Episode Eighty Four Show Notes CW = Chris WolakEF = Emily FinePurchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle!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!We have a BookTube Channel – please check it out here, and be sure to subscribe!Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.– 11th Readalong –Free Food for Millionnaires – Min Jin LeeThe Goodreads discussion thread will open on October 1st.– Currently Reading –A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II – Sonia Purnell (CW)Becoming Willa Cather: Creation and Career – Daryl W. Palmer (CW)For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity – Liz Plank (EF) release date September 10, 2019The Seven of Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna – Juliet Grames (EF)– Just Read –Midnight at the Blackbird Café – Heather Webber (EF)Scandal – Willa Cather (CW) which is part of the Willa Cather Short Story Project– Biblio Adventures –Chris and Emily went to RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison to see author Jessica Francis Kayne discuss her book Rules for Visiting.Chris visited the Wood Memorial Library in South Windsor, CT. This is the new meeting place for the Willa Cather Book Club; they will be meeting at 2:00 on October 17th discussing The Professor’s House.Chris had family in town and went to: Mystic Seaport Museum, Savoy Bookstore and Cafe, New York Public Library. Chris got a new Kaweco Classic Sport fountain pen. – Upcoming Jaunts –September 5, 2019 – Chris and Emily are planning to go to RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison to see author Madeline Miller discuss her book Circe.Emily hopes to visit Once Upon a Thyme Bookshop in Beavercreek, Ohio.– Upcoming Reads –Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison (CW)A Better Man – Louise Penny (CW)The Testaments – Margaret Atwood (CW) release date September 10, 2019Margaret Atwood: Live in Cinemas event is September 10, 2019Read about the Long-Distance Pen created by Margaret Atwood HEREThe Great Believers – Rebecca Makkai (EF)Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories – Deborah Eisenberg (EF)Property: Stories Between Two Novellas – Lionel Shriver (EF)If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years – Christopher E.G. Benfey (CW)Hear his interview with Pamela Paul on the NY Times Book Review podcast HERE.Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death – Caitlin Doughty (CW)Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil – Susan Neiman (CW)– Also Mentioned –Pachinko – Min Jin LeeMiddlemarch – George Eliot Savory Bookstore and Café / Bank Square Books Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe – Fannie FlaggLike Water for Chocolate – Laura EsquivelBirds of America – John J. Audobon Nathaniel PhilbrickThe Girl Who Lived Twice – David LagercrantzEye of the Needle – Ken FollettDonald and the Golden Crayon – P. ShauersHarold and the Purple Crayon – Crockett JohnsonBarter Hordes BooktubeThe Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret AtwoodWe Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel ShriverThe Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too) – Gretchen RubinBookpage MagazineThe Jungle Book – Rudyard KiplingJust Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan StevensonGone with the Wind – Margaret MitchellNY Times 1619 ProjectSapphira and the Slave Girl – Willa Cather

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