The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast

S9 Ep189 - Hispanic Heritage Month is Lit - 9/20/23

This week we are featuring books by Latino authors in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Molly's Tuxedo by Vicki Johnson

2- Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang (short story)

3- Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

4- Fever by Mary Beth Keane

5- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

6- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

7- Why Didn’t You Tell Me by Carmen Rita Wong

8- Ghetto Klown by John Leguizamo

9- The Last Cuentista by Barbara Donna Higuera

10- The Murmur of Bees by Sophía Segovia

11- The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernandez

12- The Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña

13- Carmela Full of Wishes by Matt de la Peña

14- In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

15- Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

16- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

17- Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen

18- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

19- I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

20- Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

21- Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

22- Leech by Hiron Ennes

5 Star Book Recommendation by a Fellow Book Lover - Ciera Oldham @Disappearherebookblog

- Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

Movies mentioned--

1- Arrival (2016)

2- The Afterparty (Apple + TV, 2022 - present)

Article about Cuban community in Louisville:
www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/us/cub…lle-kentucky.html

Article about wasps and figs:

www.bonappetit.com/story/figs-and-wasps

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/us/cubans-louisville-kentucky.html

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S9 Ep188 -Good Reads With The Gilmore Girls with Guest Kristine Eckart - 9/13/23

We always enjoy chatting with people we find on Instagram who are doing bookish things, and Kristine Eckart is one of those folks. She is the creator of Gilmore Book Club, which offers all kinds of book blogs, discussions, videos, and lists associated with the show Gilmore Girls. As if that wouldn’t keep her busy enough, she also hosts a book club for people with chronic health conditions (and we’re including the link to it in our show notes) and is working on creating book-related content for other beloved shows, such as Gossip Girl and The Office.

You can find Kristine on Insta and Youtube at @gilmorebookclub and at her website www.gilmorebookclub.com. Her Chronic Illness Bookclub can be found at www.thechroniconcommunity.com/share/_diU…rce=manual

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Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

2- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

3- Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons From Russian Literature by Viv Groskop

4- Cujo by Stephen King

5- Tortall series by Tamora Pierce

6- Harry Potter series by JK Rowling

7- Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

8- Moby Dick by Herman Melville

9- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

10- The Vampyre by John Polidori

11- Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw

12- Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakeable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness by Rick Hanson

13- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

14- The Paris Wife by Paula McClain

15- The President’s Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood

16- The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson

17- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

18- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

19- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

5 Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover

1- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness recommended by Kim Layman @the_read_rat

Shows mentioned—

1- Gilmore Girls (Netflix, 2000)

2- Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (Netflix, 2016)

3- Gossip Girl - (HBO Max 2007 - 2012)

4- The Office (2005-2013)

5- White Lotus - (HBO Max 2021 - present)

6- The Good Witch - (Netflix 2015-2021)

7- Anne with an "E" - (Netflix 2017 - 2019)

S9 Ep. 187 - Bluegrass Moon and Neck Bones with Guest Willie Carver Jr. - 9/6/23

You can find Willie Carver on Instagram @williecarverjr or on his website at www.williecarver.com.

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Sometimes when people have experienced a loss or some kind of traumatic event, they are encouraged to write about it, which gives them an outlet for their feelings and a way to help them process the experience. Our guest this week, Willie Carver Jr. was the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year but he experienced loss and trauma when both he and his students were targeted because he is gay. He began putting his thoughts and feelings into poetic lines and stanzas.

The book of poems that resulted, Gay Poems for Red States published by University Press of Kentucky, helped him look back at prejudices he had experienced as a child living in rural Kentucky, as a gay man, and as a teacher offering a place of security for his students. The poetry served as an impetus for him to engage more as an activist, even testifying before the House Subcommittee on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights concerning the need for rights for LGBTQ students and educators. Book Riot has named Gay Poems for Red States one of its' best of the year.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Gay Poems for Red States by Willie Carver Jr

2- The Awakening by Kate Chopin

3- Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer (audiobook)

4- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll narrated by Sally Field (audiobook)

5- The Eyre Affair series by Jasper Fforde (audiobook)

6- What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

7- The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

8- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

9- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

10- Theoretical Tiger Society by Brian Fuchs

11- With a Hammer for My Heart by George Ella Lyon

12- Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live by Dan Ahdoot

Five Star Recommendation by Fellow Book Lover Michael DeConzo, author of Welcome to the Arcade and Two Nickels

1- Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier

Podcast mentioned
1- Green Eggs and Dan

Perks Remix Ep. 186 - The Past and the Curious with Guest Mick Sullivan - 8/30/23

This week we are giving you something we are calling a "remix" episode. We have a new interview with former guest Mick Sullivan combined with some of his previous interview way back in 2019.

Amy is traveling this week so we’ve reconnected with former guest Mick Sullivan, who is the curator of guest experience at the Frazier History Museum and is also the creator of the award winning children's history podcast, The Past and the Curious, which grew out of the stories he tells people at the museum. His quirky combo of humor and music keeps both kids and adults interested and sneaks in a little history in the process.

The success of his podcast led to the publication of his first children's book, The Meat Shower, which is a fun telling of the historical event of meat falling from the sky in the 1800s. He has now published a book for older kids called I See Lincoln’s Underpants: The Surprising Times Underwear (and the People Wearing Them) Made History.

This episode is a little something new and something old. In this combo episode, we chat with Mick to see what he has been up to since his last book was published and you can also hear more about his first book which we discussed with him in the early days of the show in episode 27.

You can find more from Mick Sullivan including podcast episodes at thepastandthecurious.com/.

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Books Discussed in This Episode:

1- The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough

2- The Meatshower by Mick Sullivan

3- I See Lincoln’s Underpants: The Surprising Times Underwear (and the People Wearing Them) Made History by Mick Sullivan

4- Al Capone Does my Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

5- Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontes by Devoney Looser

6- Braiding Sweetgrass For Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

7- Spying on the South by Tony Horwitz

8- Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

9- Life of Pi by Yann Martel

10- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

Podcasts mentioned—
The Past and the Curious

S9 Ep. 185 -Place Settings: The Destination - 8/23/23

A few weeks ago we talked about journeys and this week we are completing the circle with an episode about destinations; specifically about places we have visited in the last few years. Do you read books about the places you travel before or during a trip? We talk about how it can enrich both your reading and travel experience.

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You can find books we've talked about and other curated lists at our Bookshop page.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Broadway Butterfly by Sara DiVello

2- When You Find My Body by D. Dauphinee

3- Alice the Cat by Tim Cummings

4- Tell the Rest by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

5- Burying My Dead by Bettie Lennett Denny

6- Martin Marten by Brian Doyle

7- Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan

8- The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

9- The Highland Witch by Susan Fletcher (Corrag)

10- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

11- The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's
First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth

12- Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

13- 44 Scotland Street (#1) by Alexander McCall Smith

14- Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

15- My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith

18- West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

19- City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

20- The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb

21- The Crow Road by Iain Banks

22- The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

23- Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby

24- Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby

25- All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby

5 Star Recommneded Read By a Fellow Booklover - Ivana @MissTuned
1- Swear on This Life by Renee Carlino

Shows mentioned--

1- The Bear (Hulu)

2- Beef (Netflix)

3- Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Articles mentioned--

Shakespeare in FLA School

S9 Ep 184 - Alternative to Amazon with guest Andy Hunter, CEO of Bookshop.org - 8/16/23

We were honored to welcome Andy Hunter, the CEO of Bookshop.org to the podcast this week. Andy is a writer, a publisher, and now heads up a company that competes with Amazon for on-line book sales. But unlike Amazon, the proceeds of Bookshop.org’s sales go back to independent bookstores.

At the click of a button, you can order a book to be delivered while your favorite independent bookseller gets part of that sale. Independent bookstores that sell most of their books during summer or don’t have the capacity to ship books can create a Bookshop.org page and sell books to anyone at any time. Authors, schools, and book influencers can create pages, too.

We talk with Andy about why he started this endeavor a few months before COVID hit, why he loves Coney Island, and how his degree in philosophy has affected the types of books he gravitates to.

Oh, and as of this recording, we decided to get with the times. The Perks is a Bookshop affiliate; you can see any of the books we talk about on the show on our new bookshop page and order them there.

https://bookshop.org/shop/PerksOfBeingABookLover

 

You can find Bookshop at bookshop.org.

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Books mentioned in this episode:

Books mentioned--
1- Is It Hot In Here? (Or am I Suffering for all Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?) by Zach Zimmerman

2- Emergency by Kathleen Alcott

3- The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut

4- When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

5- Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

6- The Wizard's Guide to Magical Baking by T. Kingfisher

7- The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

Movies mentioned--
1- Barbie (2023)

Podcast episode-
1- Thrillers by the Bookclub Podcast - Ep. 39 - Murder Ensues

Recipe mentioned:

Tomato and Fried Provolone Sandwich 

S9 Ep183 - Are We There Yet? A Journey - 8/9/23

This week we are talking all about journeys. Whether they be physical or mental, we whisk you away in a good book. Choose from 10 book recommendations from Carrie and Amy for when you're ready to be on the move.

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Books Mentioned in this Episode

1- How to Read Novels Like a Professor by Thomas Foster

2- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

3- Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

4- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

5- The Lion of Lark-Hayes Manor by Aubrey Hartman

6- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (The Surgeon of Crowthorne)

7- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

8- Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Tool by Lauren Artress

9- Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

10- Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

11- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

12- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

13- What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Most Mysterious Portrait by Eden Collinsworth

14- News of the World by Paulette Jiles

15- Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles

16- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

17- The Road Towards Home by Corinne Demas

18- A Pearl in a Storm: How I Found my Heart in the Middle of the Atlantic Ocean by Tori Murden McClure

19- The Gran Tour: Travels with My Elders by Ben Aitken

20- Cutting Teeth by Chandler Baker

21- Cosmic Cats and Fantastic Furballs by Mary Turzillo

22- Your Cat and Other Space Aliens by Mary Turzillo

23- Mars is No Place for Children by Mary Turzillo

5 Star Book Recommendation by a Book Lover
1- Empire Of A Vampire by Jay Christoff recommended by Tiffany K., Omaha, NE. Instagram @chaiteaandbooksareallineed

Shows/Movies watched—

1- American Born Chinese (Disney+, 2023)

2- Annihilation (Netflix, 2018)

3- The Professor and the Madman (2019)

 

Labyrinth Locator

www.labyrinthlocator.com

Bookish News

Article about Henrietta Lacks
apnews.com/article/henrietta-l…efa34c9b79a544f0729

S.9 Ep. 182 - Creating A COVID Family with guest Katrina Kittle - 8/2/23

This week we chat with Katrina Kittle, a Dayton, OH author whose most recent novel is titled Morning in This Broken World. I met Katrina when I took her online writing class not even knowing she had a new novel coming out but had heard such wonderful things about her four previously published books. Katrina is a real delight of a person. She is fun and bubbly but she would say she is also anti-social. So maybe a mix of both Carrie and I?

Her newest novel is about a group of unlikely companions who quarantine together during the Covid pandemic.

You can find Katrina Kittle at her website www.katrinakittle.com or on instagram at @katrinakittle

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Books Mentioned in This Episode:

1- 5 star recommednation by fellow book lover Megan Cox, Louisville KY
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

2- Morning in This Broken World by Katrina Kittle

3- Reasons To Be Happy by Katrina Kittle

4- Invitation by Mary Oliver

5- Babel by RF Kuang

6- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

7- Yellowface by RF Kuang

8- Come With Me by Erin Flanagan

9- Big Gay Wedding by Byron Lane (audiobook narrated by Noah Galvin

10- The Guncle by Steven Rowley

Perks REPLAY - Around The World In An Anxious Mind with Guest Jeremy Hance

We chatted with environmental writer Jeremy Hance in 2021 about his travel memoir BAGGAGE: CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBETROTTING HYPOCHONDRIAC Season 5 Ep. 113.

Our guest this week, Jeremy Hance, writes about 3 topics in his most recent book that we are always drawn to; mental health, travel, and animals. Baggage: Confessions of a Globe-trotting Hypochondriac is a memoir that uses humor to help readers understand what life is like for someone who has a mental health issue like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. In Jeremy’s case, his anxiety is always worse when he travels. While traveling to all corners of the globe is one of the best parts of his life as an environmental writer and is necessary for the work he does, travel is also fraught with rumination and fear.

Jeremy is an environmental journalist who is currently a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:
1- Baggage: Confessions of a Globe-Trotting Hypochondriac by Jeremy Hance

2- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

3- The Princess Bride by William Goldman

4- My Antonia by Willa Cather

5- The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

6- Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein

7- The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein

8- A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermer

9- Sorry, I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes by Jessica Pan

Websites mentioned
news.Mongabay.com

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Perks REPLAY -Thrill Seekers with Guest Chelsea Hoffman

Our guest this week, Chelsea Hofmann, loves to feel her pulse quicken and gets excited by the idea that anything could happen. She lives her life spontaneously so her love of the thriller genre with its twists, turns, and surprise endings fit her personality just fine.

After finishing college and moving to Southern California with her husband, she wanted to reconnect with her love of reading books that she had as a child but none of the book clubs she tried felt like a good fit. So she started a virtual book club on the Instagram platform called Thrillers By The Bookclub. As that virtual club became became popular with members all over the globe, people started asking her about in-person book clubs. Chelsea nurtured this idea, encouraging book lovers to start their own Thriller By The Book Club chapters. There are now over 27 chapters and more are still forming. We chat with Chelsea in this episode about all the thrilling books she reads.

- You can find Chelsea on instagram at @thrillerbookbabe.
- To find out more about Thrillers By The Book club, to see if they have a chapter in your area or to get more information about starting your own, check out their instagram at @thrillersbythebookclub .
- Local Louisville listeners , there is a chapter in town. @txbc_louisville

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Books mentioned in this episode:

1- Boxcar Children series

2- Nancy Drew series

3- Hardy Boys series

4- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

5- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

6- Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver

7- His & Hers by Alice Feeney

8- In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

9- The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

10- Survive the Night by Riley Sager

11- This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel

12- The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones

13- Outside by Ragnor Jonasson

14- The Mist by Ragnor Jonasson

15- Snowblind by Ragnor Jonasson

16- An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helena Tursten

17- An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helena Tursten

18- The Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snickett

TV series:
1- The Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix 2017-2019)