The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast

S12:Ep256 - The Husbands with Guest Holly Gramazio + National Poetry Month - 4/23/25

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You can find Holly Gramazio at her website https://www.hollygramazio.net/ or on IG at holly_gramazio

 

When we first heard the premise of Holly Gramazio’s novel The Husbands, we were intrigued. A woman’s husband goes up to the attic to retrieve something and down comes…a different husband. Wouldn’t we all sometimes like to exchange the husband we have for a better, newer, or just different model? Holly turned this idea into a novel that is both funny and thoughtfully considered. It may not, in fact, be such a great thing to have an endless supply of potential husbands so easy to exchange.  Her book has been optioned by Apple Plus for a limited series and I just saw that Juno Temple, the actress who played Keeley in the Ted Lasso series, is slated to play the starring role.

 

And because it is April, and April is National Poetry Month, we’re discussing books related to poets. Not everyone loves poetry, but these books aren’t actually poetry–so you can still partake of poetry month. They are historical fiction, memoirs, essays, and children’s books written by or inspired by poets. 

 

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

 

1- The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

 

2- Lakewood by Megan Giddings

 

3- I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour

 

4- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

 

 

5- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

 

 

6- The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay

 

 

7- Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line by Elizabeth Lovett

 

 

8- Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin

 

 

9-  A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover  Chelsea @2_girls_bookin_it - The Endless Fall by Emmerson Hoyt

 

 

10- The Swan's Nest by Laura Mcneal

 

 

11- You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

 

 

12- Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethaway

 

 

13- Emily's House by Amy Belding Brown

 

 

14- Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome

 

 

15- Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

 

 

16- World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

 

 

17- The Poet's Dog by Patricia McLachlan

 

 

Media mentioned--

1- Severance (Apple+, 2022 - Present)

 

2- Reduced Shakespeare Company--https://www.reducedshakespeare.com

 

3- Saint X (Hulu, 2023)

 

 

 

S12:Ep255 - Six Walks with Guest Ben Shattuck + Books Recs for Walking - 4/9/25

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You can find Ben Shattuck at his website https://www.benshattuck.com/ or on IG @Benshattuck_

 

This week we chat with Ben Shattuck, author of Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau published by Tin House Books in 2022.  Amy knew this book would appeal to Carrie because she is nothing if not a literary weirdo, and she has been since high school when she quoted from Thoreau in her senior yearbook. Despite her hopes that Ben would, like her, have a high school infatuation with Thoreau, he explains that his interest began much later. Even if you don’t know anything about Thoreau, if you're a walker or a hiker, you have experienced the unique meditative impact of this activity and can appreciate Ben’s insights on it. Ben also has a book of fiction out titled The History of Sound that is a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner prize so we are just really thrilled to have him with us today.

 And this week, for our recommendations section, we didn’t just pick a random topic like asparagus or comas to share books about—we actually continue with the theme of walking. We each share at least 3 books that feature walking, hiking, or being in nature in some meditative way. We have literary fiction, memoirs, essays, and even a romance.

 

Books mentioned--

1- Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau by Ben Shattuck

 

2- The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck

 

3- Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

 

4- A Paris Year: My Day to Day Adventures in the Most Romantic City in the World by Janice Macleod

 

5- Dear Paris by Janice Macleod

 

6- The French Ingredient: A Memoir by Jane Bertch (La Cuisine French Cooking School)

 

7- Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard

 

8- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

 

9- The Journals of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau 

 

10 - Matrix by Lauren Groff

 

11- Year of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks

 

12- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

 

13- Dancing Woman by Elaine Neil Orr

 

14- A 5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Simone Praylow @fullof_lit - Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea

 

15- Summit Lake by Charlie Donlea

 

16- Don't Believe It by Charlie Donlea

 

17- In My Boots: A Memoir of 5 Million Steps Along the Appalachian Trail by Amanda K. Jaros

18- Going to Maine: All the Ways to Fall on the Appalachian Trail by Sally Chaffin Brooks

19- The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky’s Red River Gorge by Wendell Berry

20- Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women by Annabelle Abbs

21- Ulysses by James Joyce 

22- The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher

23- The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses by Patrick Hastings

24- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

25- You Are Here by David Nichols

 

Media mentioned--

The Residence (Netflix, 2024)

 

S12:Ep254 - The Book Riot Podcast with guest Rebecca Schinsky + Western Book Recs

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In this week’s episode, we chat with Rebecca Schinsky, who is chief of staff for Riot New Media Group and co-host of The Book Riot podcast. Book Riot is the largest independent editorial book site in North America and book lovers can find all kinds of interesting stuff there, such as numerous podcasts, newsletters, and articles about different genres.

 

I have long been a listener of this podcast and love it because ….I am a book nerd through and through and this podcast gives me the inside look at the world of publishing.  If you enjoy learning about trends and want the inside scoop about how and why certain books make it to your eyeballs or just want to have your pulse on bookish news, this podcast is for you.  Rebecca talks to us about what book trends have had the biggest impact on the industry over the last 15 years, what other goodies you can find at Book Riot.com, and why social media flattens the book options we see in our feeds.

 

And this week for our book recommendations section, we put on our 10 gallon hats and our chaps because we’re talking about westerns. Westerns became popular in the late 1800s and derived from the dime novels of the mid-19th century. Many of these stories were later turned into movies in the 1940s and 1950s, which is probably the way most people had exposure to them. Films like High Noon and Shane were based on western stories. There was a second resurgence of western films based on novels between the 1970s-90s such as The Unforgiven and The Outlaw Josey Wales. We offer westerns that are in the graphic novel genre, the horror genre, literary fiction, and middle grade.

 

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

 

1- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

 

2- The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict

 

3- Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray

 

4- Life in Three Dimensions by Shigehiro Oishi 

 

5- Back After This by Linda Holmes

 

6- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

 

7- Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontes by Isabel Greenberg

 

8- The Helsinki Affair by Anna Pitoniak

 

9- Red Widow by Alma Katsu

 

10- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Beth @a_vet_nurse_and_her_books - The Game by Danny Dagan

 

11- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

 

12- True Grit by Charles Portis

 

13- The Searchers by Alan LeMay

 

14- The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn Frankel

 

15- Lone Women by Victor LaValle

 

16- Coyote Doggirl by Lisa Hanawalter

 

17- Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

 

18- Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison

 

19- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

 

20- Pony by RJ Palacio

 

Media mentioned--

 

1- Heretic (Max, 2024)

 

2- Longlegs (Hulu, 2024)

 

3- True Grit (2010)

 

4- Deadwood (Max, 2004-2006)

 

5- The Searchers (1956)

 

6- The Sisters Brothers (2018)

 

Bella Da Costa Greene Exhibit in NYC - 

https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/belle-da-costa-greene

 

 

S12:Ep253 - The Lost Year with Guest Katherine Marsh + Cat Book Recs - 3/12/25

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You can find Katherine Marsh at her website www.katherinemarsh.com or on IG at @katherinemarshauthor.

 

This week we chat with Katherine Marsh, author of The Lost Year, a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. I recently discovered this book after one of our book club members selected another Katherine Marsh book, Nowhere Boy, for our August read. The Lost Year is middle-grade historical fiction and it is super timely because part of it is set in Ukraine in the 1930s. The story introduced me to a topic in Ukraine history I knew nothing about called the Holodomor. Katherine tells us all about her novel which was inspired by her relationship with her grandmother who was from Ukraine. It is a perfect book selection if you are curious about Ukrainian history that influences current events; reading this book would also allow you to check off having read something for Middle Grade March. 

 

For our book recommendations in this episode, we’re talking about books in which cats are a central part of the story. We have some nonfiction selections, as well as literary fiction and graphic novels that will definitely appeal to your inner cat. If you don’t love cats, you can check out these books anyway for their compelling stories OR you can wait around for Amy to muscle Carrie into a future dog episode. 

 

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

 

1- The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh

 

2- Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh

 

3- Medusa (The Myth of Monsters #1) by Katherine Marsh

 

4- The God's Revenge (The Myth of Monsters #2) by Katherine Marsh

 

5- The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West

 

6- Leslie F***ing Jones by Leslie Jones

 

7- Bog Myrtle by Sid Sharp

 

8- The Wolf Suit by Sid Sharp

 

9- A 5 star Read recommended by fellow book lover Elaine Hoystead @bookmadlibrarian - Hall of Smoke by Hannah M. Long

 

10- Pineville Trace by Wes Blake

 

11- Cat's People by Tanya Guerrero

 

12- The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuka Natsukawa

 

13- Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther by Craig Pittman

 

14- The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean

 

15- The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa by Jonathan B. Losos

 

16- Katie the Catsitter by Colleen AF Venable, illustrated by Stephanie Yue

 

17- The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Shawn Harris

 

Media mentioned--

 

1- Kaos (Netflix, 2024)

 

2- Are Cats Actually Liquid - 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-cats-actually-liquid/

 

3- Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post

https://apnews.com/article/washington-post-bezos-opinion-trump-market-liberty-97a7d8113d670ec6e643525fdf9f06de

 

Reply

 

 

S12:Ep252 - A Tribute of Fire with Guest Sariah Wilson + Picture Books - 2/26/25

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You can find Sariah Wilson at her website www.sariahwilson.com or on IG - @sariahwilsonauthor

 

We chat this week with Sariah Wilson, the author of many, many rom-coms, who recently published her first romantasy titled A Tribute of Fire. A Tribute of Fire is inspired by the myth of Cassandra who, if you remember, is the Trojan princess who was cursed with the ability to see the future but no one believes her. Sariah’s story focuses on Cassandra’s assault in Athena's temple by Greek hero Ajax and the resulting punishment which is that two maidens from Ajax’s home, Locris, will be sacrified. How exactly, this punishes Ajax, I’m not sure, but such is Greek myth. 

 

Sariah talks to us about her favorite romance trope (which she hardly ever writes herself), the whirlwind backstory to the publishing of this book, and how the popularity of The Fourth Wing series really cracked open a whole new world for romance writers.

 

And for our book recommendations, we’re going to share some children’s picture books that have stories and illustrations we love. Earlier this month was National Picture Book Authors & Illustrators Week, but we don’t think you need a special week as an excuse to read a delightful picture book. 

 

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

 

1- A Tribute of Fire by Sariah Wilson

2- The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

 

3- A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

 

4- The Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman

 

5- Greek and Roman Warfare: Battles, Tactics, and Trickery by John Drogo Mortagu

 

6- A Monsoon Rising by Thea Gaunzon

 

7- Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet by Samantha Leigh Allen

 

8- A Book Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Corinne @she.loves.bookshelves - A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

 

9- Little Golden Book, The Christmas Story 

10-  Little Golden Book, Colors Are Nice 

11- Little Golden Book Riddles, Riddles From A to Z

12- Little Golden Book,  Mickey Mouse Picnic

13- Disney’s World of Wonders The Magic Grinder

14- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

15- Ferdinand the Bull by Munro Leaf

16- The Mitten by Jan Brett

17- Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett

18- The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone

 

19- The Water Hole by Graeme Base

 

20- Uno's Garden by Graeme Base

 

21- Animalia by Graeme Base

 

22- The Verts: A Story of Introverts and Extroverts by Anne Patchett, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glaser

 

23- Quiet by Susan Cain

 

24- Mimi’s Dada Catifesto by Shelley Jackson

25- Oh, Bear by Melissa Nelson Greenberg. illustrated by Ruth Hengeveld

26- Boobies by Nancy Vo

27- The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods by Mickey Please

28- The Cave Downwind of the Cafe by Mickey Please

29- Shakespeare The Tempest by Georghia Ellinas, illustrated by Jane Ray

 

Media mentioned--

 

1- Stephen King/Maurice Sendak upcoming children's book - https://apnews.com/article/stephen-king-maurice-sendak-hansel-gretel-c9f8c7e18254d1e406b59e0ebe3cd20b

2- Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey - coming in 2026 - 

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/the-odyssey-matt-damon-odysseus-christopher-nolan-1236311018/

 

3- The Return (2024)

 

S12:Ep251 - Silent Book Club with Guest Brittany Brar + We Like Big Books - 2/12/25

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You can find if there is a chapter of Silent Book Club near you or look into starting your own by going to their website; https://silentbook.club/

 

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Have you ever wanted to try a book club but they just seem too peopley?  Or maybe you don’t want to be told what book you have to read. OR maybe you are looking for a place away from kids and responsibilities where nothing else but the words in front of you are vying for your attention.  If any of these apply, then a Silent Book Club might be for you.  Silent Book Club began in 2012 and is, according to their mission statement, a “global community of readers, with more than 1500 chapters in 54 countries around the world led by local volunteers. SBC members gather in public at bars, cafes, bookstores, libraries, and online to read together in quiet camaraderie.”  

 

This week we chat with Brittany Brar, the leader of a local chapter of the Silent Book Club in Louisville, Kentucky.  Brittany started the local chapter here in 2019, right before the pandemic with 5 people.  She was new in town and didn’t know where to find a booklcub to join.  Now the group has over 2000 members of their FB group and as many as 60 people have shown up to their monthly meetings. Brittany talks to us about how people have developed a new sense of community, when a powerpoint presentation can be regarded as fun, and her go-to  genres

 

After our chat with Brittany, we will give you our recommendations for big honking books that meet not only your reading but also strength training goals. 

 

Books Mentioned In This Episode:

1- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

 

2- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

 

3- Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

 

4- Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera

 

5- The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson

 

6- Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson

 

7- That's Not My Name by Megan Lally

 

8- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

 

9- It by Stephen King

 

10- Leviathan Wakes by SA Corey (592 pages) 

 

11-The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (704 pages) 

 

12- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (944 pages)

13- Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett  (976 pages) 

 

14- Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (546 pages) 

 

15- When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson (528 pages)

 

16- East of Eden by John Steinbeck (601 pages)

 

17- A Five Star Read Recommended By Fellow Book Lover Kim Wells @the_salty_islander - A Home for Friendless Women by Kelly E. Hill

 

 

Media mentioned--

 

1- Say Nothing (Hulu, 2024)

 

2- The Dark Secrets Behind the Neil Gaiman Abuse Accusations --https://www.vulture.com/article/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.html

 

3- The Expanse (Prime, 2015)

 

 

 

 

 

S12:Ep250 - They All Fall The Same with Guest Wes Browne + Artsy Fartsy Book Recs - 1/29/25

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This week we chat with Wes Browne, a Michigan transplant who has been a Kentucky attorney for over 20 years. When he’s not lawyering, he writes crime fiction, and his most recent novel is called They All Fall the Same. In this novel, he picks up with a character who readers met in his first novel, Hillbilly Hustle. While Wes’s new book is not a sequel, readers were so intrigued by the character, Burl Spoon, that Wes felt like he could make an entire book around him. Burl is a character you love to hate, but readers also feel his humanity, which always makes for a more interesting bad guy. 

We chat with Wes about how his job as a defense attorney has prepared him to write books that make you root for a bad guy, his passion for soft serve ice cream, and why a timeshare ended up giving him a book idea.

 

And in the second half of the show, we each give you 3 book recommendations on the theme of books about the art world.

 

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

1- If You Lived Here, You’d Be Here by Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie by Christopher Ingraham

2- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

3- They All Fall the Same by Wes Browne

 

4- Hillbilly Hustle by Wes Browne

 

5- Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony

 

6- Asides: Occasional Essays on Dogs, Food, Restaurants, Bars, Hangovers, Jobs, Music, Family Trees, Robbery, Relationships, Being Bought Up Questionably, Et Cetera by George Singleton

 

 

7- Blizzard by Marie Vingtras

 

8- A Five Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Amy Borchadt @rn_bookworm - The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

 

9- Carrington: A Life by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

 

10- The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith

 

11- Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough

 

12- The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose

 

13- Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell

 

14- Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Jourey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How To See by Bianca Bosker

 

15- All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

 

 

Media mentioned—

1- Come From Away —

https://comefromaway.com/

 

2- Zoltan Kaszas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vSGbslfLQM

 

3- Justified ( 2010-2015 HULU)

 

4- Carrington (1995)

 

 

 

 

 

S12:Ep249 -The Lost Story with Guest Meg Shaffer + Library Book Recs - 1/15/25

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This week we officially begin Season 12 so we have both a guest and book recommendations on a particular theme. Our guest this week is Meg Shaffer, best-selling author of The Wishing Game and The Lost Story. She talks to us about shifting gears to write books for adults that read a lot like the cool fantasy books we read as kids (think The Chronicles of Narnia in The Lost Story). And for our book recs, we will each be sharing 3 books related to libraries. 

 

Books mentioned—

1- The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

 

2- The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer

 

3- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

 

4- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

 

5- Lord of the Flies by William Golding

 

6- Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

 

7- Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb

 

8- The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin

 

9- The Hollow Places T. Kingfisher

 

10- The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

 

11- The Willows by Algernon Blackwood

 

12- Carter and Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard

 

13- A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

 

14- We are Experiencing a Slight Delay by Gary Janneti

 

15- Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

 

16-Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs

 

17- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Marisa Zane @Marisa_reads_books - The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

 

18- The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami

 

19- Nightbooks by JA White

 

20- The Library of Borrowed Hearts by Lucy Gilmore

 

21- The Nightmare Man by JH Markert

22- The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai

23- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

24- I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai

25- Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck

26- A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

27- A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck

28- Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian by Jill Grunenwald

29- Lonely Planet Hidden Libraries: The World's Most Unusual Book Depositories by DC Helmuth

30- The Godwick series by Tiffany Reisz

Media mentioned—

Perks episode with Lily Raiti

https://www.perksofbeingabooklover.com/episodes/cxkpp8gtbmn5gf7-8mb73-52ylr-gs3nl-82m49-xr9s4-z4hhh-pm7gw-skgey-bjmtw-4dl76-hn7yl-we4y4-cfzjz-5f9x8-y93dj-7l4je-8667a

 

Pacific Palisades Fire—Will Rogers ranch —

https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346

 

Squid Games (Netflix, 2021 - present)

Cunk on Life (Netflix, 2024)

Black Doves (Netflix, 2024)

Night of the Hunter (Tubi, 1955)

 

 

S12:Ep248 - Best of 2024 Year in Review - 1/1/25

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This week we are doing our 2024 recap, covering the books that earned 5 stars. We’ve also got some audio interspersed in the episode from 2024 guests to The Perks who also share their favorite books of the year. This is always one of our most popular episodes of the year.

 

And don’t forget, this new season is a whole new bag.  We are going to every other week episodes and each one will include an interview with a bookish guest plus some book recommendations by us on a particular topic.  

 

Books mentioned--

 

1- The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

2- Woodworm by Layla Martinez

3- North Woods by Daniel Mason

4- Six Truths and a Lie by Ream Shukairy

5- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

6- Greenwood by Michael Christie

7- Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

8- A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney 

9- Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle

10- The Library Book by Susan Orlean 

11- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

12- The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner

13- One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus 

14- Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

15- I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai

16- The Wedding People by Alison Espach

17- The Huntress by Kate Quinn

18- Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransom

19- The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley

20- All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby

21- Being Henry by Henry Winkler

22- The Weather Woman by Sally Gardner

23- Un Lun Dun by China Mieville

24- Border Crossings: A Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway by Emma Fick

25- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

26- All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Brynn Greenwood

27- That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming

28- The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

29- Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy

30- Arroyo Circle by JoeAnn Hart

31- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our World , Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

 

Media mentioned--

 

1- Dune: Prophecy (HBO Max, 2024)

2- Shrinking (Apple+, 2024)

3- What We Do in the Shadows (Hulu)

4- The Professor and the Madman (Tubi, 2019)

5- Your Friend by Nate Bargatze (Netflix, 2024)

6- The Skinny by Jim Gaffigan (Hulu, 2024)

7- Catastrophe (Prime, 2015)

8- Three Body Problem (Netflix, 2024)

S11:Ep247 - REMIX with Guest Tracey Clark - 12-18-24

You can find Tracy Clark on social media on Instagram @tpclark2000 and on her website www.tracyclarkbooks.com/

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This week we have a Remix episode and catch up with Tracy Clark, who we interviewed in Season 8 (episode 161) about her first Harriet Foster novel titled Hide. Her most recent title, number 3 in the series, is called Echo, and it came out Dec 3. We chat with her about this book, as well as the Harriet Foster book she is currently writing. We caught her on a writing day in which Harriet Foster was not cooperating. Then you will hear some of our conversation with Tracy back in 2023 when Harriet Foster first arrived on the scene.

Books Mentioned In This Episode

1- Hide by Tracy Clark

2- Echo by Tracy Clark

3- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

4- Her Name is Knight series by Yasmin Angoe

5- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

6-The Ninja's Oath (Lily Wong series) by Tori Eldridge

7- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

8- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

9- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

10- American Fever by Dur e Aziz Almna

Authors mentioned:

1- Sarah Paretsky

2- Sue Grafton

3- Agatha Christie

4- Valerie Wilson Wesley

5- Barbara Neely