Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read

Episode Eighty Two Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine
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– Currently Reading –
Middlemarch – George Eliot (CW)
Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer – Bren Smith (EF)
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup – John Carreyrou (EF)
The Farm – Joanne Ramos (EF)
Three Women – Lisa Taddeo (EF)

– Just Read –
A Gold Slipper – Willa Cather (CW) which is part of the Willa Cather Short Story Project
How We Fight For Our Lives – Saeed Jones (EF) release date 10/8/19
Check out his essay Alright Now at Gay Mag

– Biblio Adventures –
Emily went to Raven Café an Edgar Allen Poe themed restaurant in Port Huron, MI

Emily made a stop at Traveler Restaurant in Union, Ct

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Emily went to Wesleyan RJ Julia to see Bianca Marais discuss her new book If You Want to Make God Laugh

Chris hosted the Willa Cather Bookclub to discuss Sapphira and the Slave Girl. Sadly, Bookclub Bookstore & More has closed its doors, but upcoming quarterly meetings will be at the Wood Memorial Library in South Windsor, CT. South Windsor is the birthplace of Jonathan Edwards, a theologian who is famous for the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Check back, the next meeting of the bookclub will be in October, discussing the The Professors House.

Chris took her friend, Janet, to the New York Public Library to see the

Episode Eighty One Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine
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– Currently Reading –
The Dutch House – Ann Patchett (EF) release date 9/24/19
Middlemarch – George Eliot (CW) – Just Read –
The Butterfly Girl – Rene Denfeld (EF) release date 10/1/19
A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport – Kate Stewart (CW)
Chris wrote a review of this book on her blog.
Never Have I Ever – Joshilyn Jackson (EF) release date 7/30/19
The Hotel Neversink – Adam O’Fallon Price (CW) 8/6/19
City of Girls – Elizabeth Gilbert (EF)
Evie Drake Starts Over – Linda Holmes (EF)
If You Want to Make God Laugh – Bianca Marais (CW)(EF)
Chris wrote a review of this book on her blog.

– Biblio Adventures –
Chris presented a paper, and generally immersed herself in all things CATHER, at the 17th International Willa Cather Seminar. She went on several field trips including the, Willow Shade (the home where Willa lived with her family for her first nine years, Capon Springs, National Museum of American History and Culture, Winchester Book Gallery, and The Handley Library. She wrote about the Handley Library on her blog.

Emily did a lot of traveling including:
Ireland: Dubray Books & Trinity Library
Portugal: Bertrand Livreiros
Michigan: McClean & Eakin Booksellers

Emily attended a joint event with RJ J...

Episode Eighty Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine
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– 80th Episode Giveaway –
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48 PEAKS: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains – Cheryl Suchors
Tilda’s Promise – Jean P. Moore

Cheryl and Jean will be our guests on Episode 81.

– Readalong with Jenny Colvin of Reading Envy –
Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather
The Goodreads discussion page can be found HERE

Be sure to check out Episode 157 of the Reading Envy podcast for our discussion of Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
The Goodreads discussion page can be found HERE.

– Also Mentioned –
Willa Cather:
My Ántonia
O Pioneers!
The Professor’s House

James Patterson
Grimké Sisters
A Conversation with Cheryl Strayed and Oprah Winfrey at MOUNTAINFILM can be found HERE
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
Langston Hughes
Toni Morrison

Episode Seventy Nine Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine
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Margaret Mitchell – Gone With the Wind
Riley Sagers – The Last Time I Lied / Final Girls / Lock Every Door (release date July 2, 2019)
Joshilyn Jackson – Never Have I Ever
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Donna Tartt – The Goldfinch
N.K. Jemison – The Broken Earth series
Attica Locke
Sujata Massey – Perveen Mistry series
Leslie Jamison
Kira Jane Buxton – Hollow Kingdom (release date August 6, 2019)
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Delia Owens – Where the Crawdads Sing / The Cry of the Kalahari
Fatima Farheen Mirza – A Place for Us
Sigrid Nunez – The Friend
Madeline Miller – Circe
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Episode Eighty Eight Show Notes
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– 11th Readalong –
Free Food for Millionnaires – Min Jin Lee
The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE. We will record with Min on October 30th.

– Currently Reading –
Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo (CW)
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life – Anne Lamott (EF)
– Just Read –
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather (CW)
The Gifted School – Bruce Holsinger (EF)
A Wagner Matinée – Willa Cather (CW)
part of the Willa Cather Short Story ProjectAmerican Dirt – Jeanine Cummins (EF) release date January 21, 2020
Thoughts in Solitude – Thomas Murton (CW)In Pieces – Sally Field (EF)
– Biblio Adventures –
Emily went to RJ Julia Booksellers to see Karl Marlantes talk about his new book Deep River and to see Daniel Leader discuss his new book Living Bread: Tradition and Innovation in Artisan Bread Making.

Chris watched the movie Late Night
Chris hosted The Willa Cather Book Club at Wood Memorial Library where they discussed The Professor’s House

Emily watched the first part of Big Little Lies based on the novel by Liane Moriarty

Emily went on a jaunt to NYC and saw the Jefferson Market Library and saw the play Sunday by Jack Thorne
Chris and Emily attended the Hachette Book Group Bookclub Brunch in New York City: