by Amy Smalley
Perks of Being a Book Lover is a show about books, people who read, and how reading, at its very best, is a social experience. Whether it be a book club, a poetry slam, or the production of a play; words are meant to be shared. Keep up with us on FB.
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April 23, 2025
Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpodFacebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover.To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Holly Gramazio at her website https://www.hollygramazio.net/ or on IG at holly_gramazio When we first heard the premise of Holly Gramazio’s novel The Husbands, we were intrigued. A woman’s husband goes up to the attic to retrieve something and down comes…a different husband. Wouldn’t we all sometimes like to exchange the husband we have for a better, newer, or just different model? Holly turned this idea into a novel that is both funny and thoughtfully considered. It may not, in fact, be such a great thing to have an endless supply of potential husbands so easy to exchange. Her book has been optioned by Apple Plus for a limited series and I just saw that Juno Temple, the actress who played Keeley in the Ted Lasso series, is slated to play the starring role. And because it is April, and April is National Poetry Month, we’re discussing books related to poets. Not everyone loves poetry, but these books aren’t actually poetry–so you can still partake of poetry month. They are historical fiction, memoirs, essays, and children’s books written by or inspired by poets. Books Mentioned in This Episode: 1- The Husbands by Holly Gramazio 2- Lakewood by Megan Giddings 3- I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour 4- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 5- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 6- The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay 7- Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line by Elizabeth Lovett 8- Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin 9- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Chelsea @2_girls_bookin_it - The Endless Fall by Emmerson Hoyt 10- The Swan's Nest by Laura Mcneal 11- You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith 12- Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethaway 13- Emily's House by Amy Belding Brown 14- Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome 15- Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil 16- World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil 17- The Poet's Dog by Patricia McLachlan Media mentioned-- 1- Severance (Apple+, 2022 - Present) 2- Reduced Shakespeare Company--https://www.reducedshakespeare.com 3- Saint X (Hulu, 2023)
April 9, 2025
Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpodFacebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover.To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Ben Shattuck at his website https://www.benshattuck.com/ or on IG @Benshattuck_ This week we chat with Ben Shattuck, author of Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau published by Tin House Books in 2022. Amy knew this book would appeal to Carrie because she is nothing if not a literary weirdo, and she has been since high school when she quoted from Thoreau in her senior yearbook. Despite her hopes that Ben would, like her, have a high school infatuation with Thoreau, he explains that his interest began much later. Even if you don’t know anything about Thoreau, if you're a walker or a hiker, you have experienced the unique meditative impact of this activity and can appreciate Ben’s insights on it. Ben also has a book of fiction out titled The History of Sound that is a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner prize so we are just really thrilled to have him with us today. And this week, for our recommendations section, we didn’t just pick a random topic like asparagus or comas to share books about—we actually continue with the theme of walking. We each share at least 3 books that feature walking, hiking, or being in nature in some meditative way. We have literary fiction, memoirs, essays, and even a romance. Books mentioned-- 1- Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau by Ben Shattuck 2- The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck 3- Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper 4- A Paris Year: My Day to Day Adventures in the Most Romantic City in the World by Janice Macleod 5- Dear Paris by Janice Macleod 6- The French Ingredient: A Memoir by Jane Bertch (La Cuisine French Cooking School) 7- Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard 8- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard 9- The Journals of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau 10 - Matrix by Lauren Groff 11- Year of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks 12- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 13- Dancing Woman by Elaine Neil Orr 14- A 5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Simone Praylow @fullof_lit - Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea 15- Summit Lake by Charlie Donlea 16- Don't Believe It by Charlie Donlea 17- In My Boots: A Memoir of 5 Million Steps Along the Appalachian Trail by Amanda K. Jaros 18- Going to Maine: All the Ways to Fall on the Appalachian Trail by Sally Chaffin Brooks 19- The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky’s Red River Gorge by Wendell Berry 20- Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women by Annabelle Abbs 21- Ulysses by James Joyce 22- The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher 23- The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses by Patrick Hastings 24- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce 25- You Are Here by David Nichols Media mentioned-- The Residence (Netflix, 2024)
March 26, 2025
Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpodFacebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover.To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Rebecca Schinsky on IG @rebeccaschinsky and Book Riot at www.bookriot.com In this week’s episode, we chat with Rebecca Schinsky, who is chief of staff for Riot New Media Group and co-host of The Book Riot podcast. Book Riot is the largest independent editorial book site in North America and book lovers can find all kinds of interesting stuff there, such as numerous podcasts, newsletters, and articles about different genres. I have long been a listener of this podcast and love it because ….I am a book nerd through and through and this podcast gives me the inside look at the world of publishing. If you enjoy learning about trends and want the inside scoop about how and why certain books make it to your eyeballs or just want to have your pulse on bookish news, this podcast is for you. Rebecca talks to us about what book trends have had the biggest impact on the industry over the last 15 years, what other goodies you can find at Book Riot.com, and why social media flattens the book options we see in our feeds. And this week for our book recommendations section, we put on our 10 gallon hats and our chaps because we’re talking about westerns. Westerns became popular in the late 1800s and derived from the dime novels of the mid-19th century. Many of these stories were later turned into movies in the 1940s and 1950s, which is probably the way most people had exposure to them. Films like High Noon and Shane were based on western stories. There was a second resurgence of western films based on novels between the 1970s-90s such as The Unforgiven and The Outlaw Josey Wales. We offer westerns that are in the graphic novel genre, the horror genre, literary fiction, and middle grade. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 2- The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict 3- Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray 4- Life in Three Dimensions by Shigehiro Oishi 5- Back After This by Linda Holmes 6- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 7- Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontes by Isabel Greenberg 8- The Helsinki Affair by Anna Pitoniak 9- Red Widow by Alma Katsu 10- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Beth @a_vet_nurse_and_her_books - The Game by Danny Dagan 11- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 12- True Grit by Charles Portis 13- The Searchers by Alan LeMay 14- The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn Frankel 15- Lone Women by Victor LaValle 16- Coyote Doggirl by Lisa Hanawalter 17- Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang 18- Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison 19- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt 20- Pony by RJ Palacio Media mentioned-- 1- Heretic (Max, 2024) 2- Longlegs (Hulu, 2024) 3- True Grit (2010) 4- Deadwood (Max, 2004-2006) 5- The Searchers (1956) 6- The Sisters Brothers (2018) Bella Da Costa Greene Exhibit in NYC - https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/belle-da-costa-greene
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