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 ...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 301
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, bu...
May 07, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 300
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...
Apr 23, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 299
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 l...
Apr 09, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 298
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...
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 297
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 mem...
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 296
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 r...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 295
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 Bein...
Feb 12, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 294
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 th...
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 293
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, best-selling author of The Wishing Game and The Lost Story. She talks to us about sh...
Jan 15, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 292
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 season is...
Dec 31, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 291
You can find Tracy Clark on social media on Instagram @ tpclark2000 and on her website www.tracyclarkbooks.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 This week we have a Remix episode and catch up with Tracy Clark, who we interviewed in Season 8 (episode 161) about her first Harriet Foster novel titled Hide. Her most recent title, number 3 in the series, is c...
Dec 18, 2024•58 min•Ep. 290
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 Sharon Short at her website, www.sharonshort.com and on Instagram at @ sharongshortauthor . This week we have a Remix episode and catch up with Sharon Short, who we initially interviewed about her historical mystery novels which she wrote under the pen name Jess Montgomery. She has a new st...
Dec 11, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 289
This is a REPLAY episode from our Holiday gift buying guide from 2023. We will be back next week with a REMIX episode with former guest Tracy Clark who has a new mystery you won't want to miss. This week we chat with our favorite bookseller, Sam Miller, from Carmichael’s Bookstore. Each November we let her do the heavy lifting and share books that have come out and might be good choices for your holiday shopping. If you would like to check out Carmichael’s Bookstore Holiday Book Gift Guide, you ...
Dec 04, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 288
f you would like to check out Carmichael’s Bookstore Holiday Book Gift Guide, you can find it online at www.carmichaelsbookstore.com/ 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. The delightful Sam Miller, store manager at Carmichael’s Book Store, comes to save the day. She has, as usual, tons of great new reads that are already on shelves and would ma...
Nov 27, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 287
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. November is Native American Heritage month so in this episode, we’re sharing some books written by Native American authors. There are so many great texts to choose from if you’re interested in broadening your reading. We bring your memoirs, poetry, Pulitzer Prize winners, and more. When we do these them...
Nov 20, 2024•58 min•Ep. 286
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 Alice Kaltman at www.alicekaltman.com or on IG @ alicekaltman This week we chat with Alice Kaltman about her latest book, Alice’s Big Book of Mistakes. She has written books of linked short stories, novels for various ages, and more, but she decided to try her hand at a graphic memoir all a...
Nov 13, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 285
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 our topic is philosophical. No, we’re not discussing those dull philosophy textbooks, but rather novels or nonfiction that ask big questions, such as “Who am I?” and “What is happiness?” and “Do we have free will?”. We will give you 10 books that will get you thinking with your big brains. Boo...
Nov 06, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 284
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 Alisa Alering at www.alering.com or on Insta @ alisa .alering. This week we wrap up what has been a month of seasonally spooky books with guest Alisa Alering, the author of Smothermoss, a book that is set in 1980s Pennsylvania Appalachia. It is the story of two sisters who witness a murder ...
Oct 30, 2024•59 min•Ep. 283
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 bringing you a Creature Feature in which we suggest books that tell the story of creatures. Those may be mythological creatures, cryptids, or beings from your favorite horror film. Some are scary, some are mysterious, some don’t seem that different from humans. All of them make for good ...
Oct 23, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 282
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 Daniel at his website www.danielolivas.com This week we speak with Daniel Olivas, a lawyer with the California Department of Justice, who is also a novelist, poet, and playwright. His novel, Chicano Frankenstein, which published in March of this year, was an obvious book pick for Carrie bec...
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 281
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. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- A Good Girls Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson 2- Horribly Haunted in Hillbilly Hollow by Blythe Baker 3- Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig 4- A 5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Lan Nguyen-Colgate - A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I Lin 5- The Immortali...
Oct 09, 2024•55 min•Ep. 280
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 Lyndsay at her website www.lyndsayrush.com/ and on IG at @ maryoliversdrunkcousin Books Mentioned In This Episode: 1- A Bit Much by Lyndsay Rush 2- Instructions for Traveling West by Joy Sullivan 3- A Five Start Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Meg Longley @ ohlongley - Meet Me at the ...
Oct 02, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 279
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 info about Midge and John at their website midgeandjohn.com/ or at ashlandcreekpress.com/ . They are on IG @ midge_and_john and @ ashlandcreekpress . Ashland Creek Press, an eco-fiction publisher, first came on our radar in the pre-COVID era when we interviewed Katy Yocom, author of Three W...
Sep 25, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 278
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. JD Vance first made news when he published his book Hillbilly Elegy in 2016, but he has since become a senator in Ohio and a vice presidential candidate. When his memoir came out, there were many people who had strong negative feelings about his book, namely other people from Appalachia who felt that he...
Sep 18, 2024•59 min•Ep. 277
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 Kelly Hill on IG @ kellyehill_author . This week we chat with Kelly Hill who published her debut novel, A Home for Friendless Women, this year in March. It is the story of three Victorian-era women who experience a home for “fallen” women in very different ways. What makes this novel especi...
Sep 11, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 276
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. For a lot of people, Labor Day, which this year fell on September 2, marks the end of summer, although astronomical summer doesn’t end until September 22 (and meteorological fall actually begins on September 1). And according to Carrie, summer ends on the first day of school, which was Aug 8 here in Lou...
Sep 04, 2024•59 min•Ep. 275
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 Britton online at her website www.booksbybritton.com/ IG @ booksbybritton On Etsy - Books By Britton This week we chat with Britton Perelman, a unique artist and craftsperson who creates miniature bookshelves. We saw her at the Columbus OH Book Festival in 2023, which was the first festival...
Aug 28, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 274
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. It's that time of year where kids and teachers are back at school or almost back at school so we thought we would offer recommendations for books related to education—novels or memoirs set in schools or colleges; books with teachers, deans, students, or staff as characters; literature in which education...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 273
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 the Bookery Cincy at www.bookerycincy.com/ or on IG @ bookerycincy . To find info about the Bookstore Crawl visit FB at Cincy Bookstore Crawl. This week we chat with Sierra Hollabaugh, one of the co-owners and founders of Bookery Cincy, an independent bookstore located in Cincinnati, OH. Wh...
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 272
