Listen "Reading While Parenting: Jovita Scrogin and Kay White"
Episode Synopsis
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! Hanif Abdurraqib Sherman Alexie Isabel Allende V. C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic Fredrik Backman 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 Louise Erdrich 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 John Irving 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 Jon Krakauer 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 Dav Pilkey Dogman series 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
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