A Nuclear Physicist Seeking Regency Era Problems
An episode of the Blind Date With a Book podcast, hosted by Kristen Evans, Rachel Mans McKenny and Elena Nicolaou, titled "A Nuclear Physicist Seeking Regency Era Problems" was published on July 31, 2024 and runs 31 minutes.
July 31, 2024 ·31m · Blind Date With a Book
Summary
Today, we're setting up Sarah Cady. Sarah is a nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopist at a university, who also is a partial owner of a plant store. She recently read and loved The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter and The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow. She’s a big fan of farmers market shopping on a Saturday morning, and ending the day with grilling and beers on the porch at home. She’s a gemini who likes Classic books and could give an on the spot ted talk about superconducting magnets or grief. She’s impressed by people who remember to send thank you notes, and loves both the Colin Firth and Matthew MacFadyen P&P. A quote from her survey is that “there is just something so comforting to me about Regency era lady problems.” Winning bookstore Garden District Book Shop in New Orleans Our picks Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd Lone Women by Victor LaValle Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark Heartbreaker by Sarah MacLean
Episode Description
Today, we're setting up Sarah Cady. Sarah is a nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopist at a university, who also is a partial owner of a plant store. She recently read and loved The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter and The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow. She’s a big fan of farmers market shopping on a Saturday morning, and ending the day with grilling and beers on the porch at home. She’s a gemini who likes Classic books and could give an on the spot ted talk about superconducting magnets or grief. She’s impressed by people who remember to send thank you notes, and loves both the Colin Firth and Matthew MacFadyen P&P. A quote from her survey is that “there is just something so comforting to me about Regency era lady problems.”
Winning bookstore
Garden District Book Shop in New Orleans
Our picks
Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock
Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark
Heartbreaker by Sarah MacLean
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