Book Eaters Podcast

By: Michele Karsk April Freeman
  • Summary

  • Listen as middle-aged women drink custom, crafted cocktails and debate with enthusiasm the merits of storytelling through its various mediums. The focus is on audio books and how it contrasts with movies, television, paper and e-books but we may wander into comic and online serial web novels. And, if we have too many, maybe raconteurs.
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  • Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus: Book Eaters discusses the Barnes and Noble 2022 Book of the Year
    Jan 26 2024

    In the final episode of season four of Book Eaters Podcast April and Michele drink classic gin martinis and discuss the Barnes and Noble Book of the Year.  Will April's love of cooking affect how she feels about the book?  Will Michele ever pronounce the main character's name correctly? Join them as they digest this story where a home-cooked meal becomes the centerpiece of a steminist novel.  Did they take Lessons in Chemistry to heart or will it fail to butter their bread? 

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    51 mins
  • Never Lie by Frieda McFadden: Book Eaters Podcast discusses the Amazon Chart Topper
    Dec 29 2023

    Michele and April dive deep into the Amazon charts and come up with Never Lie by Frieda McFadden.   Discussion around unreliable narrators and the contract between readers and authors is discussed.  Is it okay for an author to purposefully lead a reader astray, or must they never lie?  The drink in this episode is a Negroni with a bloody twist.  Pour a cocktail and sip along with the Book Eaters as they discuss Never Lie by Frieda McFadden.   Additional questions pondered were "What is the correct pronunciation of the word mayonnaise?" and "Can an ENTP and an ENTJ really be friends.”  Join us!

     

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    49 mins
  • Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver: Book Eaters Podcast discusses the Nobel Prize Winning Novel for Fiction
    Nov 26 2023

    In this episode, April and Michele discuss Demon Copperhead the Nobel Prize Winning Novel for Fiction written by Barbara Kingsolver.  Pour a Rusty Nail and join them as they discuss what butters their bread about this book based on the classic Charles Dickens Novel, David Copperfield.   Is this the coming-of-age story that finally wins Michele over?  Will April think it lives up to her love of the original characters? Will they throw this baby out with the bathwater?  Do they work out how to pronounce tough words like "endure" and "rural"?  What the heck is head lettuce anyway? As a bookend Michele and April make up their own idioms, stay to the end to see if you can figure out what they mean.  

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    1 hr and 2 mins

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