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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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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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S. 8 Ep. 167 - Creep Out with Guest Lygia Day...

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2023/03/08

This week we’re chatting with Lygia Day Peñaflor, the author of several YA novels, her most recent being Creep: A Love Story. If you’ve listened to the radio or any kind of streaming service, you’ve almost certainly heard Radiohead’s song Creep, and it was this song that partly inspired Lygia’s story. We chat with Lygia about obsession among the young adult crowd and how her work as a teacher of child stars on television and movie sets such as Gossip Girl and Boardwalk Empire helped her see that

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S. 8 Ep. 166 - And The Winner Is...... - 3/1/23

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2023/03/01

With the Academy Awards just around the corner, This week we take a look at some of our favorite book to movie adaptations. 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 BookLover Books mentioned in this episode: 1- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 2- The Witches by Roald Dahl 3- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 4- The Martian by Andy Weir 5- Project Hail Mary by

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PERKS REPLAY S. 5 Ep. 104 - The Black Hair Affair...

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2023/02/22

Our guest this week is St. Clair Detrick-Jules, a Brown University graduate who is a filmmaker and a new author. Her book My Beautiful Black Hair: 101 Natural Hair Stories from the Sisterhood debuts on September 28 and features essays by and photographs of Black women who have come to some deeper understandings about what their hair and how they wear it means to them. We talk to St. Clair about chemical treatments for Black hair and how they differ from the treatments white women know, how hair can

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S. 8 Ep. 165 - Peeling Back The Layers with Guest...

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2023/02/15

This week we welcome special guest Rachel Harper to Perks. Rachel is on the faculty at Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing in Lousiville, KY and is the author of three novels. Her most recent, The Other Mother, was published in 2022 and has racked up the accolades. It was named one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2022, was a Good Morning America Buzz Pick, and has been awarded the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award for Excellence in LGBTQIA fiction. We chat with

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S. 8 Ep. 164 - Galentine and Palentine Reads - 2/8/23

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2023/02/08

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- Dirtbag, Massachusetts by Isaac Fitzgerald 2- Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone 3- Truth and Other Lies by Maggie Smith 4- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 5- A Separate Peace by John Knowles 6- Mystic River by Dennis Lehane 7- Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession 8- Lonesome Dove by

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S. 8 Ep. 163- Nearly Lost Stories with guest Jayne...

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2023/02/01

Our guest this week, Jayne Moore Waldrop traded legal briefs of a law practice for her writing journals in an MFA program. Her first book, Drowned Town, is a novel in linked stories about the families who lost their homes in the 1960s when President Kennedy announced the creation of Land Between the Lakes, a national recreation area that resulted from damning several rivers and taking land from residents through eminent domain. Jayne explores what the meaning of home becomes when one’s home is now

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S. 8Ep. 162 - What Do Reviews Even Meaaaaaaan?! -...

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2023/01/25

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- Truly Devious series by Maureen Johnson 2- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 3- His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman 4- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson 5- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 6- Happenings by Annie Ernaux 7- The Most Precious Substance on Earth by Shashi Bhat 8- Lucia by Alex

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