The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast

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This week we are talking time bending books, series, and movies including time travel, time loop, and time slip. Here is a link for more info on this subgenera.

https://www.abookgeek.com/exploring-the-paradoxes-of-time-travel-literature-a-journey-through-the-ages/

Books mentioned--

1- Number The Stars by Lois Lowry

2- Intrigue in Istanbul by Ericka Ruth Neubauer

3- The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard

4- Time Machine by HG Wells

5- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

6- The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier

7- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

8- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Neffenegger

9- Midnight Library by Matt Haig

10- Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

11- Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen

12- Time and Again by Jack Finney

13- 11/22/63 by Stephen King

14- Da Vinci's Cat by Catherine Gilbert Murdoch

15- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

16-Kindred by Octavia Butler

17- Neverworld Wake by Marissa Pessl

18- Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

19- A Boy And His Dog At The End of The World by C.A. Fletcher - 5 star read recommended by Heather Crotwell @readingwithavengeance

20- Orchard by Larry Watson

21- Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

22- Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspired the World by Jean Duffy

Other stuff mentioned--

1- Radiolab episode about Einstein's brain - radiolab.org/podcast/g-relative-genius

2- Disney's Frozen (Broadway Across America)

3- Number the Stars (Stage One theater production)

4- Dark (Netflix, 2017-2020)

5- Bodies (Netflix, 2023)

10- BeForeigners (Amazon Prime, 2019- )

11- Interstellar (2014)

12- Tenet (2020)

13- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

14- Back to the Future (1985)

15- Sliding Doors (1998)

16- Time Bandits (1981)

17- Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

18- Donnie Darko (2001)

19- Kindred (Hulu, 2022)

20- Florida Altering Picture Books link - popular.info/p/pressed-by-moms-for-liberty-florida

You can find Marty at his website www.martyohlhaut.com/ while you can find Grace on Instagram at @grace.ly_author)

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This week we talk to the father-daughter team of Marty Ohlhaut and Grace Ly. They have written a travel memoir called Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West.

This book is based on the true story of their family camping trip to the Canadian Rockies which went horribly wrong in the 1990s. Marty, his wife Jolene, and their 5 children flew from Charlotte NC to the Pacific Northwest and then drove a van to several spots in the majestic Canadian mountains. They camped in their family tent, lovingly referred to as Big Blue. While there, so many things went awry but most importantly, Jolene was severely injured and had to be taken to a hospital where she spent many days. The Ohlhaut family was in disarray but Good Samaritans named the Walshes came to the rescue.

This family is genetically predisposed to adventure. You will hear Marty talk about some wild things he has seen and done, and even though Grace doesn’t doesn’t mention it, she also is an adventure seeker. She dog sleds in Finland and rock climbs in Colorado. Carrie and I are so boring in comparison.

Books Discussed in this Episode:

1- Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West by Marty Ohlhaut and Grace Ly

2- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson

3- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

4- Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse

5- The Scent of Burnt Flowers by Blitz Bazawule

6- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

7- In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton

8- Slow Horses by Mick Herron

9- Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas by Mick Herron (novellas)

10- The Future by Naomi Alderman - 5 star read recommended by Shelley Anderson @shelleyanderson4127

11- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Shows mentioned--

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You can find Huda at her website www.Hudafahmy.com.

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This week we talk to Huda Fahmy, a graphic novelist whose 4th book Huda F Cares? was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award in Young People’s Literature. Her book focuses on a teenage Muslim girl named Huda who takes a road trip in the family’s station wagon from Michigan to Florida to visit Disneyworld with her parents and many sisters. There she grapples with wanting to fit in with her peers but also wanting to stay true to her family and her Muslim religion with issues like wearing her hijab and praying in public.

The character Huda in her book is based on the author’s experience growing up in an Egyptian family that immigrated to the US. Huda talks about her love of comics and how she picked up English in part by reading Garfield comic books. Huda began writing graphic novels at the age of 30 when two of her sisters encouraged her to turn her essays of Muslim American life into illustrated stories.

Books mentioned in This Episode:

1- Huda F Cares? by Huda Fahmy

2- Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy

3- Yes, I'm Hot in This by Huda Fahmy

4- Huda F Wants To Know by Huda Fahmy

5- That Can be Arranged by Huda Fahmy

6- Murder by Degrees by Rita Mukerji

7- Hide by Tracy Clark

8- Graveyard of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe

9- Erasure by Percival Everett

10- Mexikid by Pedro Martin

11- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

12- Brave by Svetlana Chmakova

13- It Won't Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib

14- Love From A to Z by S.K. Ali

15- All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

16- A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal

17- As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh

18- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Juno Diaz

19- Hidden Systems by Dan Nott

20- The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

21- Checkmate by Ali Hazelwood

22- Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

23- The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni

24- The Falconer by Elizabeth May

Shows/Films mentioned--

1- Poor Things (2023)

2- American Fiction (2023)

3- The Old Man and the Pool (Netflix 2023)

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Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Paddling North by Audrey Sutherland (Rec by Ritu Mukerji)

2- Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (Rec by Anna Pitoniak)

3- The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (Rec by Anna Pitoniak)

4- Working by Robert Caro (Rec by Rachel M. Harper)

5- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Rec by Mel Joulwan of Strong Sense of Place Podcast)

6- A Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel (Rec by David Humphries of Strong Sense of Place Podcast)

7- The Gilded Page by Mary Wellesley (Rec by Kristine Eckart of Gilmore Book Club)

8- Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs (Rec by Kristine Eckart of Gilmore Book Club)

9- Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett (Rec by Kika Hatzapoulou)

10- All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby (Rec by Katrina Kittle)

11- Happiness Falls by Angie Kim (Rec by Katrina Kittle)

12- Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the 20th Century by Dana Stephens (Rec by Mick Sullivan of The Past and The Curious Podcast)

13- River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit (Rec by Mick Sullivan of The Past and the Curious Podcast)

14- If We Were Villains by ML Rio (Rec by Katrina Monroe)

15- The Wanderers by Meg Howrey (Rec by Lydia Welker of the Appalachian Prison Book Project)

16- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Rec by Kelsey Madges, middle school librarian)

Carrie's Favorite Books of the Year

1- The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

2- Atomic Family by Ciera Horton McElroy

3- Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan

4- Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith

5- We All Wants Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

Amy's Favorite Books of the Year

1- Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

2- Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

3- Martin Marten by Brian Doyle

4- Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year by Arwen Donahue

5- The Keeper by Kelcey Ervick

6- Horse by Geraldine Brooks

Other Recommendations:

1- American Murderer by Gail Jarrow

2- Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and 500 Miles Across Spain by Andrew McCarthy

3- These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant

4- Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

5- Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

6- The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

7- Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby

8- Wool by Hugh Howey (and the TV adaptation on Apple + called Silo)

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Social Media Links

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Our Shownotes:

Books Mentioned in this Introduction:

1- The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Borwn

Movies Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Get Out (2017)

2- Saltburn (2023)

3- The Lighthouse (2019)

4- Asteroid City (2023)

5- The Boys in the Boat (2023)

5 Star Read by a Fellow Book Lover - Mindy from the Our Nerdiest Thing Podcast @ournerdiestthing

Books Are My People Shownotes:

This week, I'm joined by Carrie and Amy from the podcast, The Perks of Being a Podcast Lover and we discuss some of our favorite recent reads, crochet and sweating in closets.

The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia

All the Frequent Troubles of our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner

Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley

Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

Good Rich People by Eliza Jane Brazier

What We're Reading Next:

When We Lost Our Heads by Heather oneill

The Rot by Siri Peterson

The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carrey

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Our Shownotes:

1- Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

2- The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

3- Saltburn - (2023, Amazon Prime)

4- Ripley - (upcoming series on Netflix)

Thrillers by the Bookclub Shownotes:

Chelsea's Book: NIGHT FILM by Marisha Pessl

- Similar Suggestions: Dark Places by Gillian Flynn, The Searcher by Tana French, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, and House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski

Olivia's Book: SWEET LITTLE LIES by Karin Nordin (OUT 9.28!)

- Similar Suggestions: Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier, Catch Her When She Falls by Allison Buccola

Carrie's Book: STRANGERS ON A TRAIN by Patricia Highsmith

- Similar Suggestions: THE KIND WORTH KILLING by Peter Swanson

Amy's Book: SADIE by Courtney Summers

- Similar Suggestions: Devolution by Max Brooks, Every Bone a Prayer by Ashley Blooms, The Hollow Inside by Brook Lauren Davis, The Night Swim by Megan Goldin

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Happy Pub Day!
    •    DARK CORNERS by Megan Goldin
    •    NONE OF THIS IS TRUE by Lisa Jewell
    •    MISTER MAGIS by Kiersten White
    •    101 HORROR BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU'RE MURDERED by Sadie      Hartmann
    •    LOOKING GLASS SOUND by Catriona Ward
    •    NORTH OF NOWHERE by Alison Brennan
    •    IN A QUIET TOWN by Amber Garza
    •    THE LAST ONE by Will Dean

You can find Anna Pitoniak at www.annapitoniak.com and on socials at annapitoniak.

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For our final episode of 2023, we chat with Anna Pitoniak, whose 4th novel, The Helsinki Affair, has been named a Best Thriller of 2023 by The Washington Post. Anna has long been a fan of spy novels and decided to try her hand at writing the genre. While spy novels have usually been written by and about men, Anna shows that women agents can be just as smart, sly, and ballsy. With a background in the publishing industry, Anna discusses how this experience impacted her journey writing, finding an agent, and working to get her novel into the world.

We also discuss how she is very different from Carrie on the Christmas front and why tacos were not her favorite food from a trip to Mexico (you’ll be surprised by what was.)

Books Discussed in This Episode:

1- The Helsinki Affair by Anna Pitoniak

2- Slow Horses by Mick Herron

3- Our American Friend by Anna Pitoniak

4- The Looking Glass War by John Le Carre

5- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre

6- Murder by Degrees by Ritu Mukherji

7- Mr. Lullaby by J.H. Markert

8- The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert

9- The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel

10- Speak Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Emily Wiggins @emwigsterbookshelf

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

Shows mentioned--

1- Slow Horses (Apple +, 2022)

2- Russian Doll (Netflix, 2019)

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You can find out more about Kelcey Ervick on her website kelceyervick.com

This week we chat with Kelcey Ervick whose graphic memoir The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women’s Lives Amy discovered after our friend and former guest, Bethany, told us about what a great book it was.

Kelcey is the author of four books but The Keeper is her first foray into a full graphic experience. She weaves her own personal story of being a high school and Division I college soccer player with the history and effect Title IX has had on women in all areas of their lives, not just in sports. If you loved the feminist bent of the movie Barbie, this book will give you similar vibes.

The Keeper has been recommended by the NYT Book Review, Publisher’s Weekly, School Library Journal, and was the winner of the state literary prize of Ohio, the Ohioana Book Award, which has been awarded to other notable authors including Celeste NG, Ross Gay, and John Scalzi. Even if you aren’t a sports fan (and I am not), you will thoroughly enjoy this book.

Remember, that in Season 10, Amy has a new project which is to give listeners book recommendations. If you’re looking for a book set in Romania, or a book about rabbits, or a book about changelings, or anything in between, send us a message and we’ll recommend a similar read you can add to your nightstand.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives by Kelcey Ervick

2- The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

3- The Bitter Life of Bozena Nemcova: A Biographical Collage by Kelcey Ervick

4- The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature edited by Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart

5- Good Talk by Mira Jacob

6- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

7- Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

8- Pretending is Lying by Dominique Goblet

9- The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

10- Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland

11- Wild Seed by Octavia Butler

12- Mind of My Mind by Octavia Butler

13- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

14- America Redux by Ariel Aberg-Riger

15- Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen

16- Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year by Arwen Donahue

5 Star Book Recommendation by a Fellow Book Lover Barbara K. - @msbarbarasbookshelf - Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Podcasts mentioned--

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Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

2- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

3- Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

4- Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopolou

5- Krazyland by Mar Romasco-Moore

6- Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak

7- This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

8- Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain by Andrew McCarthy

9- The Weight We Carry by Christina Consolino

10- The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp by Leonie Swann

11- House of Gold by CT Rwizi

12- The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni

13- Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

14- Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

15- Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge

16- Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind who changed the Bible and Why by Bart Ehrman

17- The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

18- The Night Eaters by Marjorie Liu

19- Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy

20- I Am Not Your Eve by Devika Ponnambalam

Five Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Carol @pirotandpinot

Movies and TV series Discussed

1- Creature (2023/Netflix)

2- The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015-2017)

3- Mary Shelley (2015)

4- The Family Stone (2005)

5- Knock at the Cabin (2023)