Episode 91 - Announcing our 12th Readalong!

Episode Ninety One Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily FinePurchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! We are an affiliate of Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookstore & Café. Please purchase books from them and support us at the same time. Click HERE to start shopping.If you would 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! We have a BookTube Channel – please check it out here, and be sure to subscribe! Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.– 12th Readalong – Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator) The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE. Our conversation about the book will air on February 18th.– Currently Reading –The Hollows (Kinship #2) – Jess Montgomery (EF)Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder – Caroline Fraser (CW)The Yellow House – Sarah M. Broom (EF) Farmer Boy – Laura Ingalls Wilder (CW)– Just Read –Thin Ice: A Mystery – Paige Shelton (CW)The Great Believers – Rebecca Makkai (EF)The Sculptor’s Funeral – Willa Cather (CW) part of the Willa Cather Short Story ProjectThe Great Santini – Pat Conroy (EF)Sourdough – Robin Sloan (EF)– Biblio Adventures –Emily took a trip to Portland, Maine and visited Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops and Longfellow BooksAunt Ellen discovered the Common Books Bookcart where she bought us a copy of Margaret Atwood’s Selected Poems which was published in 1976. You can follow the cart and purchase books by going to Brittany’s Instagram account.– Upcoming Jaunts –Chris will attend an adaptation of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory at the Theatre Artists Workshop in Norwalk, CT– Upcoming Reads –How Not to Die Alone – Richard Roper (EF)Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition – Buddy Levy (CW)The Night Watchman – Louise Erdrich (EF) release date March 3, 2020Darkness for Light – Emma Viskic release date June 9, 2020– Also Mentioned –Nobel Prize in LiteraturePeter HandkeCanada – Richard FordHarper LeeJacqueline WoodsonThe Booker PrizesMargaret AtwoodBernardine EvaristoShamus Award Road to Perdition – Max Allen CollinsFlights – Olga TokarczukThe Widows (Kinship #1) – Jess MontgomeryWifey – Judy BlumeNational Book AwardsPatricia CornwellYouth and the Bright Medusa – Willa CatherSouth of Broad – Pat ConroyMr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel – Robin SloanPrint: A Bookstore in Portland, MaineOsprey Island – Thisby NiessenLouise PennyIn Cold Blood – Truman CapoteHarriet Beecher Stowe HouseEvery Man Dies Alone – Hans FalladaResurrection Bay and And Fire Came Down – Emma ViskicBook DepositoryHarry PotterA Series of Unfortunate EventsThe Book Review PodcastMotherless Brooklyn – Jonathan Lethem