Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we have a remix episode because we are attending the LA Festival of Books. We catch up with author Ellen Birkett Morris. We first spoke to her in …

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we are playing the nostalgia card. All of the books we mention are backlist in a big way; the majority are at least 15 years old. Our episode is a…

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Judith Lindbergh at judithlindbergh.com/ and on IG @judithlindbergh. This week’s episode is one that big history nerds may find fascinating. In…

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. Earth Day is upon us in a few weeks, April 22, and what better time to explore literature that comments on the health of Mother Earth. This week we are talk…

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find this week’s Austen authors at their websites: AH Kim - www.ahkim.net/ and @ahkim.writer Melodie Edwards - www.melodieedwards.com/ and @melodiew…

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we’re talking about linked short story collections. What are linked short stories, though? These are stories that are collected and somehow linked…

To find more of Kari’s book thoughts, you can find her on instagram @checkedoutbooks. Our website at perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we chat with Kari Heggen, a bookstagrammer from Iowa who set he…

Our website www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we talk about some of our favorite books coming out of small and independent presses. The Big 5 publishers print those blockbusters we love to stic…

You can Shawntaye on Instagram at @shawntaye1 Our website www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we chat with a Lexington, Kentucky bookstagrammer, Shawntaye, who is such a devoted reader that she m…

You can find Amy and the Gibson Girl review at www.gibsongirlreview.com/ as well as on Instagram at @gibsongirlreview Our website www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. As podcast people ourselves, we are alw…

To find out more about Minda, go to her website at www.mindahoney.com or find her on social media @mindahoney Website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook- Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. We have a remix episode for you this week on Valen…

Website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Face Book - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we are talking time bending books, series, and movies including time travel, time loop, and time slip. Here is a link for more info on this subgener…

You can find Marty at his website www.martyohlhaut.com/ while you can find Grace on Instagram at @grace.ly_author) Our website www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we talk to the father-daughter t…

You can find Huda at her website www.Hudafahmy.com. Our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook Perks of Being a BookLover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we talk to Huda Fahmy, a graphic novelist whose 4th book Huda F Cares? was a finalist for the 202…

Website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- Paddling North by Audrey Sutherland (Rec by Ritu Mukerji) 2- Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (Rec by Anna Pitoniak) 3- The Creati…

Website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. Things we talked about in the intro: Movie: Poor Things (2023) Adapted from the book Poor Things by Alisdair Gray Podcast: NPR's Book of the Day …

You can find Jennifer Caloyeras at her website www.Jennifercaloyeras.com or on Instagram @ jennifercaloyeras. Website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. Our Shownotes: Books Mentioned in this Introductio…

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. Our Shownotes: 1- Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie 2- The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith 3- Saltburn - (2023, Amazon Prime) 4- Ripley…

You can find Anna Pitoniak at www.annapitoniak.com and on socials at annapitoniak. -Website atwww.perksofbeingabooklover.com. -Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod -FaceBook Perks of Being a Book Lover. -To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. For our final episode of 2023, we chat with Anna Pitoniak, whose 4th novel, …

Website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram- @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook- Perks of Being a BookLover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find out more about Kelcey Ervick on her website kelceyervick.com This week we chat with Kelcey Ervick whose graphic memoir The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and th…

Website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram- @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese 2- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez 3- Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 4- Threads That Bind by Kika Hatz…

This week we chat with our favorite bookseller, Sam Miller, from Carmichael’s Bookstore. Each November we let her do the heavy lifting and share books that have come out and might be good choices for your holiday shopping. If you would like to check out Carmichael’s Bookstore Holiday Book Gift Guide, you can find it online at www.carmichaelsbooksto…

Our guest this week, Ritu Mukerji, is a busy, full-time physician and a mother of 3, but she managed to find time to write her first novel, a recently published historical fiction mystery titled Murder by Degrees about a female physician in late 19th century Philadelphia. She was inspired by her love of the mystery genre as well as her experience l…

This week is one of the funniest shows we’ve done simply because our guests are delightful. In fact this show may be just a tad longer than normal because we almost couldn’t bear to cut any of our conversation out. They are the author/illustrator and husband/wife team of Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr whose Cookie Chronicles books are a big hit amo…

This week we have a book recommendation episode. We hunker down for November and embrace fall. We call this our Free For F(all) episode because we each give you a recommendation in 5 categories to represent November : Autumn, Native American Heritage Month, Diwali, Day of the Dead/ All Soul's Day, and No-Shave November. For show notes for any episo…

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Boo kLover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. We interviewed Alix E. Harrow in the before times (2019) when her first novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of…

You can find Katrina Monroe on IG @katrinamonroeauthor or on her website katrinamonroe.com/ For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod loverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover. If you would like to contact us, go to our website and click the Contact …

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, click on the "Contact Us" button on the website. To find Mel and David, check out their website, www.strongsenseofplace.com. or Insta @strongsenseof In …

You can find Jenny Kiefer on her website at jennykiefer.com/ or at Butcher Cabin Books at www.horrorbookstore.com/. She is also on instagram at @horrorbookstore and @_jennykiefer For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. You can contact to us through the link on the website. We are also on Instagram @perks…

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. You can email us throught the contact button on the website. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover. It is officially Halloween season so we’re talking all about witches this week. We’ll each share 5 bewitching boo…

Our guest this week, Kika Hatzopoulou, grew up in Greece with the foundation of Ancient Greece and its mythology all around her. She now lives in London and until recently was an acquisitions editor for a Greek publisher, where she read and recommended books being published in the US and Britain for acquisition and translation for Greek audiences. …

This week we are featuring books by Latino authors in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- Molly's Tuxedo by Vicki Johnson 2- Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang (short story) 3- Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield 4- Fever by Mary Beth Keane 5- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 6- Aristotle and Dante Discover the …

We always enjoy chatting with people we find on Instagram who are doing bookish things, and Kristine Eckart is one of those folks. She is the creator of Gilmore Book Club, which offers all kinds of book blogs, discussions, videos, and lists associated with the show Gilmore Girls. As if that wouldn’t keep her busy enough, she also hosts a book club …

You can find Willie Carver on Instagram @williecarverjr or on his website at www.williecarver.com. For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover. Sometimes when people have experienced a loss or some kind of traumatic eve…

This week we are giving you something we are calling a "remix" episode. We have a new interview with former guest Mick Sullivan combined with some of his previous interview way back in 2019. Amy is traveling this week so we’ve reconnected with former guest Mick Sullivan, who is the curator of guest experience at the Frazier History Museum and is al…

A few weeks ago we talked about journeys and this week we are completing the circle with an episode about destinations; specifically about places we have visited in the last few years. Do you read books about the places you travel before or during a trip? We talk about how it can enrich both your reading and travel experience. For show notes for an…

We were honored to welcome Andy Hunter, the CEO of Bookshop.org to the podcast this week. Andy is a writer, a publisher, and now heads up a company that competes with Amazon for on-line book sales. But unlike Amazon, the proceeds of Bookshop.org’s sales go back to independent bookstores. At the click of a button, you can order a book to be delivere…

This week we are talking all about journeys. Whether they be physical or mental, we whisk you away in a good book. Choose from 10 book recommendations from Carrie and Amy for when you're ready to be on the move. For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod a…

This week we chat with Katrina Kittle, a Dayton, OH author whose most recent novel is titled Morning in This Broken World. I met Katrina when I took her online writing class not even knowing she had a new novel coming out but had heard such wonderful things about her four previously published books. Katrina is a real delight of a person. She is fun…

We chatted with environmental writer Jeremy Hance in 2021 about his travel memoir BAGGAGE: CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBETROTTING HYPOCHONDRIAC Season 5 Ep. 113. Our guest this week, Jeremy Hance, writes about 3 topics in his most recent book that we are always drawn to; mental health, travel, and animals. Baggage: Confessions of a Globe-trotting Hypochond…

Our guest this week, Chelsea Hofmann, loves to feel her pulse quicken and gets excited by the idea that anything could happen. She lives her life spontaneously so her love of the thriller genre with its twists, turns, and surprise endings fit her personality just fine. After finishing college and moving to Southern California with her husband, she …

This week we chat with Brittany Thurman, a native of Kentucky, who has recently published her first children’s picture book titled FLY illustrated by Anna Cunha. She worked as a children's specialist at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh which is where the idea to write her own book occurred, and she even took inspiration from one of the children w…

This is the time of year when lots and lots of people travel so it makes sense to have a travel memoirist on our show. Kate Wickers is a British writer who has spent 25 years or so writing about her extensive travel experiences and publishing in magazines and newspapers all over the world. When COVID hit, she decided to turn her many travels with h…

We have a REPLAY episode for you this week. Novelist Namrata Patel was on the show last June when her debut novel The Candid Life of Meena Dave came out. Just last week she had a new novel published, The Scent of A Garden. Both books feature complex multi-generational Indian-American families. ** Namrata Patel has been writing for 20 years, but it …

This week we celebrate all the special days of June! Want a book rec for Pride month? We have one. What about Juneteenth or Father's Day? We have you covered. And did you know it's National Audiobook Month? It's new to us as well but we love audiobooks so we give you some recommendations for that too. And we throw in one wildcard category - one of …

This week we chat with Vicki Johnson, a debut picture book author whose book, Molly’s Tuxedo, is a delightful story about a child who doesn’t want to wear the frilly, itchy dress and tight shoes her mother thinks is appropriate for school pictures. Molly wants to wear…you guessed it, a tuxedo that has pockets. The book, which is illustrated by Gill…

At the start of summer, we like to chat with Sam Miller, bookseller and manager at Carmichael’s Bookstore here in Louisville (We actually like to chat with Sam anytime, but she has especially useful information about new books twice a year.) Sam does the heavy lifting this week by telling us what is coming out and might be good for your TBR list. F…

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover. This week are celebrating AAPI Heritage Month (Asian American Pacific Islander) and we give you a list of 10 (plus maybe a few more) of our favorite books to add to your TBR writ…

Jessica Brody is the author of the well-known writing book Save the Cat! Writes a Novel and teaches classes on this writing method, but she has published over 20 books for all ages, including middle grade. Her most recent, titled Amelia Gray is Almost Okay, came out in March of this year. Amelia is a kid who moves around a lot due to her father’s j…

I think many aspiring writers have a juicy family story passed down that they are sure would make a great novel. Our guest this week, Ciera Horton McElroy, had heard stories about her grandfather, a scientist who worked at a plant that produced materials for a hydrogen bomb during the height of the Cold War in the 1960s. That one family story is th…