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Episode Thirty Eight 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. We have an upcoming read-along: February – Maurice by E.M. Forster Send in questions or comments by March 1st – we will discuss on March 6th episode Information regarding the conversion problem with Sweet by Yotem Ottolenghi and Helen Goh can be found here. – Currently Reading/Listening – The Detonator – Vincent Zandri The Selected Letters of Willa Cather – Willa Cather, Andrew Jewell (CW) Getting Unstuck: Breaking Your Habitual Patterns & Encountering Naked Reality – Pema Chodron (EF)(audio) Labor Day – Joyce Maynard (EF)(audio) Man’s Search for Meaning - Victor Frankel (CW) – Just Read – The Arrangement – Sarah Dunn (EF) Force of Nature (Aaron Falk #2) – Jane Harper (CW) Jane Steele – Lyndsay Faye (EF)(audio) Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Hoeg (CW) -- Chris watched the movie Smilla’s Sense of Snow American Housewife – Helen Ellis (EF) – Biblio Adventures – On January 25, 2018 we had the honor of being in conversation with Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko, at RJ Julia’s Booksellers. The evening was recorded and will appear on an upcoming episode of Just the Right Book Podcast. Check out Min Jin Lee’s website to follow her paperback tour and various speaking events. Emily and Chris went on a joint jaunt to hear Patrick Lynch speak about the Long Island Sound and his book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound: Coastal Habitats, Plant Life, Fish, Seabirds, Marine Mammals, and Other Wildlife. Emily visited Burgundy Books in Westbrook, CT Emily went to a SpeakUp! storytelling event at Infinity Hall in Hartford, CT. – Upcoming Jaunts – February 11th Chris is heading to see a musical in Jaffrey, New Hampshire: “Kindness & Cruelty: Willa Cather in Jaffrey” Future joint jaunt on February 18 to Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library in Stony Creek to see Amy Bloom speaking about her new book White Houses. Emily is going with Aunt Ellen to see Eve Ensler’s new play In The Body of the World February 21st at Guilford Library Chris will be attending the bookclub for the Witness Stones Project Join Chris on April 19th at 2:00 at Bookclub Bookstore & More in South Windsor, CT for the quarterly Willa Cather book club discussion of The Song of the Lark. – Upcoming Reads – White Houses – Amy Bloom (EF) Kindred – Octavia Butler (CW) – Also Mentioned – Connecticut Library Consortium – Cookbook Book Club Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace Worst Bestsellers Podcast Yum’s the Word Show Live Lit Story Club The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism – Joan Acocella Ink and Paper Blog She Reads Booktopia – May 4-5,2018 at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT – author line up and registration can be found here.