Episode 96 - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Readalong and Booktopia 2020

Episode Ninety Six Show Notes KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine– Currently Reading –The End of Your Life Book Club – Will Schwalbe (CW)From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home – Tembi Locke (EF)The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel – Grady Hendrix (CW) release date April 7, 2020A Good Marriage: A Novel – Kimberly McCreight (EF) release date May 5, 2020– Just Read –Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know – Malcolm Gladwell (EF) (audio)The Sun Down Motel – Simone St. James (CW) Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed – Lori Gottlieb (CW)My Name is Lucy Barton – Elizabeth Strouth (CW)Chris DNF’d: River – Esther Kinsky, Iain Galbraith (translator) Blood Countess (A Ldy Slayers Novel) – Lana Popovic– Biblio Adventures –We went on a joint jaunt to see the Broadway production of My Name is Lucy Barton based on the book by Elizabeth Strout.Chris visited the New York Public Library and worked in the Dewitt Wallace Periodical Room before the play and also visited Books KinokuniyaEmily took Aunt Ellen and the Gentleman Caller to McNally Jackson where she purchased two books:Black is the Body: Stories of My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and My Time – Emily BernardNight Theater – Vikram Paralkar– Upcoming Jaunts –May 1-2 – Booktopia 2020 at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT– Conversation with Dafydd Wood from Northshire Bookstore –Here is the newsletter that shares everything you need to know about Booktopia 2020. Or, you can see the list of books and authors that will be featured on the website HERE.Note: You need to purchase tickets before you can receive the 20% discount.Facebook Fans of Booktopia pageDafydd also mentions:The Guest Book: A Novel – Sarah BlakeWho is Vera Kelly? – Rosalie Knecht– 12th Readalong discussion– Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE. Sloan Croasley NY Times reviewNew Yorker profile on Olga by author Ruth FranklinWilliam Blake poem Proverbs of HellThe book has been made into a film titled: Pokot (Spoor)– Also Mentioned –Bryan at Still an Unfinished Person BlogAmerican Dirt – Jeanine CumminsThe Street – Ann PetryPassing – Nella LarsenPhillis WheatleyAttica LockeSee more about Kimberly McCreight’s novels HERERevisionist History podcastSee more about Elizabeth Strout’s novels HERE Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder – Caroline FraserReading Envy podcastPurchase 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’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!We have a BookTube Channel – please check it out here, and be sure to subscribe!Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.