Episode 51 - BookExpo 2018 - Buzzy Books for the Coming Year!

Episode Fifty One Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine

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Russell Gray’s Book Tube Channel can be found at https://www.youtube.com/inkandpaperblog

– Russel’s Book Recommendations –
So Lucky – Nicola Griffith
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #10) – Becky Chambers
When I Hit You: Or, a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife – Meena Kandasamy

– BookExpo Adult Editor’s Buzz 2018 –
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and The Novel that Scandalized the World – Sarah Weinman  release date September 11, 2018
She Would Be King – Wayétu Moore  release date September 11, 2018
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir – Casey Gerald  release date October 2, 2018
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive – Stephanie Land release date January 29, 2019
Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear – Kim Brooks  release date August 21, 2018
Ohio: A Novel – Stephen Markley  release date August 21, 2018

– BookExpo Young Adult Editor’s Buzz 2018 –
Darius the Great is Not Okay – Adib Khorram  release date August 28, 2018
The Girl King – Mimi Yu  release date August 28, 2018
Sadie – Courtney Summers  release date September 4, 2018
Girls of Paper and Fire – Natasha Ngan  release date November 6, 2018
The Similars – Rebecca Hanover  release date January 1, 2019

– Books Chris and Emily Were Really Excited To Acquire at BookExpo –
There, There – Tommy Orange (EF)
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and The Novel that Scandalized the World – Sarah Weinman (CW)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 20th Anniversary Editions with Brian Selznick illustrated covers (EF)
Hope Never Dies – Andrew Shaffer (CW)
Pride – Ibi Zoboi (CW)
The Library – Susan Orleans (CW)
Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It: A Mother’s Suggestions – Roz Chast and Patricia Marx (EF)

– Also Mentioned –
Simon Savidge – The Readers Podcast
Jen Campbell
MercysBookishMusings
Hild - Nicola Griffith
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant – Roz Chast
Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York – Roz Chast
Lets Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties – Patricia Marx
Deborah Harkness All Souls Trilogy

Episode 50 - Our 5th Giveaway and 4th & 5th Readalongs Announced!

Episode Fifty Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine

Join our Goodreads Group!
Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page.

Upcoming Readalongs
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott – have comments to us by June 21st
March – Geraldine Brooks – have comments to us by July 19th

50th Episode Giveaway
A banned books mug, a copy of Little Women and a copy of March for the upcoming readalongs please email us to enter the giveaway by June 1, 2018: bookcougars@gmail.com

Upcoming Book Release and Event
Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women – Anne Boyd Rioux (release date August 21st)
Check out upcoming events for the 150th anniversary of Little Women at Orchard House.

– Currently Reading/Listening –
Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton – edited by Randy L. Schmidt (CW)
Dream More – Dolly Parton (EF) (audio)
District VIII – Adam LeBor (CW) release date June 5th
It Happened at Two in the Morning – Alan Hruska (EF)
Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture – edited by Roxane Gay (EF)

Swag to be included in our 5th giveaway - a banned book mug. The giveaway also includes a copy of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and March by Geraldine Brooks. Enter the giveaway by June 1, 2018 by emailing bookcougars@gmail.com.

– Just Read –
The Overstory – Richard Powers (EF)
Bimini Twist: A Jane Bunker Mystery – Linda Greenlaw (CW) release date June 26th
Alternate Side – Anna Quindlen (EF)
Sworn to Silence (Kate Burkholder #1) – Linda Castillo (CW)
Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say – Kelly Corrigan (EF)
Lighthouse Beach – Shelley Noble (EF)

– Biblio Adventures –
Chris joined Aunt Ellen in NYC to see an Encore Series show and explored Central Park in search of Fitz-Greene Halleck’s statue. She also found a new bookstore called Book Off.

Chris also went to see the new movie Book Club.

Emily watched the Amazon television series I Love Dick based on the book by Chris Kraus.

– Upcoming Jaunts –
Chris and Emily are heading to NYC for Book Expo 2018, May 30-June 1.
BookCon is June2-3.

– Upcoming Reads –
Lawn Boy – Jonathan Evison (EF)
My Ex-Life – Stephen McCauley (EF)
From the Wreck – Jane Rawson (CW)
The Lost Sailors – Jean-Claude Izzo (CW)
Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion – Madeleine B. Stern and Leona Rostenberg (EF)

– Also Mentioned –
Northshire Bookstore Saratoga Springs, NY
Little Men and Jo’s Boys - Louise May Alcott
The Great American Read from PBS
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Still Life with Bread Crumbs – Anna Quindlen
But That’s Another Story – Will Schwalbe’s podcast
The Middle Place and Glitter and Glue – Kelly Corrigan
Russell Gray of Ink and Paper Blog
Alison Law of Literary Atlanta podcast
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving – Jonathan Evison

Episode 49 - Our Mystery Man Returns!

Episode Forty Nine Show Notes

Our Mystery Man – John Valeri
http://www.johnbvaleri.com/
Twitter: @OyeJohn52

– Books That Are Out Now –
The Woman in the Window – AJ Finn
The Chalk Man – C.J. Tudor
The Wife Between Us – Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The Wife – Alafair Burke
Into the Black Nowhere – Meg Gardiner
Look for Me – Lisa Gardner
You Will Be Mine – Natasha Preston
Mister Tender’s Girl – Carter Wilson
Vanished – Karen E. Olson
The Bishop’s Pawn – Steve Berry
Not That I Could Tell – Jessica Strawser
A Date with Murder (Murder She Wrote #47) – Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain, Jon Land
The Undercover Edge: Find Your Hidden Strengths, Learn to Adapt, and Build the Confidence to Win Life’s Game  – Derrick Levasseur
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer – Michelle McNamara

– Upcoming Releases –
The Word is Murder – Anthony Horowitz  release date June 5, 2018
A Stone’s Throw – James W. Ziskin  release date June 5, 2018
Little Girl Lost – Wendi Corsi Straub  release date July 24, 2018
The Last Thing I Told You – Emily Arsenault  release date July 24, 2018
Mystery of Three Quarters – Sophie Hannah  release date August 28, 2018

 – Upcoming Events –
Crime Conn at Ferguson Library – Saturday, June 23, 2018
John will be starting a Marcia Clark bookclub at Bookclub Bookstore & More starting on July 26, 2018 with Guilt By Association
John will be interviewing Emily Arsenault about the release of her new book The Last Thing I Told You at Bookclub Bookstore & More on August 4, 2018

– Also Mentioned –
Mystery Scene Magazine
Criminal Element
The Strand Magazine
The Snowman (Harry Hole #7) – Jo Nesbo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
Typepad – Online writing forum for amateur writers
The Hunt for Red October – Tom Clancy
Writer’s Digest Magazine
Big Brother television series
Is OJ Innocent? The Missing Evidence television series
Breaking Homicide television series
Northshire Bookstore – Saratoga Springs
Marcia Clark Investigates The First 48
The Fix

Episode 48 - Jaunt Much? Chris and Emily visit SEVEN bookstores and discuss LOADS of books

Chris and Emily visited by Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT and Northshire Bookstore in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Episode Forty Eight Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine

Join our Goodreads Group!
Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page.

Check out the 100 books listed in The Great American Read from PBS.

See the Lambda Literary Award information here.

– Currently Reading/Listening –
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders – Stuart Kells (CW)
The Overstory – Richard Powers (EF)
Chicago Manual of Style – University of Chicago Press (CW)
Alternate Side – Anna Quindlen (EF)

– Just Read –
Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Courage to Lead – Cecile Richards (EF)
DNF’d: The Swarm – Frank Schätzing (CW) read about her time with the book on her blog.
Bite by Bite – Geneen Roth (EF) (audio)
Dream More – Dolly Parton (CW) (audio)
This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide – Geneen Roth (EF)
Chicago Poems – Carl Sandburg (CW)

Author Laura Thoma at Bookclub Bookstore & More for Independent Bookstore Day. Check out her book Mastering the Art of Self-Expression.

– Biblio Adventures –
Independent Bookstore Day – Chris went with Laura who was at Bookclub Bookstore & More with Mastering the Art of Self-Expression, workbook.

Chris participated in Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon

Emily saw Meg Wolitzer discuss her book The Female Persuasion at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT

Chris and Emily stopped at Williams College newly opened bookstore.

May 4-5 – Booktopia at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT
                 Ariel Lawhon – I Was Anastasia: A Novel
                 Bianca Marais – Hum If You Don't Know the Words
                 Heather Abel – The Optimistic Decade
                 Jonathan Miles – Anatomy of a Miracle
                 Pamela Paul – My Life With Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
                 Peter Swanson – All the Beautiful Lies
                 Robin Oliveira – Winter Sisters
                 Stephen McCauley – My Ex-Life
                
On the "way home" Chris and Emily went to Saratoga Springs, NY to visit the other Northshire Bookstore.

Emily went to Brooklyn and visited Books are Magic and McNally Jackson

Chris went to a local cemetery in Guilford to see Fitz-Greene Halleck’s gravesite.

– Upcoming Jaunts –
Chris is going to see an Encore Series show in NYC at the Encore Series.

Coming up at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT:
May 15, 2018 – Chandra Prasad with her book Damselfly
May 16, 2018 – Heather Abel with her book The Optimistic Decade

Coming up at Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore:
May 25, 2018 – Lisa Ko with her book The Leavers

May 26, 2018 – Mark your calendar for World Dracula Day

– Upcoming Reads –
Bimini Twist (Jane Bunker Mystery #4) – Linda Greenlaw (CW) release date June 26, 2018
Hum If You Don’t Know the Words – Bianca Marais (CW)
In the Dark (Jenny Aron #1) – Andreas Pfluger (CW)
Bitter Orange – Claire Fuller (CW) release date October 9, 2018
The Other Woman – Sandie Jones (CW) release date August 21, 2018
Something in the Water – Catherine Stedman (CW) release date July 24, 2018
Black Chamber – S.M. Stirling (CW) release date July 3, 2018
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro – Rachel Slade (CW)
Dot Journaling: A Practical Guide: How to Start and Keep the Planner, To-Do List, and Diary That’ll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together – Rachel Wilkerson Miller (CW)
Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture – edited by Roxane Gay (EF)
The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process – Francesca Lia Block (EF)
Sunburn – Laura Lippman (EF)
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (EF)

– Also Mentioned –
Dolly Parton’s foundation: Imagination Library
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
The Wife – Meg Wolitzer
The Interestings – Meg Wolitzer
Modern Lovers – Emma Straub
The Vacationers – Emma Straub
Jesmyn Ward
The Duplass Brothers
Delicious Magazine
Emma Visick
Book Nook with Vick Mickunas
The Echo Maker – Richard Powers
American Rust – Philipp Meyer
The Son – Philip Meyer

Episode 47 - AngieThomas, Cecile Richards, Jhumpa Lahiri, Domenico Starnone and Willa Cather (of course!)

Chris and Emily went on a joint jaunt to Savoy Bookshop and Cafe for the Reading Across Road Island sponsored event with Angie Thomas and her book The Hate U Give.

Episode Forty Seven Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine

Join our Goodreads Group!
Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page. 

For National Poetry Month (April) we celebrated with a poetry video project.
Check out our Book Tube Channel to see the 30 poems read by friends, authors, bloggers, podcasters and more.

See the full list of the 2018 Edgar Award winners here.
We discuss:
Blue, Bluebird – Attica Locke
Tornado Weather – Deborah Elaine Kennedy
Dark Chapter – Winnie M. Li
Lola – Melissa Scrivner Love
Idaho – Emily Ruskovich
She Rides Shotgun – Jordan Harper
The Unseeing – Ana Mazzola
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI – David Grann
Chester B. Himes: A Biography – Lawrence P. Jackson
New Haven Noir edited by Amy Bloom – Two short stories won Spring Break by John Crowley and The Queen of Secrets by Lisa D. Gray
Long Way Down – Jason Reynolds
Bolo Books, Kristopher Zgorski
The Raven Bookstore in Kansas

– Currently Reading/Listening –
Chicago Poems – Carl Sandburg (CW)
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders – Stuart Kells (CW)
Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Courage to Lead – Cecile Richards (EF)

– Just Read –
Dark Chapter – Winnie M. Li. (CW)
Standard Deviation – Katherine Heiny (EF)
Sea Creatures from the Sky – Ricardo Cortés (CW)

– Biblio Adventures –
Chris and Emily went on a joint jaunt to Savoy Bookshop and Cafe for the Reading Across Road Island sponsored event with Angie Thomas and her book The Hate U Give.

Cecile Richards and Teresa C. Younger discussing Cecile's book Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Courage to Lead.

Emily went to see Cecile Richards discuss her book Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Courage to Lead sponsored by Wesleyan RJ Julia.

Chris hosted the second Willa Cather Bookclub at Bookclub Bookstore & More in South Windsor, CT where they read The Song of the Lark. The next date is July 19 at 2:00 where they will discuss One of Ours.

Our second joint jaunt was to see a bilingual event with Jhumpa Lahiri and Domenico Starnone moderated by Michael Reynolds, Editor in Chief, Europa Editions at Wesleyan RJ Julia. They were discussing the book Trick (Scherzetto).

Emily worked at the Lucy Robbins Welles library in Newington, CT.

– Upcoming Jaunts –
Independent Bookstore Day – Laura will be at Bookclub Bookstore & More with Mastering the Art of Self-Expression workbook on April 28,2018.

Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon

May 1 – Emily is heading to see Meg Wolitzer discuss her book The Female Persuasion at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT

May 4-5 – Booktopia at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT

Chris is planning to stop at Williams College newly opened bookstore

May 10 – Chris and Emily will take a joint jaunt to the Guilford Library for the Guilford Poets Guild celebration of Guilford High School Poetry Contest Winners.

– Upcoming Reads –
American Byron: Homosexuality The Fall Of Fitz-Green Halleck – John W.M. Hallock (CW)
The Life and Letters of Fitz-Green Halleck – James Grant Wilson (CW)
Poetical Writings of Fitz-Green Halleck – Fitz-Green Halleck edited by James Grant Wilson (CW)
The Overstory – Richard Powers (EF)
This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide – Geneen Roth (EF)
Naval Officers Under Hitler: The Story of Crew 34 – Eric C. Rust (CW)
American Sea Power in the Old World: The United States Navy in European and Near Eastern Waters, 1865-1917 – William N. Still, Jr. (CW)
Courageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More – Kathryn J. Atwood (CW)

– Also Mentioned –
Walt Whitman
Mary Oliver
Gretchen Rubin and her Four Tendencies Quiz
Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff
Akashic Books
Mystic – Noank Library in Mystic, CT  
Mystic Pizza in Mystic, CT
Mystic Pizza the movie
Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT
David Letterman “My Next Guest” interviews on Netflix
O Pioneers! – Willa Cather
Ernest Hemingway
Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago
The Namesake –  Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies –  Jhumpa Lahiri
The Echo Maker – Richard Powers
When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up A Chair: 50 Ways to Feel Thin, Gorgeous, and Happy {When You Feel Anything But} – Geneen Roth
When Food is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy – Geneen Roth
An Honorable German – Charles L. McCain – Chris reviewed this book on her blog
The Shadow Divers – Robert Kurson

Episode 46 - The Stranger in the Woods

Micheal Finkel discussing his book The Stranger in the Woods at An Unlikely Bookstore  & Cafe in  Plainville, MA.

Episode Forty Six Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine

Join our Goodreads Group!
Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page.

It’s National Poetry Month and we are celebrating with a poetry video project.
Check out our Book Tube Channel to see a recitation of a poem every day of April.

– Currently Reading/Listening –
Dark Chapter – Winnie M. Li (CW)
The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin (EF)
Chicago Poems – Carl Sandburg (CW)
The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World –  Chris Guillebeau (EF)

– Just Read –
Tornado Weather – Deborah E. Kennedy (CW)
Do Not Become Alarmed: A Novel – Maile Meloy (EF)
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit – Michael Finkel (CW) (audio)
Goodbye, Vitamin – Rachel Khong (EF)

– Biblio Adventures –
Emily visited Harbor Books in Old Saybrook, CT

Chris and Emily went on a joint jaunt to visit The Unlikely Bookstore & Cafe in Plainville, MA owned by Julie and Jeff Kinney.

Chris went to Bookclub Bookstore & More in South Windsor, CT to join John Valeri in conversation with R.C. Goodwin to discuss his new book Model Child

– Upcoming Jaunts –
April 12th – We are going on a joint jaunt to Savoy Bookshop and Cafe for the Reading Across Road Island sponsored event with Angie Thomas and her book The Hate U Give.

April 19th – Chris will host the second Willa Cather Bookclub at Bookclub Bookstore & More in South Windsor, CT

April 23rd – We are going on another joint jaunt to see Jhumpha Lahiri and Domenico Starnone moderated by Michael Reynolds, Editor in Chief, Europa Editions at Wesleyan RJ Julia.

– Upcoming Reads –
The Song of the Lark – Willa Cather (CW)
Young Jane Young – Gabrielle  Zevin (EF)
Standard Deviation – Katherine Heiny (EF)

– Also Mentioned –
The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
The Shakespeare Requirement: A Novel – Julie Schumacher (release date August 14, 2018)

– Part 2: Author Spotlight –
In the last section of this episode we speak with Michael Finkel about his book Stranger In the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit.

Episode 45 - An Unlikely Visit with Ann Kingman!

Chris and Emily with Ann Kingman at An Unlikely Story Bookstore and Cafe.

Episode Forty Five Show Notes

Join our Goodreads Group!
Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page.

It’s National Poetry Month and we are celebrating with a poetry video project.
Check out our Book Tube Channel to see a recitation of a poem every day of April.

– Recommendations from Ann Kingman –
The Sandman (Joona Linna #4) – Lars Keppler
Chemistry – Weike Wang
The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky: A Novel – Jana Casale (release date April 17, 2018)
The Only Story – Julian Barnes (release date April 17, 2018)
Warlight – Michael Ondaatje (release date May 8, 2018)
There There – Tommy Orange (release date June 5, 2018)
The Book of Essie – Meghan MacLean Weir (release date June 12, 2018)
Call Me American: A Memoir – Abdi Nor Iftin (release date June 19, 2018)
The Shakespeare Requirement: A Novel – Julie Schumacher (release date August 14, 2018)

– Also Mentioned –
We met with Ann at An Unlikely Story Bookstore & Cafe
The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
The Snowman (Harry  Hole #7) – Jo Nesbo     
The Hypnotist (Joona Linna #1) – Lars Keppler
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Unmade World – Steve Yarborough
Dear Committee Members – Julie Schumacher

Episode 44 - National Poetry Month, Luis Alberto Urrea and books, lots of books!

Luis Alberto Urrea discussing his book The House of Broken Angels at Bookshop Santa Cruz.

Episode Forty Four Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine

Join our Goodreads Group!
Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page.

It’s National Poetry Month and we are celebrating with a poetry video project.
Check out our Book Tube Channel to see a recitation of a poem every day of April.

– Currently Reading/Listening –
Tornado Weather – Deborah E. Kennedy (CW)
Do Not Become Alarmed: A Novel – Maile Meloy (EF)
The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain’s Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home – Peg Dawson, Richard Guare (CW)
Chameleon Moon:Poems – Antonia Clark (EF)
Chicago Poems – Carl Sandburg (CW)
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit – Michael Finkel (CW) (audio)

– Just Read –
The Wedding Date – Jasmine Guillory (EF)
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather – Willa Cather, Andrew Jewell (CW)
Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide Open Heart – Scott Stabile (EF)
The Paris Spy (Maggie Hope Mystery #7) – Susan Elia MacNeal (CW)
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit – Michael Finkel (EF)
Educated: A Memoir – Tara Westover (EF)

– Biblio Adventures –
Emily visited several California bookstores:
Books Inc. in Alameda
Rocket Reuse in Alameda
Coastside Books in Half Moon Bay
Bookshop Santa Cruz on March 26th to see Luis Alberto Urrea discuss his book The House of Broken Angels

Chris tried to go to an author event in Stonington, CT but it was canceled. She did, however, come across a nice Little Free Library where she found a copy of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman (The Two Mrs Lloyd #1) by Elizabeth Buchan. Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America by Vegas Tenold event she was trying to attend will be rescheduled.

– Upcoming Jaunts –
April 4th – We are heading on a joint jaunt to Jeff Kinney’s bookstore An Unlikely Story Bookstore & Cafe to see Michael Finkel discuss his book Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

April 7th – Chris is heading to Bookclub Bookstore & More to join John Valeri in conversation with R.C. Goodwin to discuss his new book Model Child

April 7th – Chris won’t be able to make the event with Emily Anhalt discussing her book Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths at The Yale Bookstore but wishes she could.

April 12th – We are going on a joint jaunt to Savoy Bookshop and Cafe for the Reading Across Road Island sponsored event with Angie Thomas and her book The Hate U Give.

April 22nd – Emily is heading to New Haven for the RJ Julia Booksellers sponsored event with Cecile Richards to discuss her new book Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, Finding the Courage to Lead – My Life Story.

Her tour is selling out across the country for tickets click here.

April 27-28th – We are considering a joint jaunt to the Newburyport Literary Festival

– Upcoming Reads –
Beyond the Beach: The Allied War Against France – Stephen A. Bourque (CW)
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders – Stuart Kells (CW)
Up From the Blue: A Novel – Susan Henderson (EF)
The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin (EF)
How to Love the Empty Air – Christine O’Keefe Aptowicz (EF)

– Also Mentioned –
The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
The Wishing Spell Series – Chris Colfer

Ann Hood books:
Morningstar: Growing Up With Books
The Book That Matters Most
The Knitting Circle

Episode 43 - A Jaunt To See Two NY Times Bestselling Authors!

Chloe Benjamin author of The Immortalists and Jill Santopolo author of The Light We Lost  in conversation at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT.

Episode Forty Three Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine

– Windham Campbell Awards –
See the 2018 winners: http://windhamcampbell.org/recipients

Join our Goodreads Group!
Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page.

 – Currently Reading/Listening –
Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide Open Heart – Scott Stabile (EF)
Chicago Poems – Carl Sandburg (CW)
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather – Willa Cather, Andrew Jewell (CW)
Broken Girls – Simone St. James (CW) 
      Chris has a review of the book and a giveaway for you to win a copy on her blog.
Cooking for Jeffrey: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook – Ina Garten (EF)
“16 Bean” Pasta Fagioli recipe here
     *Changes made by Emily: Did not puree any of the beans, drained all of them and threw them into the soup whole. Cooked pasta separately and added to each bowl of soup as it was devoured. Put cooked pasta into the individual servings that were put into freezer. Delish – enjoy!

– Just Read –
Tangerine – Christine Mangan (CW)
The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas (EF)
The Light We Lost – Jill Santopolo (EF)

– Biblio Adventures –
On March 12th, Emily went to see Chloe Benjamin author of The Immortalists and Jill Santopolo author of The Light We Lost at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT.

Chris saw the play Murder on the Orient Express at Hartford Stage for her birthday.

Chris visited the Peterborough Town Library in New Hampshire touts itself as the first tax supported library in the country. Literary Monadnock – Peterborough is known as a literary mecca. Read about it here.

Toadstool Bookshop – Peterborough, NH

– Upcoming Jaunts –
Chris is excited about the University of Nebraska live stream event on March 26 at 3:30CT– Our Cather Heritage: Willa Cather’s Modern Relevance.

Our literary bling (necklaces).

March 20th – Emily is heading to Providence, RI for the Point Street Reading Series.
Laura & Emma – Kate Greathead
Start Without Me – Joshua Max Feldman
Girls Burn Brighter – Shobha Rao
Only Child – Rhiannon Navin
The Cloister – James Carroll

Emily is heading to Bookshop Santa Cruz on March 26th to see Luis Alberto Urrea discuss his book The House of Broken Angels and on March 28th to see Leslie Karst discuss her book Death Al Fresco

April 4th – We are heading on a joint jaunt to Jeff Kinney’s bookstore An Unlikely Story Bookstore & Cafe to see Michael Finkel discuss his book Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

– Upcoming Reads –
The Dog Healers: A Novel – Mark Winik (CW)
Eats of Eden – Tabitha Blankenbiller (EF)
Wedding Date – Jasmine Guillory (EF)
Goodbye, Vitamin – Rachel Khong (EF)
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future  and The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World –  Chris Guillebeau (EF)

– Also Mentioned –
Check out Ryan Ludman:
This Charming Rant Newsletter /// Instagram: my.books.my.shelf
His Maurice read along cocktail can be found here
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
All things Pat Conroy
Live by Night (Coughlin #2) – Dennis Lehane
Chris Guillebeau's podcast is called Side Hustle School
The Readers Podcast
How Reading Changed My Life – Anna Quindlin

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i like my body when it is with your
by E.E. Cummings

i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body.  i like what it does,
i like its hows.  i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones,and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the,shocking fuzz
of your electric furr,and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh….And eyes big love-crumbs,

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Episode 42 - No Power, No Problem! Our Maurice Read Along Conversation

A Nor'easter can't stop us! Chris and Emily recording Episode 42.

Episode Forty Two Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine

– Our 4th Giveaway –
The winner is Sally – entrant #42. Thank you to everyone that entered!

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– Currently Reading/Listening –
The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas (EF)
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather – Willa Cather, Andrew Jewell (CW)
Chicago Poems – Carl Sandburg (CW)
Tangerine – Christine Mangan (CW)

– Just Read –
Echo Killing (Harper McClain #1) – Christi Daugherty (CW) (release date March 13)
White Houses – Amy Bloom (EF)       
Anatomy of a Miracle – Jonathan Miles (EF)

– Biblio Adventures –
Emily went to the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library to hear Amy Bloom speak about her new book – White Houses – sponsored by Breakwater Books.

Chris attended the book club for the Witness Stones Project at the Guilford Library where they discussed Kindred by Octavia E. Butler.

Chris and Laura watched the movie October Sky based on the book Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam.

– Upcoming Jaunts –
Chris is going to see the play Murder on the Orient Express

March 12th – Nathaniel Philbrick presents his new book Second Wind: A Nantucket Sailor’s Odyssey in partnership with Bank Square Books at Mystic Congregational Church

March 12th – Chloe Benjamin author of The Immortalists will be at RJ Julia’s in Madison with Jill Santopolo author of The Light We Lost.

April 19th – Chris and Emily are planning a visit to Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT for Cozy Mystery Night featuring Liz Mugavero, Wendi Corsi Staub and Shari Randall hosted by Our Mystery Man – John Valeri! Look for his byline at Mystery Scene Magazine and Suspense Magazine.

– Upcoming Reads –
The Dog Healers: A Novel – Mark Winik (CW)
Broken Girls – Simone St. James (CW)
Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide Open Heart – Scott Stabile (EF)
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II – Liza Mundy (CW)

– 4th Read Along –
Maurice – E.M. Forster (CW) (EF)
The Goodreads Discussion can be found here.

– Also Mentioned –
Thomas Otto – The Readers Podcast and Hogglestock Blog

Joyce Carol Oates – Go Listen to Eric Karl Anderson at LonesomeReader.com (blog) for his A Beginner’s Guide to Reading (video)

Chris has read three Joyce Carol Oates books:
The Accursed
Beasts
Middle Age: A Romance

Night School – C.J. Daugherty

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold and the Fate of the American Revolution – Nathaniel Philbrick

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeannette Winterson
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit – Jeannette Winterson

The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall

The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the Year that Changed Literature – Bill Goldstein