Episode 131 - Readalong Discussion of Braiding Sweetgrass with Jenny from Reading Envy Podcast
Episode One Hundred Thirty One Show Notes
KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine
– A Big Book Summer Reading Challenge –
Aunt Ellen is planning to read Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
One of our listeners, Ruth, is going to read The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Chris plans to tackle Bleak House by Charles Dickens and Emily is going to make a second try at reading Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
Call 860-391-6674 or email bookcougars@gmail.com to let us know what big book (over 400 pages) you are going to read this summer.
– Currently Reading –
Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing – Lauren Hough (CW)
Hieroglyphics – Jill McCorkle (EF)
– Just Read –
Halsey Street – Naima Coster (EF)
Last Night at the Telegraph Club – Malinda Lo (CW)
Unsettled Ground – Claire Fuller (EF)
Life in the Iron Mills – Rebeccas Harding Davis (CW)
– Biblio Adventures –
Emily watched a conversation with John Valeri and playwright Laura Thoma on Central Booking Episode 57. You can purchase Laura’s play, Magpie, here. The Book Cougars were guests on Central Booking Episode 7 and author Heather Harper Ellett was a guest on Central Booking Episode 28.
Emily watched a conversation between Terry Tempest Williams, Richard Powers, and Robin Wall Kimmerer titled Tales of Sweetgrass and Trees. You can watch it here.
– Upcoming Jaunts –
The Book Cougars are hosting a virtual ZOOM event with the Jungle Red Writers on June 10th at 7pm EST. If you would like to attend, please email bookcougars@gmail.com. Check out the Book Cougars Bookshop.org page to learn more about the authors and to purchase books.
The authors: Julia Spencer Fleming, Lucy Burdette, Hallie Ephron, Rys Bowen, Hank Phillipi Ryan, Deborah Crombie, and Jenn McKinlay.
Emily is hoping to catch the Women’s Prize for Fiction Virtual Festival June 14-16, 2021. You can purchase tickets here.
Chris is going on a Biblio Adventure to Yellow Springs, Ohio to visit author Shuly Cawood.
– Upcoming Reads –
Gilead and Home – Marilynne Robinson (EF)
Rebecca Harding Davis: A Life Among Writers – Sharon Harris (CW)
– 17th Readalong discussion –
We discuss Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer with Jenny from the Reading Envy Podcast.
The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE.
Watch the Gifts of the Land: A Guided Nature Tour with Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s other book is called Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses.
Chris and Emily were guests on Episode 221 of Reading Envy to discuss the readalong of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry edited by Joy Harjo, Jennifer Elise Foerster, and Leanne Howe. You can listen to the episode by following this link.
– Also Mentioned –
Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Wilkie Collins
Bitter Orange – Claire Fuller
Caste – Isabel Wilkerson
Tillie Olsen
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains – Kerri Arsenault
Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
Erin and Danny’s Book Club – An Indigenous Bookclub
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore – Elizabeth Rush
Milkweed Editions
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating – Elizabeth Tova Bailey
Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts – J. Drew Lanham
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place – Terry Tempest Williams
The Overstory – Richard Powers
Erosion: Essays of Undoing – Terry Tempest Williams
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