048 Mia Laurenzo on "In the Land of Good Living" by Kent Russell
05/10/21 • 32 min
Today's guest Mia Laurenzo, of the SoFlo Weird Show, is a curator of everything weird and wonderful about our most improbable state. The book she chose is nonfiction account about three men who journey through Florida on foot. It’s as nutty and delightful as it sounds.
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Host: Julie Strauss
Guest: Mia Laurenzo
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Travel Documentaries by Mia Laurenzo:
Weird Florida: Roads Less Traveled
Weird Florida On the Road Again
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Discussed in this episode:
In the Land of Good Living: A Journey to the Heart of Florida by Kent Russell
Weird Florida: Your Travel Guide to Florida’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets by Charlie Carlson
Walkin’ Lawton Chiles (Florida governor candidate who walked through Florida to meet voters)
Florida Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)
Orange Blossom 2.0 by Cesar Becerra
In our Patreon Conversation, I asked Mia about her favorite off-the-beaten-track spots to visit in Florida.
The World’s Smallest Post Office, Ochopee Florida
The Skunk Ape Research Headquarters
(Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links. If you shop using my affiliate link on Bookshop, a portion of your purchase will go to me, at no extra expense to you. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores and for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)
Today's guest Mia Laurenzo, of the SoFlo Weird Show, is a curator of everything weird and wonderful about our most improbable state. The book she chose is nonfiction account about three men who journey through Florida on foot. It’s as nutty and delightful as it sounds.
Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon
Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website
Host: Julie Strauss
Guest: Mia Laurenzo
Facebook/Instagram/Podcast/SoFloWeirdos Group on Facebook
Travel Documentaries by Mia Laurenzo:
Weird Florida: Roads Less Traveled
Weird Florida On the Road Again
Want to be a guest on the Best Book Ever Podcast? Go here!
Discussed in this episode:
In the Land of Good Living: A Journey to the Heart of Florida by Kent Russell
Weird Florida: Your Travel Guide to Florida’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets by Charlie Carlson
Walkin’ Lawton Chiles (Florida governor candidate who walked through Florida to meet voters)
Florida Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)
Orange Blossom 2.0 by Cesar Becerra
In our Patreon Conversation, I asked Mia about her favorite off-the-beaten-track spots to visit in Florida.
The World’s Smallest Post Office, Ochopee Florida
The Skunk Ape Research Headquarters
(Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links. If you shop using my affiliate link on Bookshop, a portion of your purchase will go to me, at no extra expense to you. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores and for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)
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047 Aime Austin on "What Came Before He Shot Her" by Elizabeth George
This is one of those episodes that totally changed my mind about a book. I initially didn’t like the book, and didn’t bother finishing it. But chatting with crime novelist Aime Austin changed my perspective entirely. The second we finished talking, I immediately ordered the first book in the series, so I could get the whole picture. Also, if you are a library person, you are going to love hearing about how Aime relies on her local librarians to curate a reading list for her and her son.
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Discussed in this episode:
What Came Before He Shot Her by Elizabeth George
(This book is 14th, in the Inspector Lynley series, which begins with A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George. Though as Aime explained to me, “What Came Before He Shot Her” is more of a side story than a murder mystery in the series.)
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Inspector Gamache Series by Louise Penny
The Dublin Murder Squad Series by Tana French
Discussed in our Patreon Conversation
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
(Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links. If you shop using my affiliate link on Bookshop, a portion of your purchase will go to me, at no extra expense to you. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores and for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)
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049 Ysaura Vanegas on "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
Yzaura Vanegas is a director, producer and trainer of interactive live events for Nickelodeon and the host, producer and writer of the podcast How About A Story. It’s difficult to categorize the genre of the book she chose to talk to me about today. It teeters somewhere between self-help, motivational, fable, and love story. But it’s also a fictional tale about a journey, and I loved talking to her about how we have read “The Alchemist” over the years.
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Host: Julie Strauss
Guest: Ysaura Vanegas
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Discussed in this episode:
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
The Ebony Frame by Edith Nesbit
Blood Memory: An Autobiography by Martha Graham
Discussed in our Patreon Conversation
(Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links. If you shop using my affiliate link on Bookshop, a portion of your purchase will go to me, at no extra expense to you. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores and for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)
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