Episode 215 - The Midwest Episode
Episode 215 Show Notes
– Currently Reading –
The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh – Claudia Gray (CW)
Margo’s Got Money Trouble – Rufi Thorpe (EF) (audiobook)
The Truth’s We Hold: An American Story – Kamala Harris (CW) (audiobook)
– Just Read –
Hot Air – Marcy Dermansky (EF) release date 3/18/2025
So Thirsty – Rachel Harrison (CW) release date 9/10/2024
Emily read two short stories:
“The Hexter Girls” from the collection Goodbye Process: Stories by Mary Jones (audiobook)
“The Many Taste Grooves of the Chang Family” by Allison King via LeVar Burton Reads
Sulwe – Lupita Nyong’o, illustrated by Vashti Harrison (EF)
– Biblio Adventure –
Chris forgot to mention that she and Colleen stopped at the Odyssey Bookshop when they were gallivanting around Massachusetts.
Chris visited a friend at the Tunxis Community College Library. Afterwards she drove further north to the Unionville Historical Society which is housed in a Carnegie Library built in 1917 that is a miniature of the Boston public library. Afterward she found a double little free library under a gazebo and found a copy of Murder in the CIA by Margaret Truman.
Although she didn’t take a copy of the Truman book, it did inspire her to search for a copy of Murder in the Smithsonian at Frugal Muse Books and Half Price Books in Downer’s Grove.
Emily was strolling through downtown Traverse City, MI and passed an historic building that was the original location of the Lady’s Library Association.
Chris visited the new Barnes & Noble in Oswego, IL where she purchased a copy of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. She also found a new-to-her bookstore, Harvey’s Tale’s Books & Other Diversions, in Geneva, IL.
– Upcoming Jaunts –
Chris and Emily are planning to visit the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, CT. Horace Walpole wrote the novel The Castle of Otranto.
Emily is excited to watch the film The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat based on the novel by Edward Kelsey Moore via Hulu.
– Upcoming Reads –
Envy – Sandra Brown (CW)(EF)
What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking – Caroline Chambers (EF)
– 3rd Quarter Readalong –
Envy by Sandra Brown.
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– Also Mentioned –
Author Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Audacity of Hope – Barack Hussein Obama
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance – Barack Obama
Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
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