Mitchell's Book Corner & Wendy Rouillard

Sometime around mid-March, my Earth Mother alter ego kicked in and has since gone into overdrive. Every few days, a malodorous smell wafts from the kitchen—that's the sourdough starter telling me it's ready for attention. I've lost count of how many pics of flowery-patterned loaves I've posted on Instagram. Gone are the bookish images and texts that filled my feed pre-COVID. If I can't eat it, grow it, or walk it, the image isn’t getting posted. I'm not saying my bibliophile persona has gone AWOL. Instead, I'm on a rereading binge; a compulsive need to be comforted by characters dear to my heart and familiar faraway lands. 

This episode took me to Nantucket, Massachusetts, a place I’d love to visit. I chat with Wendy Morton, owner of Mitchell’s Book Corner, and local children’s author and illustrator, Wendy Rouillard. 

Here’s a list of links, authors, and books mentioned in this podcast.

·      Mitchell’s Book Corner & Nantucket Bookworks

·      Nantucket Chamber of Commerce

·      The Second Story Loft

·      Maria Mitchell

·      Nathaniel Philbrick

·      Elin Hildebrand

·      Nancy Thayer 

·      Steven Axelrod

·      Isabel Wilkerson – author of Caste

·      Ibram X. Kendi – author of How To Be An Antiracist

·      Daniel Silva – author of The Order

·      Libro.fm – audiobooks

·      Bookshop.org

·      Ruth Bader Ginsburg – I Know This to Be True

·      I Know I Can

·      Wendy Rouillard and Barnaby Bear

·      Barnaby Bear on Instagram

·      Wendy Rouillard on Facebook

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