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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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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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58:22

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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S. 8 Ep. 161 - Crime and Puzzlement with guest Tracy...

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2023/01/18

This week we chat with Tracy Clark, an author whose latest book Hide is set in Chicago and features a seasoned black female police detective who has joined a new precinct and not only has to navigate a new professional network but also solve a recent murder on the waterfront. This is Tracy's fifth novel but the first in this new series featuring detective Harriet Foster. By day Tracy is a puzzle editor for a Chicago newspaper which is perfect for her role as a writer of crime fiction creating

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S. 8E. 160 - Hot And Cold Winter Reads - 1-11-23

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2023/01/11

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 Mist by Ragnar Jónasson 2- Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson 3- Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht 4- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent 5- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys 6- The Island of Adventure by Enid Blyton 7- How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Pryor 8- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik

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54:10

Our Books Year in Review 1-4-23

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2023/01/05

We got together on the first day of 2023 to review our top books of 2022 and we’re already busy reading books to discuss this year. Time was too short to talk about all of our favorite books but you can see a full list of our 5 star reads from 2022 as well as a list of all the books we mention in this episode on our website at perksofbeingabooklover.com. Our year in review episode is always fun because we ask our guests from the past 12 months to tell us about their favorite book. It brings back

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REPLAY - Put a Cork In ”Her”story with guest Rebecca...

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2022/12/28

**Carrie and I are taking a much needed holiday break. We will be back in Mid-January with all new episodes. Until then, we have some replay episodes. New Year’s Eve is just a few days away and often we think of toasting with a glass of sparkly at the stroke of midnight. Historical fiction writer Rebecca Rosenberg’s love of wine and sparkling wine in particular took her on travels to France to visit the great wine houses. And one of the things she discovered was the huge influence women had on the

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Perks REPLAY - Secret Santa Satire with guest Andrew...

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2022/12/21

**Carrie and I are taking a much needed holiday break. We will be back in Mid-January with all new episodes.Until then, enjoy some replay episodes. This week we have a replay of our interview with the New York Times best-selling humorist Andrew Shaffer, author of the Obama Biden mystery series. He spoke with us in 2020 about his book Secret Santa, a 80’s horror satire about an office holiday party. Shaffer has a new book out called Feel The Bern, the first in his Bernie Sanders mystery series. ** We

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S. 7 Ep. 159 - Book Your Subscription with guest...

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2022/12/14

Each season we like to speak to someone from an independent bookstore, but this can be especially challenging during the December holiday shopping crush. We’re very glad Amanda Zirn Hudson from Bethany Beach Books in Delaware was able to make time to speak with us. Bethany Beach Books started its own book subscription program several years ago called The Book Drop. Amanda tells us all about how she began the program and explains the process for selecting books and getting them out to members. Unlike

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S. 7 Ep. 158 - Grant Permission to Read with guest...

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2022/12/07

This week we chat with fellow book lover and grant writer Bethany Planton who runs a book club for fellow members of her profession. When she began her own consulting company, she met several other grant writers from around the country through a twitter chat, and they quickly realized that besides sharing a profession, they also shared a love of books. The Grant Pro Bookclub started 6 years ago and has always met virtually, long before the rest of us picked up on the idea when the COVID pandemic

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S. 7 Ep. 157 - An International Whodunit with Guest...

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2022/11/30

Our guest this week, Rijula Das, is originally from India but now makes her home in Wellington, New Zealand. She is an author and a Bengali-to-English translator. Her debut novel A Death in Shonagachhi was published in India last year but has come to the United States with a different title, Small Deaths. Her book was named by the website Crime Reads as a “must read” and Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn recommended Rijulas’ debut during an appearance on Good Morning America. The book has been optioned

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S. 7 Ep. 156 Holiday Gift-Giving with Bookseller Sam...

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2022/11/23

This is our holiday gift-giving episode with Sam Miller from Carmichael’s Bookstore. Sam always gives us great recommendations for what to buy from literary fiction to cookbooks to picture books. To see Carmichael’s Holiday Gift guide visit their website at www.carmichaelsbookstore.com. 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- We

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S. 7 Ep. 155 - Fashion and Fiction with Guest...

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2022/11/16

We love finding people who do interesting bookish things that are a little out of the ordinary, and our guest this week is costume designer and author Jacqueline Firkins who combines her amazing dressmaking skills with her love of novels. She creates dresses based on book covers that you can see on her Instagram page or her website. Located in Vancouver, Jacqueline teaches at the University of British Columbia. We also lucked out because we were also able to chat with Jacqueline about her new book

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S. 7 Ep. 154 Around The World Reading: Australia with...

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2022/11/09

We are back with a global reader episode this week and are traveling to Australia using the magic of the internet. We had the pleasure of chatting with Lily Raiti, an avid reader who lives outside Melbourne and has worked as a personal trainer for 16 years and also does some freelance copyediting on the side. It’s always fun to hear about what book lovers in other places are reading and Lily had some great indigenous author suggestions for us which we’ll have in our show notes for you to check out

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S. 7 Ep. 153- Weathering a Poetic Storm with Guest...

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2022/11/02

We saw this week’s guest in early fall at Carmichael’s Bookstore when she read aloud from her latest book, Don’t Call Me a Hurricane. Ellen Hagan has roots in Kentucky and is part of Spalding University’s low residency MFA faculty but lives and works in New York City. She is a poet, fiction writer, performer, and teacher for several programs including the The DreamYard Project and the International Poetry Exchange Program, programs geared towards young people. She is also the author of many books

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S. 7 Ep. 152 - Dark Academia’s Haunts and Curses with...

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2022/10/26

To close out October this week, we chat with Lee Mandelo, author of Summer Sons, which recently went into paperback. This creepy novel is hard to categorize because it’s queer Southern Gothic, dark academia, and ghost story. It also touches on issues of race and class. The book is an amalgam of a lot of different ideas rolled into a complex story of friendship, grief, and family curses. We’re so glad Lee joined us to chat about their novel as well as an upcoming novella titled Feed Them Silence

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