Episode 118 - Time Capsules of Feeling and Memory with Jabril Yousef Faraj, author of Guardians of the Cosmic Clocks

On this episode, Jabril Yousef Faraj, author of the Guardians of the Cosmic Clocks, a young adult fantasy series, talks about their inspiration from their favorite books, why it’s so important to have stories that children can see themselves in, and what reading can do for humanity.    Guardians of the Cosmic Clocks Jabril’s Author Site Jabril on YouTube    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  John of John by Douglas Stuart  Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata   Books Highlighted by Jabril:  The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis  1984 by George Orwell  Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov  Rosehead by Ksenia Anske  The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin    All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad  Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs  The Odyssey by Homer  The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis  Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift  Teddy Roosevelt by Edd Winfield Parks & Gray Morrow  Twilight by Stephanie Meyer  A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens  The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley  The Giver by Lois Lowry  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle  Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card  Xenocide by Orson Scott Card  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins  Animal Farm by George Orwell