Episode 140 - Our Mystery Man Returns with Spooktacular Recommendations
Episode One Hundred Forty Show Notes
KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine
– Episode 140 Giveaway –
Archer – Shruti Swamy
Choose Me – Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver
When All the Girls Are Sleeping – Emily Arsenault
Fault Lines – Emily Itami
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– Currently Reading –
The Sundial – Shirley Jackson (CW)
Bewilderment – Richard Powers (EF)
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories – Hilma Wolitzer (EF)
– Just Read –
Shadow Life: When Death Comes Too Soon, Fight Dirty – Hiromi Goto, Ann Xu (Illustrator) (CW)
The Book of Form and Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki (EF)
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature – Farah Jasmine Griffin (CW)(audio)
The Inheritance of Orquíeda Divina – Zoraida Córdova (EF)
Carmilla – Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (CW)(Audible Original)
Mrs. March – Virginia Feito (EF)
– Biblio Adventures –
Emily found a very cool Little Free Library on Chappaquiddick Island, MA.
Chris went to the Amherst Book Store and purchased a copy of Matrix by Lauren Groff and A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark.
Chris (and Aunt Ellen) binged Midnight Mass on Netflix.
– Upcoming Jaunts –
Chris is planning to watch Chapelwait based on Stephen King’s short story Jerusalem’s Lot.
Emily is excited to watch an event via Books and Books in Miami, Florida with Leigh Bardugo (Ninth House) and V.E. Schwab (The Invisible Life of Addie Larue) in conversation with Zoraida Cordova about her new book The Inheritance of Orquíeda Divina. You can watch the video here.
– Upcoming Reads –
Alexander’s Bridge – Willa Cather (CW)
You can learn about the Willa Cather book club here.
A Blizzard of Polar Bears – Alice Henderson (CW) release date 11/9/2021
How to Get Into the Twin Palms – Karolina Waclawiak (EF)
Emily is hoping to find a book by Sarah Addison Allen
– Our Mystery Man, John Valeri –
Check out John’s YouTube channel: Central Booking
Young Adult Recommendations:
The Stitchers (Fright Watch #1) – Lorien Lawrence
The Collectors (Fright Watch #2) – Lorien Lawrence
The Mary Shelley Club – Goldy Moldavsky
Kill the Boy Band – Goldy Moldavsky
No Good Deed – Goldy Moldavsky
When All the Girls Are Sleeping – Emily Arsenault
There’s Someone Inside Your House – Stephanie Perkins
The movie adaptation.
Adult Recommendations:
Chasing the Boogeyman – Richard Chizmar
My Heart is a Chainsaw – Stephen Graham Jones
Nonfiction:
It All Began with a Scream – Padraic Maroney
Vampire Book:
Vampyres of Hollywood – Adrienne Barbeau, Michael Scott
– 19th Readalong –
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
The discussion will drop on December 21st via Episode 145, please get questions/comments to us by December 14th.
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– Also Mentioned –
Also by Shirley Jackson – We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Haunting of Hill House, and The Lottery
The video of the Book Cougars Biblio Adventure to North Bennington to see Shirley Jackson’s Haunts
The Overstory – Richard Powers
Meg Wolitzer
Brooklyn Brujas series by Zoraida Córdova: Labyrinth Lost, Bruja Born, and Wayward Witch
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good – Helene Tursten
The Haunting of Tramcar 015 – P. Djèlí Clark
The Haunting of Hill House dramatic series on Netflix
Night Shift – Stephen King
Salem’s Lot – Stephen King
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer – Michelle McNamara
Jaws movie
The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones
Silence of the Lambs movie
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