Episode 133 - Recording Together from the New Book Cougars Studio!
Episode One Hundred Thirty Three Show Notes
KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine
– A Big Book Summer Reading Challenge –
Please let us know what you are reading this summer! 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.
Bleak House – Charles Dickens (check out the Buddy Read link on Goodreads)
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (check out the Buddy Read link on Goodreads)
Some listeners let us know what they are planning to read:
Boy’s Life – Robert McCammon
Great Circle – Maggie Shipstead
The Rose Code – Kate Quinn
Middlemarch – George Elliot
The Actual Star – Monica Byrne
Firekeeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley
The Shadow and Bone Trilogy – Leigh Bardugo
The Once & Future King – T.H. White
You can also discuss your summer reads on our Goodreads thread here.
Take our poll on your reading plans for summer.
– Currently Reading –
Book for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading – Donna Harrington-Lueker (CW)
The Book of Magic – Alice Hoffman (EF) release date 10/5/2021
– Just Read –
Books Can Be Deceiving (A Library Lovers Mystery #1) – Jenn McKinlay (EF)
Chris dnf’d Great Plains by Ian Frazier
Beach Read – Emily Henry (EF)
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (CW)
The Chosen and the Beautiful – Nghi Vo (CW)
– Biblio Adventures –
Emily did a whirlwind trip to Colorado, she visited: The Tattered Cover in Denver, Explore Booksellers in Aspen, The Book Haven in Salida, Once Upon a Trapeze and The Book Nook in Buena Vista, Bookbinders in Basalt.
Chris attended a Homesteading Authors Roundtable via Homestead National Historical Park where they discussed six authors: (You can watch the video here.)
· Willa Cather (expert Tracy Tucker, Education Director & Archivist at The National Willa Cather Foundation)
· Phoebe May Hopper (expert Dr. Melissa Hays)
· Hamlin Garland (expert Kurt Meyer)
· Laura Ingalls Wilder (expert Sarah Uthoff),
· Mari Sandoz (expert Jamison Wyatt)
· Bess Streeter Aldritch (expert Billie Leftholtz)
Chris watched an event through the Village Preservation Society titled “The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams” in South Village with Jonathan Ned Katz discussing his book, The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams. You can watch the video here.
Chris watched the documentary Gatsby in Connecticut the Untold Story via Kanopy.
– Upcoming Jaunts –
The Willa Cather Book Club is back! Next date is July 15th at noon in South Windsor, CT; the next book is Lucy Gayheart. Email bookcougars@gmail.com for more information.
– Upcoming Reads –
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (EF)
Open Water – Caleb Azumah Nelson (EF)
Bleak House – Charles Dickens (CW)
– Also Mentioned –
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Price of Salt: Or Carol – Patricia Highsmith (CW)
Tracks – Louise Erdrich
One Summer – Blanche Willis Howard
We hosted the Jungle Red Writers you can watch the video here
Also by Alice Hoffman: Practical Magic, Magic Lessons, The Rules of Magic
Min Jin Lee
Eragon – Christopher Paolini
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore – Matthew J. Sullivan
The Great Gatsby movie (1974 adaptation)
Matthew J. Bruccoli, F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar
Maureen Corrigan
Old Jules – Mari Sandoz
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