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Books Are My People
Reading About Adventure and Drawing Your Adventures with Samantha Dion Baker
This week, we speak with the delightful Samantha Dion Baker, artist and author of Draw Your Adventures: Making Art to Celebrate Everyday Experiences and Travel Near and Far.
This episode is sponsored by The Housekeeper’s Secret by Sandra Schnakenburg.
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Guest author recommendation from Jessica Francis Kane, author of Fonseca.
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Books Discussed:
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
This Motherless Land by Nikki May
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
How to Read A Book by Monica Wood
The Guest by Emma Cline
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I hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!