Booking Back
Penn & Friends
Do you long for those schoolyard days where you had all the time in the world to finish a good book? This podcast revisits the books that gave us happiness as children and maybe even later as adults!
Episodes
Monster: "They're strangers but they still find reasons to hurt each other."April 30, 2024
The Joy Luck Club: "Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever."March 26, 2024
Flowers for Algernon: "There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin."February 27, 2024
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."January 30, 2024
A Christmas Story: "I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan."December 27, 2023
The Polar Express: "...the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe."December 19, 2023
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: "And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore."December 12, 2023
A Christmas Carol: "God bless us every one!"December 05, 2023
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing: "I thought how great it would be if we could trade in Fudge for a nice cocker spaniel."November 28, 2023
How to Eat Fried Worms: "You're a bastard."November 21, 2023
The Fantastic Mr. Fox: "I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice."November 14, 2023
Crash: "Did you know your son's a Quaker?November 07, 2023
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: "He was, in fact, an odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity."October 31, 2023
The Haunting of Hill House Pt 2: "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are."October 24, 2023
The Haunting of Hill House Pt 1: "Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?"October 17, 2023
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Pt. 2October 10, 2023
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Pt. 1October 03, 2023
The Tell-Tale Heart: "I smiled,—for what had I to fear?"September 26, 2023
A Rose for Emily: "All the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches."September 19, 2023
The Most Dangerous Game: "There is no greater bore than perfection."September 12, 2023
The Lottery: "It isn't fair, it isn't right!"September 05, 2023
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: "Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing."April 04, 2023
Breaking Dawn: "Life sucks, and then you die"March 28, 2023
Eclipse: "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse"March 21, 2023
New Moon: "They call her my singer--because her blood sings for me."March 14, 2023