Welcome to Episode 218, featuring a Playwright Spotlight with Laura Thoma about her new Christmas play, MISS MARGARET’S BARTON COTTAGE CHRISTMAS SURPRISE, coming this December to Drama Works Theatre in Old Saybrook.

We made up for lost time with a slew of Biblio Adventures, starting with a discussion with James R. Benn at the Mystic & Noank Library, after which we dashed over to see the new home of Bank Square Books in Stonington, who co-hosted the event.

Next was the Windham-Campbell Literary Festival at Yale in New Haven, where we bought books curbside at the Possible Futures Bookmobile. Days later, we were thrilled to attend the grand opening of Montgomery & Taggert in Chester – Connecticut’s first Romance Bookstore! Lastly, we saw DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS at Legacy Theatre in Stony Creek.

We did some reading, too, since our last episode.

Short stories via the Decameron Project:

“Clinical Notes” by Liz Moore

“Recognition” by Victor LaValle

Novels:

📕 THE PERILS OF LADY CATHERINE DE BOURGH by Claudia Gray

📗 LONG BRIGHT RIVER by Liz Moore

📘 A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens

📙SWAN SONG by Elin Hildebrand

📘 THE SECRET LIFE OF ALBERT ENTWISTLE: An Uplifting and Unforgettable Story of Love and Second Chances by Matt Cain

Nonfiction:

📕 THAT LIBRARIAN: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones

We also talk about upcoming Biblio Adventures, what we’re #currentlyreading, and plan to read. You can visit the show notes for everything we mention and links to good bookish stuff.

Thanks for listening, and Happy Reading!

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