This week we're talking about what we've been reading, and revisiting some favorites from childhood. Do our favorites still hold up? Or, are they better in memory like the film Beetlejuice?
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The books we talked about this week:
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster - https://amzn.to/3TIu3gu
And Then? And Then? What Else? by Daniel Handler - https://amzn.to/3vyIoEh
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch - https://amzn.to/3vyu0Mb
Olivetti by Allie Millington - https://amzn.to/49k45pi
How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin - https://amzn.to/3vJfHo5
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears - https://amzn.to/3vJfWzv
Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary - https://amzn.to/3TZG2YD
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Bloom - https://amzn.to/3VCEEMv
The Wayside School by Louis Sachar - https://amzn.to/4aDJyNN
Matilda by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3vnr2KE
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3TXOmYH
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3TVyGoK
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3TVyHsO
The BFG by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3vB3sdf
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3TUjPLj
The Twits by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3PIccoO
The Witches by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/4ayBo97
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey - https://amzn.to/3VGLErQ
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville - https://amzn.to/43GWOyP
Dear America by Various Authors - https://amzn.to/3TFmQhd
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls - https://amzn.to/3TGK1aR
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - https://amzn.to/3Q6Ugof
The Odyssey by Homer - https://amzn.to/3VAfFtn
Interview With A Vampire by Anne Rice - https://amzn.to/3PNOrf1
The Old Man and the Sea by Papa Hemingway - https://amzn.to/43HtwAf
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne - https://amzn.to/3PKXgq2
Other favorites we didn't get a chance to mention:
The Cooper Kids Adventure Series by Frank Peretti - https://amzn.to/3PLo2OV
Forbidden Doors (https://amzn.to/3xb9S3a) and Wally McDoogle (https://amzn.to/3TGInpP) by Bill Myers
The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket - https://amzn.to/3xhAIXz
Redwall by Brian Jacques - https://amzn.to/4czU2PP
The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper - https://amzn.to/3xeSAT0
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis - https://amzn.to/3PEX4IY
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren - https://amzn.to/3xkq4zm
The Heartwood Hotel Series by Kallie George - https://amzn.to/4agKQ1p
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews - https://amzn.to/49kPlGX
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse - https://amzn.to/4afvKcu
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan - https://amzn.to/49ol6yB
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