Episode Sixty Two Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Purchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! AND at Bookclub Bookstore & More. If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email [email protected] for instructions. Join our Goodreads Group! Please subscribe to our email newsletter here. – Readalong’s 8 & 9 – Born A Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood – Trevor Noah Have comments to us by November 8, 2018 Hum If You Don’t Know the Words – Bianca Marais Have comments to us by December 6, 2018 – Giveaway – We have one copy of Hum If You Don’t Know the Words! Please subscribe to the newsletter by November 5, 2018 to be entered to win. Bonus points if you post a selfie with your favorite read on social media – be sure to #bookcougars. – Currently Reading – Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert (CW) Mr. Flood’s Last Resort (or The Hoarder) – Jess Kidd (EF) The Monk – Matthew Lewis (CW) Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – Anthony Bourdain (EF)(audio) – Just Read – Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather (CW) Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America – Nancy MacLean (CW) Fledgling – Octavia Butler (CW) (Chris wrote a review of the book on her blog. Click HERE.) Courageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More (Women of Action) – Kathryn J. Atwood The Care and Feeding of an Independent Bookstore: Three Instructive Essays – Ann Patchett (CW) The Best of Us – Joyce Maynard (EF) (audio) Not Our Kind – Kiddy Zeldis (EF) – Biblio Adventures – Chris saw two movies: Crazy Rich Asians and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Emily visited Gramercy Books and Bexley Public Library in Columbus, Ohio Chris and Emily went to NYC and visited the Frankenstein exhibit at the Morgan Library and attended the Susan Orlean lecture at the New York Public Library where she discussed her new book – The Library Book. (Chris wrote a review of the book on her blog. Click HERE.) – Upcoming Jaunts – Chris is heading to LA for some bookish fun. Emily is heading to That Bookstore – a new independent bookstore in Wethersfield, CT – Upcoming Reads – 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List – James Mustich (EF) Eventide and Benediction – Kent Haruf (EF) Gone So Long – Andre Dubus III (EF) Five Days at Memorial – Sheri Fink (CW) Starting From Scratch – Rita Mae Brown (CW) – Also Mentioned – Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear – Elizabeth Gilbert Kindred – Octavia Butler Parnassus Books Signature of All Things – Elizabeth Gilbert Lucy Gayheart – Willa Cather Plainsong – Kent Haruf Ruby Fruit Jungle – Rita Mae Brown Sudden Death – Rita Mae Brown Shawn the Book Maniac Book Tuber Reading Envy

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