Episode 247 - 2025 Holiday Gift Ideas & Q4 Readalong (How to Sell A Haunted House)
Episode 247 Show Notes
– Currently Reading –
Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America – Stephanie Gorton (CW)
The Chicken Sisters – KJ Dell’Antonia (EF) (audiobook)
Dracula – Bram Stoker (CW) (audiobook narrated by Mark Gatiss)
– Just Read –
The Bone Thief – Vanessa Lillie (EF) (audiobook)
Chris DNF’d two books:
Camp Damascus – Chuck Tingle
Hell House – Richard Matheson
Witches of Dubious Origin – Jenn McKinlay (EF)
Watch our conversation with the Jungle Red Writers.
Anne Brontë Night Walker: A Brontë Blood Chronicle – Gea Haff (CW)
How to Sell a Haunted House – Grady Hendrix (CW)(EF)
– Episode Sponsor –
Resonant Blue and Other Stories by Mary Vensel White
– Biblio Adventures –
Chris had a browse at the Barnes and Noble in Milford, CT.
Emily went to Bank Square Books in Mystic, to hear Luanne Rice in conversation with Vanessa Lillie about her novel The Bone Thief. Follow Vanessa on her website and Instagram.
– Upcoming Jaunts –
November 20 at Harvard Bookstore, Chris and Emily are going on a joint jaunt to Boston to see Hanna Halperin in conversation with Oyinkan Braithwaite about her new novel Cursed Daughters.
Chris and Emily plan to watch the 1992 film adaptation of Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppolla.
Chris registered for a virtual event via the North Haven Public Library, “Unlock the Secret Language of Connection with Supercommunicator Charles Duhigg,” at 2:00 pm (ET) on November 15. You can register here.
The next Patreon Reading Salon will take place on Sunday, November 23rd. Our topic will be books that have a food-related focus or theme.
– Upcoming Reads –
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald – John U Bacon (CW)
Black Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Book Store – Char Adams (CW)
Typhoid Mary – Anthony Bourdain (EF)
Flights literary magazine of Sinclair Community College – edited by (EF)
“Afterward” by Edith Wharton from The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (CW)(EF) (audiobook)
– 2025 Holiday Gift Recommendations –
Subscription to a literary magazine, for example Ploughshares.
Yoto audio players for kids.
The pStyle personal urination device.
The American Renaissance Tarot Deck from Schiffer Publishing.
Cretacolor MegaColor Pencils with the sharpener.
Support a small independent press, for example Rose Metal Press.
Diamine Inkvent 2025 Advent Calendar.
Fabulously Flat Paper Pens.
Make a handmade book.
Go on a Biblio Adventure!
– Also Mentioned –
Gathering Volumes bookstore in Perrysburg, OH
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley
Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie
The Twisted Spine bookstore in Brooklyn, NY
New England Archivists
The Art of Ectoplasm: Encounters with Winnipeg's Ghost Photographs by Serena Keshavjee
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams with illustrations by William Nicholson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Good House by Tananarive Due
The Upstairs House by Julia Fine
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