Episode 259 - Busted by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Episode 259 Show Notes
A few PSA’s:
1. Thank you to Georgia for letting us know that if you live outside of the US you can find an unabridged copy of the audiobook of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café through AudiobooksNow.
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– Currently Reading –
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir (CW) (audiobook)
The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush – Susan Gregg Gilmore (EF)
Friction: A Biography – Jennifer R. Vail (CW)
Morning Baker: Recipes and Rituals for Breakfast and Beyond – Roxana Jullapat, and Ari Smolin (EF)
– Just Read –
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop – Hwang Bo-Reum, translated by Shanna Tan (EF) (audiobook)
The Body Farm: Scarpetta #5 – Patricia Cornwell (CW)
The Things We Never Say – Elizabeth Strout (EF)
All the World Can Hold – Jung Yun (CW)
Blunt Instrument – Amy Bloom (EF)
Yesteryear – Caro Claire Burke (CW)
– Biblio Adventures –
Chris celebrated Independent Bookstore Day with visits to The Book Barn in Niantic where she purchased The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl and The Unofficial Companion to Patricia Cornwell by George Beahm; next she stopped at Bank Square Books in Mystic where she came home with copies of The Known World by Edward P. Jones, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life by Ellen Carol DuBois, and Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution by Molly Beer.
Emily had a workday at the Carbondale Public Library where she was surprised to learn that they offer free printing. On the way home she flew through the Denver airport where she found a very cool, very big take-one-leave-one library in the A gates of the Denver airport that is a façade for Williams & Graham, a speakeasy-style cocktail bar and restaurant.
– Upcoming Jaunts –
April 29, Chris and Emily are heading on a joint jaunt to see Emily Franklin at RJ Julia’s Booksellers with her novel Love & Other Monsters. The event is free, you can register here.
April 30 – May 3, Chris and Emily are signed up to attend The Northshire Book Festival: A Weekend in Booktopia
May 7, Chris and Emily are signed up to see Caroline Bicks, author of Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King, at RJ Julia’s Booksellers.
May 10, Chris and Emily are heading to the movies to see Fried Green Tomatoes. Find out where it is playing near you.
May 23, from 2-4pm (ET) there is an unveiling of the Margaret Fuller statue at the Concord Free Public Library. Find out more here.
May 24, next Reading Salon topic: books over 400 pages for Sue Jackson’s Big Book Summer Reading Challenge.
– Upcoming Reads –
Twilight Sleep – Edith Wharton (CW)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe – Fannie Flagg (EF)
Don’t Stop – Bonnie Friedman (EF)
Esquire Ball: Stories from the Great Black Swamp – Lisa Slage Robinson (EF)
– Out Now –
True Crime: A Memoir by Patricia Cornwell
The Author Weekend – Laura Zigman
Enormous Wings – Laurie Frankel
– Q2 Readalong –
The 2026 second quarter readalong is Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg. It is the 35th anniversary of the film adaptation so it will be showing in theaters again on May 10, 2026.
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– Also Mentioned –
Author Peter Geye
Author Jamie Ford
True Crime: A Memoir by Patricia Cornwell
Shelter by Jung Yun
Author Sara Catterall
After Lives by Megan Marshall
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
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