Episode 141 - Author Spotlight with Alice Henderson

Episode One Hundred Forty One Show Notes
KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine

– Currently Reading – [1:00]
A Blizzard of Polar Bears – Alice Henderson (CW) release date 11/9/2021
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love – Sonya Renee Taylor, foreword by Ijeoma Oluo (CW)
Dracula – Bram Stoker (CW) (Audible Original)

– Just Read – [7:13]
Being Perfect – Anna Quindlen (EF)
The Sundial – Shirley Jackson (CW)
How to Get Into the Twin Palms – Karolina Waclawiak (EF)
A Solitude of Wolverines – Alice Henderson (EF)

– Biblio Adventures – [19:07]
Chris went on two bookstore adventures: Grey Matter Books in Hadley, MA and Raven Used Books in Northampton, MA.

Emily watched two interviews via the Oprah Conversation on Apple TV: Barack Obama discussing A Promised Land and Matthew McConaughey discussing his book Greenlights.

– Upcoming Jaunts – [24:40]
Out of the Archives: The Queer History of Dracula with Ranger Meaghan Michel on October 28 7:00 pm (CT). You can sign up for the event here.

Emily is signed up for an event via Politics & Prose on Wednesday, October 27 at 7 pm (ET); a thriller panel with authors Wiley Cash, When Ghosts Come Home, and Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods.

– Upcoming Reads – [26:49]
The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman (EF)
The Man Who Died Twice – Richard Osman (EF)
Woodrow on the Bench – Jenna Blum (EF)
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story – Horace Walpole (CW)

– Author Spotlight with Alice Henderson – [30:00]
We spoke with Alice about her Alex Carter series including the first book, A Solitude of Wolverines, and the upcoming release of the second book in the series, A Blizzard of Polar Bears publishing on 11/9/2021.

You can learn more about Alice on her website.

Citizen science enables people from all walks of life to advance scientific research. You can learn more about it here.

– 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 –
Two Dollar Radio
The Believer Magazine
Longfellow House Washington’s Headquarters
Books by John Grisham: A Time to Kill and A Time for Mercy
Nevada Barr

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