Episodes
Saturday Oct 04, 2008
Saturday Oct 04, 2008
Can the new Amazon Kindle be the answer to textbook weight woes?
Booktalk written and performed by Maggie Moran!
Friday Sep 26, 2008
Friday Sep 26, 2008
Just on a dare three college students climb a giant redwood and discover a whole ecosystem unknown to man!
Booktalk written and performed by Maggie Moran.
Sunday Sep 21, 2008
Sunday Sep 21, 2008
Mississippi autobiographies mentioned:
Richard Wright's Black Boy
Mildred Topp's Smile Please
Eudora Welty's One Writer's Beginnings
Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi
Edward Cohen's The Peddler’s Grandson
Kevin Sessums' Mississippi Sissy
Booktalk written and performed by Maggie Moran.
Sunday Sep 07, 2008
Sunday Sep 07, 2008
Why are we attracted to certain plants? Michael Pollan explains, through four different examples (apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato), mankind is swayed by sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control.
Booktalk written and performed by Maggie Moran.
Saturday Sep 06, 2008
Saturday Sep 06, 2008
The NWCC Reading Round Table met Aug 26, 2008 to discuss this book. A lot of thoughts hit the room, and many found it hard to be silent. Good Stuff! This is not an audio of the meeting, but rather a booktalk to encourage participants to read. This article appeared in the papers 2 weeks before we met.
Booktalk written and performed by Maggie Moran.
Wednesday Sep 03, 2008
Wednesday Sep 03, 2008
The perfect book in which to anchor The Southern Reading Challenge of 2008!
Book Talk written and performed by Maggie Moran.
Wednesday Sep 03, 2008
Wednesday Sep 03, 2008
New young adult (YA) fiction for 2008!
Book Talk written and performed by Maggie Moran.