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17. Cooking Up Something Good
Because Thanksgiving is THE holiday where food takes center stage, I bet there's more than a few of you out there reaching for a cookbook this week. Which is why The Book Owl went into research mode to discover the history of cookbooks. From rotting… -
16. Biting Into Bram Stoker
The Book Owl is still in the Halloween spirit, and that means from the huge number of authors who are having a birthday this month (or would have been if they were still alive), I've chosen Bram Stoker as the Book Owl birthday boy. In this episode we… -
15. Ten Spooky and Kooky Libraries
It's a listener-inspired episode in which, just like in the movie Ghostbusters, the Book Owl discovers ghosts love spending their time browsing, and sometimes wreaking havoc, in the stacks of their local libraries. Links Mentioned in this Episode...… -
14. Will Authors Go Extinct?
It's October and that means all things spooky...and I can't think of anything scarier than AI pushing authors to extinction. Find out how real the risks are, and what you as a writer or a reader can do to save the species Homo authoris. Links Mentio… -
13. Around the World with Nellie Bly
It's a mash-up episode this time around! After reading 80 Days Around the World, I was reminded of Nellie Bly's race around the world in 1889. Who was Nellie Bly? How did she change the writing world for women? And was Jules Verne's novel nothing mor… -
12. Hanging Ten with Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie: Mistress of Mystery, Duchess of Death, Queen of....Surfing? That's right. Discover the events that turned Christie not only into one of the world's most popular mystery writers, but also one who knew how to hang ten on the waves of H… -
11. Chester Beatty’s Marvelous Manuscripts
A rich guy goes around buying up a bunch of stuff. That's not exactly news, is it? Well, when the guy is Chester Beatty and his shopping expeditions ended up creating and preserving the most extensive collection of ancient papyrus, Middle Eastern ill… -
10. Ten Ways to Tell If You’re A Book Nerd
We're having some anniversary fun this time with a quick quiz to test how big of a book nerd you really are, and a top ten list that might be utter blasphemy to die hard book nerds...Ten Movies That Are Better Than the Books They Were Based On. Plus.… -
9. It’s the Bookmobile!
It's Episode 9 and while sweet tooths may think the ice cream truck is the best vehicle ever invented, we book nerds know they're wrong because the Bookmobile can't be beat. In this episode we journey from the first traveling libraries all the way t… -
8. The Story of Seeing (and Reading) Clearly
It's Episode 8 and this time we're taking a peek at the amazing combination of historical events that turned eyeglasses from a luxury item used only by the wealthy to a household commodity. From imprisoned Venetians to curing syphilis, the history of…
The Book Owl Podcast
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The Book Owl Podcast delights your inner book nerd and feeds your reading addiction with everything you didn't know you wanted to know about books. Delivered with plenty of light humor, each episode spins tales from tantalizing tomes to luscious libraries, and literary lore to quirky bookstores.
So, if you've ever wondered what book will kill you, whether dogs read, or why a bookstore has a train running through it, it's time to get caught in The Book Owl's beak.
The Book Owl Podcast, we give a hoot for book nerds.
Who am I? I'm Tammie Painter, a writer and proud book nerd. In the podcast I'm telling book- and reading-related tales that I find fascinating and know you will too.
So, if you've ever wondered what book will kill you, whether dogs read, or why a bookstore has a train running through it, it's time to get caught in The Book Owl's beak.
The Book Owl Podcast, we give a hoot for book nerds.
Who am I? I'm Tammie Painter, a writer and proud book nerd. In the podcast I'm telling book- and reading-related tales that I find fascinating and know you will too.
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