• The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast

  • By: Amy Smalley
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The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast

By: Amy Smalley
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  • 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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Episodes
  • S10:Ep215 - Austen is in the Air with guests Melodie Edwards and AH Kim - 3/27/24
    Mar 27 2024

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    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 she addressed in her time remain ones that are relevant today: the need to be an individual despite the binds of society’s rules, the complications of marriage, and the power and powerlessness that comes with changes in social class.

    Our guests this week, AH Kim, and Melodie Edwards, both love Jane Austen and with such gusto that they wrote their own reimaginings of her novels. They talk about the potential pitfalls of their endeavors given how exacting many Austen fans are, as well as the things they wanted to ensure they kept from Austen versus the creative license they took to make their stories unique to their own experiences and modern times.

    Books Mentioned in this Episode:

    1- Relative Strangers by A.H. Kim

    2- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

    3- Once Persuaded, Twice Shy by Melodie Edwards

    4- Persuasion by Jane Austen

    5- Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James

    6- Jane and Edward by Melodie Edwards

    7- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

    8- A Good Family by A.H. Kim

    9- Long Live by V. B. Lacey - A Book recommended by a fellow book lover Brianna Wright @bwrightsbookreviews

    10- Deacon King Kong by James McBride

    11- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

    12- Every Time We Say Goodbye by Natalie Jenner

    13- The Fetishist by Katherine Min

    14- Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

    15- The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley

    TV series mentioned:

    1- Northern Exposure ( Amazon, 1990-1995)

    2- The Reluctant Traveler (Apple +, 2023-present)

    Movies mentioned-

    1- Pride and Prejudice (1995) with Colin Firth

    2- Sense and Sensibility (1995) with Emma Thompson

    3- Persuasion (Netflix, 2022) with Dakota Johnson

    4- Persuasion (2007, iTV) with Sally Hawkins

    5- Persuasion (1995) with Ciarin Hinds

    6- Emma (1996) with Gwyneth Paltrow

    7- American Fiction (2023)

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • S10:Ep214 - Linked Short Story Collections: A Book Rec Episode - 3/20/24
    Mar 20 2024

    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 only mentioned marginally. They can be linked by several characters. They can be linked by the setting–if they are set in a certain town or state or country.

    But they can also be linked by theme or symbol or a common experience of characters. They could all be about a shared experience, like parenthood or death or love. Or a combination of these things.

    Books Mentioned in This Episode:

    1- Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar

    2- We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

    3- Good Taste by Caroline Scott

    4- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - a 5 star read recommended by fellow book lover Anastacia @ms_a_m_c

    5- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

    6- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccacio

    7- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

    8- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

    9- Dubliners by James Joyce

    10- Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

    11- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

    12- Birth Canal by Dias Novita Wuri

    13- There, There by Tommy Orange

    14- Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

    15- What Makes You Think You’re Supposed to Feel Better by Jody Hobbs Hessler

    16- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

    17- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

    18- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

    19- Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordan

    20- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

    21- Crooked Hallelujah by Kelly Jo Ford

    22- Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta

    23- Gwen and Art are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

    24- Throne of Glass (series) by Sarah J. Maas

    25- The Bone People by Keri Hulme

    26- The Extinction of Irina Rey by Jennifer Croft

    Podcasts mentioned-- Ologies with Alie Ward - www.alieward.com/ologies/oikologyencore

    NPR's Book of the Day - www.npr.org/2024/03/14/11969793…-rey-jennifer-croft

    Movies mentioned--

    1- Oppenheimer (2023)

    2- Spaceman (2024, Netflix)

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • S10: Ep.213 - Notes on the Newbery Awards with Guest Kari Heggen - 3/13/24
    Mar 13 2024

    To find more of Kari’s book thoughts, you can find her on instagram @checkedoutbooks.

    Our website at 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 chat with Kari Heggen, a bookstagrammer from Iowa who set herself a goal to read all the Newbery Award winners from the past 102 years. Originally she had planned to read 10 a year but she ultimately decided to just get her done. She read 49 of the winners in 2023 and got a jump start on 2024 by reading this year’s winner, The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers.

    Kari talks about the highs and lows of her Newbery Award challenge. Books from the early days of the award were decidedly not great. But by the 1960s, Kari got into a better groove and found herself enjoying books for the first time and often the second time which brought back some childhood nostalgia.

    Books Mentioned in this Episode:

    1- Erasure by Percival Everett

    2- Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach

    3- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

    4- Holes by Louis Sachar

    5- The Giver by Lois Lowry

    6- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

    7- The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loom

    8- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

    9- The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

    10- Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

    11- The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

    12- Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

    13- A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard

    14- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

    15- King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

    16- Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

    17- Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

    18- Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt

    19- Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

    20- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

    21- The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

    22- The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson

    23- Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Patterson

    24- The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers

    25- Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin

    26- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

    27 - Five Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Hope @lifewithhopeann- Divine Rivals Duology by Rebecca Ross

    28- Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack

    29- The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

    30- Starter Villain by John Scalzi

    31- Sword of the Rightful King by Jane Yolen

    32- Morgan is My Name by Sophie Keetch

    33- The Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson

    34- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Movies and TV Series mentioned:

    1- Oppenheimer (2023)

    2- American Fiction (2023)

    3- Poor Things (2023)

    4- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023, Netflix)

    5- Peaky Blinders (2013-2022, Netflix)

    6- The Secrets of Nimh (1982)

    Article about Serving on the Newbery Awards committee- www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/what-i…y-medal-winner

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    1 hr and 1 min

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