and then took a walk to visit Grey Matter Books and Barnes & Noble. On November 30th we are heading to Amherst, MA for the screening of the pop opera Emily & Sue at Amherst College hosted by the newly renovated Emily Dickinson Museum. We also got tickets for a tour of Dickinson’s house earlier in the day – we can’t wait to see what’s changed since our last visit. Last call to join in on our readalong discussion of MURDER ON THE RED RIVER by Marcie R. Rendon. If you would like to participate in the Zoom conversation on Sunday, December 4th at 7 PM (ET) please email us (bookcougars@gmail.com). We also have a discussion thread on our Goodreads group if you’d like to chat about the book there. AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: We had a blast talking with author, TV writer, and lawyer Marcia Clark and Our Mystery Man, John Valeri. Marcia’s new standalone thriller, THE FALL GIRL, is out now! We both enjoyed the audio version.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 168 - Author Spotlight with Blair Braverman 1:23:57
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1:23:57Episode 168 - Blair Braverman joins us to talk about her debut novel, SMALL GAME (out now from Ecco Press). It's about five contestants on a survival reality show that goes haywire. It’s a wild ride, and we had a fantastic conversation with Blair. We had an epic Biblio Adventure to The Mount in Lenox, MA. In preparation, we read three ghost stories from WHARTON’S NEW ENGLAND: SEVEN STORIES AND ETHAN FROME. Nynke (Librarian) and Anne (Director of Visitor Services) spent several hours with us, sharing fun anecdotes about Wharton and treasures from her library. Check out the video on the YouTube channel. On the way out of town, we stopped at The Bookstore & Get Lit Bar in Lenox, MA, featured in the documentary Hello Bookstore. REMINDER of our upcoming readalong: MURDER ON THE RED RIVER by Marcie R. Rendon. Please email us at bookcougars@gmail.com if you would like to participate in the Zoom conversation on Sunday, December 4th, at 7 PM (ET).…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 167 - Author Spotlight with Kelcey Ervick 1:40:06
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1:40:06We have been hitting the books and hitting road & rails! Emily had a week-long vacation on Martha’s Vineyard and read a ton. She also visited Bunches of Grapes bookstore and FOUR libraries on the island – West Tisbury, Oak Bluffs, Vineyard Haven, and Edgartown. Chris attended a virtual event through the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library with Raymond Clemens who shared some of the earliest maps in their current exhibition, The World in Maps, 1400-1600. Check out the link in our show notes to watch Ray’s presentation. We also had two delicious Biblio Adventures together. The first was a literal Couch Biblio Adventure where we sat on the couch at Book Cougars HQ and ate pizza while watching Malinda Lo’s event at Simmons University. Her YA novel LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB was this semester’s joint read at Simmons. Days later we were riding the rails to meet Aunt Ellen at Grand Central in Manhattan. After hugs and a pit stop, we took the subway to Brooklyn where we spent the day walking around and experiencing bookish adventures and culinary delights. Stops included: The Center for Fiction, Smith Street Bagels, Books Are Magic, the Brooklyn Public Library at Carroll Gardens, and La Vara, where we were joined by Aunt Ellen’s partner Chris. We topped off the day with an author event and saw Maggie O’Farrell talking about her new book, THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT, at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church. It was a perfect day. We even had time to grab some pastries from Magnolia Bakery before boarding the train home. Lots of books, good food, and great company. Phew, this is a long episode blurb and we haven’t even mentioned any books yet! We’ll list our “Just Read” titles: CANNERY ROW – John Steinbeck THE FALL GIRL – audiobook narrated by Marcia Clark and Cathy LePard SMALL GAME – Blair Braverman SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE – Claire Keegan MAD WOMEN'S BALL – Victoria Mas (translated by Frank Wynne) LIBRARY GIRL: How Nancy Pearl Became America’s Most Celebrated Librarian – Karen Henry Clark (illustrated by Sheryl Murray) DARK RIVERS TO CROSS – Lynne Reeves release date 11/8/2022 MISS GRIEF AND OTHER STORIES – Constance Fenimore Woolson (edited by Anne Boyd Rioux) OPEN WATER – Caleb Azumah Nelson LOVECRAFT COUNTRY – Matt Ruff THE SALT PATH – Raynor Winn (audio) THE LUNAR HOUSEWIFE – Caroline Woods If the blurb is long, you know the episode is long, too, but stick around to the end (or fast forward if you’re crunched for time) to listen to our conversation with writer, graphic artist, English professor, and athlete KELCEY ERVICK. Her new graphic memoir THE KEEPER: SOCCER, ME, AND THE LAW THAT CHANGED WOMEN’S LIVES is fantastic! We give it four paws up. Check out this wonderful blurb from another graphic memoirist you may have heard of: “The Keeper is a triumph! Kelcey Ervick’s rollicking visual storytelling makes this information-packed lesson in women’s sports history both hilarious and surprisingly moving. Do not be deceived by her loose, exuberant drawings—the level of writerly control at play in this beautiful book is prodigious.” - Alison Bechdel, author of the New York Times bestselling Fun Home and The Secret to Superhuman Strength One more thing and then we’re putting our noses back into our books! Reminder that our current readalong book is MURDER ON THE RED RIVER by Marcie R. Rendon. Please email us (bookcougars@gmail.com) if you would like to participate in the Zoom conversation on Sunday, December 4th at 7 PM (ET). We also have a discussion thread over on Goodreads.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 166 - All Things Audiobooks 59:46
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59:46Episode 166 is all about audiobooks! Chris and Emily talk about audiobooks in their lives and then have a wonderful chat with Karen Farmer and Craig Silva, hosts of the new Libro.fm Podcast.
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 150 - On the Trail of the Jackalope with Michael P. Branch 1:47:26
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1:47:26We are thrilled to bring you our author spotlight with Michael P. Branch discussing his book On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer. It published TODAY from Pegasus Books. Every 10th episode we like to celebrate by giving away books. 🎉 This time around we are offering up four books: 📖 Honor by Thruty Umrigar 📖 The Servant Mage by Kate Elliott 📖 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 📖 The Chosen and the Beautiful – Nghi Vo All you need to do in order to be entered to win is join our email list. [https://www.bookcougars.com/subscriber] We will choose the winner on 3/8. This episode is filled to the brim with Book Chat and Biblio Adventures. Give it a listen!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 149 - Author and Podcaster Bianca Marais Stops By for a Chat 1:23:11
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1:23:11We are thrilled to welcome back author and podcaster Bianca Marais! Bianca talks with us about her Audible Original short story THE PRYNNE VIPER and her podcast, The Shit No One Tells You About Writing. In Biblio Adventures we recap our day up in Northampton, MA where we had a delicious lunch at Noodles, walked around Smith College (you know we hit the bookstore), visited the Forbes Public Library, and the Old Book Store. We also both attended excellent online events which netted a laundry list of great books. We finished some excellent reads — THE SWIMMERS by Julie Otsuka, YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT by Daniel Kehlmann (translated by Ross Benjamin), and FURIA by Yamile Saied Méndez to name a few. Reminder about our current readalong, A SNAKE FALLS TO EARTH by Darcie Little Badger. Emily and Chris will discuss the novel on Episode 150 so please get any questions or comments to us by 2/22. There are also a couple spots left for our Zoom group discussion on 2/27 at 7 pm EST (email us if you’d like to attend, bookcougars@gmail.com). For a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, check out the show notes: https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2022/episode149…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 148 - Reading Sure Makes Time Fly (how is it already February???) 54:17
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54:17Books we’ve read since last episode: HONOR by Thrity Umrigar (Algonquin Books) THE PEACOCK by Isabel Bogdan, translated by Annie Rutherford (V&Q Books) YINKA, WHERE IS YOUR HUZBAND? By Lizzie Damilola Blackburn (Pamela Dorman Books) Two picture books: THE GOOD EGG and THE BAD SEED by Jory John and Pete Oswald (HarperCollins) THE SENTENCE by Louise Erdrich (Harper) HER LAST AFFAIR by John Searles (March 22, 2022 Mariner Books) MEMPHIS by Tara M. Stringfellow (April 5, 2022 Dial Press) Our reading since the last episode ranges from the horrific consequences of religious intolerance to a crazed peacock prowling an old Scottish estate; from pressure on Nigerian women to marry to an egg who learns to take care of himself and a sunflower seed who learns to value himself; from a haunted bookstore to an abandoned drive-in theater to the streets of Memphis. Of course we also talk about what we’re currently reading, what we want to read, and biblio adventures! Also, reminder that our current readalong is A SNAKE FALLS TO EARTH by Darcie Little Badger.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 147 - Q1 Readalong Pick, 2022 Reading Plans, and 2021 Listener Top 10s 1:13:42
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1:13:42Our 2022 reading is off to an excellent start! We read and discuss five novels, two memoirs, a biography, and a children’s picture book in this episode. They are: HOPE AT SEA by Daniel Miyares I CAME ALL THIS WAY TO MEET YOU by Jami Attenberg MAGIC LESSONS by Alice Hoffman FALLING by T.J. Newman REBECCA HARDING DAVIS: A LIFE AMONG WRITERS by Sharon M. Harris IN LOVE: A MEMOIR OF LOVE & LOSS by Amy Bloom RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE by Rita Mae Brown (audiobook narrated by Anna Paquin) THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DuBOIS, Honorée Fanzine Jeffers THE SWELLS, Will Aitken We also announce our theme for 2022 — Indigenous Writers. Our first Readalong title for the first quarter is A SNAKE FALLS TO EARTH by Darcie Little Badger. And like many readers, we spent some time at the end of 2021 thinking about what directions we’d like our reading adventures to take us this year. Call them plans, goals, determinations, or intentions, we’ve got some and share them with you. Thanks to all of the listeners who submitted their Top 10(ish) reads of 2021. Emily compiled them all into a spreadsheet and we discuss highlights. If you’d like a copy of the spreadsheet, email us, or you can see all of the books on our Bookshop.org List: org list: Listeners Top Books of 2021 .…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 146 - Top Ten Books of 2021 with BookTuber Russell Gray 1:56:44
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1:56:44BookTuber RUSSELL GRAY of Ink & Paper Blog joins the Book Cougars for our annual celebratory sharing of our Top 10 Reads of the year. If you think 3 x 10 = 30, you’d be wrong! Before we dive into our Top 10, Emily and Chris to have a regular, if shortened, episode where we recap our Biblio Adventure to the amazingly curated House of Books in Kent, CT and the Kent Memorial Library. Emily shares some details about Huma Abedin’s conversation about her new memoir BOTH/AND with Hillary Clinton and Samantha Barry at the 92nd Street Y. Chris enjoyed SERVANT MAGE by Kate Elliot and Emily went on a reading tear over the holiday weekend and read THESE SILENT WOODS by Kimi Cunningham Grant, MAGNOLIA PALACE by Fiona Davis, THE BIRDS OF OPULENCE by Crystal Wilkinson, BOMB SHELTER by by Mary Laura Philpott, and WHO IS MAUDE DIXON? by Alexandra Andrews. What a great end to 2021!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 145 - International Biblio Adventure and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1:11:38
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 144 - Celebrating Our 5th Anniversary! 1:34:09
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1:34:09On Episode 144 we celebrate our anniversary! Join us as we take a walk down memory lane reflecting on the last five years together as the Book Cougars. We chat about memorable biblio adventures and group readalongs, highlight some of our top reads of the past five years, and take the opportunity to thank people that are part of the Book Cougar’s family. Special guests on this episode include Laura Thoma and Aunt Ellen! As a group, we discuss initial reactions when we picked the name “Book Cougars” for the podcast. Both Chris and Emily are reading I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS by Maya Angelou. This book is our next readalong and we would love for you to join the conversation. Check the website details. Emily did some biblio-adventuring in Michigan. A highlight was a stop in Glen Arbor where she stepped into the delightful Cottage Book Shop located in a log cabin. Chris had the opportunity to explore historic navigation books at the Coast Guard Academy Library Special Collections - she touched a book from 1680!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 143 - Author Spotlight with Jenna Blum 1:02:53
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1:02:53Terror, Murder, Death!! Our reading this episode isn’t as bleak as the themes of our “Just Read” books would suggest. Emily seriously enjoyed STATE OF TERROR by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny on audio. The action is great, and she was pleasantly surprised that it is also a story of friendship between two women. After the terror, Emily visited THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB by Richard Osman, a fun and clever read about four friends in a peaceful retirement community who get together to discuss unsolved crimes, and then one day find themselves in the midst of their own murder investigation. Chris finished WOODROW ON THE BENCH: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog by Jenna Blum. This is Jenna’s first memoir and a tribute to her black lab, Woodrow. Known as the George Clooney of dogs, Woodrow lived to be 15. It’s a caretaking memoir that is funny, heartfelt, and bound to bring tears to your eyes. Listen to our Author Spotlight to hear more about Woodrow from Jenna herself.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 142 - O Beautiful Pub Day Conversation with Jung Yun 1:35:20
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1:35:20Both 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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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 141 - Author Spotlight with Alice Henderson 56:30
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56:30Emily is immersing herself in some self-love reading. She’s enjoying The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor and she re-read (!) Being Perfect by Anna Quindlen. Chris meanwhile is on a horror binge — She’s listening to an audio version of Dracula by Bram Stoker and read The Sundial by Shirley Jackson. ’Tis the season! But both Book Cougars fan-girled big time over Alice Henderson author of the new Alex Carter “cli-fi” mystery/thriller series. Wildlife lovers and climate advocates won’t want to miss our Author Spotlight with Alice.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 140 - Our Mystery Man Returns with Spooktacular Recommendations 1:15:23
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1:15:23John Valeri, our Mystery Man and host of Central Booking, returns to offer Halloween season recommendations for middle-grade, young adult, and adult readers. Emily has nothing but high praise for THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS by Ruth Ozeki. She’s also thrilled to discover author Zoraida Cordóva (THE INHERITANCE OF ORQUİEDA DIVINA), and you’ll have to listen to hear her favorite line from the book. And even though she would have preferred to read cupcake books while on vacation, Emily did finish the dark novel, MRS. MARCH by Virginia Feito for book club. Chris finished listening to Farah Jasmine Griffin’s READ UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature, which is part memoir, part literary criticism, and an exploration of African-American cultural themes. She also had a deliciously creepy experience listening to the sexy Audible Original production of CARMILLA by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. And Chris highly recommends the graphic novel SHADOW LIFE about a 70-something woman who fights death by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu. It’s also another 10th episode, which means it’s GIVEAWAY time! All you have to do to be entered to win is subscribe to our monthly newsletter, which you can do here: https://www.bookcougars.com/subscriber (If you’re already subscribed, you’re in!)…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 139 - Author Spotlight with Janice P. Nimura 1:05:32
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1:05:32We wrap up our read along of The Doctors Blackwell with an interview with the author, Janice P. Nimura. Emily explores the life of one Tokyo housewife through Emily Itami’s debut novel, Fault Lines, and finds solace and inspiration from Maggie Smith in her book, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change. Meanwhile, Chris has been listening to Farah Jasmine Griffin read her new work that is part memoir and part literary & cultural history, Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature. In biblioadventures, Both Book Cougars glow on about a charming seaside library up in Maine, the Ogunquit Memorial Library which has its own look-alike Little Free Library.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 138 - Marilynne Robinson Returns 47:22
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47:22Mothers, madness, alcoholism, researching slave revolts, wilderness guides — Emily and Chris discuss recent books they’ve tackled that range widely in subject matter but are all excellent reads. And guess who showed up yet again? Marilynne Robinson! We know, we know. She seems to be everywhere. Last episode Robinson was mentioned in a biblioadventure with Peter Heller and this episode her writing came up via William Kent Kruger. Reading synchronicities!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 137 - Author (and Editor) Spotlight with Juliet Grames 1:29:34
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1:29:34Emily finished ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy, her #BigBookSummer challenge read. It was a good read, but — phew! — big and intense. Chris read Kate Moore’s new nonfiction release, THE WOMAN THEY COULD NOT SILENCE, the true story of Elizabeth Packard’s battle against her husband and the system that tried to lock her away. Although the women’s rights movement still has a ways to go, some of the books we’ve read recently have been good reminders of how far we’ve come since the 19th-century. During Hurricane Henri, Chris dove into the deep ocean with BELOW THE EDGE OF DARKNESS by Edith Widder, Ph.D. and Emily plunged into pie making with Ken Haedrich’s PIE ACADEMY. She shares a new-to-her pie crust secret. In biblioadventures, we have some early news about Susan Cain’s new book coming out in spring 2022 and Peter Heller’s next novel (the one coming after his new release, THE GUIDE). We talk about so many good reads — this little blurb just scratches the surface! We were thrilled to finally sit down and chat with author and editor, Juliet Grames. We talk about books, editing, food, and more. Listen now!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 136 - We Discuss Books by Audrey Audrain, S.A. Cosby, Yan Ge, Alice Henderson, William Kent Krueger, Jung Yun, and MORE! 1:11:02
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1:11:02We’ve been having a great reading summer and hope you are, too! In Episode 136 we discuss a slew of different types of books we’re reading, from classics to new releases to some forthcoming novels — LIGHTNING STRIKE by William Kent Krueger and O BEAUTIFUL by Jung Yun (pre-order now or request at your library). Emily was highly impressed by Ashley Audrain’s debut novel, THE PUSH, which Aunt Ellen recommended. She’s also making progress with her #BigBookSummer read, ANNA KARININA. Chris finished BLEAK HOUSE and then dove into two excellent novels, A SOLITUDE OF WOLVERINES by Alice Henderson and RAZORBLADE TEARS by S.A. Cosby. More books and biblioadventures await your listening pleasure! Also, reminder that our next read along is THE DOCTORS BLACKWELL: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women—and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 120 - Our 2020 Top Ten Books with Special Guest Russell Gray 1:18:02
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1:18:02We talk about our Top Ten Books of 2020 with special guest Russell Gray of Ink and Paper Blog. There was only one duplicate, so that means 29 books to add to your reading lists! It is a wonderful, eclectic group of books including fiction, horror, memoir, nonfiction, thriller, and more! And we announce our next giveaway! Subscribe to our newsletter by January 10th to be automatically entered to win.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 119 - Author Spotlight with Bill Goldstein 1:36:49
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1:36:49We had the pleasure of chatting with Bill Goldstein about his formative years as a reader, working at Publisher’s Weekly, meeting and interviewing authors, his writing process, and his bookshelves. Bill is a legend in the book industry and we are thrilled to have had the chance to speak with him. Chris is reading about productivity techniques as well as Daring Greatly with Brené Brown. Emily read Olive, Again and then, not wanting to leave the world of Crosby, Maine and Olive Kitteridge behind, managed two Couch Biblio Adventures with the author, Elizabeth Strout.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 118 - Hooray, It's Our 4th Anniversary of Talking Books and Going on Biblio Adventures! 1:00:37
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1:00:37We are excited to celebrate our 4th Anniversary or Birthday!? So many amazing years of books and biblio adventures. In this episode we chat about a Brexit romance, eel behavior, female hysteria, poetry, serial killers, white advantage vs. white privilege, wintering, and more.
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 117 - Our Conversation with Patrick Sweeney about EveryLibrary 1:15:44
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1:15:44We talk with Patrick Sweeney to learn more about EveryLibrary and what they are doing to help build support for libraries in the United States. We share a multitude of Couch Biblio Adventures including the Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival, National Book Awards Ceremony, and the Texas Book Festival. And we were pleasantly surprised to discover that we both read Emma Donoghue's newest book, The Pull of the Stars.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 116 - Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi Readalong 1:21:54
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1:21:54We discuss our readalong of Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi. She is the first Omani woman to have a novel translated into English and it is the first novel originally written in Arabic to win the Man Booker International Prize. Lots of firsts for Alharthi! We also chat about a big stack of books, virtual biblio adventures galore, and a surprise upcoming joint read of Emma Donoghue’s newest book, The Pull of the Stars.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 115 - Author Spotlight with Hank Phillippi Ryan and our 2020 Holiday Gift Ideas 1:47:37
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1:47:37We had the pleasure of speaking with Hank Phillippi Ryan who has won 37 Emmy awards for her investigative reporting! She brings this knowledge to the table when she sits down to write her Charlotte McNally Mystery series, Jane Ryland Thrillers, and multiple stand-alone books, including her most recent, The First to Lie. We also discuss the importance of starting your holiday shopping early this year and share our 2020 Holiday Gift Ideas including a chat with the owner of Bookplate Ink, Karen Gardner. Hold on for the ride, this episode is loooong, put packed with goodness!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 114 - Mary Oliver Synchronicity 1:13:20
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1:13:20Chris and Emily share admiration for the poet Mary Oliver and suggest a hack for getting more poetry reading into your life. They both did quite a bit of reading and chat about a lot of books! Authors mentioned include V.E. Schwab, Deesha Philyaw, Jennifer Risher, Kim Powers, P. Djèlí Clark, and Joseph O' Connor, to name a few.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 113 - We Bid Adieu to Our First Recording Studio 1:06:28
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1:06:28On this episode, we bid a bittersweet farewell to our first recording studio. We also chat about a handful of virtual literary events including a joint jaunt via The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s literary festival. The event was titled Audre Lorde and Political Warfare and featured Roxane Gay, Mahogany L. Browne, Tracy K. Smith, and Salamishah Tillet. Chris began reading a memoir about wealth and Emily escaped into the world of Addie Larue.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 112 - We Do Some Alice Hoffman and Louise Penny Fangirling (again) 1:02:27
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1:02:27Chris finished All the Devils Are Here, the newest book from Louise Penny in her Inspector Gamache Series. Emily is reading the soon-to-be published Magic Lessons, by Alice Hoffman, her prequel to Practical Magic and Rules of Magic. They both talk about their affinity for these two authors and what it is like to meet someone you greatly admire, and try to find words to say, when your knees are knocking together from nerves!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 111 - We Talk BIG Books and Announce Our Next Readalong 52:48
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52:48We chat about the BIG BOOKS we have been reading and announce our upcoming readalong, Celestial Bodies, by Jokha Alharthi. Chris took a drive through Glastonbury where she discovered three libraries. Emily listened to the Quarantine Tapes with Paul Holdengraber and his guest, Min Jin Lee.
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 110 - Author Spotlight with Caroline Leavitt 1:18:30
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1:18:30Episode One Hundred Ten Show Notes – Episode 110 GIVEAWAY – The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns – edited by Mitzi Szereto If I Never Find You – Mhairi McFarlane The Deep – Alma Katsu Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia To be entered to win please subscribe to our email newsletter here . We will choose the winner on August 21, 2020. – Currently Reading – A House is a Body – Shruti Swamy (EF) Forever Amber – Kathleen Winsor (CW) – Just Read – The Jane Austen Society – Natalie Jenner (EF) Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers – edited Natalie Eve Garrett (EF) Intimations: Six Essays – Zadie Smith (EF) Looking for Lorraine : The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry – Imani Perry (CW)(audio) Anxious People – Fredrik Backman (EF) release date September 8, 2020 – Biblio Adventures – Emily had a Couch Biblio Adventure watching Bonnie Tsui, author of Why We Swim , the book choice for the La Times Book Club. The conversation included Lynne Cox, author of Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer . You can watch the event here . Our plans to attend the Schomburg Center event hosting Isabel Wilkerson author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and The Warmth of Other Suns were interrupted by a tropical storm. Thankfully it was recorded, you can watch the recording here . Chris also listened to Wilkerson’s interview on the NY Times Book review Podcast. You can listen to the episode here . – Upcoming Jaunts – We are going on a joint jaunt to the Hachette Book Club Brunch. It will be virtual this year. Join us on Saturday, October 17 from 10:30–1:00. You can purchase tickets here . August 18th at 7:30 via the Brooklyn Historical Society, Women + Power: Body Power with Jennifer Finney Boylan and Tressie McMillan Cottom. You can purchase tickets here . August 20th at 8:00 Yaa Gyasi in conversation with Roxane Gay discussing her book Transcendent Kingdom via Pen America series. You can purchase tickets here . – Upcoming Reads – Sea Wife – Amity Gaige (EF) Betty – Tiffany McDaniel (EF) From Here to Eternity – James Jones (CW) – Author Spotlight with Caroline Leavitt – We chat about her new book With or Without You . Follow Caroline and her book tour here . Check out A Mighty Blaze for information about new release books and author tricks of the trade here . – Also Mentioned – Book by Book 2020 Big Book Summer Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey – Kathleen Rooney Persuasion – Jane Austen James Baldwin Nina Simone Malcolm X Langston Hughes W.E.B. Dubois Molly Malone Cook A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman Thick: And Other Essays – Tressie McMillan Cottom From Here to Eternity movie John Irving…
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1 Episode 109 - Author Spotlight with Kathleen Rooney 31:19
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31:19We had the pleasure of talking to Kathleen Rooney about her new book, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, available now!
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 108 - Convenience Store Woman Readalong and Author Spotlight with Fiona Davis 1:32:58
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1:32:58Episode One Hundred Eight Show Notes – Currently Reading – Looking for Lorraine – Imani Perry (CW)(audio) Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who’s Been There – Tara Schuster (EF)(audio) The New York Public Library Book – Henry Hope Reed, Francis Morrone, and Anne Day (CW) Clap When You Land – Elizabeth Acevedo (EF) Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man – Mary Trump, Ph.D. (CW) – Just Read – Saving Ruby King – Catherine Adel West (EF) Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia (CW) Impersonation – Heidi Pitlor (EF) release date 8/18/20 The Enchanted Bluff – Willa Cather (CW) Be a part of the Willa Cather Short Story Project HERE Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey – Kathleen Rooney (CW) release date 8/11/20 – 14th Readalong discussion– Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori) Her next book to be translated into English is Earthlings which will be released in October 2020 She has two short stories that are available online: A Clean Marriage and Lover on the Breeze – Biblio Adventures – Chris went on a Couch Biblio Adventure via the New York Chapter of the The Historical Novel Society with Alaya Dawn Johnson about her new book, Trouble the Saints . Emily watched a Glam Cam debut spotlight via A Might Blaze with Nancy Johnson introducing Catherine Adel West, author of Saving Ruby King . You can watch it HERE . Chris visited the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library in Old Lyme, CT. Read more about the adventure on her blog . Emily went on a Couch Biblio Adventure via Politics and Prose with Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning , and C. Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills is Gold . – Upcoming Jaunts – Tuesday, August 4 the New York Public Library will be hosting Fiona Davis as her new book, The Lions of Fifth Avenue , is launched. You can register here . Wednesday, August 5 the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture will be hosting Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and The Warmth of Other Suns . You can register for the event here . Wednesday, August 19 Brookline Booksmith will host Heidi Pitlor, author of Impersonation , in conversation with Caroline Leavitt, author of With or Without You . – Upcoming Reads – The Jane Austen Society – Natalie Jenner (EF) Intimations: Six Essays – Zadie Smith (EF) Persuasion – Jane Austen (CW) The film The People’s Palace – produced, directed, and written by Graham Judd (CW) – Author Spotlight with Fiona Davis – We chat about her new book The Lions of Fifth Avenue . You can follow Fiona and her book tour here – Also Mentioned – W.E.B. Dubois The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo The Ghostwriter – Alessandra Torre, A.R. Torre The Shining – Stephen King Mrs. America with Cate Blanchett The Frick Collection…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 107 - Author Spotlight with Dr. Maysa Akbar 1:31:01
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1:31:01Episode One Hundred Seven Show Notes – Currently Reading – Night – Elie Wiesel (CW)(audio) Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man – Mary Trump, Ph.D. (CW) Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey – Kathleen Rooney (EF) release date 8/11/20 – Just Read – With or Without You – Caroline Leavitt (EF) Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder – Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey (CW) Transcendent Kingdom – Yaa Gyasi (EF) The Deep – Alma Katsu (CW) The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World – Melinda Gates (EF)(audio) Amityville Horror – Jay Anson (CW) – Biblio Adventures – Chris and Emily went on an adventure to the Durham Public Library . Emily picked up a copy of Cooperstown by Eugena Pilek. Chris picked up The Marrow Thieves by Cheri Dimaline. Emily tuned into A Mighty Blaze to hear an interview with Anna Quindlen author of Nanaville . and bookclub read The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose and she attended their Zoom conversation. – Upcoming Jaunts – Tuesday, July 21, a virtual event at The Strand with Amy Poeppel author of Musical Chairs in conversation with Marcy Dermansky. You can register for the event here . Tuesday, July 28, a virtual event at Books are Magic with Sarah Weinman author of Unspeakable Acts in conversation with Casey Cep. You can register for the event here . Monday, August 3, a virtual event at The Strand with Laura Lippman author of My Life as a Villainess: Essays in conversation Tafy Brodesser-Akner. You can register for the event here . Wednesday, August 5 the Schomburg Center will be hosting Isabel Wilkerson author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and The Warmth of Other Suns . You can register for the event here . The Book Cougars are hosting a biblio adventure! We will be having a virtual readalong discussion of Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. The Zoom discussion will take place on Sunday, July 26th at 7:00 p.m. (EST). If you would like to join us please send an email to save a spot. – Upcoming Reads – Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata (CW) Saving Ruby King – Catherine Adel West (EF) Beyond Ally: The Pursuit of Racial Justice – Dr. Maysa Akbar (CW)(EF) – Author Spotlight with Dr. Maysa Akbar – You can learn more about Dr. Akbar and her books on her website . Beyond Ally: The Pursuit of Racial Justice and Urban Trauma: A Legacy of Racism – Also Mentioned – Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk – Kathleen Rooney Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling Also by Alma Katsu: The Hunger , and The Taker Trilogy Home Before Dark – Riley Sager Empire of Wild – Cherie Dimaline Alice Hoffman The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones Russell at Ink and Paper Blog The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough Lady in the Lake – Laura Lippman 14th Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden Poet Tracy K. Smith…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 106 - Author Spotlight with Anne Oman 1:13:52
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1:13:52– Currently Reading – All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto – George M. Johnson (CW) The Museum of Modern Love – Heather Rose (EF) (audio) Night – Elie Wiesel (CW) Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women’s Voices - Kathy Gunst and Katherine Alford (EF) – Just Read – Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close – Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman (EF) release date 7/14/20 Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts – Kate Racculia (CW) The Last Flight – Julie Clark (EF) My Sister the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite (CW)(audio) Last Day – Luanne Rice (EF) Home Before Dark – Riley Sager (CW) The Revisioners – Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (EF) Blacktop Wasteland – S.A. Crosby (CW) release date 7/14/20 – Biblio Adventures – Chris attended a virtual event through RJ Julia Booksellers Richie Jackson author of Gay Like Me in conversation with Matthew Reimer author of We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation . Emily attended a virtual event via Books are Magic with Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Rodham , in conversation with J. Courtney Sullivan to discuss the release of her book Friends and Strangers . Emily listened to the Women’s Prize podcast, which can be found HERE . – Upcoming Jaunts – Emily is going to scout out and make donations to some of the little free libraries created via the organization Help Your Shelves . Wednesday, July 15 – Chris plans to attend a virtual event via The Center for Fiction with Victor Lavalle in conversation with Stephen Graham Jones about his book, The Only Good Indians . The Book Cougars are hosting a biblio adventure! We will be having a virtual readalong discussion of Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. The Zoom discussion will take place on Sunday, July 26th at 7:00 p.m. (EST). If you would like to join us please send an email to save a spot. – Upcoming Reads – The Topeka School – Ben Lerner (EF) Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey – Kathleen Rooney (EF) release date 8/11/20 With or Without You – Caroline Leavitt (EF) release date 8/4/20 The Quarry Fox and Other Critters of the Wild Catskills – Leslie T. Sharpe (EF) (audio) Fludd – Hilary Mantel (CW) – Author Spotlight with Anne Oman – Anne is the author of Mango Rains out from Galaxy Galloper Press . The book can be found on her website: http://www.mangorains.net/ And bookshop.org: https://bit.ly/MangoRains – Also Mentioned – Other books by Elie Weisel: Dawn and Day Amityville Horror – Jay Anson The Okra Project Tayari Jones Ann Patchett Paul Tremblay Tommy Orange Hilary Mantel Trilogy: Wolf Hall , Bringing Up the Bodies , and The Mirror & the Light…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 135 - Finally, an IN PERSON Joint Jaunt! 53:32
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53:32Both Book Cougars rave about Jung Yun’s forthcoming novel O BEAUTIFUL (St. Martin’s Press, Nov 9). We’ve been (im)patiently waiting for this novel and we give it a solid four thumbs up! Pre-order it now or ask your library to order a copy, or ten. Thanks to Juliet Grimes for sending us a copy of CLARK AND DIVISION by Naomi Hirahara (Soho Crime, Aug 3). Chris highly recommends this historical mystery set in 1944 Chicago about a Japanese-American family from California that is relocated to the Windy City after being incarcerated in a concentration camp by the U.S. Government. Emily read three very different novels. For a good light summer read, she recommends THE APOLOGY PROJECT by Jeannette Escudero (Lake Union Publishing, Aug 1) and if you’re looking for a page-turning thriller, check out HER PERFECT LIFE by Hank Phillip Ryan (Forge Books, Sep 14). A MOUTHFUL OF AIR by Amy Koppelman was originally published in 1992. Two Dollar Radio has a new edition coming out Aug 17. Emily highly recommends this novel that has been compared to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. This is an intense and compassionate novel about a woman struggling with postpartum depression. In Biblioadventures we were thrilled to go on our first IN PERSON author event since the pandemic moved events online. We ventured to the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library to see Clarie J. Griffen talk about her new biography, A REBELLIOUS WOMAN, about Belle Boyd (1844-1900). The event was held on the library’s front lawn. It was so lovely to once again sit side-by-side listening to an author talk about her work. Chris binged the new HEMINGWAY mini-series and Emily went to the Big Apple to visit Aunt Ellen — of course they visited a couple bookstores. Listen to Episode 135 to hear about all of the above and more!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 134 - Announcing Our 18th Readalong! 1:04:49
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1:04:49Chris and Emily are making progress in their #BigBookSummer classics and diving into some brand-new fiction as well. Emily went on a thrilling, if dark, adventure through Paul McLain’s new novel, WHEN THE STARS GO DARK, and Chris time traveled to meet THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN via Marie Benedict’s and Victoria Christopher Murray’s cowritten novel about Belle da Costa Green. We traveled to several states on biblioadventures, both IRL and though Zoomlandia — from Rhode Island to Massachusettes to Colorado. There’s lots more bookish banter in this episode for your listening pleasure, including the announcement of our 18th readalong pick!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 133 - Recording Together from the New Book Cougars Studio! 59:35
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59:35Emily and Chris recorded together in person in a new space: Emily’s office, AKA the new Book Cougars recording studio! Emily shares her exciting biblioadventures in Colorado and Chris meets up with The Great Gatsby in two books and one documentary. Emily read Beach Read, the novel by Emily Henry, not the concept, and Chris is reading Books for Idle Hours by Dona Harrington-Lueker, about how the concept of summer reading developed in the 19th-century. They’re both diving into their Big Book Summer reads and so much more!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 132 - Author Spotlight with Gina Barreca 1:26:14
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1:26:14Get ready, we reveal our Summer Reading Goals, and Our Mystery Man, John Valeri, stops by to share some of his, as well. Chris takes us along on her biblio adventure to Chicago including her stops along the way. We have a great interview with Gina Barreca, the editor of the flash non-fiction essay collection, Fast Funny Women.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 131 - Readalong Discussion of Braiding Sweetgrass with Jenny from Reading Envy Podcast 1:09:19
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1:09:19We reveal our Big Book Summer Reading challenge books, and a couple of our listeners let us know about their choices, as well. Chris talks about a controversy regarding reader book reviews and Emily got a chance to watch a video with the dynamic duo of John Valeri and Playwright Laura Thoma on the Central Booking YouTube channel. We discuss Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, our joint readalong with Jenny from the Reading Envy podcast.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 130 - Author Spotlight with Whitney Scharer and a GIVEAWAY! 1:25:53
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1:25:53We recorded together for the first time in over a year! It was amazing to sit and talk about books over the kitchen table. Hashtag grateful. Emily went on a whirlwind adventure with Maggie Shipstead’s GREAT CIRCLE and Chris got down with I WILL SURVIVE, song lyrics by Frederick J. Perren and Dino Fekaris, illustrated by Kaitlyn Shea O’Connor. It’s another tenth episode which means it’s time for another giveaway! Listen for details. We also hope you’ll join us in our buddy Sue’s Big Book Summer Reading challenge this year. Listen for details about this, too.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 129 - Author Spotlight with Chris Tebbetts 1:19:28
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1:19:28On Episode 129 we chat with author Chris Tebbetts about his book, Me Myself & Him, what it is like to co-write books with James Patterson, and how he keeps in touch with his inner child. Chris reflects on a biblio adventure with one of her favorite writers, Sarah Waters, and Emily dives into one of the hottest book releases of the year, Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 128 - Author Spotlight with Melissa Homestead 1:20:59
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1:20:59On Episode 128 we talk with Dr. Melissa Homestead about her book, The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis. We had several biblio adventures. Chris shares what she learned about the Emily Dickinson archives housed at Harvard’s Houghton Library and also shares an event via the GLBT Historical Society with a powerful group of panelists. Emily geeks out over a conversation that two chefs have about breadcrumbs.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 127 - Flies & Magpies: Playwright Spotlight with Laura Thoma 1:26:49
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1:26:49On Episode 127 we talk with playwright Laura Thoma about her play, Magpie, which was recently published with Next Stage Press. Chris and Emily recount a joint jaunt to Old Saybrook to visit author Ann Petry’s childhood home. They also stop by the Acton Public Library and visit the metal sculpture in front; is it a cricket, a fly, or a praying mantis? In honor of National Poetry Month, we share a few poetry collections.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 126 - Saltwater in Our Veins: Author Spotlight with Luanne Rice 1:27:47
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1:27:47We chat with Luanne Rice about our mutual love of the Long Island Sound and beachcombing for treasures. Luanne also shares a candid account of her experience with emotional abuse and how she came to write about it in her newest novel, The Shadow Box. Chris shares the new Dolly Parton book, STORYTELLER, and we discuss the merits of a singer songwriter winning the Nobel Laureate - think Bob Dylan. Emily learns about how to be a better listener, say what?…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 125 - Poetry Spotlight with Shuly Cawood 1:26:08
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1:26:08We got the chance to talk with Shuly Cawood about her new poetry collection, Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning. Together we ponder how some poetry resonates and some does not. Chris shares exciting news about a new book chronicling the life of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis. A surprise buddy read of Jennifer McMahon’s soon to be released book, The Drowning Kind. And we share lots of Couch Biblio Adventures…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 124 - Dr. Charlotte Markey Is Helping Girls Grow Up Fearless 1:29:08
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1:29:08We have a conversation with Dr. Charlotte Markey about The Body Image Book for Girls: Love Yourself and Grow Up Less Fearless. The pandemic is keeping us close to home these days, but Chris does some traveling via books to Cairo, Egypt circa 1912 and Boston, Massachusetts. Emily reads a couple of novels that make her uncomfortable, but in a good way. We also make an announcement about our upcoming readalongs!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 123 - Author Kerri Arsenault Promises to Make Us Cretons! 1:25:32
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1:25:32We have a conversation with Kerri Arsenault about her book Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains. Topics covered include archival research, genealogy, toxic chemicals, and local politics. Chris and Kerri also get a chance to reminisce about the pink huffy bikes of their youth. Emily discusses the theme of motherhood and shared familial responsibility that showed up in her reading and listening over the past couple of weeks. Chris shares biblio adventures with Emily Dickinson and Enola Holmes.…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 122 - A Visit with Our Mystery Man John Valeri 1:19:30
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1:19:30We welcome back Our Mystery Man, John Valeri. He gives us some book recommendations and tells us about two authors we should all be reading. Chris and Emily went on a Joint Couch Biblio Adventure to hear Min Jin Lee discuss The Great Gatsby. She wrote the introduction for the newly released Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. We also discuss the complexities of burying a dead body, Our Mystery Man would be so proud!…
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Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
1 Episode 121 - Author Spotlight with Jason Pinter 1:32:17
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1:32:17Get ready, our first regular episode of 2021 is packed with a lot of bookish banter! We did a lot of reading over the last few weeks. We also got a chance to chat with Jason Pinter, founder of Polis Books and author of the Rachel Marin series. The second book in the series, A Stranger at the Door, is available now. Also, reminder that we have an upcoming readalong of Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault.…
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