Katy and Matt are joined by Kay White and Jovita Scrogin, who fill us in on reading while parenting, parenting while reading, the joys of audiobooks and fantasy, and so much more!
Episode image: Amy Carter and Jimmy Carter participate in a speed reading course at the White House, 1977 (cropped). Public domain image courtesy National Archives and Records Administration and Wikimedia Commons.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay
Want to learn more about the books, authors, shows, and films we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!
V. C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic
James Baldwin Giovanni's Room
Judy Blume Blubber
Judy Blume Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
Judy Blume Superfudge
Angeline Boulley Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley Warrior Girl Unearthed
Carl B. Boyer A History of Mathematics
Betsy Byars The Pinballs
Emily Chase The Girls of Canby Hall
David Crane & Marta Kauffman Friends
Franklin W. Dixon The Hardy Boys series
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov
Driven Lifestyle duPont REGISTRY
Walter Farley The Black Stallion
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
Louise Fitzhugh Harriet the Spy
David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest
Bette Greene Summer of My German Soldier
Marguerite Henry Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Robin Hobb Assassin's Apprentice
Heinrich Hoffmann Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures (English translation)
James Howe Bunnicula
James Joyce Ulysses
Tony Judt Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
Carolyn Keene Nancy Drew series
Stephen King The Dark Tower series
Stephen King The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King Holly
Stephen King Misery
Barbara Kingsolver Demon Copperhead
Harper Lee Go Set a Watchman
C. S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia
Laurie Lico Albanese Hester
Sarah J. Maas A Court of Thorns and Roses series
Christopher Maclehose, ed. Leopard II: Turning the Page
Gemma Marino Das wasserscheue Krokodil
George R. R. Martin A Game of Thrones
Ramón Menéndez & Tom Musca Stand and Deliver
Daniel Nayeri Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story)
Celeste Ng Little Fires Everywhere
Sigrid Nunez A Feather on the Breath of God
Sigrid Nunez The Friend
Christopher Paolini The Inheritance Cycle
Francine Pascal Sweet Valley High
Solveig Paulson Russell Jan und sein Zahn
The Princeton Review Princeton Grammar Smart
Annie Proulx Fen, Bog and Swamp
Rick Riordan Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter series
J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
Philippe Sands The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage
Cilly Schmitt Teichmann Die Struwelliese
Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are
A. F. Steadman Skandar and the Unicorn Thief series
Bernie Taupin Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me
J. R. R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings series
Sybille von Flüe Pingu e un bisogno urgente
Margery Williams The Velvetine Rabbit
Margaret Wise-Brown & Clement Hurd Goodnight Moon
