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Episode Eighteen Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Just Read – Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body – Roxane Gay (CW)(EF) An American Marriage – Tayari Jones (EF) release date February 2018 The Gypsy Moth Summer – Julia Fierro (CW) books we Just Couldn’t Read (or DNF’d) The Essex Serpent – Sarah Perry (CW) – Currently Reading/Listening – This I Believe: Life Lessons – edited by Dan Gediman, Mary Jo Gediman and John Gregory (EF) New Haven Noir – edited by Amy Bloom (CW) release date August 3 The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin (EF) release date January 2018 The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty – Elizabeth L. Silver (EF) – Biblio Adventures – June 14 – Annual Meeting of The Community Fund for Women & Girls of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. Guest Speakers: Linda Sarsour and Rebecca Traister Rebecca is the author of: All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation and Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women Look into donating to your local community foundation! June 14 – Chris went to RJ Julia Bookstore to see Linda Greenlaw author of Shiver Hitch – Upcoming Jaunts – June 29 – Chris and Emily will head to Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore to see Weike Wang author of Chemistry July 7 – Laura Thoma author of Mastering the Art of Self-Expression in conversation with John Valeri at Bookclub Bookstore – Upcoming Reads – Jack be Quick – Benjamin Thomas (CW) Hack-Proof Your Life Now! – Sean M. Bailey and Devin Kropp (EF) Love and Other Consolation Prizes – Jamie Ford (EF) – New York Review Books Raffle Booklist – Agony – Mark Bayer Wish Her Safe at Home – Stephen Benatar The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick – Elizabeth Hardwick In Love – Alfred Hayes Loving – Henry Green Don’t Look Now – Daphne Du Maurier Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, And Me – The Best of Teffi The Dud Avocado –Elaine Dundy Family Lexicon – Natalia Ginzburg The If Borderlands: Collected Poems – Elise Partridge During the Reign of the Queen of Persia – Joan Chase The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe – D.G. Compton The Vet’s Daughter – Barbara Comyns The Farm in the Green Mountains – Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer The Invention of Morel – Adolfo Bioy Casares A Month in The Country – J.L. Carr – Also Mentioned – The Color Purple – Alice Walker Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World’s Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler – Jessica Speart Rachel Porter mystery series – Jessica Speart My Cousin Rachel – Daphne Du Maurier Stoner – John Williams