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Episode Fifty Four Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Join our Goodreads Group! Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page. Upcoming Readalongs March – Geraldine Brooks – have comments to us by July 19th Upcoming Book Release and Event Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women – Anne Boyd Rioux (release date August 21st) Check out upcoming events for the 150th anniversary of Little Women at Orchard House. Purchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! – Currently Reading/Listening – The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After – Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil (EF) One of Ours – Willa Cather (CW) – Just Read – Hope Never Dies – Andrew Shaffer (CW) Providence – Caroline Kepnes (EF) Women & Power: A Manifesto – Mary Beard (CW) They May Not Mean To But They Do – Cathleen Schine (EF) One Possible Life - Hannes Köhler (CW) The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing – Marie Kondō (CW) (audio) – Biblio Adventures – Emily saw Matthew Dicks at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison with his new book Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling Chris visited the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library in New Haven, CT – Upcoming Jaunts – Chris and Emily will be heading to Orchard House – the home of Louisa May Alcott – on July 16th July 19th Chris will be hosting the Willa Cather Book Club at Bookclub Bookstore & More Emily is planning to attend Savoy Bookshop & Café Harry Potter 20th Anniversary party on July 31st The Book Cougars will be hosting an historical fiction author event in partnership with Bank Square Books at Mohegan Sun on September 27, 2018. – Upcoming Reads – March – Geraldine Brooks (CW)(EF) Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women – Anne Boyd Rioux (CW)(EF) release date August 21st The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House – Ben Rhodes (CW) The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers – edited by Brian Turner (CW) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life – Barbara Kingsolver (EF) (audio) – Also Mentioned – The new Libby App to download E-books and Audiobooks Center for Fiction first novel prize list can be found here. A Place for Us – Fatima Farheen Mirza There, There – Tommy Orange Sadness is a White Bird – Moriel Rothman - Zecker Man Booker Golden 50th Book Award Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver Willa Cather Novels: My Ántonia, The Song of the Lark, and O Pioneers! Orchard House Conversation Series Gwendolyn Brooks Statue in Chicago 57th Street Books American Writers Museum Poet Philip Larkin This Be The Verse They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats. Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself.