Life can get crazy this time of year. We're here with you! Join Molly and Jamie as they talk it out and then talk about books. This week's discussion dives into those formative books we read in high school and the importance of English classes. Everyday customers in the bookstore are talking about the titles that impacted them in school and the ladies are sharing a few of their own.

What are they reading?
Jamie
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
Molly
Emmett by L C Rosen

Other title from this episode:
The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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Catch up with Molly and Jamie this week as they get passionate about Banned Books Week happening September 22nd through the 28th. Lake City Books will be offering 10% off all banned books in the store to encourage people to support these books and their authors. Be sure to check out the links below for more resources about banned books.

What are they reading?
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
NIGHT by Elie Wiesel

Also mentioned...
Flamer by Mike Curato

Resources:
https://pen.org/book-bans/
https://bannedbooksweek.org/
https://www.everylibraryinstitute.org/book_censorship_database_magnusson
https://www.ala.org/bbooks

Citing risk to Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night,’ Iowa judge blocks key parts of state book ban law

Molly and Jamie talk with Wisconsin Author Laura Anne Bird about her newest Middle Grade novel Marvelous Jackson out this week! There is so much in this episode including a peek into the Wisconsin Book Festival as Laura serves as Ambassador for yet another year. Laura also brings Midwest readers and writers together with The Great Midwest Book Group (follow them on Instagram) and shares the richness of Midwest literature. This episode has everything!!

Marvelous Jackson by Laura Anne Bird
Crossing the Pressure Line by Laura Anne Bird

What is Laura Reading?...
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley
Olivetti by Allie Millington