by Lis Hedger | Jun 21, 2023 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Show Notes Lisa discusses Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder and how her opinions have changed. This article from PBS delves into how handle these books with racist descriptions. NPR wrote about how a division of the American Library Association...
by Lis Hedger | Jun 14, 2023 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Show Notes Lisa and her guest avid reader Faith Eck have a fun and musical conversation about Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. This is an extraordinarily popular book and received many positive attributes. This article in the New York Times discusses...
by Lis Hedger | Jun 7, 2023 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Show Notes Lisa discusses Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, published in 2022 and an overnight success. The book focuses on Scientist Elizabeth Zott, who struggles in the early 1960s with a sexist all-male research team at the Hastings Research Institute. The...
by Lis Hedger | May 31, 2023 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Show Notes Lisa analyzes the latest book bannings with Amanda Gorman’s poem The Hill We Climb being banned in one Florida elementary. The restriction is because one parent who cited the poem had indirect hate speech. In this NPR article, the parent’s petition is...
by Lis Hedger | May 24, 2023 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Show Notes Lisa discusses The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller, which is a bestseller book focused on Elle, a married mother who has an affair with her longtime friend. The book goes back and forth into the past and present day highlighting the family’s time on...
by Lis Hedger | May 10, 2023 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Show Notes On this special Mother’s Day Episode, Lisa talks with her Mom, Carleen Shidler and her daughter Liz Hedge. Each share their reading journey and how the types of books they read have changed over time. Books Discussed: Chesapeake by James A. Michener...
