Episode 156 - Announcing Our Big Summer Books with Sue Jackson

Episode One Hundred Fifty Six Show Notes
KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine
– Currently Reading – [:59]
Under the Sea-Wind – Rachel Carson (CW)
Why We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection – Lindsay Gardner (EF)
That Noodle Life: Soulful, Savory, Spicy, Slurpy – Mike Le, Stephanie Le (CW)

– Just Read – [4:00]
The Lies I Tell – Julie Clark (EF) release date 6/21/22
The Fervor – Alma Katsu (CW)
Raising Ourselves: A Gwitch’in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River – Velma Wallis (EF)
Shutter – Ramona Emerson (CW) release date 8/2/22
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal – Velma Wallis (CW)(EF)
Bird Girl and The Man Who Followed the Sun – Velma Wallis (CW)

– Biblio Adventures – [32:24]
Chris and Emily went to Booktopia 2022 at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT. Along the way they stopped in Brattleboro, VT at Everyone’s Books and Brattleboro Books. Next stop was the Newfane Public Library in Newfane, VT. (You can read Chris’s blog post about the library here.) On the way home, stops included Bartleby’s Books in Wilmington, VT and Roundabout Books in Greenfield, MA.

Chris attended an event with the Maine Women Writers Collection Found in the Archives: Stories of Buried Treasure with Dawn Potter, author of Accidental Hymn,  The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories by Elizabeth De Wolfe, and Carol A. Dana one of the authors of Still They Remember Me: Penobscot Transformer Tales.

Chris attended a Mondays at Beinecke presentation by Gabrielle Colangelo, We Are Everywhere Lesbians in the Archive.

– Upcoming Jaunts – [46:22]
Chris and Emily are heading to a bookseller event with Soho Press at Sly Fox Den Too with authors Ramona Emerson and Marcie Rendon.

Chris will be attending the Willa Cather Spring Conference from June 2-4. The theme is The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value.

– Upcoming Reads – [47:54]
Plans for the Big Book Summer Reading Challenge 2022: (May 27 – September 5, 2022)
Chris’s Buddy Read is The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (CW)
The buddy read can be found here.
Emily’s Buddy Read is the trilogy Plainsong, Eventide, and Benediction by Kent Haruf (EF)
The buddy read can be found here.

Vintage Book Club buddy read East of Eden – John Steinbeck (CW)(EF)
(In person book club at Red Heat Tavern on July 21st at 1pm)

Atomic Anna – Rachel Barenbaum
Rachel was a guest on our YouTube channel talking about her debut novel, A Bend in the Stars, watch the video here.

Out Now:
This Time Tomorrow – Emma Straub
With Prejudice – Robin Peguero
She Is Haunted – Paige Clarke (EF)
You Have a Friend in 10a: Stories – Maggie Shipstead (EF)

– Author and Blogger Sue Jackson  – [53:55]
You can follow Sue on Book by Book and Live with ME/CFS and on her YouTube Channel.
Learn more about her book Finding a New Normal: Living Your Best Life with Chronic Illness.

– Also Mentioned –
The Last Flight – Julie Clarke
Also by Alma Katsu: The Hunger and The Deep
Maureen Corrigan
The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
This Tender Land – William Kent Krueger
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

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