Reading With Our Eyes Shut [Guest Star Adrian Nester]

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