The Bookshelf Odyssey Podcast

Send us Fan Mail  Season 2 begins! And we kick off with a great guest talking with me about one of the best books I've read all year: The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb. Brendan stops by to chat with me about his book, comic books, music, and so much more. He's a man of many talents, and I can't wait for you to hear what he has to say. Please note a portion of our interview do...

Send us Fan Mail  Hello everyone! as we continue our celebration of Jane Austen July I'm excited to bring you this interview with author Tirzah Price. She is the author of Pride and Premeditation - a Pride and Prejudice retelling that's part mystery, part lawyer drama, part Regency romance. Tirzah and I talk about her novel and share our love of Jane Austen. We also talk about adaptation...

Send us Fan Mail  Nancy Churnin is my guest today - she has just published the award winning children's book "Dear Mr. Dickens". Beautifully illustrated, It tells the powerful story of Eliza Davis, a Jewish woman who wrote letters to Charles Dickens asking him to change how he wrote Jewish characters in his novel. We talk about her book and the importance of using your voice and the...

Send us Fan Mail  Hello! We're back to the mystery genre on my bookshelves today. I'm joined by culinary cozy mystery writer Jessica Thompson. She is the author of the Caterer's Guide to Crime series. We talk about the first book in the series, "A Caterer's Guide to Love and Murder." Jessica is a fun person to talk to and I know you will enjoy this interview! Along wi...

Send us Fan Mail The dramatic moments are high in these latest chapters of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. In the video I discuss chapters 47-50 and a lot of plot points and questions I had earlier in the novel get answered. Find out what happens as Pip finds out about Estella's history, Miss Havisham's history, Magwitch's history... pretty much everyone's backstory. So...

Send us Fan Mail  My guest today is a new up and coming author of science fiction. She has published several short stories and is working on a novel. I sit down with Jendayi to talk about how she became a writer, the impact of reading diversely, and why taking a chance on herself turned out to be one of the best choices she's made. We also share some book recommendations! I've read Jenda...

Send us Fan Mail  In today's episode, I look at chapters 43-46 of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. As Pip deals with the fallout of the revelation of who his patron is, he also experiences yet another heartbreak by Estella and is given a cryptic message - Don't Go Home! Find out why!  Timestamps  00:00 intro  02:24 Part 27 Chapter 43  05:45 Part 27 Chapter 44  14:16 Part 28 Chapter...

Send us Fan Mail  Hi everyone, we're back at it with book 3, chapters 40-42 of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. Thank you all for hanging in there with me as we've had quite the adventurous April - nothing bad, just really busy and then I had some technical difficulties with this video last week. But we're back at it, and ready to rumble.  So... now what? After Pip discover...

Send us Fan Mail  Today I'm interviewing cozy mystery writer Darci Hannah about her wonderful series called The Beacon Bakeshop Mysteries. "After catching her celebrity chef fiancé sizzling in the arms of another woman, Lindsey Bakewell left big city Wall Street for small town Beacon Harbor, Michigan to pursue her own passion as a pastry baker—and gets mixed up in someone’s sweet taste o...

Send us Fan Mail  Hello! In today's video discussion of Charles Dickens' classic work Great Expectations, we talk about chapters 38-39 which will bring us to the end of book 2 - and a doozy of a plot twist. We find out more about Estella, whether or not she was intended for Pip, and Pip's benefactor is revealed! (And our jaws are left gaping, right?)  So come on in, and get ready fo...

Send us Fan Mail  Hello! Welcome to episode 29 of the Bookshelf Odyssey Podcast. My guest today is author and hypnotherapist (and pet sitter!) Pamela Topjian. She has just recently written a memoir entitled "I Didn't Come This Far to Only Come This Far". It follows her story from incredible tragedy and abuse to one of triumph over many hardships. We talk about her life, how to go ab...

Send us Fan Mail  Welcome to part 10 of our Great Expectations read along book club as we talk about chapters 30-34. And I'm joined again this week with Carol! Today's chapters we discuss whether or not a barrel of oysters was a good gift for Pip to give Joe, we scratch our heads over Pip's experience of Hamlet as played by Mr. Wopsle, talk about Pip's constant connections to c...

Send us Fan Mail  In the chapters we discuss today, Pip reunites with Joe (yay!) but it's super awkward, and Pip is a bit rude (boo!) Then, Pip is invited to Satis House to have a reunion with a grown up Estella (awkward!). Also, I'm not sure why but the last 10 seconds of the video has no picture, just audio (confused?) I give us a couple of questions to think about after these chapters...

Send us Fan Mail  In today's episode, we're showing some love to our libraries. My guest is Aaron Whitfield and he is a library professional. I sit down to chat with him about his mission - to promote libraries as a necessary part of a community. They not only provide a place of learning, reading and other similar resources, but libraries can also provide a place of refuge, community, an...

Send us Fan Mail  It's an exciting episode today - one of our readers, Carol, joins me at the microphone to talk about this week's reading of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, chapters 23-26. In these chapters Pip goes to three different homes and experiences three very different groups of people. Carol and I have a great time chatting about Pip and our hopes for him in the novel...

Send us Fan Mail  In today's chapters discussion of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, we follow Pip from the Marshes to London and get to see his first experiences of the city. Now that Pip is living his dream of becoming a gentleman, will he be content? Well, probably not... only time will tell! Along the way we get to meet his new roommate, Herbert Pocket, and we are introduced to his...

Send us Fan Mail In today's discussion, an event happens that will change Pip and the plot for the rest of the book. How will Pip handle this change? Portion Discussed: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, chapters 18-19 Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:33 Part 11, Chapter 18 19:24 Part 12, Chapter 19 34:42 Thoughts on Stage 1 of Great Expectations Find Me online: Voxer: @artbookshelfodys...

Send us Fan Mail  Hello! Today we look at parts 9 and 10 of Charles Dickens' Victorian classic, Great Expectations. It covers chapters 14-17 and there is a lot that happens here and we get two pretty good cliffhangers!  I'd love to hear your thoughts on the chapters. Comment below or I can add you to our voxer channel. I've also attached an up-to-date reading schedule.  Timestamps ...

Send us Fan Mail  We follow Pip on several trips to Satis House... and I'm only left with more questions. Pip meets 6 new characters. Estella continues to be haughty and disdainful of Pip, and Miss Havisham wants to meet with Joe Gargery.  Find out what happens next as we read the Victorian classic, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens!  00:00 Intro and What I'm Drinking  02:53 Follow U...

Send us Fan Mail  Today we talk about chapters 8-10 of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. We meet the icy cold Estella, the mysterious Miss Havisham, and Pip receives some very wise advice from Joe. All this and more!  00:00 Introductory thoughts  01:20 Part 5: Chapter 8  16:16 Part 6: Chapter 9  25:45 Part 6: Chapter 10  32:30 Final thoughts on the section  36:22 What’s next  Find Me onlin...

Send us Fan Mail  Welcome to our readalong of the Victorian classic, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Today we see that there may in fact be honor among thieves, and then we get some background information on the marriage of Mr and Mrs. Joe Gargery. I'm not sure it answers any of our questions from last week, but it gives us some food for thought.  Some questions I have for us -  Why do...

Send us Fan Mail Hello everyone! I am doing a video series on YouTube talking about Great Expectations chapter by chapter. I'm putting the audio on the podcast feed too in case it's more convenient to listen to this way. Stay tuned for regularly schedule podcast episodes too!   Welcome to the first episode discussing the week's reading of Great Expectations. I'm so excited to h...

Send us Fan Mail Well, you probably can guess what this episode will be about... so without further ado, I share with you my 10 favorite reads from 2021. There's a video version available on my youtube channel! See you next week with another Charlotte Perkins Gilman story!  I have a bookshop.org affiliate shop where you can purchase any of those books, and it helps out the channel without any...

Send us Fan Mail Hello! We're back from a Christmas and New Year vacation, and I've got some great episodes lined up. First off in today's episode I am going to be reading the classic short story of horror - The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. I have a few thoughts that I will be sharing in today's episode as well, with more to come in the weeks ahead. So for tod...

Send us Fan Mail It's our Christmas episode here on the Bookshelf Odyssey Podcast! I invited youtuber and expert reader Kate Howe onto the show to give us some suggestions to make our Christmas and Winter reading the coziest it can be. We talk about all the books mentioned below, along with our thoughts on The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Louise Penny, and Little Women (and it's adapta...