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This week Amie and Tami each chose a book that 'checks off' a box on their 21 in 2021 Reading Challenge (click here if you still need one). Amie chose Jack by Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005. Robinson revisits the community of Gilead, Iowa this time telling the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister. Tami read The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams, a recommendation given to us on Episode 53 by guest Debi Stears, Librarian and Collection Development Manager for the Washoe County Library System. Interested in the OED (The Oxford English Dictionary)?

Here are a few links for those of you who want more information:

About the OED - here

Welcome to the OED Blog - here

Mountweasels - More from the New Yorker here

Books Mentioned

The Great American Read: The Book of Books: Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels by PBS from the Great American Read hosted by Meredith Vieira

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Red Wheelbarrow and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams

Patterson by William Carlos Williams

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

Lila by Marilynne Robinson

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Attrib. and other stories by Eley Williams

Sites Mentioned

Carmichael's Bookstore

Writers' Workshop - University of Iowa

Washoe County Library