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S12:Ep249 -The Lost Story with Guest Meg Shaffer + Library Book Recs - 1/15/25
The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast
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S12:Ep249 -The Lost Story with Guest Meg Shaffer + Library Book Recs - 1/15/25
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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 shifting gears to write books for adults that read a lot like the cool fantasy books we read as kids (think The Chronicles of Narnia in The Lost Story). And for our book recs, we will each be sharing 3 books related to libraries.
Books mentioned—
1- The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
2- The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
3- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
4- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
5- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
6- Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
7- Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
8- The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin
9- The Hollow Places T. Kingfisher
10- The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
11- The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
12- Carter and Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard
13- A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
14- We are Experiencing a Slight Delay by Gary Janneti
15- Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
16-Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs
17- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Marisa Zane @Marisa_reads_books - The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
18- The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
19- Nightbooks by JA White
20- The Library of Borrowed Hearts by Lucy Gilmore
21- The Nightmare Man by JH Markert
22- The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
23- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
24- I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
25- Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
26- A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
27- A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
28- Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian by Jill Grunenwald
29- Lonely Planet Hidden Libraries: The World's Most Unusual Book Depositories by DC Helmuth
30- The Godwick series by Tiffany Reisz
Media mentioned—
Perks episode with Lily Raiti
https://www.perksofbeingabooklover.com/episodes/cxkpp8gtbmn5gf7-8mb73-52ylr-gs3nl-82m49-xr9s4-z4hhh-pm7gw-skgey-bjmtw-4dl76-hn7yl-we4y4-cfzjz-5f9x8-y93dj-7l4je-8667a
Pacific Palisades Fire—Will Rogers ranch —
https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346
Squid Games (Netflix, 2021 - present)
Cunk on Life (Netflix, 2024)
Black Doves (Netflix, 2024)
Night of the Hunter (Tubi, 1955)
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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.
