In this Unabridged podcast episode, we're talking with Katherine Center about her latest book, What You Wish For, which released on July 14th. Katherine shares her first experience as a writer, writing fan fic about Duran Duran, why clown socks are the most fashionable apparel, and how she sets out to fight for joy.
Bookish Check-in
Ashley - Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half
Jen - Jennifer Weiner’s Big Summer
Sara - Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds’s Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
Katherine - Will Storr's The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
Other Mentions
Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Brit Bennett's The Mothers
Katherine Center's Happiness for Beginners
Katherine Center's Things You Save in a Fire
Katherine Center's How to Walk Away
Katherine Center's The Lost Husband
Ingrid Fetell Lee’s Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
Katherine Center's thoughts on reading for joy on her website
Archie comics
Stranger than Fiction
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Season 5 Wrap Up
Teaching Tidbits - Jen with A Teacher’s Plan for Summer
Book-to-Film Adaptation Discussion:THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY
Shaffer and Barrows’s THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY - May 2022 Book Club
Our Historical Fiction Recs
Teaching Tidbit - Sara with the Creator Studio Add-On For Google Slides
Book-to-Film Adaptation Discussion: Lauren Weisberger’s THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
Angie Thomas’s CONCRETE ROSE - April 2022 Book Club
True Crime Recs to Dive Into This Year
Teaching Tidbits - Jen with Choosing Books
Book-to-Film Adaptation Discussion: Karen M. McManus’s ONE OF US IS LYING
Jenny Lawson’s FURIOUSLY HAPPY - March 2022 Book Club
All about the Backlist - Our Recs for Books Published Prior to 2000
Teaching Tidbits - Sara with 3 More Google Extensions
Our Recs for Books in Unusual Formats
Teaching Tidbits 29: The Power of Revision with Jen
Encore of Love Is in the Air 2021 - Our Latest Romance Book Recs
Helen Hoang’s THE HEART PRINCIPLE - February 2022 Book Club
Teaching Tidbits 28: Asana with Ashley
Book to Film Adaptation Discussion - Sally Thorne’s THE HATING GAME
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