Episode 67 - We Would Love To Have YOU for Dinner!

Episode Sixty Seven Show Notes CW = Chris WolakEF = Emily FinePurchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! AND at Bookclub Bookstore & More.If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email [email protected] for instructions.Join our Goodreads Group! Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.– Currently Reading –Girls on the Line – Aimie K. Runyon (CW)(audio)Oceanic – Aimee Nezhukumatthil (CW)The Lost Man – Jane Harper (CW)Less – Andrew Sean Greer (EF)Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give – Ada Calhoun (EF)Clock Dance – Anne Tyler (EF)– Just Read –The Widows – Jess Montgomery (EF)(CW)Chris DNF’d a few:Manhattan Beach – Jennifer Egan (CW)The Alumni Association – Michael Rudolph (CW)Dark Streets, Cold Suburbs – Aimee Hix (CW)Elevation – Stephen King (EF)Mistletoe Murder – Leslie Meier (CW)Lawn Boy – Jonathan Evison – (EF)Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions – Johann Hari (CW) Girls & Boys – Dennis Kelly (EF)(audio – narrated by Carey Mulligan)The Hunger – Alma Katsu (CW)How to Start a Fire – Lisa Lutz (EF)My Mortal Enemy – Willa Cather (CW)The Sisters Brothers – Patrick Dewitt (EF)The Incendiaries – R.O. Kwon (EF)All the Names They Used for God – Anjali Sachdeva (EF)– Biblio Adventures –January 17th – Willa Cather Book Club at Book Club Bookstore & More in South Windsor, CT at 2:00Emily went on a big adventure that included stops at:Dudley’s Bookshop Cafe and Pegasus Books in Bend, OregonBook Train Books & Magazines and Book Grove in Glenwood Springs, COSummit County Library, Ole Man Berkins Used Books, and Breck Books in Breckenridge, CO and Tattered Cover Bookstore at the airport in Denver, COWe watched some shows:Dumplin’ based on the book by Julie MurphyBirdbox movie based on the book by Josh MalermanSalt Fat Acid Heat based on the book Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nasrat The Haunting of Hill House loosely based on the novel by Shirley JacksonAdaptation based on the Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan OrleanTidying Up With Marie Kondo based on the novel The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing– Upcoming Jaunts –Chris and Emily are going on a joint jaunt to Noah Webster House in West HartfordEmily is heading to NYC to see the play Choir Boy written by Terrell Alvin MccraryJanuary 19, 2019 at RJ Julia in Madison – Dani Shapiro with her new book Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and LoveJanuary 28, 2019 – Michael Chabon at Yale University– Upcoming Reads –French Exit – Patrick Dewitt (EF)The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America – Virginia Sole-Smith (EF)Anthony Bourdain’s Hungry Ghosts – Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose (CW)– Also Mentioned –Also by Jane Harper: The Dry and Force of Nature11/22/63 – Stephen KingNorthshire BookstoreRevised Fundamentals of Caregiving – Jonathan EvisonThe Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-1847 – Frank MullenDesperate Passage: The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West – Ethan RarickAmazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon