Author Spotlight with Allison Pataki

Episode 204 Show Notes

– 2nd Quarter 2024 Readalong –
Our first quarter readalong The Awakening: The Dragon Heart Legacy, Book One by Nora Roberts. The Zoom discussion will take place on Sunday, June 2nd at 7pm (ET), send an email if you would like to reserve a spot. You can join The Awakening Goodreads Discussion anytime and we’ve also created a Goodreads thread for general romance chit chat.

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– Currently Reading –
Moby Dick – Herman Melville (CW) send an email if you want to join the buddy read
The Women – Kristin Hannah (EF) (audiobook)
The Maiden – Kate Foster (CW)
Mother Grains: Recipes for the Grain Revolution – Roxana Jullapat (EF)
Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out – Shannon Reed (CW)
Wake Up With Purpose! What I’ve Learned in my First Hundred Years – Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt (CW)(audiobook)

– Just Read –
Emily read two short stories: “Lot” by Bryan Washington from the story collection Lot: Stories and “Postcards from Heaven” from Reunion Beach: Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank.
Chris read the short story “Consequences” by Willa Cather from the story collection Uncle Valentine and Other Stories. Learn more about the Willa Cather short story project.
The Frozen River – Ariel Lawhon (EF)
We Got the Beat – Jenna Miller (CW)
Jenna was featured in an Author Spotlight on Episode 174 talking about her debut novel Out of Character.
Finding Margaret Fuller – Allison Pataki (EF)

– Episode Sponsor –
Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis by Greg Wrenn.

– Biblio Adventures –
Chris had a Couch Biblio Adventure watching Mary, Queen of Scots starring Vanessa Redgrave and Mary Queen of Scots starring Saoirse Ronan based on John Guy's biography Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart.

Emily took a trip to Wilmington, NC where she tried unsuccessfully to shop at Papercuts Bookshop because it was closed for inventory. She did find two little free libraries where she found Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier, Intimacies by Katie Kitamura, and Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.

Emily went to the North Haven public library where she purchased Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington and Who’s Irish?: Stories by Gish Jen from the Friends of the Library sale and attended a presentation with Linda Civitello author of Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight That Revolutionized Cooking.

– Upcoming Jaunts –
Chris has purchased a ticket for the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair taking place April 4-7.

Emily plans to attend an event with Anna Quindlen, author of After Annie, in conversation with Beatriz Williams hosted by RJ Julia Booksellers on Tuesday, March 26th at 7:00 pm. Tickets are available here.

– Upcoming Reads –
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World – edited by Ada Limón (EF)
Filthy Rich Vampire – Geneva Lee (CW)
Public in Name Only: The 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In Demonstration – Brenda Mitchell-Powell (CW)
Mary Queen of Scots – Antonia Fraser (CW)

– Out Now –
James – Percival Everett
Memory Piece – Lisa Ko
Next Stop: A Graphic Novel – Debbie Fong

– Author Spotlight with Allison Pataki –
We chat with Allison about her new novel Finding Margaret Fuller.
You can learn more about Allison’s books here.

– Also Mentioned –
Also by Kristin Hannah: Firefly Lane and The Nightingale
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024
New England Quarterly Margaret Fuller Prize for New England Literary Studies
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work - Susan Cheever
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Books written by Margaret Fuller include: Summer on the Lakes and Woman in the Nineteenth Century
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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