Russell, Rachel, and Rachael chat with our guest Adrian Nester, English Department chair at Tunstall Highschool, and self-admitted library girlie. We discuss cutting edge reading technology such as audiobooks on cassette and magazines on sticks, our newest idea for a party bus for reading(™), and the importance of formats like audiobooks and graphic novels to make reading accessible and enjoyable for all.

Books/Authors we discuss include:

• “Nancy Drew Mystery Stories” series by Carolyn Keene (a pseudonym for various ghostwriters, notably Mildred Wirt)
• “Sweet Valley Twins” series by Jamie Suzanne, created by Francine Pascal
• “Horse” by Geraldine Brooks
• “The Marriage Portrait” by Maggie O’Farrell
• “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck
• “Their Eyes Are Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston
• “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë
• “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” by Thomas Hardy
• “Tuck Everlasting” by Natalie Babbitt
• “Goosebumps” series by R.L. Stine
• “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” by Stephen Graham Jones
• “Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders” by Vincent Bugliosi
• “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad
• “They Called Us Enemy” by George Takei, illustrated by Harmony Becker
• “Vanity Fair” by William Makepeace Thackeray
• “Patron Saints of Nothing” by Randy Ribay
• “Knuffle Bunny” by Mo Willems