Oh, the places we went: GenX & books

GenX Stories

This week, the gang talks about books, books, and more books. The ones we loved reading as kids, the ones we shouldn't have read as kids, the books that shaped us how we grew up and what role books & reading plays now in our increasingly digital world.

Between rolling into the Scholastic book fairs, paying fines from overdue library books, sneaking forbidden books as a teenager and audio books vs old school reading, jump into to the land of make believe and imagination with us. Call us geeks, call us bookworms but don’t cancel our library card because we have opinions.
Episode links

• A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 1980s
• 17 Required High School Books We Ended Up Loving
• 30 Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once In Their Lives
• The Golden Booksgoldenbooks.com/
• Dr. Seuss
• Richard Scarry books
• Highlights magazine
• Scholastic Book Fair
• William Stieg
• Mr. Nosey
• Shel Silverstein
• Judy Blume
• The Enduring Allure of Choose Your Own Adventure Books
• Is Listening to Audiobooks Really Reading?
• As Book Bans Escalate, Here’s What You Need to Know
• Book Review: The Tales of Generation X Feel as Poignant Now as in the 1990s
• Prince Harry will read audiobook of his memoir which promises to be 'candid and powerful'
• Little Free Library

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