Episode 164 - Talking About the Booker Prizes with Russell Gray from Ink and Paper Blog
Episode One Hundred Sixty Four Show Notes
KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine
– 22nd Readalong –
Our Third Quarter readalong is The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson. The Zoom discussion will take place on Sunday, September 18th at 7pm (ET). Send us an email if you would like to join in. You can join the Goodreads discussion here. You can purchase directly from Milkweed Press with free shipping using the Promo Code: SEEDKEEPERCOUGARS
– Currently Reading – [1:27]
How to Read Now: Essays – Elaine Castillo (CW)
Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘em Dead: A Mystery – Elle Cosimano (EF)
Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life – Brigitte Benkemoun, translated by Jody Gladding (CW)
– Just Read – [6:52]
We Are Water Protectors – Carole Lindstrom, illustrated by Michaela Goade (EF)
A Ghost of Caribou – Alice Henderson (CW) release date 11/6/2022
Listen to our conversation with Alice Henderson on Episode 141
Small World – Laura Zigman (EF) release date 1/10/2023
Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex – Aimée Duc, translated and edited by Margaret Sönser Breen and Nisha Kommattam (CW)
Black, White, and the Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant – John O. Morisano and Mashama Bailey (EF)
Miss Nobody from Nowhere – Elizabeth Jordan (CW)
Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship – Annabel Abbs narrated by Ell Potter, Bianca Amato (EF)
The Displacements – Bruce Holsinger (EF)
– Biblio Adventures – [40:00]
Chris met Kate in Norwalk to eat lobster rolls and discuss Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. Kate gave her a copy of Exiles by Jane Harper (release date 1/31/2023).
Emily and The Gentleman Caller visited several little free libraries by foot and by bike.
Chris is watching The Outlander series on Netflix based on the novels by Diana Gabaldon.
– Upcoming Jaunts – [44:36]
Chris and Emily are looking forward to The Zoom discussion of the The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson which will take place on Sunday, September 18th at 7pm (ET). Send us an email if you would like to join in.
Emily is hoping to get to Pop! Art Books Culture in Boardman, Ohio.
Chris is planning to attend the Provincetown Book Festival, particularly the session with Melissa Homestead and Scott Bane discussing his book A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F.O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney.
– Upcoming Reads – [47:20]
The Seed Keeper – Diane Wilson (CW)(EF)
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures – Merline Sheldrake (EF)
On the Rooftop – Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (EF)
Out Now:
Sweet and Sour – Debbi Michiko Florence
Lucky Girl: How I Became a Horror Writer – M. Rickert
– The Booker Prize conversation with Russell Gray – [50:10]
You can watch Russell on his YouTube channel.
Learn more about The Booker Prizes.
The 2022 Short List of Books:
Glory – Noviolet Bulawayo
Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan
Treacle Walker – Alan Garner
The Trees – Percival Everett
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka
Oh William! – Elizabeth Strout
– Also Mentioned –
The Ski Jumpers by Peter Geye
University of Minnesota Press
Finlay Donovan is Killing It: A Mystery – Elle Cosimano
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power – Deirdre Mask
Also by Alice Henderson: A Solitude of Wolverines and A Blizzard of Polar Bears
Broadview Press
Miss Nobody From Nowhere – Elizabeth Ashton
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration – Isabel Wilkerson
The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis – Melissa J. Homestead
The Revisioners – Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Trust – Hernan Diaz
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