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Episode One Hundred Four Show Notes

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– 14th Readalong discussion–
Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)
The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE.
– Currently Reading –
Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers – edited Natalie Eve Garrett (EF)
Empire of Wild – Cherie Dimaline (CW) release date July 28, 2020Building Your Ideal Private Practice – Lynn Grodzki (CW)(audio)

– Just Read –
Friends and Strangers – J. Courtney Sullivan (EF) release date June 30, 2020Mother Land – Lea Franqui (EF) release date July 14, 2020
Shelter – Jung Yun (EF) (audio)
Urban Trauma: A Legacy of Racism – Dr. Maysa Akbar (EF)

– Biblio Adventures –
We had a joint jaunt as GUESTS on Our Mystery Man John Valeri’s YouTube channel, Central Booking. You can watch the interview HERE.

Emily attended an event through The Strand Bookstore. Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half, was in conversation with Gloria Edim, author of Well-Read Black Girl.

Chris attended the 65th Annual Willa Cather spring conference: Untethered Cather on the Cusp of the 1920’s. The focus this year was on Cather’s book of short stories Youth and the Bright Medusa. She enjoyed sessions that included author Erica Ryan discussing her book When the World Broke in Two: The Roaring Twenties and the Dawn of America’s Culture Wars and Alex Ross discussing his book releasing on September 15, 2020, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music.

Chris browsed inside two bookstores, Breakwater Books in Guilford,CT where she purchased How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and