Half-Assed Ideas
Let's call our "studio" the out-of-control room.
Because that is how we feel a bit.
The learning curve for doing a podcast is steeper than what people may think.
Amy texted me this picture, and I think it sums us up pretty well.
But we're working diligently to make sure the time you spend listening to us talk about books is well spent.
Episode 1: Anne Baker and multigenerational book clubs
Episode 2: Gamma Girls, Jennie and Tricia
Article mentioned:Book clubs: Why Do We Love Them So Much? Is it the Zucchini Bread? by Nathan Heller. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/07/book-clubs-in-america-why-do-we-love-them-so-much.html
Book-to-movie adaptations mentioned:The Help -- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454029/To Kill a Mockingbird-- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056592/The Grapes of Wrath-- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032551/Bridget Jones' Diary-- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243155/Me, Earl & the Dying Girl--https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582496/A Beautiful Mind--https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978/Blade Runner--https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/
Episode 3: Abigail Harrelson, author of Pepper at the Piano
Books mentioned:The Little Colonel by Annie Fellows JohnstonA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithThe Human Comedy by William SaroyanIn My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irine Gut OpdykeThe Wednesday Wars by Gary D. SchmidtShakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill BrysonBook-to-movie adaptationsThe Human Comedy https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036022/
Episode 4: Getting Your Bard On with Amy Attaway--Making Shakespeare Unscary
Books mentioned--Henry IV, Part 2 by William ShakespeareShakespeare’s English Kings by Peter SacchioDark Matter by Blake CrouchDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherThe Year of the Fat Knight: The Falstaff Diaries by Anthony Sher*Photo credit, Bill Brymer
Episode 5: Erin Nevitt, Summer Reading for Kids
Books mentioned--
Mercy Watson series by Kate DiCamilloThe Haunted Library series by Dori Hillestead ButlerThe Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice DalglieshJ.J. Tully by Doreen CroninMagic School Bus Rides Again by Judy KatschkeJames and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo All the Light You Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasThe Reader by Traci CheeChallenger Deep by Neal ShustermanEscape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris GrabensteinFrom the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. KonigsburgDead End in Norvelt by Jack GantosDad is Fat by Jim GaffiganBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahYes, Please by Amy PoehlerBossypants by Tina FeyThis I Believe II by Jay Allison and Dan GedimanA Place to Belong by Cynthia KadohataWhen the Emperor Was Divine by Julie OtsukaBaby by Patricia MacLachlanSarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlanSkylark by Patricia MacLachlanCaleb’s Song by Patricia MacLachlanThe Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman
Episode 6: Kim Esposito, YaYas in the Closet
Movies mentioned--Bookclub --https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6857166/?ref_=nv_sr_2?ref_=nv_sr_2Darkest Hour--https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4555426/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1The Help--https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454029/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1To Kill a Mockingbird--https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056592/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1Handmaid’s Tale--https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5834204/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1Big Little Lies--https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3920596/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1Memoirs of a Geisha--https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397535/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1Harry Potter--https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241527/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1The Greatest Showman--This is Mehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt1485796/?ref_=nv_sr_2?ref_=nv_sr_2
Episode 7: Kim Vidrine, Books That Leave a "Mark"
Books Mentioned--Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan StevensonThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerMonday, Monday: A Novel by Elizabeth CrookGone Girl by Gillian FlynnWild by Cheryl StrayedEleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanWhere’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria SempleThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeJoy Luck Club by Amy TanHiroshima by John HerseyThe Things They Carried by Tim O’BrienAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniAli and Nino by Kurban SaidI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Serpent King by Jeff ZentnerEducated by Tara WestoverThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieShe’s Come Undone by Wally LambMaybe You Should Talk With Someone by Lori GottliebEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellIn the Woods by Tana French
Episode 8: Minda Honey, Toni Morrison is Queen and Other Writing Truths
@mindahoney on twitter / mindahoney on Instagram/ https://www.leoweekly.com/category/etc/ask-minda-honey/
Articles mentioned:Dr. Seuss Can Be Racist, But Students Keep Reading Them by Tiara Jenkins and Jessica Yarmosky
Virginia Woolf? Snob! Richard Wright? Sexist! Dostoyevsky? Anti-Semite!
Episode 9: Sherry Howard, When A Bear Meets a Rock N Roll Band
Poets.org is where you can sign up for a poem a day.
Episode 10: Brandon Vigliarolo, Making Books the Strano Way
Books mentioned:
Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique by Edith DiehlInside Out & Back Again by Thanhha LaiPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiThe Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. JemisinJonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna ClarkeMeditations by Marcus AureliusMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisHolidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Episode 11: Rheonna Nicole, Slam!: This is For the Girls
Books mentioned:
Amazing Grace by Mary HoffmanThe Crossover by Kwame AlexanderDear Martin by Nic StoneThe Hate You Give by Angie ThomasTraining School for Negro Girls by Camilla Acker
Episode 12: Holly McArthur, Sanity and Bookclub Spaghetti
Books mentioned:
What Alice Forgot by Liane MoriartyThe Husband’s Secret by Liane MoriartyNine Perfect Strangers by Liane MoriartyBig Little Lies by Liane MoriartyLolita by Vladmir NabokovThe Dinner by Herman KochThe Interestings by Meg WolitzerMr. Mercedes by Stephen KingThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Luiz ZafonAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Girl I Left Behind by JoJo MoyesTestament of Youth by Vera BrittainThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosLaughing at My Nightmare by Shane BurkawEveryone Thinks My Girlfriend is My Nurse by Shane BurkawThe Undoing Project by Michael LewisPeace Like a River by Leif EngerAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Episode 13: Amanda Cijeko, Reading, Riding & Other Horseplay
Books mentioned:
South of Broad by Pat ConroyThe Prince of Tides by Pat ConroyF' Him: Nice Girls Always Finish Single by Brian NoxMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenMiracle Creek by Angie KimThere, There by Tommy OrangeJanitors by Tyler WhitesidesPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenPersuasion by Jane AustenCity of Girls by Elizabeth GilbertSignature of All Things by Elizabeth GilbertCrazy Rich Asians by Kevin KwanOut East by John J. GlynnThe Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele RichardsonPoisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverUnsheltered by Barbara KingsolverBlack Beauty by Anna SewellRuffian by Jane SchwartzMisty of Chincoteague by Marguerite HenryBlogs mentionedThe 900 Facebook Pony https://the900facebookpony.com/Smitten Kitchen https://smittenkitchen.com/
Movies mentionedSecretariat https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1028576/Seabiscuit https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329575/
Episode 14: Sam Miller, Backlist Party in the Bookstore
Books mentioned:
Into the Wild by John KrakauerJim the Boy by Tony EarleyThe Storied Life of A.J. Fickry by Gabrielle ZevinWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwenBeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul GawandeSmoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlyn DoughtyThe Lady in the Lake by Laura LippmanThe Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele RichardsonWatership Down by Richard AdamsFurious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey CepSouthernmost by Silas House
Episode 15: Speed Reading Club, If Warhol and Wordsworth Were at a Bookclub
Books mentioned:
The Other Alcott by Elise HooperThe Clock Winder by Anne TylerFeminism is For Everybody by bell hooksNo Single Sparrow Makes a Summer by Louisville Story ProgramThe Painted Girls by Cathy Marie BuchananA Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonMetamorphosis by OvidSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburySong of Achilles by Madeline MillerCirce by Madeline MillerGulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary RoachConversations with Friends by Sally RooneyNormal People by Sally RooneyThese Honored Dead: A Lincoln and Speed Mystery by Jonathan PutnamThree Girls in a Flat by Enid Yandell
Episode 16: Dr. Jon Blandford, a Literary Loose Canon
Books mentioned--
Moby Dick by Hermann MelvilleThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Female Review: Life of Deborah Sampson by Herman MannUncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweFeed by M.T. AndersonA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy FowlerWorld Enough and Time by Robert Penn Warren (based on the story of Jeremiah Beaumont and Cassius Fort)The Politian by Edgar Allan Poe (based on the story of Jeremiah Beaumont and Cassius Fort)The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittWhiskey When We’re Dry by John LarisonNews of the World by Paulette GilesThe Virginian by Owen WisterBlood Meridian by Cormac McCarthyNarrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan PoeFall River by Catherine WilliamsThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerDeep Water by Patricia HighsmithThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonKiller of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Episode 17: Fahdia Mohamud: It's a Small World After All
Books mentioned:The Wedding Party by Jasmine GuilloryThe Whisper Man by Alex NorthChildren of Blood and Bone by Toni AdeyemiThe Hate You Give by Angie ThomasGhost Boys by Jewel Packer RhodesThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonInfidel: My Life by Ayaan Hirsi AliPersepolis I and II by Marjane SatrapiUnder the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCallI Am Alfonso Jones by Tony MedinaAmerican Born Chinese by Gene Luen YangA Bad Case of Stripes by David ShannonThe Lost and Found Cat: The True Story of Kunkush’s Incredible Journey by Amy Shrodes and Doug KuntzIt’s Great to Suck at Something by Karen RinaldiThe Day You Begin by Jacqueline WoodsonWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
Films mentioned:Blinded by the Light--https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8266310/
Episode 18: Bob Thompson, Stories with a Colonel of Truth
Hitchhiker: Stories from the Kentucky Homefront by Bob Thompson
Stitched Together: Stories from a Kentucky Life by Bob Thompson
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Episode 19: Hannah Rae Montgomery, "Playing" with Dracula
Dracula by Bram Stoker
A Witch’s Guide to Escape by Alix Harrow
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
Episode 20: Tony Dingman, He's Just a Poe Boy
The Tell-Tale Heart--Edgar Allan PoeThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym--PoeLoss of Breath--PoeThe Raven--PoeBrazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Penelope BagieuPlainsong by Kent HarufOur Souls at Night by Kent HarufThe Turn of the Screw by Henry JamesSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Bonus Episode: So many books, so little time
Episode 21: Kim Colette Ballard, Reading is a Riot
Running on Empty by Colette Ballard
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
The October Country by Ray Bradbury
Episode 22: Michael Drury, (Fun)Home is Where the Heart Is
Books mentioned:
The House With A Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs (audiobook)The Dublin Murder Squad series--Tana FrenchHis Dark Materials trilogy--Philip PullmanEnder’s Game series--Orson Scott CardGeronimo Stilton, Kingdom of Fantasy seriesMr. Putter and Tabby series--Cynthia RylantMiss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children--Ransom RiggsThe Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (audiobook)
Episode 23: Amy Miller, An Annual Cure for Writer's Block
Books mentioned:
Monster She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger and Melanie AndersonThe Power by Naomi AldermanInheritance by Dani ShapiroEyes to the Wind by Ady BarkanDoctor Sleep by Stephen King
Episode 24: Alix Harrow, Knocking on Fantasy's Door
Books mentioned
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix HarrowThe Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles by Margaret St. Clair (short story)Gideon the 9th by Tamsyn MuirThe City We Became by N. K. JemesinThe Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H. G. ParryThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Episode 25: mk Eagle and Hannah Elliot, How the Library Keeps us LITerate
Books mentioned:
Laurell K. Hamilton, Anita Blake series
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger and Melanie Anderson
Chi's Sweet Home by Kanata Konami
Exquisite Corpse by Penelope Bagieu
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Episode 26: Bri Esposito, Picking the Perfect Published Present
Episode 27: Mick Sullivan, A "Meat" and Greet With the Past
Books mentioned
The Meatshower by Mick Sullivan
Spying on the South by Tony Horwitz
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Episode 28: Kara Evans, A Book Lover's Double Feature
Books mentioned:
I'm Down by Mishna Wolff
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt
The Lady From the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
Episode 29, Mary Sullivan and Joan Dubay: Big Book Love in Little Libraries
Books mentioned:
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
I, Eliza Hamilton by Susan Holloway Scott
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver