Today on episode #101,  I speak with lawyer and Bookstagrammer, Caroline Dreyfus of @Texacalibooks. She shares with us three books that make her happy, including the book she wants to hug for the rest of her life. (How’s that for an endorsement?) 
 
Books Recommended:
 
Bear Town by Fredrik Backman
 
For You and Only You a Joe Goldberg Novel by Caroline Kepnes
 
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
 
This Bird Has Flown by Susanna Hoffs
 
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
 
 
Other Books Mentioned:
 

Joseph Cornell's Manual of Marvels: How Joseph Cornell reinvented a French agricultural manual to create an American 

A Humument 1966-2016 Final edition 

 
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I hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!

The Upside called and wants its January counter-programming American remake marketing campaign back. That's right, we're reviewing A Man Called Otto this week, which hits wide release tomorrow through Sony/Columbia. The Pittsburgh-set movie stars Tom Hanks as (you guessed it) Otto, and the Cinemaholics have a wonderful time debating Hanks' performances over the last year. We also discuss (briefly) Marc Forster's filmography thus far and how this new movie compares to A Man Called Ove, the original Swedish adaptation of the book by Fredrik Backman.

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Den biografaktuelle "A Man Called Otto" med americas dad Tom Hanks i hovedrollen, er en hjertevarm, sjov og charmerende lille film!
Men med et så stort et navn som Tom Hanks i hovedrollen, er det så okay, at filmen bare er det, nemlig, okay?
"A Man Called Otto" er den amerikanse remake af den svenske film "En Man Som Heter Ove" eller på dansk "En Mand Der Hedder Ove" (og bog af samme navn, skrevet af Fredrik Backman og instrueret af Hannes Holm).

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In this episode, Emmy B and bookstagrammer Heather Clark, @bookswithclarkie , discuss a favorite read by Fredrik Backman "Beartown".
This is a book about a hockey team, a culture and community, friendship, family, and an incident that threatens to tear it all down. The writing and character nuances are brilliant. The themes painful and beautiful. There's so much for the reader here, and we talk about it all. We also hope to share unique aspects of the book that will give you more to think about and more to love! 

Vicky Reptile recomienda la serie sueca Beartown que pueden ver por HBO GO. Basada en la exitosa novela de Fredrik Backman y dirigida por Peter Grönlund, se trata de un drama deportivo que sabe poner el ojo en diversas problemáticas sociales que nos atraviesan a todos.

Em's feeling all the emotions this week and discusses Anxious People by Fredrik Backman and a documentary about cat ladies.



Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

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In this episode, we chat about how  2020 affected our reading goals for the year.  Between the pandemic and giving birth to babies, both of us struggled for a little bit, threw out our reading challenges and then still ended up killing it in the end with Shanna reading 62 books and Jennifer reading 48 - not bad.  Then we discuss what we want our reading year to look like, what we are going to do or not do as far as challenges go and which books made it onto our must reads list and why.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Update! After recording this episode, Shanna came up with a different way of going to go about the money jar challenge.  Instead of putting a loonie or a toonie in for every book read to go towards a book shopping spree at the end of the year, she came up with incorporating the five star rating system.  Five star book?  $5 bill into the jar. Two and a half stars? $2.50 in.  We are so here for this. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Our Favorite Reads of 2020

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (S+J)
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (S+J)
Anxious People by Fredrick Backman (J)
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (S)

Most Anticipated Books of 2021

A Vow So Bold and Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict
(And a few others, but lets be honest, not even Jennifer really cared about these ones)

If you haven't started the #bestbookclub book already, we are loving The Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune and really hope that you will give it a read and let us know what you think about it before our Book Club episode that will be airing on January 20th - We messed up and scheduled it a little early so sorry for rushing you this month but we will be much more organized for February!  We will be recording that episode on January 15th though so if you want us to chat about what you thought, let us know before then but don't worry, if you aren't done by then, the podcast will still be there for you to listen to after and we would still love to know what you thought!  So no matter when, head over to our social media and let us know. 

Speaking of next month!  February is Black History and Month and, in celebration of that, we are going to read a book written by a black author.  Each member of book club gets to put a suggestion into the hat and then we will read whichever one gets drawn.  If you have any "must read" suggestions for this category, please let us know! 

Join us next week when we get deep into our most favorite read of 2020 - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.  If you haven't read it, we HIGHLY recommend that you do. 


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