Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read
Episodes
Episode 49 - Our Mystery Man Returns!
22 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Forty Nine Show Notes Our Mystery Man – John Valeri http://www.johnbvaleri.com/ Twitter: @OyeJohn52 – Books That Are Out Now – The Wo...
Episode 48 - Jaunt Much? Chris and Emily visit SEVEN bookstores and discuss LOADS of books
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Forty Eight 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 a...
Episode 47 - AngieThomas, Cecile Richards, Jhumpa Lahiri, Domenico Starnone and Willa Cather (of course!)
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Forty Seven 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 a...
Episode 46 - The Stranger in the Woods
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Forty Six Show NotesCW = Chris WolakEF = Emily FineJoin our Goodreads Group! Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. Yo...
Episode 45 - An Unlikely Visit with Ann Kingman!
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Forty Five Show Notes Join our Goodreads Group! Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join...
Episode 44 - National Poetry Month, Luis Alberto Urrea and books, lots of books!
03 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Forty Four 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 al...
Episode 43 - A Jaunt To See Two NY Times Bestselling Authors!
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Forty Three Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Windham Campbell Awards – See the 2018 winners: http://windhamcampbell.org/rec...
Episode 42 - No Power, No Problem! Our Maurice Read Along Conversation
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Forty Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Our 4th Giveaway – The winner is Sally – entrant #42: Stay with Me – Ayobami Ade...
Episode 41 - A Joint Jaunt with Min Jin Lee author of Pachinko!
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Forty One Show Notes You can donate to the Book Cougars at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BookCougars Thank you! Join our Goodreads Group...
Episode 40 - Our 4th Giveaway!
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Forty Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Our 4th Giveaway – Another ten episodes means it is time for another giveaway. Thes...
Episode 39 - Surprise! A Roadside Meetup with Michael Kindness
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Thirty Nine Show Notes Join our Goodreads Group! Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or joi...
Episode 38 - A Cookbook Recall - Who Knew?!
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Thirty Eight 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 ...
Episode 37 - Boyne, Cather, Harper, Hoeg, Patel and a Joint Jaunt Re-enactment
23 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Thirty Seven 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 ...
Episode 36 - Chris and Emily Discuss Their Reading Goals for 2018
09 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Thirty Six 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 al...
Episode 35 - Chris & Emily Discuss Their Top Reads Of 2017
26 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Thirty Five 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 a...
Episode 34 - Holiday Gift Ideas and Our 3rd Readalong
12 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Thirty Four Show NotesCW = Chris WolakEF = Emily FineJoin our Goodreads Group! Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. ...
Episode 33 - Bookshops Galore!
28 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Emily went to multiple bookshops!
Episode 32 - David Bowie, Espionage, Gravediggers, Willa Cather and more...
14 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Thirty Two 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 al...
Episode 31 - Happy Halloween! Surprise, Chris reads some Icelandic Dracula...
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 al...
Episode 30 - Our 3rd Giveaway and 3rd Read-along!
17 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Thirty 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....
Episode 29 - Library Sale Booty, Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon and more
03 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Twenty Nine 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 a...
Episode 28 - Maynard, Skulls and Keys, Fangirl or Stalker?
19 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Emily discuss their reading and biblio adventures. Including Joyce Maynard, Min Jin Lee, David Allen Richards, Hillary Clinton and more.
Episode 27 - The American Writer's Museum in Chicago, Illinois
12 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Emily speak with Colleen Olson to recap her visit to the American Writers Museum in Chicago, Illinois.
Episode 26 - Prizes, Reading Challenges, New Podcasts, Jaunts and Books!
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Emily discuss 2017 Center For Fiction First Novel Prize, R.eaders I.bibing P.eril XII (#RIPXII), Our Mystery Man (#MysteryMan), the passing ...
Episode 25 - Our Mystery Man!
01 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
John B. Valeri joins Chris and Emily to discuss loads of mystery books with us. Also the books that inspired him to become a reader.
Episode 24 - Berry, Cather, Steinbeck and more!
22 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Emily discuss their joint read: The Grapes of Wrath. Additionally, Chris went to Governor's Island for a weekend full of Willa Cather wonder...
Episode 23 - Chris joins the Criminal Element book review team. Emily reads a steamy poem.
08 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Twenty Three Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Grapes of Wrath Read-Along – Chris and Emily will be doing a joint read of Jo...
Episode 22 - Author Spotlight with Shuly Xochitl Cawood
01 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Twenty Two Show Notes Author Spotlight with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood The Going and Goodbye: A Memoir Shuly’s blog can be found here: http:...
Episode 21 - Bookswap, Bookworm, Colfer, Roorbach and Twain
25 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Twenty One Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Grapes of Wrath Read-Along – Chris and Emily will be doing a joint read of John...
Episode 20 - Another giveaway! Upcoming Grapes of Wrath Read Along and more...
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Twenty Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Giveaway – To celebrate our 20th episode we are giving away two stacks of books. In...
Episode 19 - Our first author spotlight with Laura Thoma
04 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Nineteen Show Notes Author Spotlight with Laura Thoma Mastering the Art of Self-Expression: A Creative Journaling Workbook You can purchas...
Episode 18 - We won a raffle from New York Review Books - yay more books!
27 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Eighteen Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Just Read – Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body – Roxane Gay (CW)(EF) An American Mar...
Episode 17 - The Cougars go bicoastal visiting both Portland's in the same week!
13 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Seventeen Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Just Read – It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too) – Nora McInerny (EF) ...
Episode 16 - Biblio Adventures galore (and books)
30 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Sixteen Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Follow up: Kathleen Rooney’s Poems While You Wait – proceeds go to her imprint Rose ...
Episode 15 - Booktopia debrief and book recommendations with our guest Ann Kingman
22 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Fifteen Show Notes – Biblio Adventures – Books on the Nightstand debrief with Ann Kingman Jane Sobel Klonsky – Unconditional: Older Do...
Episode 14 - Leg Cramps, F-Bombs, A Passionate Movie Review (and books)
09 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Fourteen Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine The Book Cougars had a great shout out on the Reading Envy podcast: check it out – ...
Episode 13 - Birds, Dickinson, The Dude Diet, Playboy, Steinbeck (and books)
25 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Thirteen Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Just Read – Celine – Peter Heller (CW) (EF) The Impossible Fortress – Jason ...
Episode 12 - Surprise, it's a bonus episode with a super-duper special guest!
18 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 12 Show Notes -Biblio Adventure- Chris and Emily went on a joint jaunt to Rhode Island to hear Bryan Stevenson speak. Bryan Stevenson is the...
Episode 11 - History & Hickies and Books & Biblio Adventures
10 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Emily discuss what they have been reading and biblio adventures including many joint jaunts. Min Jin Lee's Pachincko wins the award for most...
Episode 10 - Our top "ten" of all time, or for today, and a book giveaway/raffle
27 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Emily discuss what they've been reading and their biblio adventures. We celebrate our tenth episode with our top "ten" books of all time, or...
Episode 9 - Knitted Knockers, Little Free Libraries, Sperm Donation (and books)
13 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Emily discuss what they've been reading and their biblio adventures.
Episode 8 - Biblio Adventure Bonanza! (and books...)
28 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Emily discuss what they've been reading and their biblio adventures.
Episode 7 - Joint reads of the March trilogy and The English Patient
13 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Emily discuss what they've been reading and their biblio adventures.
Episode 6 - Dracula, Legally Blonde and open heart surgery...
31 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dracula, Legally Blonde and open heart surgery...
Episode 5 - Will Schwalbe, Roxane Gay, Kinokuniya and books, lots of books!
17 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Will Schwalbe, Roxane Gay, Kinokuniya and books, lots of books!
Episode 4 - 2017 Reading Goals / The English Patient Read Along
02 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Emily discuss 2017 Reading Goals and The English Patient Read Along
Episode 3 - Emily (meets) Oprah and much more...
20 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Emily discuss books and multiple literary jaunts
Episode 2 - Top Ten Reads of 2016 and Holiday Gift Ideas
13 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Emily discuss their top 10 reads of 2016 and offer some holiday gift ideas
Episode One!
06 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Chris and Emily introduce their new bookish podcast.