BBE Gets Spooky with The Ghosts of Williamsburg Quick Links from the Episode: The Bruton Parish Church story was perhaps the most compelling mystery in Ghosts. Today, the Church website reveals nothing about the cemetery incident, only mentioning that you must be a member of the church to be buried there. This only increases BBE’s […]
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Show Notes – Episode 1.10
Paige is a Ray of Sunshine: Talking Murder and Massacre in In the Lake of the Woods Quick Links from the Episode: Here’s the Britannica page on Tim O’Brien. You really know you’ve made it as an author when you get your own encyclopedia page! Amazing NPR interview with O’Brien on the twentieth anniversary of […]
Big Book Energy does PodFest 2020
If you are interested in learning more about PodFest, you can still visit this year’s website. At the beginning of the month, Big Book Energy shlepped it down to Orlando to attend PodFest 2020, a podcasting conference extravaganza. How did BBE score such an opportunity? Well, it certainly wasn’t out of the depth of our […]
Show Notes – Episode 1.9
The World is Ending and Everything is a Cult – BBE Does Chicken Soup for the Soul Quick Links from the Episode: Here is the article written by Harvard University’s Asaf Bitton on social distancing. Turns out Paige should not drink that rum she’s had for ten years. While liquor doesn’t grow bacteria because ethanol […]
Show Notes – Episode 1.7
Long Live the King of Vodka: The Life of Pyotr Smirnov We are in high spirits this week for our next Thrift Store Find: The King of Vodka, by Linda Himelstein. Everyone knows the brand Smirnoff vodka, and if you haven’t found yourself waking up the next morning regretting your choice of flavored vodka the […]
Show Notes – Episode 1.6
Another Trip Down Enlightenment Lane: BBE on Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist We are back to Books We Hate this week, the subject? Paulo Coelho’s classic hit, The Alchemist. What soulless ghoul hates this book that has inspired so many people, sold millions of copies, and been translated into dozens of languages?? Well, if you’ve been […]
Show Notes – Episode 1.5
A Hypochondriac’s Nightmare: Discussing John M. Barry’s The Great Influenza Another Thrift Store Find pick for this season is John M. Barry’s The Great Influenza. A hefty doorstop of a nonfiction book, Jennifer was originally intrigued because she’s always been interested in epidemiology, and with the chosen topic of the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic, this […]