S11:Ep226 - We Love LA: A Book Rec Episode - 7/17/24

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. So back during Season 10 we flew to Los Angeles, California for the LA Times Festival of Books, which was held on the campus of USC. We were able to meet our bookish friend, Jennifer Caloyeras from the Books Are My People podcast; hear cool authors and audiobook narrators speak; and visit some awesome places in LA. Amy is usually the one who reads around the places she is visiting, although she is apparently rubbing off on me because I’m finding myself doing it too. We decided to make an episode centered around Los Angeles/Hollywood reads. Books Discussed in This Episode: 1- Everything I Learned, I Learned In a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin 2- The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen 3- The Library Book by Susan Orlean 4- A 5 Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Lauren Becker @laurenashleybecker- Elephant and Castle by Hannah Ledford 5- Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins series) by Walter Mosley 6- The Monstrous Misses Mai by Van Hoang 7- Love & Saffron by Kim Fay 8- Daytime Drama by Sarahlyn Bruck 9- Code Name Edelweiss by Stephanie Landsem 10- California Dreamin: The True Story of the Mamas and Papas by Michelle Phillips 12- Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 13- Black Dahlia by James Ellroy 14- The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia 15- Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle 16- Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor 17- Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor 18- Icebreaker by Hannah Grace 19- Wildfire by Hannah Grace Movies mentioned-- Feast of Death (documentary about James Ellroy) - 2001 Articles mentioned-- 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/…21st-century.html Episodes mentioned-- 1- www.perksofbeingabooklover.com/episodes/…m-vidrine 2- www.perksofbeingabooklover.com/episodes/…akespeare