Friday Reads (kind of) and a few 2024 reading intentions
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- We share more of our holiday swag, some 2024 reading intentions, and tell you about a new benefit for members of our Patreon Community.
Let us know what you are reading and if you got any cool swag over the holidays.
Breaking News: Introducing the Book Cougars Reading Salon. Starting on January 28 at 7pm (ET) we are hosting a monthly one-hour reading salon with members of our Patreon community. If you are already a member, at the $5 level and above, you will receive an email with information about how to join us. If you would like to learn more about becoming a member of our Patreon community follow this link: / bookcougars
Emily got swag from Strand Bookstore and The NYPL store.
Strand pouch: www.strandbooks.com/productse...
Chris received a Reading Women wall calendar: www.calendars.com/shop/readin...
Chris purchased a journal from Peter Pauper Press to use with her fountain pen at Barnes and Noble. (www.peterpauper.com/collectio...)
Books mentioned:
Good to Great by Jim Collins: bookshop.org/a/17535/97800666...
So Long: Stories 1987-1992 by Lucia Berlin: bookshop.org/a/17535/97808768...
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin: bookshop.org/a/17535/97812500...
Evening in Paradise: More Stories by Lucia Berlin: bookshop.org/a/17535/97812502...
Old Crimes by Jill McCorkle: bookshop.org/a/17535/97816162...
The End of the World is a Cul de Sac by Louise Kennedy: bookshop.org/a/17535/97805935...
Last Night by Jim Salter: www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
The Best American Short Stories 2013 edited by Elizabeth Strout and Heidi Pitlor: bookshop.org/a/17535/97805475...
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese: bookshop.org/a/17535/97808021...
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese: bookshop.org/a/17535/97803757...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte: bookshop.org/a/17535/97801404...
Silas Marner by George Eliot: bookshop.org/a/17535/97801414...
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens: bookshop.org/a/17535/97801414...
The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 by Robert Darton: bookshop.org/a/17535/97813240...
Also Mentioned:
Read Appalachia: www.readappalachia.com/
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Chris & Emily
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Very nice video, thank you
Great idea for one short story each week. I joined a short story group at my library just to get me reading some short stories (like Emily I am not a great fan). The group loved the short story--Manual for a Cleaning Woman. Another author we found that I loved was Clarice Lispector--Argentinain author now deceased. Margaret Atwood's Babes in the Woods, the short story is also a good one. I love the idea of one a week and may join you in this goal. So exicited for the Salon.
I'm also doing a short story a day-ish, so I'm looking forward to hear what Emily is reading!
I agree WUTHERING HEIGHTS was weird. JANE EYRE, however, is my all time favorite book.
I’m excited to attend your salon. Great idea! Chris, I love your cat wear and agree with your description about “Wuthering Heights” (although in real life I think we would have liked Emily Bronte who loved dogs. She was miserable teaching at a boarding school and when she left, she purportedly said, “I hate all of you except the dog.” 😂). Emily, I am impressed that you discovered Lucia Berlin (thanks to your friend) way before she became popular. I have her cleaning woman book; I just haven’t gotten to it yet. My Friday Reads is Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Rogues.” 👍🏻
I'm excited for the end of the month Reading Salon! This week has been consumed by "The Covenant of Water", which I thought would take me awhile to read...but it looks like I'll be finished tomorrow!
I’m reading “Girl, Serpent, Thorn” by Melissa Bashardoust for SavidgeReads January prompt (snake on the cover). It’s a YA romantasy, not my usual fare, but this is definitely one of the best ones I’ve read. There’s a great adventure, the romance is moderately understated, and the troubled family dynamic is nicely handled. Decidedly a cut above the average YA romantasy.
I recently read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall for the first time. It’s now one of my favorite classics. Over the holidays I reread Wuthering Heights. It is one f’ed story. But I believe much of this is still happening around the world in remote locales. In WH, there is quite the persistence tho. Still, I’m glad to read it now to bring it forward in my memory bank.
Because of your recommendation, I asked for one of the book lights that hangs around your neck. My husband gave me one and I absolutely love it! So thank you!
Wonderful! You are most welcome!
Hello ladies! I’m 50 and I’m reading The Hobbit! Never too late to do good, right? 😂 Also reading Middlemarch. One chapter a day. I wanted to DNF it so that’s the only way I found to keep on reading it. It’s a famous classic I feel like I have to finish… 😅
We agree, it is never too late! It took me three tries over several years to finally get into Middlemarch. Now I have such fond memories of it and often think of re-reading it. Hope you are still trucking along with a chapter a day (or that you feel settled about it if you DNF'd!) --Chris
Oh Chris, we can go down a dark, deep hole talking about journals for fountain pen users. I love anything with Tomoe River paper.
Thanks for mentioning a great favorite paper! I will have to order some.
That’s too bad. On a fixed income I can barely afford internet
Come join us for one of our quarterly readalong book discussions--they are always free. We announced details for our first read of the year on Episode 198 which will be in March (www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2023/episode198).