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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine celebrates ten years in 2021 and features books, reviews, authors, health, music and Humour. The blog supports authors with FREE book marketing in the Smorgasbord Cafe and Bookstore featuring new books on the shelves, author promotions, and Book Reviews. This podcast is hosted by author and poet Sally Cronin and you can find her more information about her books on https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/
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We interview authors, scholars, and other book lovers in Bookings, Canada's only bookstore podcast. We also record author talks from events in the city to share. Recorded from the independent and co-operatively run King's Co-op Bookstore in Halifax, Nova Scotia. www.kingsbookstore.ca
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Welcome to season 2 of Bookstore Explorer! In this episode, Matt heads to New England to visit with Katya D'Angelo, owner of Bridgeside Books in Waterbury, Vermont. Books We Talk About: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay and The Treehouse on Dig River Road by Catherine Drake.…
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As chosen by our Patrons (plus Corinne), our extra book for May is Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov. Gospodinov is Bulgarian, thus fulfilling the prompt to read a book by an author from a country you've never been to, as neither of us have been to Bulgaria. And as a bonus, Time Shelter was announced as the winner of the International Booker Prize …
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The May selection for the Radio Bookclub is To Die Beautiful, by Boulder author Buzzy Jackson. The novel is a fictionalized retelling of the true story of Hannie Schaft, a Dutch resistance fighter during World War II. She became known […]由KGNU Community Radio and The Boulder Bookstore
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Corinne's pick for The Bookstore Challenge 2023 prompt to "read a book by an author from a country you've never been to" is An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie. Kpomassie writes about his childhood in Togo and his fulfilled ambition to move to Greenland and experience life there. Content warnings: animal death, addiction Mentioned in t…
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Nature is a fascinating and wonderful addition to our lives fromthe rain and wind that bow to the power of the sun, to the wisdom of trees. Thank you for listening and if you would like to know more about my books and theirreviews you can find them on my books page on my blog https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/my-books-and-reviews-2023/…
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Becca’s pick for May’s prompt to read a book by an author from a country you’ve never been to is The Fawn by Magda Szabó (the country is Hungary). We are already fans of hers from reading her later novel Abigail, and we're thrilled to read another classic Szabó exploration of a complicated and flawed woman. Content warnings: Deaths, both animal and…
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Millions of families around the world have pets and probably catsand dogs are amongst the favourites. They have certainly added love andentertainment to my life. Thank you for listening and if you would like to know more about my books and theirreviews you can find them on my books page on my blog https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/my-book…
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Here in Ireland after some very wet and windy weeks, spring is making itself known. Thank you for listening and if you would like to know more about my books and theirreviews you can find them on my books page on my blog https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/my-books-and-reviews-2023/
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In this podcast-only episode of the Radio Bookclub, author Buzzy Jackson answers audience questions about her new book To Die Beautiful and talks about the process of writing her first fiction book. Listen to the broadcast interview with Buzzy Jackson […]由KGNU Community Radio and The Boulder Bookstore
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Created and hosted by writers Patrick Sauer and David J. Roth, Squawkin’ Sports is an ongoing series featuring book chats with grown-up authors writing about grown-ups playing kiddie games. For this installment, Sauer and Roth chat with staff writer and editor at The Washington Post, Timothy Bella, about his new book Barkley: A Biography. Informed …
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We’ve got mixed feelings for this debut about a young immigrant woman trying to find love and community in the Midwest. This week we read All This Could be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews. Content Warnings: sexual violence In May we will be reading books from or about a part of the world we’ve never been to. Becca’s pick, The Fawn by Magda Szabó…
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We have celebrated quite a few birthdays in our family in the last couple of months andhere is a garland Cinquain about these special days. Thank youfor listening and if you would like to know more about my books and theirreviews you can find them on my books page on my blog https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/my-books-and-reviews-2023/…
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When she left a chaotic home at eighteen, author Sarah Fawn Montgomery chased restlessness, claiming places on the West Coast, Midwest, and East Coast, while determined never to settle. Now her family is ravaged by addiction, illness, and poverty; the country is increasingly divided; and the natural worlds in which she seeks solace are under siege …
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How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? In author, activist, and our own Brooklyn neighbor Ryan Lee Wong's extraordinary debut novel, an Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question amidst generational change, a mother’s secret, and an activist’s coming-of-age. As humoro…
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Content Warnings: violence, self-harm, so much blood, sexual violence, we also swear If you really enjoyed this book, we’re sorry, you may want to skip this one. A Darker Shade of Magic is a contemporary fantasy novel that’s short on background info, long on every trope, and not a series we will be continuing. Our next book discussion will be All T…
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Greenlight was thrilled to welcome award-winning author and long-time friend of the store Saeed Jones back to our store to celebrate the release of his new poetry collection, Alive at the End of the World. In haunted poems glinting with laughter, pierced by grief and charged with history, Jones explores the public and private betrayals of life as w…
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April's challenge prompt is to read a book recommended to you by a bookseller or librarian. Ideally, you'd ask a bookseller or librarian for one, but also we know there's a lot of reasons you may not want to do that and that's ok! There are other options, like reading something a favorite bookstagrammer or booktok account has recommended, or pickin…
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The March selection for the Radio Bookclub is Don’t Fear the Reaper, the latest novel by Colorado horror-author Stephen Graham Jones. This slasher novel sees the return of Jade Daniels who returns to her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho, four years […]由KGNU Community Radio and The Boulder Bookstore
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In this podcast-only episode of the Radio Bookclub, author Stephen Graham answers questions from the audience at the live taping at the Boulder Bookstore. Listen to the broadcast interview with Stephen Graham Jones where he talks about his latest book, […]由KGNU Community Radio and The Boulder Bookstore
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In her utterly profound and thought-provoking debut memoir and companion to her viral 2018 Salon article “What a Dominatrix Knows about #MeToo,” writer, professor, and former sex worker Belcher retraces her journey from broke gender studies PhD student in Los Angeles who remakes herself as L.A.’s Renowned Lesbian Dominatrix, specializing in male cl…
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So Lucky by Nicola Griffith is an amalgamation of genres, part autofiction, part disability activist story, part metaphysical, and part crime thriller. Mara Tagareilli is a martial arts master and heads up a successful and important AIDS non-profit in Atlanta. She and her wife of many years have just split and after she collapses while getting a ju…
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A poem about our bond with others and how today's technology can connect us to our past and those we love. Thank you for listening and if you would like to know more about my books and their reviews you can find them on my books page on my blog https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/my-books-and-reviews-2023/…
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Hannah used to be all about focus, back before she shattered her ankle and her Olympic dreams in one bad soccer play. These days, she’s all about distraction. Enter Bonanza, the local entertainment multiplex and site of Hanna’s summer employment. Under the neon lights of Bonanza--with flirty co-workers, ex-best friends, and her brother's hot best f…
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Like a song that feels written just for you, Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love—with a place, or a painting, or a person—and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Electric Literature, and …
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An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon is a 2017 science fiction novel about the class and race structure on a generation ship making its way through the universe toward the promised land. It features a well drawn main character and a lot of confusing world mechanics, so hang on, because we have some questions. Content Warnings (for the novel an…
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In this podcast-only episode of the Radio Bookclub, author Rachel King speaks about working in the publishing industry and her new work, a short novel that retells of the true story of a women’s basketball league from the 1930s that […]由KGNU Community Radio and The Boulder Bookstore
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The February selection for the Radio Bookclub is Bratwurst Haven, a collection of linked short stories by author Rachel King. The twelve stories are set in a small town in Boulder County, where a sausage factory binds the diverse characters […]由KGNU Community Radio and The Boulder Bookstore
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Green is a vibrant colour all around us and sometimes dreams do come true. Thank you for listening and if you would like to know more about my books and their reviews you can find them on my books page on my blog https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/my-books-and-reviews-2023/
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This week we read the classic noir novel, In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes. We love it for subverting typical noir tropes and tackling American machismo at the same time. March's promopt for the 2023 Bookstore Challenge is to read a book by an author with a disability or about disability. Becca's pick, An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomo…
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Samara Nicoll had wanted to own her own bookshop since her teens. After years of working in one, the dream became reality when she opened Notably – A Book Lover’s Emporium – in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada, in 2021, featuring new books and stationary items. Books We Talk About: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, The Woefield Poultry Col…
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Dolphins are beautiful creatures on the hunt and at play... and the price of winning. Thank you for listening and if you would like to know more about my books and their reviews you can find them on my books page on my blog https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/my-books-and-reviews-2023/
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With Valentine's Day around the corner some thoughts on love ... Thank you for listening and if you would like to know more about my books and their reviews you can find them on my books page on my blog https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/my-books-and-reviews-2023/
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For February's prompt to Read a Western or Pulp Fiction/Noir, Becca's pick is True Grit by Charles Portis. The novel was a bestseller immediately upon publishing in 1968, and has been adapted twice into movies. We loved this entertaining, funny, action-packed story that is essentially just about a girl bent on revenge. Next time we'll be reading Co…
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Ahu Terzi opened The Hound Books, named after her beagle mix pup, in Roscoe, New York, last fall. In this episode, she shares how she's managing to learn the ropes of the bookselling business while balancing the store with a full-time job and a commute from NYC. Books We Talk About: Upstream and Felicity by Mary Oliver, Hiking the Catskills by Rand…
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Around the world mothers soothe their babies with a lullaby and a young teenager is embarking on a journey far away... Thank you for listening and if you would like to know more about my books and their reviews you can find them on my books page on my blog https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/my-books-and-reviews-2023/…
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This week, we visit Hanapepe, Hawaii, to learn about Talk Story Bookstore, the western most bookstore in the United States. The doors opened in 2004, when owern Ed Justus was offered a month’s free rent to start a business. Books We Talk About: The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker, How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff, and The Aut…
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Every extra minute of daylight is welcome as nature begins to wake up after the winter and there is so much fake news online that you have to be careful about what you absorb.. Thank you for listening and if you would like to know more about my books and their reviews you can find them on my books page on my blog https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordp…
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The January selection for the Radio Bookclub is Blackwater Falls, the latest novel by Colorado-based author Ausma Zehanat Khan. The book introduces readers to Detective Inaya Rahman of the Denver Police Department who is called in to investigate the disappearance […]由KGNU Community Radio and The Boulder Bookstore
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Greenlight welcomed Zakiya Dalila Harris in-person to our Fort Greene events stage to celebrate the paperback release of her New York Times-bestselling novel The Other Black Girl, a "dazzling, darkly humorous story" that explores the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publis…
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For January's prompt, to read a book published in a year ending in 3, Becca had us read The Charioteer by Mary Renault. It was published in 1953 and known for being one of the first popularly published novels about positive homosexual romance. Despite some language differences between two Americans in 2023 and a British woman in 1953, we really lov…
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Sarah Bagby spent years working at Watermark Books & Cafe in Wichita, Kansas, before taking over the reigns of ownership. She walks us through the store's rich history and shares some of the best-selling titles, including a few spring 2023 releases that she predicts will be hits. Books We Talk About: I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, Inciti…
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It seems the longest part of the year as winter drags on as we and nature wait for spring... and also beware the Magpies. Thank you for listening and if you would like to know more about my books and their reviews you can find them on my books page on my blog https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/my-books-and-reviews-2023/…
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens graced our events stage to launch her brilliant new novel out from And Other Stories, one of the most forward-thinking independent publishers based in the UK. The Visitors is a mordantly funny tour through a world where not only civic infrastructure but our darkest desires (not to mention our novels) are vulnerable to malware…
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This week, we're back in Texas to visit with Jane Estes, one of the founders of Lark & Owl Booksellers in Georgetown. It's a fun shop specializing in new books and community spirit. Jane discusses how they developed their unique name, their varied takes on the traditional book club, and why a bookshop is no place for haters. Books We Talk About: My…
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