Russell, Rachel, and Rachael chat with our guest Michelle Larking, Secondary ELA teacher at Galileo Magnet High School and enthusiastic supporter of reading and literature. Michelle shares her recent reading journey in pursuit of meeting her Goodreads goal, Galileo’s new library at the John M. Langston campus, and whether humans will ever run out of new stories to tell. Russell certainly won’t and we don’t think authors will either.

Books we discuss include:

• “My Friends” and others by Frederik Backman
• “Monster in the Moonlight” by Annelise Ryan
• “The Correspondent" by Virginia Evans
• “Dear Mr. Henshaw” by Beverly Cleary
• “You Know Me All” by Ring Lardner
• “The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea” by Yukio Mishima, translated by John Nathan
• “The Elephant Vanishes” by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, Alfred Birnbaum
• “We All Want Impossible Things” and “Sandwich” by Catherine Newman
• “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”, “Evidence of the Affair” and others by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• “Abscond” by Abraham Verghese
• “Transcendent Gardening” by Ed Falco
• “We Are All Guilty Here” by Karin Slaughter
• “Blob” by Maggie Su
• “Poor Deer” and “Choette” by Claire Oshetsky
• “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
• “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia E. Butler
• “The Walking Dead” by Robert Kirkman, illustrated by Tony Moore
• Poetry by Langston Hughes
• “Kitchen” by Banana Yoshimoto
• “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah
• “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
• “A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon” by Kevin Fedarko
• “A Walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson
• “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop