Episode 111 - We Talk BIG Books and Announce Our Next Readalong

Episode One Hundred Eleven Show Notes
KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine

– 15th Readalong discussion –
Celestial Bodies – Jokha Alharthi (translated by Marilyn Booth)
The discussion will drop on November 10th via Episode 116, please get questions/comments to us by November 5th.
The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE.
The Zoom discussion will take place on Sunday, Nov 1st at 7:00 p.m. (EST). If you would like to join us please send an email to save a spot.

James Beard Award nominees recognize culinary professionals in the United States. Two books we discussed previously have been nominated:
Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer – Bren Smith (mentioned on Episode 81 and 82)
The Whole Fish: New Ways to Cook, Eat, and Think – Josh Niland (mentioned on Episode 98)

– Currently Reading –
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson (CW)(audio)
Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts (EF)(audio)
The Consolation of Philosophy – Boethius (translation by David. R. Slavitt) (CW)

– Just Read –
The Mother-in-Law – Sally Hepworth (EF)
Forever Amber – Kathleen Winsor (CW)
Prettiest Star – Carter Sickels (EF)
Tom Outland Story – Willa Cather (CW)
Be a part of the Willa Cather Short Story Project HERE

– Biblio Adventures –
Chris went to Glastonbury, CT and visited three libraries. Read about it on her blog.

Emily listened to the Quarantine Tapes with Paul Holdengraber interviewing Min Jin Lee. You can find it HERE.

Chris attended Crafting Personal Essays with Impact via Skillshare with Roxane Gay.

Chris had a Couch Bibio Adventure watching the movie Crazy Rich Asians.

Emily’s Couch Biblio Adventure was to attend an event via Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill with Kathy Gunst and Katherine Alford editors of Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women’s Voices.

– Upcoming Jaunts –
September 1 – Politics and Prose bookstore is hosting a virtual event with Hilary Rodham Clinton interview Louise Penny

September 2 – Chris will be attending an event via Village Preservation. Frances Morrone: Willa Cather’s Greenwich Village. Register for the event HERE.

September 8 – Emily is attending a virtual event via RJ Julia Booksellers with Kerri Arsenault in conversation with Dani Shapiro discussing Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains.

November 6th – Chris will be attending Brandeis University’s annual novel symposium: Willa Cather, Settler, Colonialism, Indigeneity. More information can be found here.

– Upcoming Reads –
From Here to Eternity – James Jones (CW)
All Adults Here – Emma Straub (EF)
The Women of the Copper Country: A Novel – Mary Doria Russell (EF)

– Also Mentioned –
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Strange Fruit – Lillian Smith
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters – Anne Boyd Rioux

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