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Revisions, How Our Favorite Books Change Us

Revisions, How Our Favorite Books Change Us

por Jen Nails

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Temporada 1

"The Girl in the Mirror," Jen discovers Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Brave (1975)

Welcome to Revisions. In this first episode, I will talk about trying to impress my third grade teacher, Mrs. Cormier, and discovering the book that opened the door to reading for me: Ramona the Brave, the book that opened the door to reading for me. Beverly Cleary

"This is Something You Should Know," Kelsey discovers Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)

Fellow librarian Kelsey Mazmanyan shares what happens when she and her stepdad compete to finish Goblet of Fire first. Book recommendations based on this episode!

"I Am Very Young," John Ross Bowie discovers Judy Blume's Then Again, Maybe I Won't (1971)

Notorious JRB (No Job for a Man, Big Bang Theory) finds himself in Blume's Tony Miglione, who battles anxiety and panic during the year that his dad strikes it rich and his family moves from Jersey to Long Island. Book recommendations based on this episode!

"There's Hope on the Far Side," Ellen Hopkins discovers The Hobbit (1937)

NYT Bestseller and most banned author Hopkins (Crank, Sync) shares her sixth-grade discovery of Tolkien's classic and explores how the novel influenced her development as a writer. Book recommendations based on this episode!

"For the Dweebs," Chris Grabenstein discovers MAD Magazine (1952)

NYT Bestseller (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, Stinky's Stories) Chris shares his joyful discovery in seventh grade of MAD Magazine which he subscribed to as a kid, back when the mag came in the mail wrapped in a brown paper bag (like porn). Book recommendations based on this episode! The 1989 Super Bowl ad that Chris worked on!

"I Didn't Even Know You Could Do It For Fun," Negin Farsad discovers Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

Superstar comedian Negin Farsad (How to Make White People Laugh, Fake the Nation) discusses growing up Muslim American in Palm Springs but learning the bones of comedy from Roth's Portnoy, a teenaged schmegegge from Newark. Book recommendations based on this episode!

"The Frog-March," Kimberly Brubaker Bradley and the Tasha-Tudor-illustrated Secret Garden (1911)

Newbery winner Kim (The War That Saved My Life, Fighting Words) recalls taking the ten bucks her grandma sent her during freshman year at Smith and buying a copy of the Secret Garden (instead of beer or ramen). Book recommendations based on this episode!

"The Heartwarming Story of a Boy and his Cookbook," Dana Snyder and the ham loaf (Betty Crocker, 1969)

Comedian/voice actor Dana Snyder (SpongeBob, Aqua Teen Hunger Force) discusses his attachment to the Foxfire Books, ham loaves, vintage menus, and collecting books that he's written in, inside the margins. Book recommendations based on this episode!

Temporada 2

"The Think Tank," Jen joyfully reverse-ages to seventh grade while re-reading The Glad Man (Gloria Gonzalez, 1975).

A weird and wonderful book conjures seventh grade Jen in "the library" of her home. Las Vegas-Clark County Library District Jen's website & IG Jen's novel, One Hundred Spaghetti Strings (HarperCollins, 2017), will represent Nevada at the National Book Festival in DC on September 6, 2025!

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