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Three Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. This month, Becca and Christen talk with Brenda Gornick about her three book choices, reading as a family, her library journey, and her writing.

Three Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. This month, Becca and Christen talk with Brenda Gornick about her three book choices.



0:09 Intro

0:21 Guest Intro

2:55 Three Books- tough to choose just 3

3:34 Book One

7:18 Book Two

10:05 Book Three

14:57 How all three books relate to each other

17:32 Sharing Books with her teens

28:45 Choosing appropriate books to share with your kids

32:39 Brenda talks about her writing

37:37 Choosing books for the “to read” pile

44:09 What she is reading now

46:14 First library memories

51:04 Quotes



Brenda’s Three Books:

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee



Additional Titles Discussed:

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Death Note by Oba Tsugumi

Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya

Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto (Zabuza)

Monster by Naoki Urasawa

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Bear and The Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Discworld Series by Pratchett

The Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger

Murder At The Brightwell by Ashley Weaver

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Euphoria by Lily King



Brenda's Writing:

New Girl In Town

Enduring the Waking World

Drabble: The Secret Lives of Guinea Pigs



Watching:

The Americans