When I was a little kid, my dad's favorite song was Roy Rogers & Dale Evans's "Happy Trails." Here are the first few verses:

Happy trails to you, until we meet again

Happy trails to you, keep smilin' until then

Who cares about the clouds when we're together?

Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather

Happy trails to you, 'till we meet again

Some trails are happy ones

Others are blue

It's the way you ride the trail that counts

Here's a happy one for you.

So, I suppose it's fitting that FBOL ends (for now? maybe?) while talking about one of America's great Westerns, Larry McMurtry's LONESOME DOVE. Everything is in this book, partially because it's over 900 pages long, and partially because so much of America stopped progressing in the 1870s. This book is everything, and it is wonderful. 

I decided not to cut it down into two episodes, but I understand that two hours of book talk is a lot. I hope you all get as much out of it as I did recording it with Lynne & Leslie.

Please follow them over at their show Fine Beats & Cheeses: http://finebeatsandcheeses.com

They also have a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/FineBeatsandCheeses/posts

And if you want to keep in touch with ME, I am still podcasting over at Ticklish Business, where we have a lot in store for the rest of this year! https://www.patreon.com/c/TicklishBiz/home

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My favorite lawyer is back to discuss the crossover between Jurisprudence and ChickLit– Abby ( @ClapIfYouLikeMe ) was forced through the wringer with Amanda Brown's original text, LEGALLY BLONDE.

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Dr. Daniel Kasper (@ghostingdani over on Bluesky!) is back in a very short turn around to discuss Faustian bargains, fashion, and Bush-era expectations in this FIRST installment of our long (long) conversation about THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. He manages to bring it back to Shirley Jackson rather eloquently in this episode!

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If you're familiar with the movie, it means you probably know NOTHING about the book. JAWS by Peter Benchley is an absolute classic, a multi-million dollar earning blockbuster book turned movie that just about MADE Steven Spielberg. But what's up with the novel? Just some of your classic summertime, monster-movie beach read type stuff like mafia-led real estate fraud, class politics, and dead sheep. 

Follow our guest Amanda Smith online!

Listen to DISASTER GIRLS : http://www.thatmightbecool.com/disastergirls 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/disaster_pod 

Amanda's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmandaRTubbs 

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Dr. Daniel Kasper (@ghostingdani over on Bluesky!) is back in a very short turn around to discuss Faustian bargains, fashion, and Bush-era expectations in this FIRST installment of our long (long) conversation about THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA.

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The incomparable Martha Smith (@MostlyMartha on Bluesky) is here to discuss Sarah Vowell's "creative nonfiction" juggernaut ASSASSINATION VACATION. Released 20 years ago this year, the novel-length personal essay on Vowell's own ruminations on murder, death, and the American dream is really hitting... well, not differently, but exactly the same as when we first read it in 2005.

Grab a copy of the book today: https://bookshop.org/p/books/assassination-vacation-sarah-vowell/951959?ean=9780743260046&next=t

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Lauren Emily Whalen is here to discuss Joan Didion's most celebrated work of fiction: the novel PLAY IT AS IT LAYS. We discuss cool girl myths, aging, mental illness, and worrying about the livers of anyone who lived through the 1970s.

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Website: http://laurenemilywrites.com

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Vera Caspary's LAURA was translated to screen for the first time in the heyday of the Hayes Code and classic film. So how does one capture the essence of a novel about a career girl coveted by three very different men, only to meet her grisly fate at the hand of one of her jealous suitors? By hiring Vincent Price, of course!

Kristen is the main host of the podcast Ticklish Business ( http://ticklishbusiness.podbean.com ) , which I joined as a co-host a short time ago. Be sure to listen to Ticklish Biz wherever you get your podcasts.

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Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/kristenlopez88.bsky.social

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Substack: http://thefilmmaven.substack.com

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Two of my faves, Hannah and Laura of OWWR Pod (https://owwrpod.com), are back to discuss something that has very little to do with Jesus– Sharon Creech's Newbery Award Winning kid lit novel WALK TWO MOONS! 

Listen to the rest of this episode on our Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit

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My friend Chael (@NarratorChael) is back to discuss one of her favorite books from her tweenage years: Michael Ende's THE NEVERENDING STORY. Written by a man whose artist father was literally persecuted for being degenerate by the Nazis, THE NEVERENDING STORY is a beautiful consideration on depression and passion and what it means to be a child in a world that really seems to hate children.

The second hour of our show will be dropping next week!

Chael's other work includes the podcasts Once Upon a Rewatch (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/once-upon-a-rewatch/id1553803675) and Vampires Ruined My Life (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vampires-ruined-my-life/id1584585139).

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