Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read

On this episode, we bid a bittersweet farewell to our first recording studio. We also chat about a handful of virtual literary events including a joint jaunt via The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s literary festival. The event was titled Audre Lorde and Political Warfare and featured Roxane Gay, Mahogany L. Browne, Tracy K. Smith, and Salamishah Tillet. Chris began reading a memoi...

Chris finished All the Devils Are Here, the newest book from Louise Penny in her Inspector Gamache Series.  Emily is reading the soon-to-be published Magic Lessons, by Alice Hoffman, her prequel to Practical Magic and Rules of Magic. They both talk about their affinity for these two authors and what it is like to meet someone you greatly admire, and try to find words to say, when your knees are kn...

We chat about the BIG BOOKS we have been reading and announce our upcoming readalong, Celestial Bodies, by Jokha Alharthi. Chris took a drive through Glastonbury where she discovered three libraries. Emily listened to the Quarantine Tapes with Paul Holdengraber and his guest, Min Jin Lee.

Episode One Hundred Ten Show Notes – Episode 110 GIVEAWAY – The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns – edited by Mitzi Szereto If I Never Find You – Mhairi McFarlane The Deep – Alma Katsu Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia To be entered to win please subscribe to our email newsletter here . We will choose the winner on August 21, 2020. – Currently Reading – A House is a Body – Shruti Swamy...

We had the pleasure of talking to Kathleen Rooney about her new book, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, available now!

Episode One Hundred Eight Show Notes – Currently Reading – Looking for Lorraine – Imani Perry (CW)(audio) Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who’s Been There – Tara Schuster (EF)(audio) The New York Public Library Book – Henry Hope Reed, Francis Morrone, and Anne Day (CW) Clap When You Land – Elizabeth Acevedo (EF) Too Much and Never Enough: How My Fa...

Episode One Hundred Seven Show Notes – Currently Reading – Night – Elie Wiesel (CW)(audio) Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man – Mary Trump, Ph. D. (CW) Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey – Kathleen Rooney (EF) release date 8/11/20 – Just Read – With or Without You – Caroline Leavitt (EF) Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder –...

– Currently Reading – All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto – George M. Johnson (CW) The Museum of Modern Love – Heather Rose (EF) (audio) Night – Elie Wiesel (CW) Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women’s Voices - Kathy Gunst and Katherine Alford (EF) – Just Read – Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close – Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman (EF) release date 7/14/20 Tue...

Episode One Hundred Five Show Notes We are excited to announce that we are now an affiliate of Libro.fm audiobook platform: Listeners can receive three months for the price of one. Follow this link to learn more. (promo code: bookcougars) – 14th Readalong discussion– Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori) The discussion will drop on August 4 via Episode 108,...

Episode One Hundred Four Show Notes We are excited to announce that we are now an affiliate of Libro.fm audiobook platform: Listeners can receive three months for the price of one. Follow this link to learn more. – 14th Readalong discussion– Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori) The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE . – Currently Reading – Eat Jo...

Episode One Hundred Three Show Notes KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine – Currently Reading – Chris dnf’d The Keep – Jennifer Egan (CW) Resurrection Bay (Caleb Zelic #1) – Emma Viskic (EF) Friends and Strangers – J. Courtney Sullivan (EF) release date June 30, 2020 The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Ce...

Episode One Hundred Two Show Notes KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine – Lucky 13th Readalong discussion– Go, Went, Gone – Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Susan Bernofsky) The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE Our conversation about the book will air on May 26th – Currently Reading – Go, Went, Gone – Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Susan Bernofsky) (EF) – Just Read – Modern Scholar...

Chris and Emily have a good old fashioned catch up. They talk about books they have been reading, do some Couch Biblio-Adventuring, and interview author, editor, and podcaster Will Schwalbe.

100th Episode Giveaway We are giving away four $25 gift certificates To be entered into the giveaway subscribe to our newsletter here . – Currently Reading – Kill Creek – Scott Thomas (CW) Valentine – Elizabeth Whetmore(EF) Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life – Joan D. Hedrick (CW) The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age – David Callahan (EF) – Just Read – The Secrets We Kept – L...

Episode Ninety Nine Show Notes KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine – Lucky 13th Readalong discussion– Go, Went, Gone – Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Susan Bernofsky) The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE Our conversation about the book will air on May 26th – Currently Reading – The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett (EF) release date June 2, 2020 The Odyssey – Homer (translated by Em...

Episode Ninety Eight Show Notes KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine – Lucky 13th Readalong discussion– Go, Went, Gone – Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Susan Bernofsky) The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE Our conversation about the book will air on May 26th – Currently Reading – One Moonlit Night – Caradog Prichard (translated by Niall Griffiths) (CW) You can learn more about th...

– Lucky 13th Readalong – Go, Went, Gone – Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Susan Bernofsky) The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE Our conversation about the book will air on May 26th – Currently Reading – The Odyssey – Homer (translated by Emily Wilson) (CW) the audio version by Clare Danes can be found here This Town Sleeps – Dennis E. Staples (EF) – Just Read – A Good Marriage: A Novel...

Episode Ninety Six Show Notes KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine – Currently Reading – The End of Your Life Book Club – Will Schwalbe (CW) From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home – Tembi Locke (EF) The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel – Grady Hendrix (CW) release date April 7, 2020 A Good Marriage: A Novel – Kimberly McCreight (EF) release date May 5,...

Episode Ninety Five Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Currently Reading – Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed – Lori Gottlieb (CW) Northernmost – Peter Geye (EF) release date April 14, 2020 Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season – Bernd Brunner (CW) A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories – Lucia Berlin (EF) Harriet Beec...

Episode Ninety Four Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Currently Reading – Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North – Katherine Keith (CW) (release date 2/4/2020) Becoming – Michelle Obama (CW) (audio) Recipe for a Perfect Wife – Karma Brown (EF) Say Nothing: A True Story of Memory and Murder in Northern Ireland – Patrick Radden Keefe (EF)(audio) The T...

Episode Ninety Three Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – 12th Readalong – Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator) The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE . Our conversation about the book will air on February 18th. – Currently Reading – The Hollows (Kinship #2) – Jess Montgomery (CW) release date January 14, 2020 The Lady’s...

Episode Ninety Two Show Notes CW = Chris WolaK and EF = Emily Fine Purchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle ! We are an affiliate of Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookstore & Café. Please purchase books from them and support us at the same time. Click HERE to start shopping. If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE . I...

Episode Ninety One Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Purchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! We are an affiliate of Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookstore & Café. Please purchase books from them and support us at the same time. Click HERE to start shopping. If you would like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If...

Episode Ninety Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Purchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle ! We are an affiliate of Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookstore & Café. Please purchase books from them and support us at the same time. Click HERE to start shopping. If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE . If you wo...

Chris and Emily discuss Free Food for Millionaires with author Min Jin Lee.