Book Bound Episode 16: Deep Dives and Beloved Reads
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Cheryl’s Books:
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange by Katie Goh
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
Mentioned:
Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
The Digging-est Dog by Al Perkins (can be found in collection)
Summer Pony by Jean Slaughter Doty
Keeping Barney by Jessie Haas
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
Jessica’s Books:
The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue
The Black Utopians by Aaron Robertson
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
Links:
Michigan Notables: https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/public/mnb
Foster Event: https://www.cadl.org/event/14379951
Mentioned:
Best Word Book Ever—Richard Scarry
Mari’s Books:
The Pecan Sheller by Lupe Ruiz-Flores
Whale Eyes: A Memoir About Seeing and Being Seen by James Robinson
Watch his award-winning short film: https://www.whaleeyes.org/watch
The Couch in the Yard by Kate Hoefler
Mentioned:
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume
Our Producer, Rissa’s Books:
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath
Big Kids by Michael DeForge
Mentioned:
Skippyjon Jones books by Judith Schachner
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
Junie B. Jones books by Barbara Park
Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Some of books mentioned in response to CADL’s Facebook question “What story began your love of reading?”:
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Babysitter’s Club by Ann M. Martin
Books by Madeleine L’Engle
The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
The Valley of the Dolls by Jacquelinn Susann (available through MELCAT)