Episode 219 - Exploring Picture Book Art
Episode 219 Show Notes
– Currently Reading –
Armadale – Wilkie Collins (CW)
The Dead Romantics – Ashley Poston (EF)
This Cursed House – Del Sandeen (CW)
Birding with Benefits – Sarah T. Dubb (EF) (audiobook)
Boyfriend Material – Alexis Hall (CW)(audiobook)
– Just Read –
The Mighty Red – Louise Erdrich (EF) (audiobook)
If I Stopped Haunting You – Colby Wilkens (CW) (audiobook)
Sandwich – Catherine Newman (EF)
Chris read several picture books:
The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs – written by Chana Stiefel, illustrated by Susan Gal
The City Tree – Shira Boss illustrated by Lorena Alvarez
I Am Bat – Morg Hood
The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt – written by Riel Nason, illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler
She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein – written by Lynn Fulton, illustrated by Felicita Sala
Emily read two short stories written by Nobel Prize winners:
“Loot” by Nadine Gordimer from the collection Loot and Other Stories.
“Seams” by Olga Tokarczuk from The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners. You can read the story here.
– Biblio Adventure –
Chris and Emily went north to Massachusetts. The first stop was The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA. They spent time in the giftshop where Emily purchased a copy of Pancakes, Pancakes! by Eric Carle and Chris purchased Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson, translated by Kingsley Hart. Next stop was the Montague Book Mill. Emily purchased a copy of The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones and The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazard edited by Brigitta Olubas. Chris purchased A New Home, Who Will Follow? by Caroline Kirkland, Thinking and Writing about Literature by Michael Meyer, and Writing Creative Nonfiction edited by Philip Girard. The last stop was the Montague Public Library. You can watch a quick video of our day here.
Emily attended an event at RJ Julia’s Booksellers with Betsy Lerner and her debut novel Shred Sisters.
– Upcoming Jaunts –
Chris and Emily are heading to NYC to see Aunt Ellen.
Chris and Emily are planning to attend an author signing with Penny Goetjen and her newest novel Deadly Ripples at Breakwater Books in Guilford on October 17th between 1-3pm (ET).
On October 30th Chris and Emily are heading to the Concord Library to attend an event via the Concord Festival of Authors, “The scrolls of the past burn my fingers”: Reviving Margaret Fuller. You can learn more about the event here.
– Upcoming Reads –
Read Between the Lines – Rachel Lacey (CW)
What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking – Caroline Chambers (EF)
Murder in the Smithsonian – Margaret Truman (CW)(EF)
– 4th Quarter Readalong –
A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy
Please join the online conversation via the Goodreads discussion thread.
The Zoom readalong discussion will take place on Sunday, December 8h at 7:00 pm (ET). Please send an email if you would like to join.
– Also Mentioned –
Audio version of The Decameron Short Story Project
Single All the Way movie
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
There Once Was a Town documentary narrated by Edward Asner
The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
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