Episode 138 - Marilynne Robinson Returns

Episode One Hundred Thirty Eight Show Notes

KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine

– 18th Readalong discussion –
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura.
The discussion will drop on September 28th via Episode 139, please get questions/comments to us by September 20th.
The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE.
The Zoom discussion will take place on Sunday, September 19th at 7:00 p.m. (EST). If you would like to join please send an email to save a spot.

– Currently Reading –
The Doctors Blackwell – Janice P. Nimura (CW)(EF)

– Just Read –
Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing – Elissa Altman (EF)
The Madness of Crowds – Louise Penny (CW)
Middletown – Sarah Moon (EF)
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts – Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez (CW)
The Guide – Peter Heller (EF)

– Biblio Adventures –
Chris visited The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Emily watched the Oprah Book Club conversations with Marilynne Robinson regarding her Gilead book series. You can learn more about it here.

Emily caught the conversation with Hank Phillipi Ryan and William Kent Krueger, author of the book Lightning Strike. You can watch it here.

– Upcoming Jaunts –
Emily is planning to attend an event with Heather Frimmer, author of Better to Trust, at Westport Library from 7-8 pm. You can learn more about the event here.

Chris and Emily are hatching plans to go on a joint jaunt to Mount Holyoke College and then head on to Northampton, MA to check out multiple bookstores.

– Upcoming Reads –
A Blizzard of Polar Bears: A Novel of Suspense – Alice Henderson (CW) release date 11/9/2021
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed – Helene Tursten (CW) release date 10/5/2021
The Archer – Shruti Swamy (EF)
My Darling from the Lions: Poems – Rachel Long (EF)

– Also Mentioned –
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
“Ditching Dickensian” – Matthew Sherrill
The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
Martin Chuzzlewhit – Charles Dickens
State of Terror – Louise Penny and Hillary Rodham Clinton
Me Myself and Him – Chris Tebbetts
The Trial of Lizzy Borden – Cara Robertson
The River – Peter Heller
The movie Get Out
Simmons University
Gilead and Home – Marilynne Robinson
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good – Helene Tursten
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk
A Solitude of Wolverines: A Novel of Suspense – Alice Henderson

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