A Programming Update for July
Hello friends,
It’s so hot here in NC. And humid. And gross. And I’ll always take the cold over this. The truth is, for me, summer is every bit the grab-a-book-and-a-beverage-and-get-comfortable season that winter is. I’d rather read than sweat— which, come to think of it, is probably why I’m a bookseller. But, as every bibliophile knows, different books suit different seasons. Our next book—Sing, Unburied, Sing—is a wonderful summer book. The prose is luminous and lovely, like a summer evening’s sky, but it’s also a bit diaphoretic, drenched as it is in yearning and hard-fought hope. It’s a sweet tea and peaches book, where the glass is glistening and the peach is one of those trash can peaches. (These are compliments). I hope you’re planning to read along, especially because it’s a great pairing with To Kill a Mockingbird.
With that in mind, here’s your July programming update, which also includes information on our next HQ read and our July poetry hour. Thanks for being a part of things.
Upcoming Schedules
As always, the dates posted here are the days the episodes will drop, not when they will be recorded.
Schedule for Sing, Unburied, Sing
July 22: Chapters 1-3
July 29: Chapters 4-7
August 5: Chapters 8-11
August 12: To the end
August 19: Q&A Episode
Schedule for Kristin Lavransdatter book 3, The Cross
We are almost finished with this series. Here are the final episodes.
July 19: Part 3, chapters 1-4
August 2: Part 3, chapters 5-7
August 16: Q&A episode (this may be extended into two episodes)
Schedule for Mansfield Park
Jane Austen’s third novel (considered by some people on this podcast to be her best) will be our next book on CRHQ. If you’re subscribed you’ll have access to these conversations. Austen is always a treat to read and discuss.
August 16: Volume 1, chapters 1-5
August 30: Volume 1, chapters 6-11
September 13: Volume 1, chapters 12-18
September 27: Volume 2, chapters 1-4
October 11: Volume 2, chapters 5-9
October 25: Volume 2, chapters 10-13
November 8: Volume 3, chapters 1-6
November 22: Volume 3, chapters 7-12
December 6: Volume 3, chapters 13-17 (end)
December 20: Q&A episode
Live poetry hour for July
Our next live poetry hour for CRHQ subscribers will take place on Thursday, July 25 at 9 pm est. We will be discussing Louise Gluck’s “Vespers”!
As always, this conversation will take place on Zoom and the link will be sent to subscribers that morning. These have been really lovely conversations and I hope you’ll plan to join us!
Monthly Mysteries
We’ve been very much enjoying our series of episodes dedicated to mystery stories (or as Heidi refers to them, “the murder pods”), and in July we’ll be discussing The Maltese Falcon, the first American novel we’ve read in this series.
Upcoming
August: Jumping Jenny (Anthony Berkley)
September: The Case of the Gilded Fly (Edmund Crispin)
October: The Chill (Ross Macdonald)
November: A Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (later Agatha Christie)
December: The White Priory Murders (Carter Dickson)
Past episodes
Strong Poison (Dorothy Sayers) - Listen now
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) - Listen now
Post After Post-Mortem (E. C. R. Lorac) - Listen now
The Franchise Affair (Josephine Tey) - Listen now
Death of Jezebel (Christianna Brand) - Listen now
Father Brown (Chesterton) - Listen now
Should you, hypothetically, wish to buy any of these titles through Goldberry, you can do so here at Bookshop.org.
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Happy reading!
I didn’t comment soon enough to do this instead of Mansfield Park, but I would love a series on The Odyssey on the bonus shows. That book is a mystery to me.
“Trash can peaches”?