Episode 139 - Author Spotlight with Janice P. Nimura

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

– Currently Reading –
The Book of Form and Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki (EF)
Shadow Life: When Death Comes Too Soon, Fight Dirty – Hiromi Goto, Ann Xu (Illustrator) (CW)
Water I Won’t Touch – Kayleb Rae Candrilli (EF)
Like Other Girls – Britta Lundin (CW)
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature – Farah Jasmine Griffin (CW)(audio)

– Just Read –
Fault Lines – Emily Itami (EF)
Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change – Maggie Smith (EF)

– Biblio Adventures –
Emily went to the Ogunquit Memorial Library in Maine and found an adorable Little Free Library out front that is a replica of the library. It turns out that Chris visited the library five years ago. You can read her blogpost about the visit here.

– Upcoming Jaunts –
Chris is going to Boston and hopes to visit a bookstore, or two, or more.

Emily is heading to Martha’s Vineyard and hopes to visit Bunch of Grapes bookstore, Edgartown Books, Portobello Road bookstore, and go on the prowl for Sister’s Blackwell historical sites.

– Upcoming Reads –
Mrs. March – Virginia Feito (EF)
Bewilderment – Richard Powers (EF)
Matrix – Lauren Groff (CW)

– Author Spotlight with Janice P. Nimura and 18th Readalong discussion –
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura. The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE.

Janice also wrote the book Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back.

You can learn more about Janice here.

– Also Mentioned –
Sinking Islands – Cai Emmons
Red Hen Press
My Year of Meats – Ruth Ozeki
Elliot Bay Book Co. (sub)TEXT Poetry Subscription
Copper Canyon Press
Sally Rooney
Haruki Murakami
Keep Moving: The Journal: Thrive Through Change and Create a Life You Love – Maggie Smith
God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine – Victoria Sweet
Woman in the Nineteenth Century – Margaret Fuller
Leaving Coy’s Hill – Katherine A. Sherbrooke
The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights – Dorothy Wickenden
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine – Olivia Campbell
In Falling Snow – Mary-Rose MacColl
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
Sunflower Sisters – Martha Hall Kelly
The Gilded Hour – Sara Donati
The Documentary 13th

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