Episode 69 - A Joint Jaunt to Yale University aka "Searching for Rory Gilmore"

Episode Sixty Nine 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.– 10th Readalong –True Grit – Charles Portis Send in questions or comments by March 28, 2019 – we will discuss on April 2nd episode.– Just Read –We each had a DNF:An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery – Rachel May (CW)I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff – Abi Jacobson (EF)Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love – Dani Shapiro (EF)The River – Peter Heller (CW)(EF) (release date 3/5/19)Read Chris’s review of the book on her blogFrench Exit – Patrick Dewitt (EF)A Student of History – Nina Revoyr (CW) (release date 3/5/19)The Best American Short Stories 2018 – edited by Roxane Gay (EF)– Currently Reading –Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir – Ruth Reichl (EF) (release date 4/2/19)How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays – Alexander Chee (CW)Salt Fat Acid Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking – Samin Nosrat (EF)11/22/63 – Stephen King (EF)(audio)– Biblio Adventures –Chris visited the Newberry Library while she was visiting ChicagoJanuary 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 UniversityEmily watched the movie The Wife based on the book of the same name by Meg WolitzerChris stayed close to home and cleaned up her Goodreads TBR list– Upcoming Jaunts –Chris is going to see Roxane Gay at Yale University on 2/5/19On February 13, 2019 at RJ Julia Madison, Emily is going to see Linda Cohen Loigman, author of The Wartime Sisters, and Jane Healey, author of The Saturday Evening Girls Club, moderated by Robin KallChris and Emily are heading to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston– Upcoming Reads –Golden Child – Claire Adam (EF)Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter – Tom Clavin (CW)Jonah’s Gourd Vine – Zora Neale Hurston (CW)Willa Cather Selected Stories – Willa Cather (CW)Willa Cather Short Story Project on WildmooBooks– Also Mentioned –Just the Right Book podcast with Dani ShapiroCeline – Peter HellerDeliverance – James DickeyHeart of Darkness – Joseph ConradHell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River – Peter HellerSisters Brothers – Patrick DewittBroad CityThe Odyssey – Homer, translated by Emily WilsonDelicious! – Ruth ReichlElevation – Stephen KingAmerican Writers MuseumKathleen RooneyMartin SeayAmazing Adventures of Cavalier & Clay – Michael ChabonDodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West – Tom ClavinShawn the Book ManiacTheir Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale HurstonLee IsraelCan You Ever Forgive Me?Poet Mary Oliver passed awayMornings at BlackwaterFor years, every morning, I drankfrom Blackwater Pond.It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt,the feet of ducks.And always it assuaged mefrom the dry bowl of the very far past.What I want to say isthat the past is the past,and the present is what your life is,and you are capableof choosing what that will be,darling citizen.So come to the pond,or the river of your imagination,or the harbor of your longing,and put your lips to the world.And liveyour life.