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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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