Ep. 45 The Quarantine Quest for a Book Club with Robin Weiss 5-13-20

We all had big plans for our quarantine free time, right? Maybe we wanted to Marie Kondo organize the whole house, learn how to make beautiful loaves of bread, or begin training for that marathon you’ve had on your bucket list. Our guest today, Robin Weiss, had a different kind of quarantine goal. She was determined to revitalize her reading life. This mother of 9 who is also a professor of public health as well as a childbirth expert and doula, fell out of love with reading when she attended grad school. In the intervening years, her knowledge of new titles and authors got stuck in a time warp where she left off in the 1990s. So, she formed an online quarantine bookclub with fellow readers across the country to help get her literary groove back. Robin talks to us about what past favorite authors she is happy to discover have published new books in recent years, what benefits the group gets from meeting weekly versus monthly, whether her bookclub is experiencing trauma bonding, and what happens when the quarantine is over. Books discussed in this episode: 1- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 2- It By Stephen King 3- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 4- On The Beach by Nevil Shute 5- The Charm School by Nelson DeMille 6- The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille 7- The General's Daughter by Nelson DeMille 8- The Bone Collector by Jeffrey Deaver 9- The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski (short stories) 10- Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski (short stories) 11- Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski (novel) 12- The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia 13- The Braid by Laetitia Colombani You can find us on FB, instagram (@perksofbeingabookloverpod) and on our blog site at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com Perks airs on Forward Radio 106.5 FM and forwardradio.org every Wednesday at 6 pm, Thursdays at 6 am and 12 pm. We have purchased the rights to the theme music used.