• 36. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou (1969)
    Nov 13 2024

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    36 mins
  • Interview with EveryLibrary & PEN America's Freedom to Read
    Oct 30 2024

    Show up and speak up! Join us with EveryLibrary’s Peter Bromberg and PEN America’s Tasslyn Magnusson who are seeing how book bans are affecting authors, libraries, and kids.

    References

    * Fight for the First

    * Authors Against Book Bans

    * Let Utah Read

    Recommended books

    Activism

    * They Came for Our Schools, By Mike Hixenbaugh

    * That Librarian, by Amanda Jones

    * The Three Languages of Politics, by Arnold Kling

    Banned books

    * Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson

    * Gender Queer, by Maia Kobabe

    * Blood Water Paint, by Joy McCullough

    * Anything book by Lesléa Newman

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • 35. Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (2003)
    Oct 16 2024

    References

    Listen and subscribe to Burn This Book: A Banned Books Book Club. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a rating and review on Apple Podcast. This helps others find us, which will promote our mission to make banned books more accessible to all readers.

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    39 mins
  • 34. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong (2019) feat. Alyanna Padilla
    Oct 2 2024

    References

    https://dvan.org/2019/08/book-review-on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous/

    https://geoffwhaley.com/2020/08/14/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous-ocean-vuong/

    https://fictionwritersreview.com/review/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous-by-ocean-vuong/

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    1 hr
  • Season 3 Reading List!
    Sep 18 2024

    This season…

    * On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong

    * Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi

    * I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou

    * Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson

    * Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson

    * Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer

    * Gossip Girl (#1), by Cecily von Ziegesar

    * Bone, by Jeff Smith

    * The Agony of Alice (#1), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    * For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway

    * The House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende

    * Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison

    If there’s a book you want to talk about this season, contact us at burnthisbookpodcast@gmail.com.

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    4 mins
  • 33. The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas (2017)
    Sep 4 2024

    Please join us

    References

    * Adriana E. Ramirez on why readers love ‘The Hate U Give’ - LA Times

    *https://youtu.be/OOac2vjHuyY

    *http://www.apache-stronghold.com/

    *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1gNYFka1-s&t=1637s

    *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhmpQkEj3I8

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    41 mins
  • Rekindling: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume (1970)
    Aug 21 2024

    Nicolle and Eden discuss Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, which has be challenged over two decades since the American Library Association began tracking in the ‘90s.

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    38 mins
  • 32. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison (1970) feat. Camille Price
    Aug 7 2024

    References

    * Toni Morrison's legacy of language

    * Toni Morrison’s prose peels back the pain, beauty of Black experience

    * Toni Morrison’s Profound and Unrelenting Vision

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    56 mins