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Host Francesca Amiker sits down with directors Joe and Anthony Russo, producer Angela Russo-Otstot, stars Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, and more to uncover how family was the key to building the emotional core of The Electric State . From the Russos’ own experiences growing up in a large Italian family to the film’s central relationship between Michelle and her robot brother Kid Cosmo, family relationships both on and off of the set were the key to bringing The Electric State to life. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts . State Secrets: Inside the Making of The Electric State is produced by Netflix and Treefort Media.…
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1 S12:Ep254 - The Book Riot Podcast with guest Rebecca Schinsky + Western Book Recs 1:09:06
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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 Rebecca Schinsky on IG @rebeccaschinsky and Book Riot at www.bookriot.com In this week’s episode, we chat with Rebecca Schinsky, who is chief of staff for Riot New Media Group and co-host of The Book Riot podcast. Book Riot is the largest independent editorial book site in North America and book lovers can find all kinds of interesting stuff there, such as numerous podcasts, newsletters, and articles about different genres. I have long been a listener of this podcast and love it because ….I am a book nerd through and through and this podcast gives me the inside look at the world of publishing. If you enjoy learning about trends and want the inside scoop about how and why certain books make it to your eyeballs or just want to have your pulse on bookish news, this podcast is for you. Rebecca talks to us about what book trends have had the biggest impact on the industry over the last 15 years, what other goodies you can find at Book Riot.com, and why social media flattens the book options we see in our feeds. And this week for our book recommendations section, we put on our 10 gallon hats and our chaps because we’re talking about westerns. Westerns became popular in the late 1800s and derived from the dime novels of the mid-19th century. Many of these stories were later turned into movies in the 1940s and 1950s, which is probably the way most people had exposure to them. Films like High Noon and Shane were based on western stories. There was a second resurgence of western films based on novels between the 1970s-90s such as The Unforgiven and The Outlaw Josey Wales. We offer westerns that are in the graphic novel genre, the horror genre, literary fiction, and middle grade. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 2- The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict 3- Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray 4- Life in Three Dimensions by Shigehiro Oishi 5- Back After This by Linda Holmes 6- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 7- Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontes by Isabel Greenberg 8- The Helsinki Affair by Anna Pitoniak 9- Red Widow by Alma Katsu 10- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Beth @a_vet_nurse_and_her_books - The Game by Danny Dagan 11- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 12- True Grit by Charles Portis 13- The Searchers by Alan LeMay 14- The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn Frankel 15- Lone Women by Victor LaValle 16- Coyote Doggirl by Lisa Hanawalter 17- Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang 18- Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison 19- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt 20- Pony by RJ Palacio Media mentioned-- 1- Heretic (Max, 2024) 2- Longlegs (Hulu, 2024) 3- True Grit (2010) 4- Deadwood (Max, 2004-2006) 5- The Searchers (1956) 6- The Sisters Brothers (2018) Bella Da Costa Greene Exhibit in NYC - https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/belle-da-costa-greene…
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1 S12:Ep253 - The Lost Year with Guest Katherine Marsh + Cat Book Recs - 3/12/25 1:11:30
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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 Katherine Marsh at her website www.katherinemarsh.com or on IG at @katherinemarshauthor. This week we chat with Katherine Marsh, author of The Lost Year , a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. I recently discovered this book after one of our book club members selected another Katherine Marsh book, Nowhere Boy , for our August read. The Lost Year is middle-grade historical fiction and it is super timely because part of it is set in Ukraine in the 1930s. The story introduced me to a topic in Ukraine history I knew nothing about called the Holodomor. Katherine tells us all about her novel which was inspired by her relationship with her grandmother who was from Ukraine. It is a perfect book selection if you are curious about Ukrainian history that influences current events; reading this book would also allow you to check off having read something for Middle Grade March. For our book recommendations in this episode, we’re talking about books in which cats are a central part of the story. We have some nonfiction selections, as well as literary fiction and graphic novels that will definitely appeal to your inner cat. If you don’t love cats, you can check out these books anyway for their compelling stories OR you can wait around for Amy to muscle Carrie into a future dog episode. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh 2- Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh 3- Medusa ( The Myth of Monsters #1) by Katherine Marsh 4- The God's Revenge (The Myth of Monsters #2) by Katherine Marsh 5- The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West 6- Leslie F***ing Jones by Leslie Jones 7- Bog Myrtle by Sid Sharp 8- The Wolf Suit by Sid Sharp 9- A 5 star Read recommended by fellow book lover Elaine Hoystead @bookmadlibrarian - Hall of Smoke by Hannah M. Long 10- Pineville Trace by Wes Blake 11- Cat's People by Tanya Guerrero 12- The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuka Natsukawa 13- Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther by Craig Pittman 14- The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean 15- The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa by Jonathan B. Losos 16- Katie the Catsitter by Colleen AF Venable, illustrated by Stephanie Yue 17- The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Shawn Harris Media mentioned-- 1- Kaos (Netflix, 2024) 2- Are Cats Actually Liquid - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-cats-actually-liquid/ 3- Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post https://apnews.com/article/washington-post-bezos-opinion-trump-market-liberty-97a7d8113d670ec6e643525fdf9f06de Reply…
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1 S12:Ep252 - A Tribute of Fire with Guest Sariah Wilson + Picture Books - 2/26/25 1:07:44
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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 Sariah Wilson at her website www.sariahwilson.com or on IG - @sariahwilsonauthor We chat this week with Sariah Wilson, the author of many, many rom-coms, who recently published her first romantasy titled A Tribute of Fire . A Tribute of Fire is inspired by the myth of Cassandra who, if you remember, is the Trojan princess who was cursed with the ability to see the future but no one believes her. Sariah’s story focuses on Cassandra’s assault in Athena's temple by Greek hero Ajax and the resulting punishment which is that two maidens from Ajax’s home, Locris, will be sacrified. How exactly, this punishes Ajax, I’m not sure, but such is Greek myth. Sariah talks to us about her favorite romance trope (which she hardly ever writes herself), the whirlwind backstory to the publishing of this book, and how the popularity of The Fourth Wing series really cracked open a whole new world for romance writers. And for our book recommendations, we’re going to share some children’s picture books that have stories and illustrations we love. Earlier this month was National Picture Book Authors & Illustrators Week, but we don’t think you need a special week as an excuse to read a delightful picture book. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- A Tribute of Fire by Sariah Wilson 2- The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks 3- A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes 4- The Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman 5- Greek and Roman Warfare: Battles, Tactics, and Trickery by John Drogo Mortagu 6- A Monsoon Rising by Thea Gaunzon 7- Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet by Samantha Leigh Allen 8- A Book Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Corinne @she.loves.bookshelves - A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas 9- Little Golden Book, The Christmas Story 10- Little Golden Book, Colors Are Nice 11- Little Golden Book Riddles, Riddles From A to Z 12- Little Golden Book, Mickey Mouse Picnic 13- Disney’s World of Wonders The Magic Grinder 14- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats 15- Ferdinand the Bull by Munro Leaf 16- The Mitten by Jan Brett 17- Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett 18- The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone 19- The Water Hole by Graeme Base 20- Uno's Garden by Graeme Base 21- Animalia by Graeme Base 22- The Verts: A Story of Introverts and Extroverts by Anne Patchett, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glaser 23- Quiet by Susan Cain 24- Mimi’s Dada Catifesto by Shelley Jackson 25- Oh, Bear by Melissa Nelson Greenberg. illustrated by Ruth Hengeveld 26- Boobies by Nancy Vo 27- The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods by Mickey Please 28- The Cave Downwind of the Cafe by Mickey Please 29- Shakespeare The Tempest by Georghia Ellinas, illustrated by Jane Ray Media mentioned-- 1- Stephen King/Maurice Sendak upcoming children's book - https://apnews.com/article/stephen-king-maurice-sendak-hansel-gretel-c9f8c7e18254d1e406b59e0ebe3cd20b 2- Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey - coming in 2026 - https://variety.com/2025/film/news/the-odyssey-matt-damon-odysseus-christopher-nolan-1236311018/ 3- The Return (2024)…
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1 S12:Ep251 - Silent Book Club with Guest Brittany Brar + We Like Big Books - 2/12/25 1:05:56
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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 if there is a chapter of Silent Book Club near you or look into starting your own by going to their website; https://silentbook.club/ 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 BookLover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. Have you ever wanted to try a book club but they just seem too peopley? Or maybe you don’t want to be told what book you have to read. OR maybe you are looking for a place away from kids and responsibilities where nothing else but the words in front of you are vying for your attention. If any of these apply, then a Silent Book Club might be for you. Silent Book Club began in 2012 and is, according to their mission statement, a “global community of readers, with more than 1500 chapters in 54 countries around the world led by local volunteers. SBC members gather in public at bars, cafes, bookstores, libraries, and online to read together in quiet camaraderie.” This week we chat with Brittany Brar, the leader of a local chapter of the Silent Book Club in Louisville, Kentucky. Brittany started the local chapter here in 2019, right before the pandemic with 5 people. She was new in town and didn’t know where to find a booklcub to join. Now the group has over 2000 members of their FB group and as many as 60 people have shown up to their monthly meetings. Brittany talks to us about how people have developed a new sense of community, when a powerpoint presentation can be regarded as fun, and her go-to genres After our chat with Brittany, we will give you our recommendations for big honking books that meet not only your reading but also strength training goals. Books Mentioned In This Episode: 1- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 2- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 3- Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer 4- Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera 5- The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson 6- Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson 7- That's Not My Name by Megan Lally 8- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 9- It by Stephen King 10- Leviathan Wakes by SA Corey (592 pages) 11- T he Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (704 pages) 12- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (944 pages) 13- Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (976 pages) 14- Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (546 pages) 15- When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson (528 pages) 16- East of Eden by John Steinbeck (601 pages) 17- A Five Star Read Recommended By Fellow Book Lover Kim Wells @the_salty_islander - A Home for Friendless Women by Kelly E. Hill Media mentioned-- 1- Say Nothing (Hulu, 2024) 2- The Dark Secrets Behind the Neil Gaiman Abuse Accusations -- https://www.vulture.com/article/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.html 3- The Expanse (Prime, 2015)…
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1 S12:Ep250 - They All Fall The Same with Guest Wes Browne + Artsy Fartsy Book Recs - 1/29/25 1:06:11
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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 Wes Browne at www.wesbrowneauthor.com or on IG at @browne_all_over This week we chat with Wes Browne, a Michigan transplant who has been a Kentucky attorney for over 20 years. When he’s not lawyering, he writes crime fiction, and his most recent novel is called They All Fall the Same . In this novel, he picks up with a character who readers met in his first novel, Hillbilly Hustle . While Wes’s new book is not a sequel, readers were so intrigued by the character, Burl Spoon, that Wes felt like he could make an entire book around him. Burl is a character you love to hate, but readers also feel his humanity, which always makes for a more interesting bad guy. We chat with Wes about how his job as a defense attorney has prepared him to write books that make you root for a bad guy, his passion for soft serve ice cream, and why a timeshare ended up giving him a book idea. And in the second half of the show, we each give you 3 book recommendations on the theme of books about the art world. Books Mentioned in This Episode: 1- If You Lived Here, You’d Be Here by Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie by Christopher Ingraham 2- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 3- They All Fall the Same by Wes Browne 4- Hillbilly Hustle by Wes Browne 5- Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony 6- Asides: Occasional Essays on Dogs, Food, Restaurants, Bars, Hangovers, Jobs, Music, Family Trees, Robbery, Relationships, Being Bought Up Questionably, Et Cetera by George Singleton 7- Blizzard by Marie Vingtras 8- A Five Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Amy Borchadt @rn_bookworm - The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal 9- Carrington: A Life by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina 10- The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith 11- Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough 12- The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose 13- Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell 14- Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Jourey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How To See by Bianca Bosker 15- All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley Media mentioned— 1- Come From Away — https://comefromaway.com/ 2- Zoltan Kaszas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vSGbslfLQM 3- Justified ( 2010-2015 HULU) 4- Carrington (1995)…
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1 S12:Ep249 -The Lost Story with Guest Meg Shaffer + Library Book Recs - 1/15/25 1:04:31
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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 Meg Shaffer at www.megshaffer.com or on IG at meg_shaffer. This week we officially begin Season 12 so we have both a guest and book recommendations on a particular theme. Our guest this week is Meg Shaffer, best-selling author of The Wishing Game and The Lost Story. She talks to us about shifting gears to write books for adults that read a lot like the cool fantasy books we read as kids (think The Chronicles of Narnia in The Lost Story ). And for our book recs, we will each be sharing 3 books related to libraries. Books mentioned— 1- The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer 2- The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer 3- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 4- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 5- Lord of the Flies by William Golding 6- Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero 7- Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb 8- The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin 9- The Hollow Places T. Kingfisher 10- The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher 11- The Willows by Algernon Blackwood 12- Carter and Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard 13- A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher 14- We are Experiencing a Slight Delay by Gary Janneti 15- Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs 16- Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs 17- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Marisa Zane @Marisa_reads_books - The Reformatory by Tananarive Due 18- The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami 19- Nightbooks by JA White 20- The Library of Borrowed Hearts by Lucy Gilmore 21- The Nightmare Man by JH Markert 22- The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai 23- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai 24- I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai 25- Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck 26- A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck 27- A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck 28- Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian by Jill Grunenwald 29- Lonely Planet Hidden Libraries: The World's Most Unusual Book Depositories by DC Helmuth 30- The Godwick series by Tiffany Reisz Media mentioned— Perks episode with Lily Raiti https://www.perksofbeingabooklover.com/episodes/cxkpp8gtbmn5gf7-8mb73-52ylr-gs3nl-82m49-xr9s4-z4hhh-pm7gw-skgey-bjmtw-4dl76-hn7yl-we4y4-cfzjz-5f9x8-y93dj-7l4je-8667a Pacific Palisades Fire—Will Rogers ranch — https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346 Squid Games (Netflix, 2021 - present) Cunk on Life (Netflix, 2024) Black Doves (Netflix, 2024) Night of the Hunter (Tubi, 1955)…
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1 S12:Ep248 - Best of 2024 Year in Review - 1/1/25 59:54
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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. This week we are doing our 2024 recap, covering the books that earned 5 stars. We’ve also got some audio interspersed in the episode from 2024 guests to The Perks who also share their favorite books of the year. This is always one of our most popular episodes of the year. And don’t forget, this new season is a whole new bag. We are going to every other week episodes and each one will include an interview with a bookish guest plus some book recommendations by us on a particular topic. Books mentioned-- 1- The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester 2- Woodworm by Layla Martinez 3- North Woods by Daniel Mason 4- Six Truths and a Lie by Ream Shukairy 5- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 6- Greenwood by Michael Christie 7- Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 8- A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney 9- Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle 10- The Library Book by Susan Orlean 11- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride 12- The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner 13- One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus 14- Intimacies by Katie Kitamura 15- I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai 16- The Wedding People by Alison Espach 17- The Huntress by Kate Quinn 18- Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransom 19- The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley 20- All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby 21- Being Henry by Henry Winkler 22- The Weather Woman by Sally Gardner 23- Un Lun Dun by China Mieville 24- Border Crossings: A Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway by Emma Fick 25- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin 26- All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Brynn Greenwood 27- That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming 28- The Husbands by Holly Gramazio 29- Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy 30- Arroyo Circle by JoeAnn Hart 31- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our World , Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake Media mentioned-- 1- Dune: Prophecy (HBO Max, 2024) 2- Shrinking (Apple+, 2024) 3- What We Do in the Shadows (Hulu) 4- The Professor and the Madman (Tubi, 2019) 5- Your Friend by Nate Bargatze (Netflix, 2024) 6- The Skinny by Jim Gaffigan (Hulu, 2024) 7- Catastrophe (Prime, 2015) 8- Three Body Problem (Netflix, 2024)…
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1 S11:Ep247 - REMIX with Guest Tracey Clark - 12-18-24 58:07
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You can find Tracy Clark on social media on Instagram @ tpclark2000 and on her website www.tracyclarkbooks.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 This week we have a Remix episode and catch up with Tracy Clark, who we interviewed in Season 8 (episode 161) about her first Harriet Foster novel titled Hide . Her most recent title, number 3 in the series, is called Echo , and it came out Dec 3. We chat with her about this book, as well as the Harriet Foster book she is currently writing. We caught her on a writing day in which Harriet Foster was not cooperating. Then you will hear some of our conversation with Tracy back in 2023 when Harriet Foster first arrived on the scene. Books Mentioned In This Episode 1- Hide by Tracy Clark 2- Echo by Tracy Clark 3- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys 4- Her Name is Knight series by Yasmin Angoe 5- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 6- The Ninja's Oath (Lily Wong series) by Tori Eldridge 7- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 8- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 9- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 10- American Fever by Dur e Aziz Almna Authors mentioned: 1- Sarah Paretsky 2- Sue Grafton 3- Agatha Christie 4- Valerie Wilson Wesley 5- Barbara Neely…
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1 S11:Ep246 - REMIX With Guest Sharon Short - 12/11/24 1:02:14
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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 Sharon Short at her website, www.sharonshort.com and on Instagram at @ sharongshortauthor . This week we have a Remix episode and catch up with Sharon Short, who we initially interviewed about her historical mystery novels which she wrote under the pen name Jess Montgomery. She has a new stand alone mystery suspense out titled Trouble Island that was inspired by a very interesting family story. You will first hear our most recent chat with her just a few weeks ago and then we will replay our original conversation with her back in the Spring of 2022 talking about her Kinship series. Just a note that next week we will have another REMIX episode, this time with award winning mystery writer Tracy Clark whose most recent in the Detective Harriet Foster series came out Dec 3 titled Echo . The Washington Post has just named it one of their top mysteries of 2024. Books Mentioned In this Episode: 1- Trouble Island by Jess Montgomery 2- The Widows by Jess Montgomery (Kinship series) 3- The Echoes by Jess Montgomery (Kinship series) 4- Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen Kirby 5- Deer Season by Erin Flanagan 6- How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith…
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1 REPLAY - S9:E198 | 2023 Holiday Book Buying Guide with Book Seller Sam Miller | 11/29/23 1:01:10
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This is a REPLAY episode from our Holiday gift buying guide from 2023. We will be back next week with a REMIX episode with former guest Tracy Clark who has a new mystery you won't want to miss. 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.carmichaelsbookstore.com/ 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. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister 2- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 3- Foster by Claire Keegan 4- So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan 5- Let us Descend by Jesmyn Ward 6- Fraud by Zadie Smith 7- Armor of Light by Ken Follett 8- Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 9- Julia by Sandra Newman 10- 1984 by George Orwell 11- Reformatory by Tananarive Due 12- Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead 13- A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand 14- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 15- West Heart Kill by Dann Mcdorman 16- The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett 17- The Appeal by Janice Hallett 18- The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett 19- Stalking Shakespeare by Lee Durkee 20- They Flew by Carlos Eire 21- Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire 22- Wild Girls by Tiya Miles 23- The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl 24- Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl 25- Watership Down (graphic novel) by James Sturm and Joe Sutphin 26- Watership Down by Richard Adams 27- Energy Follows Thought by Willie Nelson 28- World Within a Song by Jeff Tweedy 29- Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros 30- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 31- Starling House by Alix E. Harrow 32- Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree 33- Legend & Lattes by Travis Baldree 34- World Central Kitchen Cookbook by Jose Andres 35- Every Cook, Every Kitchen by Feed Louisville 36- Oldest Louisville by Kevin Gibson 37- Always Moving Forward by David Jones and Bob Hill 38- Back Page by Byron Crawford 39- Fathers by Richard Taylor 40- From the Heads of the Hollers by Shelby Lee Adams 41- Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal Wilkinson 42- Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys by DMS Fick 43- Rabbit Heart by Kristine S. Ervin 44- My Dark Places by James Ellroy 45- Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore 46- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett 47- The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride 48- The Man who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Rescued his Career and Revived our Holiday Spirits by Les Standiford 49- Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva 5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Casey @ Caseys_reads 12 Months To Live by James Patterson and Mike Lupica Movie and Series Mentioned: - CODA (2021) - Apple + - Bodies (2023) - Netflix…
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1 S11:Ep245 - 2024 Holiday Book Buying Guide with Bookseller Sam Miller - 11/27/24 1:03:11
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f you would like to check out Carmichael’s Bookstore Holiday Book Gift Guide, you can find it online at www.carmichaelsbookstore.com/ 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. The delightful Sam Miller, store manager at Carmichael’s Book Store, comes to save the day. She has, as usual, tons of great new reads that are already on shelves and would make perfect gifts this holiday for the book lovers in your life. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante 2- The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride 3- Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell 4- Women's Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery 5- The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya 6- This is Happines s by Niall Williams 7- Time of the Child by Niall Williams 8- Jim the Boy by Tony Early 9- The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 10- The Fortnight in September by RC Sherriff 11- The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973 by Clara Bingham 12- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel 13- The Elements of Madame Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science by Dava Sobel 14- The Universe in Verse edited by Maria Popov 15- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 16- The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer 17- Heartbreak is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Revived Pop Music by Rob Sheffield 18 - The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel 19- We Solve Murders by Richard Osman 20- Karla's Choice by Nick Harkaway 21- William by Mason Coile 23- Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison 24- Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman 25- House of Frank by Kay Synclaire 26- Pride and Prejudice in Space by Alexis Lampley 27- Be Ready When the Luck Happen s by Ina Garten 28- From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough 29- Cher: The Memoi r (Part One) by Cher 30- The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates 31- Hot Mess by Jeff Kinney 32- The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon 33- Baking in the American South: 200 Recipes and Their Untold Stories by Ann Byrn 34- Kentucky Ya'll: A Celebration of the People and Culture of the Bluegrass by Blair Thomas Hess and Cameron Ludwick 35- The Stackpole Legend by Wendell Berry 36- In Praise of Mystery by Ada Limon, illustrated by Peter Sis 37- Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid 38- A Five Star Read recommended by fellow Book Lover Perin @ mjreadsmagic - Sir Callie and the Dragon's Roost by Esme Symes-Smith 39- Gather by Kenneth Cadow 40- The Horse by Willy Vlautin 41- Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen by Suzanne Scanlon 42- How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals by Sy Montgomery 43- The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousnes s by Sy Montgomery Media mentioned-- 1- A Real Pain (2024) 2- Wicked Little Letters (Netflix, 2023) 3- The Lost Daughter (Netflix, 2021) 4- The Return (2024)…
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1 S11:Ep244 - Native American Heritage Month: A Book Rec Episode - 11/20/24 57:30
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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. November is Native American Heritage month so in this episode, we’re sharing some books written by Native American authors. There are so many great texts to choose from if you’re interested in broadening your reading. We bring your memoirs, poetry, Pulitzer Prize winners, and more. When we do these thematic episodes, we enjoy hearing from listeners who have their own recommendations within that theme so be sure to shoot us a message or comment on any of our socials. Books Mentioned In this Episode: 1- A Thousand Ship s by Natalie Haynes 2- Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes 3- Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist by Jasmin Graham 4- A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Streets to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi 5- A Book Recommended by Fellow Booklover Vero Garcia @ booksandcoffeemx - All This and More by Peng Shepherd 6- The Blessing Way and all books in the Leaphorn & Chee series by Tony Hillerman 7- Bad Indians: A Memoir by Deborah Miranda 8- Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Surviva l by Velma Wallis 9- House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday 10- Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan 11- An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo 12- Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez 13- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 14- The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos: Reflections on the Newark Earthworks and World Heritage edited by M. Elizabeth Weiser, Timothy RW Jordan, and Richard D. Shiels 15- Man Made Monster s by Andrea L. Rogers 16- The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich (Birchbark House series #2 ) 17- The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich 18- Shutter by Ramona Emerson 19- Exposure by Ramona Emerson 20- Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle 21- The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley 22- There, There by Tommy Orange 23- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline 24- The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland Media mentioned-- 1- Reservation Dogs (Hulu, 2021-2023) 2- Dark Winds (AMC and Neflix, 2022 - present)…
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1 S11::Ep243 - Alice's Big Book Of Mistakes with Guest Alice Kaltman - 11/13/24 1:01:07
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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 Alice Kaltman at www.alicekaltman.com or on IG @ alicekaltman This week we chat with Alice Kaltman about her latest book, Alice’s Big Book of Mistakes . She has written books of linked short stories, novels for various ages, and more, but she decided to try her hand at a graphic memoir all about silly and not-so-silly mistakes she has made throughout the course of her life. Her book aims to make both young and old embrace their missteps in life as building blocks for a life well lived. Books Mentioned In This Episode: 1- Alice’s Big Book of Mistakes by Alice Kaltman 2- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 3- Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson 4- Salem’s Lot by Stephen King 5- The Keepe r by Kelsey Ervick 6- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 7- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 8- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 9- Middlemarch by George Eliot 10- Drinking at the Movies by Julia Wertz 11- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 12- A 5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Emily Craddick - Hotel Splendide by Ludwig Bemelmans 13- Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham 14- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 15- Look in the Mirror by Catherine Steadman 16- Sociopath by Patric Gagne Media mentioned— Small Things Like These (2024) Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024) Salem’s Lot (Max, 2024) Will & Harper (Netflix, 2024)…
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1 S11:Ep242 - Ask Big Questions: A Book Rec Episode - 11/6/24 1:01:12
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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 our topic is philosophical. No, we’re not discussing those dull philosophy textbooks, but rather novels or nonfiction that ask big questions, such as “Who am I?” and “What is happiness?” and “Do we have free will?”. We will give you 10 books that will get you thinking with your big brains. Books Mentioned In This Episode: 1- Carrie by Stephen King 2- A Thousand Ship s by Natalie Haynes 3- Faith, Hope, and Carnage by Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan 4- Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle 5- A Book Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Larissa @ laralucretia - The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne 6- Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville 7- Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner 8- Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids by Scott Hershovitz 9- Lotería by Karla Arenas Valenti 10- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 11- How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Any Moral Question by Michael Schur 12- The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak 13- If Cats Disappeared From the World by Genki Kawamura 14- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 15- If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity by Justin Gregg 16- Walking Shadows by Faye Kellerman Media mentioned— 1- Trap (2024, Max) 2- Carrie (2013, Tubi) 3- Carrie (1976) 4- Penny Dreadful (2014-2016 Pluto) 5- The Little Prince (2015, Pluto)…
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1 S11:Ep241 - Smothermoss with Guest Alisa Alering - 10/30/24 58:43
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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 Alisa Alering at www.alering.com or on Insta @ alisa .alering. This week we wrap up what has been a month of seasonally spooky books with guest Alisa Alering, the author of Smothermoss , a book that is set in 1980s Pennsylvania Appalachia. It is the story of two sisters who witness a murder on the Appalachian Trail. It is a book that Amy discovered while attending the Columbus Book Festival this past summer. If you like magical realism or gothic fiction, you will definitely want to check this novel out since there is a sentient mountain. Nature truly is a character in the story. Books Mentioned In This Episode: 1- Smothermoss by Alisa Alering 2- Ritual by David Pinner 3- Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham 4- Watership Down by Richard Adams 5- Every Bone a Prayer by Ashley Blooms 6- Where I Can't Follow by Ashley Blooms 7- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Dina @ ddemaiosmith - Starling House by Alix E. Harrow 8- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 9- Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow 10- Assembly by Natasha Brown 11- White Teeth by Zadie Smith 12- The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister 13- My Dear Henry: A Jekyll and Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics) by Kalynn Bayron Media mentioned— 1- What We Do in the Shadows (Hulu 2019) 2- What We Do in the Shadows movie (2014) 3- Wellington Paranormal (Max 2018) 4- Psycho (Netflix 1960) 5- The Wicker Man (Tubi 1973)…
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