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Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
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You can find the Bookery Cincy at www.bookerycincy.com/ or on IG @bookerycincy.
To find info about the Bookstore Crawl visit FB at Cincy Bookstore Crawl.
This week we chat with Sierra Hollabaugh, one of the co-owners and founders of Bookery Cincy, an independent bookstore located in Cincinnati, OH. When Amy went to Cincinnati recently, she met Sierra so we thought it would be nice if everyone got to know a little more about the bookstore as well as a cool October event, the Cincy Bookstore Crawl, which includes 16 small bookstores in the area. Cincinnati is a great place for a weekend visit, and the bookstore crawl just makes it an even more appealing location.
We talk about the resurgence of the independent brick and mortar bookstore, what it’s like running a small business when you have young kids, and what visitors can expect if they come to Cincy for the Bookstore Crawl which is the weekend of Oct 4-6.
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
1- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
2- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
3- Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
4- Sociopath by Patric Gagne
5- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
6- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
7- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
8- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
9- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
10- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
11- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
12- Trust by Hernan Diaz
13- In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
14- The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
15- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Elias Eells @eliaseells - The West Passage by Jared Pechaček
16- Cocktails and Consoles by Elias Eells
17- All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby
18- Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby
19- Sandwich by Catherine Newman
20- We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
21- Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family by Catherine Newman
22- A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
Media mentioned--
1- American Psycho (2000, Netflix)
2- Catastrophe (2015-2019, Prime Video)
3- Art is Not a Luxury with Ethan Hawke - www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeCuqtFKLHI
4- Utah Book Ban -Utah recently banned 13 books by 7 authors from all public schools in the state. apnews.com/article/utah-school…a6cd2cb5ddd25fca700
Tuesday Aug 06, 2024
Tuesday Aug 06, 2024
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This week we’re going “boldly where no man has gone before.” Yes–that’s right into space.
Books Mentioned in This Episode:
1- The Most Precious of Cargoes by Jean-Claude Grumberg
2- The Paris Affair by Maureen Marshall
3- A Five Start Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Stephanie Affinito @affinitolit - The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood
4- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
5- Leviathan Wakes by James SA Corey
6- The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe series) by Mary Robinette Kowal
7- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
8- Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar
9- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
10- The Lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm
11- A Rovers Story by Jasmine Warga
12- Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
13- Bright Objects by Ruby Todd
14- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
15- A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz
Media mentioned--
1- Constellation (Apple+, 2024)
2- Zone of Interest (HBOMax, 2023)
3- Cat Video Fest--www.catvideofest.com
4- For All Mankind (Apple+, 2019)
5- The Expanse (Prime Video, 2015)
6- Spaceman of Bohemia (Netflix, 2024)
7- Literature as an Olympic Sport - lithub.com/did-you-know-that-p…tual-olympic-sport/
Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
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You can find Jean Duffy at her website www.jeanduffy.com or on IG @soccergranniesbook.
Sarahlyn Bruck can be found at her website www.sarahlynbruck.com or on IG @saralynbruck.
If you can’t get enough of sports and global camaraderie watching the Paris Summer Olympics on your TV screens, we have an interview for you today to scratch that itch even more; books that include women’s soccer.
In Season 10, we did a dual-interview with two authors who wrote Jane Austen-inspired books: AH Kim and Melodie Edwards. It was so much fun, we thought we would do it again. This time, though, we’re pairing two women who wrote books related to soccer.
Sarahlyn Bruck is the author of several novels; her most recent is titled Light of the Fire, which is about two adult women who were connected by soccer in high school. Jean Duffy’s debut nonfiction book is titled Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspire the World, about older women who play recreational soccer. These two writers, who both have an abiding love of the game, were down with joining each other and us to chat about their respective books.
While these books on the surface deal with soccer, they ultimately address friendship and teamwork, the elements of the game that change lives for the better.
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
1- Light of the Fire by Sarahlyn Bruck
2- Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspire the World by Jean Duffy
3- The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives by Kelcey Ervick
4- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover, Patricia @patriciapluggedin - Funny Story by Emily Henry
5- I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
6- Anna Bright is Hiding Something by Susie Orman Schnall
7- Invisible Women: Exploring Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez
8- Magonia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller
9- Know My Name by Chanel Miller
10- Starter Villain by John Scalzi
11- Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Media mentioned—
1- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
2- Trying (2024, Apple+)
3- Catastrophe (2015, Amazon Prime)
4- The Dropout (2022, Hulu)
Our Episode with Kelcey Ervick about her graphic memoir, The Keeper -ThePerksofBeingaBookLover.podbean.com/e/s9ep…21323/
Wednesday Jul 24, 2024
Wednesday Jul 24, 2024
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You can find Carter Wilson at his website www.carterwilson.com or on IG @carterwilsonauthor. You can also find his podcast Making It Up on all podcast platforms.
This week we chat with Carter Wilson, a thriller writer and podcast host who lives in Colorado and who is the author of nine novels. His most recent is titled The Father She Went to Find, a story of Penny, a girl who suffered a brain injury at an early age that left her a savant with curious abilities. It was at this time that her father disappeared, but he has remained in contact via a birthday card every year. Until she turns 21. And that is the impetus she needs to go find him. This is a road trip/ scavenger hunt thrill ride that even has a few Stranger Things vibes. It’s set in the 1980s after all.
Carter talks to us about why this book is different from all his others and his favorite TV thriller series he has watched this year. And we laugh when he tells us one of the reasons why someone might start writing a book.
Books mentioned--
1- The Father She Went to Find by Carter Wilson
2- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Yayoi Kusama (Penguin Classics) 2012
3- Deception at Diamond D Ranch by GR Stahl
4- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
5- Pines by Blake Crouch
6- Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
7- Greenwood by Michael Christie
8- My Mama, Cass: A Memoir by Owen Elliot-Kugell
9- The Mysterious Case of Rudolph Diesel by Douglas Brunt
10- The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
11- The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12- The Language of Love and Loss by Bart Yates
13- The Five Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Iresha Jayasinghe @resh_bookstagram - Cinder Luna by Marie Soleil
Movies and Limited Series--
1- Where'd You Go Bernadette (2019)
2- Shogun (Hulu, 2024)
3- Ripley (Netflix, 2024)
Links--
1- Salted Brown Butter Krispie Treats recipe - smittenkitchen.com/2009/11/salted-…-crispy-treats/
2-Yayoi Kusama Exhiition - www.speedmuseum.org/yayoi-kusama-in…urvive-forever/
3- Rediscovered Books in Boise, ID - www.rdbooks.org/
4- Free Little Art Galleries (FLAGS) - freelittleartgalleries.art/
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
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So back during Season 10 we flew to Los Angeles, California for the LA Times Festival of Books, which was held on the campus of USC. We were able to meet our bookish friend, Jennifer Caloyeras from the Books Are My People podcast; hear cool authors and audiobook narrators speak; and visit some awesome places in LA.
Amy is usually the one who reads around the places she is visiting, although she is apparently rubbing off on me because I’m finding myself doing it too. We decided to make an episode centered around Los Angeles/Hollywood reads.
Books Discussed in This Episode:
1- Everything I Learned, I Learned In a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin
2- The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
3- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
4- A 5 Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Lauren Becker @laurenashleybecker- Elephant and Castle by Hannah Ledford
5- Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins series) by Walter Mosley
6- The Monstrous Misses Mai by Van Hoang
7- Love & Saffron by Kim Fay
8- Daytime Drama by Sarahlyn Bruck
9- Code Name Edelweiss by Stephanie Landsem
10- California Dreamin: The True Story of the Mamas and Papas by Michelle Phillips
12- Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
13- Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
14- The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
15- Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle
16- Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
17- Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor
18- Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
19- Wildfire by Hannah Grace
Movies mentioned--
Feast of Death (documentary about James Ellroy) - 2001
Articles mentioned--
100 Best Books of the 21st Century - www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/…21st-century.html
Episodes mentioned--
Wednesday Jul 10, 2024
Wednesday Jul 10, 2024
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You can find Mai Corland on IG @maicorland as well as at her website at meredithireland.wordpress.com
This episode begins Season 11 for us–we’ve got over 200 episodes under our belts and are back to bring you more.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that fantasy is big right now, and we discovered a fun fantasy that feels like an Ocean’s 11 type romp with multiple characters trying to take down a king. The book is titled Five Broken Blades and it is written by Mai Corland. We were delighted to speak with her a couple weeks back, especially since she is now an international bestselling author. And in fact, while recording this episode you will hear Mai receiving some good news. While some people might let this success go to their heads, Mai is down-to-earth and gets entirely too much pleasure poking fun at her new status.
We chat about the fantasy series she can’t stop recommending, why writing middle grade and YA novels was such good prep for pacing in her new romantic fantasy, and how riding the subway opened up her world as a teen.
Books Discussed In This Episode:
1- Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland
2- Four Ruined Realms by Mai Corland
3- You Are Here: Connected Flights edited by Ellen Oh
4- Emma and the Love Spell by Meredith Ireland
5- The Jasmine Project by Meredith Ireland
6- Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse
7- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
8- The Jane City trilogy by Fonda Lee
9- The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
10- 5 Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Marné Deranger @readerbythewater - Sandwich by Catherine Newman
11- Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives by Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett
12- Such Charming Liars by Karen McManus
13- One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus
14- The Cousins by Karen McManus
15- Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal Wilkinson
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
***We are on summer hiatus but will be back with an all new episode next week! Happy Reading!
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 Jilles
15- Enemy Women by Paulette Jilles
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)
Labirynth Locator
www.labyrinthlocator.com
Bookish News
Article about Henrietta Lacks
apnews.com/article/henrietta-l…efa34c9b79a544f0729
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
We are on summer hiatus until July 10, 2024. Until then, please check out this episode about humor and books that made us laugh. It originally aired April 2023.
Did you know it is National Humor Month? Neither did we but now we do and so do you. Which means this week we are talking about books that make us laugh.
For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover.
Books We Mentioned:
1- The Peripheral by William Gibson
2- Foundation by Isaac Asimnov
3- Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
4- The Martian by Andy Weir
5- The Alaskan Laundry by Brendan Jones
6- Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
7- The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate
8- The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
9- Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
10- Yearbook by Seth Rogen
11- This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
12- The Guncle by Steven Rowley
13- Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? A Mother's Suggestions by Patricia Marx; illustrated by Roz Chast
14- Calypso by David Sedaris
15- A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson
16- Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel by Suzanne Roberts
17- Dirtbag, Massachusetts by Isaac Fitzgerald
18- She Is A Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
19- Sacred Geometry by Robert Lawlor
20- Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis
21- What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry
22- Hestia Strikes A Match by Christine Grillo
23- My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimers by Sandeep Jauhar
24- Elf Dog and Owl Head by M.T. Anderson
TV Series mentioned:
1- The Peripheral (Amazon Prime 2023)
2- Foundation (Apple+ 2021)
Bookish News
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
****We are still on hiatus but will be back with all new episodes in a few weeks. Until then, enjoy our Summer Reading episode from last year with our favorite bookseller, Sam Miller, from Carmichaels Books. Her suggestions may not be hot off the press but still make for great reads. Happy Reading!
At the start of summer, we like to chat with Sam Miller, bookseller and manager at Carmichael’s Bookstore here in Louisville (We actually like to chat with Sam anytime, but she has especially useful information about new books twice a year.) Sam does the heavy lifting this week by telling us what is coming out and might be good for your TBR list.
For show notes for any episode, go to our website at perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover.
Books mentioned in this episode:
1- The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
2- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
3- Be Mine by Richard Ford
4- The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
5- The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
6- The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
7- Color of Water by James McBride
8- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
9- The Tusk that Did the Damage by Tania James
10- Loot by Tania James
11- Happy Place by Emily Henry
12- I Didn’t Do It by Jamie Lynn Hendricks
13- Only One Left by Riley Sager
14- Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
15- Independence Square by Martin Cruz Smith
16- Small Mercies by Dennis LeHane
17- Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
18- Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong
19- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
20 The Other Renaissance by Paul Strathern
21- Ice by Amy Brady
22- The Soldier’s Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II by David Chrisinger
23- Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
24- A Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
25- Pageboy by Elliot Page
26- Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
27- Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City by Jane Wong
28- King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
29- Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
30- Sweet Enough: A Dessert Cookbook by Alison Roman
31- Franklin Smoke by Aaron Franklin
32- Love is a Pink Cake by Claire Ptak
33- Back to the Dirt by Frank Bill
34- Code of the Hills by Chris Offutt
35- If You Write Me a Letter, Send it Here by Louisville Story Program
36- Gay Poems for Red States by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
37- Tar Hollow Trans by Stacy Jane Grover
38- The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers
39- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
40- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
41- Weather Together by Jessie Sima
42- The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
43- Big Gay Wedding by Byron Lane
44- Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
45- Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott
46- Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman
47- Prom Mom by Laura Lippman
48- The Disinvited Guest by Carol Goodman
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
We are on hiatus for the month of June. This replay episode originally aired June 2023.
This week we celebrate all the special days of June! Want a book rec for Pride month? We have one. What about Juneteenth or Father's Day? We have you covered. And did you know it's National Audiobook Month? It's new to us as well but we love audiobooks so we give you some recommendations for that too. And we throw in one wildcard category - one of those random National Days or Months that always makes you wonder why there needs to be a month for that:)
This is the last episode for Season 8. We are taking a month off for summer family travel and some rest and relaxation. We will be back the late July/ early August with all new episodes. Until then, we will air some of our favorite past episodes in case you missed them the first time around.
Happy Reading!
For show notes for any episode or to contact us, go to our website at perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover.
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
1- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
2- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
3- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
4- Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo
5- Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo
6- The Scent of a Garden by Namrata Patel
7- The Candid Life of Meena Dave by Namrata Patel
8- The Scent of Burnt Flowers by Blitz Bazawule
9- Fun Home: A Famliy Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
10- Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
11- And Then the Grey Heaven by RE Katz
12- Lone Women by Victor Lavalle
13- The Changeling by Victor Lavalle
14- Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
15- The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
16- The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
17- The Chosen by Chaim Potok
18- Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
19- The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
20- The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
21- Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis by Emily Willingham
22- The Good One by Polly Stewart
23- On Earth as it is on Television by Emily Jane
Shows/movies mentioned--
1- No Country For Old Men ( 2007)
2- My Octopus Teacher (Netflix, 2020)
Articles Mentioned:
1- Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghanaian writer who was voice of African women, dies at 81