Episode 34 - Holiday Gift Ideas and Our 3rd Readalong
Willa Cather's Birthday Party at BookClub Bookstore & More in South Windsor, CT
Episode Thirty Four Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine
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We have an upcoming read-along:
February – Maurice by E.M. Forster.
– Just Read –
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers (CW)
– Currently Reading/Listening –
The Rules of Magic – Alice Hoffman (EF)
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II – Liza Mundy (CW) (audio)
– Biblio Adventures –
Chris celebrated Willa Cather’s birthday on December 7 at Bookclub Bookstore & More in South Windsor, CT. She is kicking off a quarterly Willa Cather book club starting with My Antonia to be discussed on January 18th at 2:00 at the same bookstore.
Emily visited Galaxy Bookshop in Hardwick, VT
She also saw the movie Call Me By Your Name based on the novel by André Aciman
book info here / movie info here
– Upcoming Jaunts –
Min Jin Lee will be at RJ Julia’s Booksellers on January 25, 2018
– Gift Ideas –
Book Subscription Services like The Mysterious Bookshop Crime Clubs
Bundle Monster Booklight Clip
A subscription to Magazines or Literary JournalsGift Cards to Independent Bookstores
Leather Weighted Bookmark
Buy some literary swag from Out of Print
Gift of a literary activity
Gift of Poetry - Devotions by Mary Oliver / New Collected Poems by Wendell Berry
Gift baskets with books and associated literary items
Complete Stories – Kurt Vonnegut
Complete Stories – Flannery O’ Connor paired with A Good Hard Look – Ann Napolitano
– Also Mentioned –
Disappearances – Howard Frank Mosher
Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space – Margot Lee Shetterly
The movie Lady Bird
Alice Hoffman book tour
Kelly Corrigan book tour
Stone Butch Blues – Leslie Feinberg
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The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
-Wendell Berry