Russell Reads with the Rach(a)els

Reading With Our Eyes Shut [Guest Star Adrian Nester]

• Russell Carter, Rachel Timm, Rachael Miller • Season 3 • Episode 10

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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
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Rachael Miller

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Rachel Timm

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Russell Carter

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