Books with Brookes

We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange is all about family so, appropriately, 

Brookes’s MOM joins the podcast to discuss! This brand new release from Celadon was a Book of the Month debut pick for July and has been receiving extremely positive reviews worldwide. Look out for an interview with the author in a separate episode in September. Read along and listen in! 

Books with Brookes is part of the Press Play Podcast Network. The show is produced by Mo Barrow with theme music by Jonathan Allen. 

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Where the Crawdads sing is an epically popular, beloved modern novel. The Books with Brookes book club read it in 2019 and you can hear our episode on it in Episode 3. 

However, it’s come to light fairly recently that Delia Owens - and her husband Mark Owens - have a dark and dangerous past, the influence of which can be felt and read in her New York Times bestseller.  

As it turns out, Mark and Delia Owens are wanted for questioning by the Zambian government for the 1996 death of an alleged poacher, whose shooting was caught on camera by an ABC film crew working alongside Merideth Viera. 

Hear the story on today’s episode. 

Articles for reference: 

The New Yorker: ​​The Hunted 

Slate: The Dark History Behind the Year’s Bestselling Debut Novel

Bustle: The Author Of One Of 2018's Biggest Books Has A Strange Connection To A Real Murder Mystery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Owens

https://www.deliaowens.com/

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Carrie joins Brookes for a chat on July’s book, Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid.

This 2019 New York Times Bestseller and previous Reese’s Book Club pick is packed with racial tensions, relationship drama, and modern problems caused by technology and the internet. 

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Carrie and Nick join Brookes virtually for a monthly book talk on the legal thriller that established the genre and launched the career of a legend: The Firm by John Grisham.

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Due to a thunderstorm in Chicago, the Books with Brookes book club gathers partially in person and partially on Zoom for this special LIVE episode discussion of our June 2021 book, A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell. 

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The follow-up joint episode with the ladies of the Book Dream Podcast! Eve and Julie discuss the nontraditional books they assigned each other to read last month: A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers, Stories of Your Life and Others (Arrival) by Ted Chiang, and Hangin’ Out with CC by Francine Pascale. High ratings for two of the three! 

Book Dreams Podcast is for anyone who misses English class. 

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Eve and Julie from Book Dreams, a podcast for everyone who loves books and misses English class, join Brookes for a joint mini episode. Brookes, Eve and Julie assign each other books to read this month that they wouldn’t ordinarily recommend. The selections are diverse and interesting and maybe… “weird?” Come back next month to hear the discussion! https://www.bookdreamspodcast.com/ 

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Chelsea is BACK on the podcast to talk about the opposite experience from last month… a book she LOVES! Listen in as we gab family, friendship and fire children in Kevin Wilson’s witty masterpiece from 2019, Nothing to See Here.

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Everyone has a book or two that for, for some reason, they’ve never cracked. This is a discussion of our shameful to be read secrets. Three book club members discuss the books we’ve never read (classics, contemporaries, famous series and more), why we haven’t gotten to them and why we might feel weird about it. 

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Chelsea joins Brookes to discuss (and complain about) the many great characters and plot points in this complicated, modern thriller from Harlan Coben. An intricate, detailed foray into family dynamics and political motivation, this is a head scratcher of a mystery with maybe not as much “thrill” as we’d hoped.

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