Episode 136 - We Discuss Books by Audrey Audrain, S.A. Cosby, Yan Ge, Alice Henderson, William Kent Krueger, Jung Yun, and MORE!

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

Emily read a poem by Maggie Smith titled “Good Bones”

– 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)

You can also discuss your summer reads on our Goodreads thread here.

– Currently Reading –
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (EF) (audio)
Strange Beasts of China – Yan Ge, narrated by Emily Woo Zeller, translated by Jeremy Tiang (CW)
Home – Marilynne Robinson (EF)
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts – Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martínez (CW)
Ladyparts: A Memoir – Deborah Copaken (EF)

– Just Read –
Bleak House – Charles Dickens (CW)
The Push – Ashley Audrain (EF)
O Beautiful – Jung Yun (CW) release date 11/9/21
Gilead – Marilynne Robinson (EF)
A Solitude of Wolverines: A Novel of Suspense – Alice Henderson (CW)
We Are the Brennans – Tracey Lange (EF)
Razorblade Tears – S.A. Crosby (CW)
Lightning Strike – William Kent Krueger (EF) release date 8/24/21

– Biblio Adventures –
Chris attended an event at Wood Memorial Library in South Windsor, CT with Our Mystery Man, John
Valeri, in conversation with Emily Arsenault, author of When All the Girls Are Sleeping. You can purchase a signed copy of the book from Book Club on the Go.

Emily listened to a conversation with Deborah Copaken, author of Ladyparts: A Memoir, in conversation with Ayelet Waldman via A Great Good Place for Books. You can watch a video of the conversation here.

Chris watched a conversation with Naomi Hirahara, author of Clark and Division, in conversation with Erik Matsunaga through Madison Street Books. You can watch a video of the event here.

Episode 225 of the Reading Envy podcast with Jenny Colvin featured co-authors of The Personal Librarian, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.

– Upcoming Jaunts –
Chris is hoping to catch an event with Deborah Mandel, the author of All Write: How to Start, Structure, and Sustain A Writing Group.

Tuesday, August 17 at 7pm ET – Emily is signed up to attend an event with Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, in conversation with Lisa Miller about her new book The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life. You can sign up for the event here.

Chris and Emily are going on a Joint Jaunt to visit a new little free library in their neighborhood.

– Upcoming Reads –
Everything Sad is Untrue (A True Story) – Daniel Nayeri (EF)
Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change – Maggie Smith (EF)
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna – Juliet Grames (CW)
The Madness of Crowds – Louise Penny release date 8/24/21

– 18th Readalong discussion –
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura.
The discussion will drop on September 28th via Episode 139, please get questions/comments to us by September 20th.
The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE.
The Zoom discussion will take place on Sunday, September 19th at 7:00 p.m. (EST). If you would like to join please send an email to save a spot.

– Also Mentioned –
Kate Baer: What Kind of Woman: Poems, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
Maggie Smith - Goldenrod
Marilyn Robinson – Lila, Jack
Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War – Deborah Copaken Kogan
The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
Shelter – Jung Yun
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century – Jessica Bruder
Nomadland the movie
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Nevada Barr
The Shining – Stephen King
Blacktop Wasteland – S.A. Cosby
William Kent Kreuger – Ordinary Grace, This Tender Land, Iron Lake
Michael Chabon
Discover Nikkei
James Benn

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