Episode 118 - Hooray, It's Our 4th Anniversary of Talking Books and Going on Biblio Adventures!
Episode One Hundred Eighteen Show Notes
KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine
– Currently Reading –
In the Garden of Spite – Camilla Bruce (CW) release date 1/19/21
Legends of the North Cascades – Jonathan Evison (EF) release date 6/8/21
How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons): Poetry – Barbara Kingsolver (EF)
– Just Read –
Let Him Go – Larry Watson (EF)
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America – Ijeoma Oluo (CW)
The Great Offshore Grounds – Vanessa Veselka (EF)
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World – Patrik Svensson (CW)
Just Like You – Nick Hornby (EF)
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman (CW)
– (Couch) Biblio Adventures –
Emily watched David Chang (Eat a Peach) and Lisa Donavan (Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger) discuss their books at the Texas Book Festival. You can watch the discussion here.
Emily attended an event with Katherine May discussing her book Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times via Skylark Bookshop.
Chris and Emily hosted a Joint Jaunt via Book Club On the Go with author Kimberly McCreight about her book A Good Marriage.
Emily watched Vanessa Veselka (The Great Offshore Grounds) in conversation with Kristin Arnett (Mostly Dead Things) via Powell’s Books. You can watch the video here.
– Upcoming Jaunts –
Dec 8th 5pm (ET) – Chris is signed up to attend an event via Northshire Bookstore with Jane Smiley discussing her new book Perestroika in Paris. You can sign up for the event here.
Dec 11th 7pm (CT) – Chris is registered to attend an event via the Willa Cather Foundation Author Series featuring Lydia Kang, Theodore Wheeler, James Cihlar, and Saddiq Dzukogi. You can register for the event here.
– Upcoming Reads –
Country Place – Ann Petry (CW)
Faviken: 1415 Days, Beginning to End – Magnus Nilsson (EF)
The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature – Bill Goldstein (CW)(EF)
– 16th Readalong discussion –
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault
The discussion will drop on February 16th via Episode 123, please get questions/comments to us by February 11th.
The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE.
The Zoom discussion will take place on Sunday, Feb 7th at 7:00 p.m. (EST). If you would like to join us please send an email to save a spot.
– Also Mentioned –
You Let Me In – Camilla Bruce
Also by Jonathan Evison: Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, West of Here, All About Lulu, and Lawn Boy
Unsheltered – Barbara Kingsolver
Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
Also about Nick Hornsby – About a Boy, High Fidelity, and Juliet, Naked
Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Project Gutenberg
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley
The Street – Ann Petry
RJ Julia Booksellers
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
Not Under 40 – Willa Cather
Books by Jason Pinter: Hide Away and A Stranger at the Door
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