Books on the Nightstand, Episode 40 (24:46)
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Ann recently attended Podcamp Boston where she met several of our listeners:
- Jeff Rutherford, of the Reading and Writing Podcast, which interviews authors
- Amber Naslund, one of our friends from Twitter
- Leo, a listener from Brazil who now lives in the Boston area.
Ann also connected with two other podcasters: Guido Stein who runs It’s a Purl, Man, a knitting podcast, and Kristin Brandt from Manic Mommies. The Mommies run a yearly Escape, a getaway for moms, and that got Ann thinking: What if we had a Books on the Nightstand Reading Retreat? Maybe at a cozy inn somewhere in New England? Let us know your thoughts and maybe we’ll start planning for next year!
Ann came home from Podcamp and created the Books on the Nightstand Mobile Site. Simply point your web-enabled phone to m.booksonthenightstand.com. There you’ll find links for blog posts, podcasts and one-button dialing of our voice-mail number. We think it will be great for checking out the books we’ve talked about while your in the bookstore.
My friend April sent me an email asking for help coming up with a list of books that should be in every American home. She moved to New Zealand a few years ago and is finally moving all of her books. She wants to make sure the American Canon is represented in her library down under. Ann immediately came up with The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird and Gone with the Wind. I, of course, thought of Moby Dick, the book I’m reading for the Beowulf on the Beach Reading Challenge. What about you? What books would you suggest to April? She’s looking for books beyond fiction as well. You can leave suggestions here in the comments, email them to us or join the discussions on our Goodreads or Facebook groups.
Next, we discuss books we loved in hardcover last year, that are now in paperback (click on the covers below to see the original blog post or podcast where we discussed the hardcover, in case you want more information):
Ann:
Michael:
Two books we can’t wait for you to read: I geek out over Batman: Hush, which is a fantastic Batman story for fan or non-fan alike. The art is phenomenal and it’s now available in a new one-volume trade paperback.
Ann raves about A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore, her first novel since 1994’s Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?. Moore is primarily known as a short story writer, but Ann loves this new novel and says it’s her favorite book of 2009 so far.
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