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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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59:56

S11:Ep228 - Soccer and Friendship with Guests Jean...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/07/31

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Jean Duffy at her website www.jeanduffy.com or on IG @soccergranniesbook. Sarahlyn Bruck can be found at her website www.sarahlynbruck.com or on IG @saralynbruck. If you can’t get enough of sports and global camaraderie watching the Paris Summer Olympics on your TV screens, we have an interview

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01:00:24

S11:Ep227 - The Father She Went To Find with Guest...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/07/24

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Carter Wilson at his website www.carterwilson.com or on IG @carterwilsonauthor. You can also find his podcast Making It Up on all podcast platforms. This week we chat with Carter Wilson, a thriller writer and podcast host who lives in Colorado and who is the author of nine novels. His most recent

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S11:Ep226 - We Love LA: A Book Rec Episode - 7/17/24

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/07/17

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. So back during Season 10 we flew to Los Angeles, California for the LA Times Festival of Books, which was held on the campus of USC. We were able to meet our bookish friend, Jennifer Caloyeras from the Books Are My People podcast; hear cool authors and audiobook narrators speak; and visit some awesome

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S11:Ep224 - Five Broken Blades with Guest Mai Corland...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/07/10

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Mai Corland on IG @maicorland as well as at her website at meredithireland.wordpress.com This episode begins Season 11 for us–we’ve got over 200 episodes under our belts and are back to bring you more. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that fantasy is big right now, and we

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REPLAY - Journeys: A Book Rec Episode

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/07/03

***We are on summer hiatus but will be back with an all new episode next week! Happy Reading!This week we are talking all about journeys. Whether they be physical or mental, we whisk you away in a good book. Choose from 10 book recommendations from Carrie and Amy for when you're ready to be on the move. For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and FB Perks of Being a Book Lover. Books Mentioned in this

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REPLAY - Laugh Out Loud Lit: A Book Rec Episode

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/06/26

We are on summer hiatus until July 10, 2024. Until then, please check out this episode about humor and books that made us laugh. It originally aired April 2023.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

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01:00:42

REPLAY - Summer Reading 2023 with guest Bookseller...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/06/19

****We are still on hiatus but will be back with all new episodes in a few weeks. Until then, enjoy our Summer Reading episode from last year with our favorite bookseller, Sam Miller, from Carmichaels Books. Her suggestions may not be hot off the press but still make for great reads. Happy Reading! 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

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01:00:42

REPLAY - June Holidays: A Book Rec Episode - 6/13/24

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/06/12

We are on hiatus for the month of June. This replay episode originally aired June 2023.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

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01:01:11

REPLAY AAPI Month: A Book Rec Episode - 6/5/24

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/06/05

We are on hiatus for the month of June. This is a replay episode from 2023.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

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S10:Ep224 - Mental Health Awareness Month : A Book...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/05/29

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the contact button. We will be on a much needed hiatus for the entire month of June and a smidge into July. You will get replays of some of our book recommendation episodes from last year, but toward the end of June, we may have a remix episode where we catch up with a former guest. This last episode of Season 10 is about a

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S10:Ep223 - The Act of Disappearing with Guest Nathan...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/05/22

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Nathan Gower at his website www.nathangower.com or on IG @nathan_gower_ Our guest this week is Nathan Gower, a writer with roots in Kentucky, having earned degrees from Spalding University and the University of Louisville. He now serves as a professor of English at Campbellsville University. His

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01:00:43

S10:Ep222 - Summer Reading with Bookseller Sam Miller...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/05/15

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we have our annual summer reading episode with our favorite bookseller, Sam Miller, store manager at Carmichaels Bookstore in Louisville, KY. By this point in our spring season, we are tired, so having Sam on and letting her do the heavy lifting on book suggestions is what we’re about. Sam clues us

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S10:Ep221 - Audiobook Appreciation Month: A Book Rec...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/05/08

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. May is Audiobook Appreciation Month so this week we suggest to you 10 plus books that give an added dimension when you listen to the audiobook version. And we aren't even entertaining the notion that listening to audiobooks isn't reading. Listening counts! Books mentioned-- 1- The Jinn Daughter by Rania

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S10:Ep220 - A Traveling Book Club with Guests Marilyn...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/05/01

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. We interact with book publicists pretty often, but a few months ago, one of them, Sami Lien, emailed and asked for recommendations about things to do in Kentucky around Derby. She explained that she is in a travel book club; they read books over the course of 12 months about a particular US location and then

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S10:Ep219 REMIX - Beware The Tall Grass with guest...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/04/24

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we have a remix episode because we are attending the LA Festival of Books. We catch up with author Ellen Birkett Morris. We first spoke to her in 2020 about her short story collection, Lost Girls, and now she has recently published a novel Beware the Tall Grass. So we will hear a little something

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S10:Ep218 - Books That Live In Our Heads: A Book Rec...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/04/17

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we are playing the nostalgia card. All of the books we mention are backlist in a big way; the majority are at least 15 years old. Our episode is about books that take up space in our heads. They may be books that, when we see them on a shelf, stir up all kinds of feelings or memories

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S10:Ep217 - Akmaral and Warrior Women with Guest...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/04/10

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Judith Lindbergh at judithlindbergh.com/ and on IG @judithlindbergh. This week’s episode is one that big history nerds may find fascinating. In fact, big nerd Carrie could have gone even further down a rabbit hole of Herodotus than she did with our guest Judith Lindbergh. If you feel like playing

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S10:Ep216 - Books Make Environmental Impact: A Book...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/04/02

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. Earth Day is upon us in a few weeks, April 22, and what better time to explore literature that comments on the health of Mother Earth. This week we are talking eco-literature. Eco-literature engages readers on environmental concerns through the interactions between humans and the environment

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S10:Ep215 - Austen is in the Air with guests Melodie...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/03/27

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find this week’s Austen authors at their websites: AH Kim - www.ahkim.net/ and @ahkim.writer Melodie Edwards - www.melodieedwards.com/ and @melodiewritesedwards Jane Austen was born in 1775 and died in 1817 but she remains a writer who has captured the minds and hearts of many readers. The themes

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S10:Ep214 - Linked Short Story Collections: A Book...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/03/20

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we’re talking about linked short story collections. What are linked short stories, though? These are stories that are collected and somehow linked to each other. That link can be very explicit or very subtle. They can be linked by one character who threads her/his way throughout every one or who is

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