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Beware the wheelers

Beware the wheelers

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Russell, Rachel, and Rachael chat with our guest Susanne Bell, Senior Program Officer at Danville Regional Foundation, about setting realistic reading goals, recommending the right book, and a horrifying movie adaptation of one of our favorite childhood classics.
Susanne created a wonderful reference for the books she shared with us.

Childhood reads:

  • “Make Way for Ducklings” by author and illustrator Robert McCloskey
  • “Three Little Kittens” by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen
  • “Anne of Green Gables” or anything by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • “Ozma of Oz” by L. Frank Baum

Novels:

  • “Excellent Women” by Barbara Pym
  • “A Spool of Blue Thread” by Anne Tyler
  • “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi
  • “Should We Stay or Should We Go” by Lionel Shriver

Short Story Collections:

  • “Light Action in the Caribbean” by Barry Lopez (especially “Construction of the Rachel”)
  • “The Thing Around Your Neck” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • “Fidelity” by Wendell Berry (especially “Pray Without Ceasing”)

Other titles we discuss:

  • “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” by Stephen Graham Jones
  • "Commonwealth” by Anne Tyler
  • “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
  • “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexie
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