Book Barn Book Club
Welcome to the Book Barn Book Club! Join your host, Lanie, as she discusses monthly book club selections, shares thoughts on titles from a personal library, and has candid conversations with friends and special guests.
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Book Barn Book Club
Books, Bourbon & Cigars with Mike (but mostly books!)
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This week in the Book Barn, the always entertaining Mike Hammer joins us to talk Books, Bourbon & Cigars, though we mostly stick to books. From Cold War thrillers to cosmic memoirs and dusty Westerns, it’s a lively chat full of opinions, favorites, and a nod to Batman!
Authors Mentioned:
•Stephen King
•Tom Clancy
•Cormac McCarthy
•Elizabeth Gilbert
•Michael Collins (the astronaut-author!)
Books Discussed:
•The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy
•Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys by Michael Collins
•No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
•All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
•The Road by Cormac McCarthy
•Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Movies Mentioned:
•No Country for Old Men (2007, Thriller/Western)
•Eat Pray Love (2010, Romance/Comedy)
Actors Mentioned:
•Javier Bardem (hauntingly unforgettable)
•Julia Roberts (queen of the genre)
And yes—Batman comes up. Briefly. But importantly.
Tune in for a smart, funny, and refreshingly unfiltered book chat with Lanie’s husband, Mike.
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