Episode 31 - Happy Halloween! Surprise, Chris reads some Icelandic Dracula...

Episode Thirty One Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Join our Goodreads Group! Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page. We have two upcoming read-along’s: December – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. Send in questions or comments by Dec 7th – we will discuss on December 12th episode. February – Maurice by E.M. Forster. – Just Read – Bluebird, Bluebird – Attica Locke (EF) Lost Voyage – Pauline Rowson (CW) Panel from The One Hundred Nights of Hero – Isabel Greenberg (CW) – Currently Reading/Listening – That Old Cape Magic – Richard Russo (EF) (audio) Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula – Bram Stoker (CW) How To Read Water: Clues, Signs & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea – Tristan Gooley (CW) The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World – Peter Wohlleben (CW) The Leader’s Bookshelf – James Stavridis, R Manning Ancell – Biblio Adventures – Chris took friends to visit some of our local libraries: Blackstone Library in Branford, CT Sterling Memorial Library in New Haven, CT Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library in New Haven, CT Chris has written reviews of the two Blackstone Libraries on her blog. She has also written about the Beinecke on her blog as well. Chris ventured to Jaffrey, New Hampshire for a Willa Cather pilgrimage – she is buried there. Additionally, she browsed at Toadstool Bookshop at the Peterborough, NH location. Chris came across two of her favorite childhood books, two Willa Cather novels and a Gwendolyn Brooks novel: Saucy – Martha McKeen Welch (CW) Cannonball Simp – John Burningham (CW) A Lost Lady – Willa Cather (CW) My Mortal Enemy – Willa Cather (CW) Maud Martha – Gwendolyn Brooks (CW) October 16 – Denise Kiernan author of The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home October 19 – Anna Quindlen – West Hartford Reads at Town Hall October 21 – Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon – Upcoming Jaunts – Chris and Laura are heading to The New York Society Library to see the New York World of Willa Cather exhibit running October 24, 2017 – August 31, 2018. November 9 – Emily is headed to RJ Julia Booksellers to see David Lebovitz discuss his newest book L’Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making Paris My Home. November 14 – Emily is headed to New Castle, KY and will visit The Berry Center. – Upcoming Reads – Nightmare in Berlin – Hans Fallada (CW) Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman (EF) The Bees – Laline Paul (EF) (audio) I Know a Secret (Rizzoli & Isles #12) – Tess Gerritsen (CW) – Also Mentioned – Darktown – Thomas Mullen Literary Atlanta Podcast Ink and Paper Blog The Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas and Sweet Accompaniments – David Lebovitz

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