Episode 174: Listenersode #3!
/Listenersode #3!
Happy holidays and happy (almost) new year!
To wrap up 2021, we’re once again inviting SSR listeners to join the fun on the show! Listeners share about their favorite childhood books, the books the pod has ruined for them (sorry!), the books they’ve discovered from SSR, the books they’d most liked to see adapted for film or TV, and so much more.
CHECK OUT THE BOOKS + SSR EPISODES REFERENCED ON THE EPISODE:
What was your favorite book as a tween or teen? Why did you love it so much?
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Episode 89: Don’t Die, My Love (with Hitha Palepu)
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Have you had any surprising or interesting experiences rereading a book from your childhood?
I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls #1) by Ally Carter (Episode 93)
Stuart Little by E.B. White (Episode 154)
Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Episode 57)
Which book were you most excited to hear held up on the podcast? Which were you most bummed to hear didn’t hold up?
Superfudge by Judy Blume (Episode 92)
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Episode 87)
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Episode 9 | Episode 140)
It’s time to share dissenting opinions! What have I gotten wrong on the pod?
Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park (Episode 170)
What middle grade/YA book would you most like to see (re-)adapted for film or TV?
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend (Episode 72)
Camp by L.C. Rosen (Episode 169)
Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson
Save the Date by Morgan Matson
What’s one book you hope SSR covers in the future? Why?
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Judy Moody Was in a Mood by Megan McDonald
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers by Marisa Crawford and Megan Milks
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
What book(s) have you discovered through the pod that you didn’t read when you were younger?
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott (Episode 104)
Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott (Episode 104)
Misfit in Love by S.K. Ali (Episode 153)
Blackout by Angie Thomas, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Nicola Yoon, and Ashley Woodfolk (Episode 136)
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Episode 159)
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Episode 43)
What books would you recommend to the rest of the SSR community?
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan
Amina’s Song by Hena Khan
More to the Story by Hena Khan
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