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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 108 – Culling Books and Forcening The Color Purple

Lo, I have triumphed against the odds and am bringing you this episode on Wednesday, albeit a scootch later than I intended. This time, we’re talking about culling books (if, why, when, and how) and kicking off the 2018 Forcening with Alice Walker’s classic and one of my all-time favorite books, The Color Purple.

The Color Purple

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Episode 108

Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around.

1:00 – What we’re reading
2:18 – What we’re learning
6:05 – LOTR Reread: The Two Towers, Book 3, Chapters 6-11
15:53 – Culling books!
27:37 – The Third Annual Forcening commences with Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
48:24 – What we’re reading for next time

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Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcripts by: Sharon of Library Hungry

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Booking Through Thursday

I like this one: This can be a quick one. Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. So here are my fifteen books that will always stick with me, more or less in the order in which they entered my life: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte Emily Climbs, L.M .Montgomery Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card Macbeth, William Shakespeare The Chosen, Chaim Potok The Color Purple, Alice Walker Harry Potter and…

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The Color Purple, Alice Walker

You know what I don’t understand? I don’t understand why The Color Purple is so ridiculously awesome, and why when there are all these really subpar books running around, why people don’t just go ahead and read The Color Purple all the time. Why don’t people just read The Color Purple all the time, and forget about that Atonement crap? The Color Purple. Wow. When I was young, my mother had told me once that The Color Purple was one of her favorite books of all time, and I remember her telling me her favorite line (“White folks is a…

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