When the Emperor was Divine — Episodes

Episode 270 Show Notes

– Another 10th Episode Giveaway! –
Practical Magic 2 – Alice Hoffman
The Dog Stars – Peter Heller
Girls Like Girls – Hayley Kiyoko

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– Deb & Kate Desert Island Books –
The Stand – Stephen King
Tom’s Crossing – Mark Z. Danielewski
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
The Sparrow – Mary Doria Russell
Devotions – Mary Oliver
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Power Broker – Robert Caro
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

– Currently Reading –
Black Notice – Patricia Cornwell (CW)
The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People – Judith Orloff (EF)
Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football – Rich Cohen (CW)

– Just Read –
The Pirate Queen – Ariel Lawhon (EF)
American Hagwon – Min Jin Lee (CW)
From Hell, With Love – Bryce Oakley (CW) (audiobook)
I’ve Tried Being Nice – Ann Leary (EF)
Gibbons or One Bloody Thing After Another – James Morrison (CW)
Consider the Oyster – MFK Fisher (EF)
When the Emperor was Divine – Julia Otsuka (EF)
Chris dnf’d The Last Vampire – Romina Garber (CW) (audiobook)
Social Animals – Camille Perri (EF)
Good Girls Die Bored – Elizabeth Little (CW)
Food is a Feeling: Recipes & Stories, with Love – Carla Lalli (EF)
The Ridiculously Simple Guide to Trello – Scott La Counte (CW)
Supercharging Productivity with Trello – Brittany Joiner (CW)
Mother Daughter Sister Stranger – Hank Phillipi Ryan (EF)
Winter’s Bone – Daniel Woodrell (EF)

– Episode Sponsor –
Motherhood, and the Places Between by Jacqueline Kolosov

– Biblio Adventures –
Chris attended a virtual event via Honest Dog Books with Dr. Jen Golbeck and her book Think Like a Dog: How Positive Psychology Can Help Your Dog Thrive. She was in conversation with Blair Braverman, who was featured in an Author Spotlight on Episode 168 with her debut novel Small Game.

Emily went to An Unlikely Story Bookstore to see Laura Zigman in conversation with Alice Hoffman about her new novel The Witches of Cambridge.

Chris attended a virtual event via The National Willa Cather Center with Richard Norton Smith discussing My Mortal Enemy.

Emily took a browse through the Niantic Book Barn and picked up a copy of How to Cook a Moose by Kate Christensen and The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett.

Chris watched All the President’s Men based on the novel by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

Chris and Emily went on a joint jaunt to see Terry Tempest Williams. The event was sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library on the Yale University campus.

Chris attended a virtual event with a 19th Century Women’s Writers group that was focusing on The Reconstruction Diary of Frances Anne Rollin by Jennifer Putzi, who was a guest on Episode 266.

– Upcoming Jaunts –
Chris and Emily are heading on a joint jaunt to see “Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: Rachel Carson’s Environmental Vision” at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Emily plans to watch the 1973 film Don’t Look Now based on the short story by Daphne du Maurier and Winter’s Bone based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell.

Emily plans to see the exhibit “Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks,” at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute Schlesinger Library.

Learn more about Uncovered, a new author talk series that is a partnership between the Association of University Presses and PBS Books.

– Upcoming Reads –
Carrie – Stephen King (CW)(EF) (audiobook)
We’re doing a buddy read and will discuss the book on Episode 271.
Learn more about the new adaptation.
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State – Jill LePore (CW)
Embracing Hope: On Freedom, Responsibility & the Meaning of Life – Victor Frankl (CW)
All the Love You Can Use: The Letters of Carson McCullers – Carson McCullers, edited by Carlos Dews (CW)
Read both of Chris’s blog posts:
All the Love You Can Use
Carson McCullers’ Home in Nyack

– Q4 Readalong –
Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko and the film adaptation. The Zoom conversation will take place on December 6th at 7pm (ET). Send us an email if you would like to join. You can join the online conversation on Goodreads.

– Also Mentioned –
LibraryThing is launching an app that includes a dating app!
“My dad was a Monster!” article in The Guardian
Also by Julie Otsuka: The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

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