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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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66:43

S13:Ep266 - Spider To The Fly with Guest J.H. Markert...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/10/29

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. You can find JH Markert at jamesmarkert.com or on IG at @jamesmarkert74 This week we chat with JH Markert who we spoke to pre-Covid in the before times when he was writing historical fiction. Over the last couple of years, he has changed gears and returned to the genre that first made him an avid reader:

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77:06

A Perks Appearance on the Books With Betsy Podcast

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/10/15

Hey Book Lovers,Carrie and I are on fall hiatus this week so we don't have a new episode for you. But what we do have is your chance to check out a new-to-you book podcast, Books with Betsy, hosted by Betsy Tomsak. This past summer we were guests to the show where we talked about all things in our book lives, maybe even tidbits we have never shared on our own show. It's a fun conversation and we hope you will listen in and give Books With Betsy a follow. We will be back with an all new episode

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72:12

S13:Ep265 - The Read Freely Project and Rediscovered...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/10/01

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. You can find Rediscovered Books at rdbooks.org/ or on IG at @rdbooks The American Library Association’s Banned Books Week is October 5-11, so we’re sharing an interview with one of the co-owners of Rediscovered Books in Boise, Idaho, a store that has pioneered a program in their city to push back against

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65:27

S13:Ep264 - A Boy From the North Country with Guest...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/09/17

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/americans-spend-time-reading-fun-time-screens-study/story?id=124807367Our 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 Sam Sussman at www.samevansussman.org or on IG at @sam_sussman. Our guest is debut novelist Sam Sussman whose book Boy From the North Country comes out this week. Sam originally wrote a short

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66:27

S13:Ep263 - Another Fine Mess with Guest Lindy Ryan +...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/09/03

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 Lindy Ryan at her website lindyryanwrites.com or on IG @lindyryanwrites. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan 2- Another Fine Mess by Lindy Ryan 3- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 4- Howl edited by Lindy Ryan 5- The Darkest Night edited by Lindy

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01:08:06

S13:Ep262 - The Fire Concerto with Guest Sarah...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/08/20

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. You can find Sarah Landenwich on her website SarahLandenwich.com or on IG @sarahlandenwich Books Mentioned in this Episode 1- A Home for Friendless Women by Kelly E. Hill 2- The Fire Concerto by Sarah Landenwich 3- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 4- Possession by AS Byatt 5- Plainsong (trilogy) by Kent

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01:07:53

S13:Ep261 - Honey Blossom Press with Guest Keisha...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/08/06

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 Keisha Mennefee at honeymagnolia.co and honeyblossompress.com We have had great luck finding excellent books from small independent publishers, and so we periodically invite one on the show to tell us a little about how they operate. Our guest this week is Keisha Mennefee, a literary

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01:03:07

S13:Ep260 - I Think We've Been Here Before with Guest...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/07/23

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 Suzy Krause at her website suzykrause.com/ and on IG at @suzykrause Usually, Christmas in July sales feature new cars or mattresses, but we are giving you a Christmas in July book episode. Our guest this week is Suzy Krause, a Canadian novelist whose book I Think We’ve Been Here Before is set

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01:09:21

S13:Ep259 - A Fashionably French Murder with Guest...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/07/09

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 Colleen Gleason/Colleen Cambridge at her website www.colleengleason.com or on IG @colleengleason Typically Amy has not been a cozy mystery reader, but this week’s guest, Colleen Gleason who also writes as Colleen Cambridge, may have single-handedly converted her. She is the author of over 57

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01:01:19

S12:Ep258 - Summer Reading with Bookseller Sam Miller...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/05/21

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 Sam Miller, manager at Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville, with us to chat about books readers might want to consider for their summer reading. It is always fun to hear what is new and notable from Sam. This is our last episode of the season. We will be back in July after our summer

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01:08:10

S12:Ep257 - A Forty Year Kiss with Guest Nickolas...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/05/07

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 Nickolas Butler at https://nickolasbutler.com/ or on IG @wiscobutler Amy discovered Nickolas Butler earlier this year when she attended the author event for his newest novel A Forty Year Kiss at Carmichael’s Bookstore. Nick has six novels and a collection of short stories under his belt, but

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01:07:16

S12:Ep256 - The Husbands with Guest Holly Gramazio +...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/04/23

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 Holly Gramazio at her website https://www.hollygramazio.net/ or on IG at holly_gramazio When we first heard the premise of Holly Gramazio’s novel The Husbands, we were intrigued. A woman’s husband goes up to the attic to retrieve something and down comes…a different husband. Wouldn’t we all

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01:04:12

S12:Ep255 - Six Walks with Guest Ben Shattuck + Books...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/04/09

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 Ben Shattuck at his website https://www.benshattuck.com/ or on IG @Benshattuck_ This week we chat with Ben Shattuck, author of Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau published by Tin House Books in 2022. Amy knew this book would appeal to Carrie because she is nothing if not a

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01:09:06

S12:Ep254 - The Book Riot Podcast with guest Rebecca...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/03/26

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 Rebecca Schinsky on IG @rebeccaschinsky and Book Riot at www.bookriot.com In this week’s episode, we chat with Rebecca Schinsky, who is chief of staff for Riot New Media Group and co-host of The Book Riot podcast. Book Riot is the largest independent editorial book site in North America and

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01:11:30

S12:Ep253 - The Lost Year with Guest Katherine Marsh...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/03/12

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 Katherine Marsh at her website www.katherinemarsh.com or on IG at @katherinemarshauthor. This week we chat with Katherine Marsh, author of The Lost Year, a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. I recently discovered this book after one of our book club

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01:07:44

S12:Ep252 - A Tribute of Fire with Guest Sariah...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/02/26

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 Sariah Wilson at her website www.sariahwilson.com or on IG - @sariahwilsonauthor We chat this week with Sariah Wilson, the author of many, many rom-coms, who recently published her first romantasy titled A Tribute of Fire. A Tribute of Fire is inspired by the myth of Cassandra who, if you

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01:05:56

S12:Ep251 - Silent Book Club with Guest Brittany Brar...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/02/12

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 if there is a chapter of Silent Book Club near you or look into starting your own by going to their website; https://silentbook.club/ 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

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01:06:11

S12:Ep250 - They All Fall The Same with Guest Wes...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/01/29

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. You can find Wes Browne at www.wesbrowneauthor.com or on IG at @browne_all_over This week we chat with Wes Browne, a Michigan transplant who has been a Kentucky attorney for over 20 years. When he’s not lawyering, he writes crime fiction, and his most recent novel is called They All Fall the Same. In this

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01:04:31

S12:Ep249 -The Lost Story with Guest Meg Shaffer -...

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2025/01/15

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. You can find Meg Shaffer at www.megshaffer.com or on IG at meg_shaffer. This week we officially begin Season 12 so we have both a guest and book recommendations on a particular theme. Our guest this week is Meg Shaffer, NYT best-selling author of The Wishing Game and The Lost Story. She talks to us about

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S12:Ep248 - Best of 2024 Year in Review - 1/1/25

The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast ·

2024/12/31

Website- www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook - Perks of Being a BookLover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we are doing our 2024 recap, covering the books that earned 5 stars. We’ve also got some audio interspersed in the episode from 2024 guests to The Perks who also share their favorite books of the year. This is always one of our most popular episodes of the year. And don’t forget, this new

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