Welcome to Episode 219! In this episode, we recap some exciting Biblio Adventures, including trips to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the Montague Book Mill, the Montague Center Library, and an author event at RJ Julia Booksellers with Betsy Lerner.

Chris talks about a handful of picture books she read:

The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs – written by Chana Stiefel, illustrated by Susan Gal

The City Tree – written by Shira Boss, illustrated by Lorena Alvarez

I Am Bat – written and illustrated by Morg Hood

The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt – written by Riel Nason, illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler

She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein – written by Lynn Fulton, illustrated by Felicita Sala

Emily read two short stories:

“Loot” by Nadine Gordimer from the collection Loot and Other Stories

“Seams” by Olga Tokarczuk from The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners

And between the two of us, we read three novels:

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

If I Stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkens

Sandwich by Catherine Newman

We also discuss what we’re #currentlyreading, would like to read, and more.

Reminder that the fourth quarter readalong for our Year of Reading Romance is A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy. See the show notes for details.

We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it!