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The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast

Perks of Being a Book Lover is a show about books, people who read, and how reading, at its very best, is a social experience. Whether it be a book club, a poetry slam, or the production of a play; words are meant to be shared. Keep up with us on FB.

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Perks REPLAY - Around The World In An Anxious Mind...

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2023/07/25

We chatted with environmental writer Jeremy Hance in 2021 about his travel memoir BAGGAGE: CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBETROTTING HYPOCHONDRIAC Season 5 Ep. 113. Our guest this week, Jeremy Hance, writes about 3 topics in his most recent book that we are always drawn to; mental health, travel, and animals. Baggage: Confessions of a Globe-trotting Hypochondriac is a memoir that uses humor to help readers understand what life is like for someone who has a mental health issue like Obsessive Compulsive

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Perks REPLAY -Thrill Seekers with Guest Chelsea Hoffman

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2023/07/19

Our guest this week, Chelsea Hofmann, loves to feel her pulse quicken and gets excited by the idea that anything could happen. She lives her life spontaneously so her love of the thriller genre with its twists, turns, and surprise endings fit her personality just fine. After finishing college and moving to Southern California with her husband, she wanted to reconnect with her love of reading books that she had as a child but none of the book clubs she tried felt like a good fit. So she started a

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Perks REPLAY - Double Dutch Debut with guest Brittany...

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2023/07/12

This week we chat with Brittany Thurman, a native of Kentucky, who has recently published her first children’s picture book titled FLY illustrated by Anna Cunha. She worked as a children's specialist at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh which is where the idea to write her own book occurred, and she even took inspiration from one of the children who would come to her storytimes. FLY is the story of a young girl who wants to enter a double dutch jump rope competition but doesn’t know how to double

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Perks REPLAY - Treks with Toddlers to Teens with...

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2023/07/05

This is the time of year when lots and lots of people travel so it makes sense to have a travel memoirist on our show. Kate Wickers is a British writer who has spent 25 years or so writing about her extensive travel experiences and publishing in magazines and newspapers all over the world. When COVID hit, she decided to turn her many travels with her husband and three sons into a collection of essays about what travel has meant to their family and the lessons they’ve learned from the experiences

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Perks REPLAY - Hyphenated Lives with guest Namrata Patel

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2023/06/28

We have a REPLAY episode for you this week. Novelist Namrata Patel was on the show last June when her debut novel The Candid Life of Meena Dave came out. Just last week she had a new novel published, The Scent of A Garden. Both books feature complex multi-generational Indian-American families. ** Namrata Patel has been writing for 20 years, but it wasn’t until the pandemic that she had more time to work on it. She had always been interested in dual culture and challenges of the diaspora,

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S8 Ep181 - Catch the June Reading Bug - 6-21-23

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2023/06/21

This week we celebrate all the special days of June! Want a book rec for Pride month? We have one. What about Juneteenth or Father's Day? We have you covered. And did you know it's National Audiobook Month? It's new to us as well but we love audiobooks so we give you some recommendations for that too. And we throw in one wildcard category - one of those random National Days or Months that always makes you wonder why there needs to be a month for that:) This is the last episode for Season 8. We are

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S8 Ep. 180 - Who? What? Wear with guest Vicki Johnson...

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2023/06/14

This week we chat with Vicki Johnson, a debut picture book author whose book, Molly’s Tuxedo, is a delightful story about a child who doesn’t want to wear the frilly, itchy dress and tight shoes her mother thinks is appropriate for school pictures. Molly wants to wear…you guessed it, a tuxedo that has pockets. The book, which is illustrated by Gillian Reid, was published by Little Bee Books in collaboration with GLAAD, a nonprofit organization focused on LGBTQ advocacy and ensuring fair, accurate,

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S8 Ep. 179 Summer Reading With Guest Sam Miller of...

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2023/06/07

At the start of summer, we like to chat with Sam Miller, bookseller and manager at Carmichael’s Bookstore here in Louisville (We actually like to chat with Sam anytime, but she has especially useful information about new books twice a year.) Sam does the heavy lifting this week by telling us what is coming out and might be good for your TBR list. For show notes for any episode, go to our website at perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of

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S8 Ep.178 - AAPI Month Contains Multitudes 5-31-23

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2023/05/31

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover. This week are celebrating AAPI Heritage Month (Asian American Pacific Islander) and we give you a list of 10 (plus maybe a few more) of our favorite books to add to your TBR written by authors with family heritage from this part of the world. We give you books in a variety of genres; literary fiction, historical fiction, memoir,

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S8 Ep. 177 - Middle Grade Is Always Ok with Guest...

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2023/05/24

Jessica Brody is the author of the well-known writing book Save the Cat! Writes a Novel and teaches classes on this writing method, but she has published over 20 books for all ages, including middle grade. Her most recent, titled Amelia Gray is Almost Okay, came out in March of this year. Amelia is a kid who moves around a lot due to her father’s job as a hotel renovator and reimaginer. Like a lot of middle schoolers, she is trying to figure out who she is and what she’s good at. During one

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S8 Ep. 176 - A Radioactive Read with Guest Ciera...

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2023/05/17

I think many aspiring writers have a juicy family story passed down that they are sure would make a great novel. Our guest this week, Ciera Horton McElroy, had heard stories about her grandfather, a scientist who worked at a plant that produced materials for a hydrogen bomb during the height of the Cold War in the 1960s. That one family story is the jumping off point of her debut novel, a work of historical fiction titled Atomic Family that takes the reader on a journey to an era of burgeoning

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S8 Ep. 175 - The Motherlode - 5/10/23

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2023/05/10

This week we focus on books about mom "adjacent" books; by or about motherly figures in our lives. We give you 10 (plus a few more) books to add to your TBR or maybe even gift your mom for Mother's Day. We have memoirs, historical fiction, children's books, speculative fiction, graphic memoir, and even books celebrating moms of the non-human persuasion. For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB

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S8 Ep. 174 - Bookie : KY Derby Edition - 5-3-23

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2023/05/03

In just a few days, the Kentucky Derby will be run at Churchill Downs in Louisville KY and for folks here in KY it is a 2 week celebration. This week we are giving you books that are Kentucky inspired; from fiction, to sci-fi, memoir to middle grade, short story collections and underdog sport stories, and even true crime. These books will give you a taste of Kentucky when you can't actually be at the races with a mint julep in hand. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- American Murderer: The Parasite

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S. 8 Ep. 173 - Big Bookish Endeavors with Guest Cindy...

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2023/04/26

A literary salon sounds so posh, doesn’t it? I imagine the Lost Generation of writers–Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Gertrude Stein–sitting around in a Parisian flat, discussing the newest trends in literature. But what exactly is a salon? Or what can it be? Our guest this week, Cindy Burnett, hosts a literary salon in Houston, Texas, called Conversations from a Page, and tells us all about what one version of a salon can be. Amy may be well on her way to starting her own salon because she was so

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S.8 Ep. 172- Laugh Out Loud - 4/19/23

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2023/04/19

Did you know it is National Humor Month? Neither did we but now we do and so do you. Which means this week we are talking about books that make us laugh. For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover. Books We Mentioned: 1- The Peripheral by William Gibson 2- Foundation by Isaac Asimnov 3- Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw 4- The Martian by Andy Weir 5- The

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S. 8 Ep. 171 Books Behind Bars with Guest Lydia...

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2023/04/12

This week our guest is Lydia Welker, the digital communications coordinator for the Appalachian Prison Book Project based in Morgantown, West Virginia. This organization does a lot of things, including sending books to prisoners in six states and hosting book clubs for inmates. I discovered Appalachian Prison Book Project on social media where they often put out requests for specific books prisoners are looking for. There are over 43 books to prisoner programs across the country and you can find one

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S. 8 Ep. 170 - Judge A Book By It’s Cover - 4/5/23

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2023/04/05

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover Books Mentioned In This Episode Books mentioned-- 1- American Cheese by Joe Berkowitz 2- Blue by Kai Kupferschmidt 3- Bike Riding in Kabul: The Global Adventures of a Foreign Aid Practitioner by Jamie Bowman 4- Nala's World: One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride Around the Globe by Dean Nicholson 5- What I Hate from A to Z

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S. 8 Ep. 169 - Get Schooled with guest Kelsey Madges...

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2023/03/29

This week we chat with Kelsey Madges, an Ohio middle school librarian and book lover. We talk about the highs and the lows of working in school libraries. If you’re like us, it’s been almost 40 years since you were a middle schooler and lots has changed for kids and the librarians who help them, such as the use of Chromebooks in classes and the current prevalence of book bans. But Kelsey is a book lover and supporter through and through. In fact she admits that she enjoys almost everything she

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Perks REPLAY S. 4 Ep. 92 - Riding and Writing with...

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2023/03/22

This week we are focusing on butterflies and biking in book form. Sara Dykman is an adventurer and wildlife biologist whose focus is primarily amphibians. Several years ago, however, she felt a calling to bring awareness to the plight of the Monarch butterfly. So she took her adventurer spirit and migrated on her bike along with the Monarch from Mexico to Canada and back again. Her 10,000 mile journey is the focus of her memoir/ environment/ adventure/nature book titled Bicycling with

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S. 8 Ep. 168 - Stuck in the Middle with You - 3-15-23

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2023/03/15

It's "MIddle Grade March" so this week we talk about why book lovers, (even adults!) should try a middle grade book. We give you 10 titles that definitely deserve a spot on your TBR list. For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover. Books mentioned in this episode: 1- The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard 2- Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids by

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