Booking Back
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!
Podcasting since 2022 • 76 episodes
Booking Back
Latest Episodes
The Namesake: " Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go."
Penn and Joy discuss Jhumpa Lahiri's ground-breaking novel "The Namesake," a coming of age story of an Indian-American kid growing up 1st generation. Watch Nikhil/Gogol as he grows up outside of Boston to discovering himself in New York C...
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Episode 68
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41:29
The Face on the Milk Carton: "She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion."
Penn and Joy discuss this cut classic by Caroline B. Cooney, which riveted the imaginations of teens across the country. After all, don't all kids wonder if they're secretly adopted? Whether you watched the Lifetime movie or read the novel as a...
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Episode 67
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49:39
Monster: "They're strangers but they still find reasons to hurt each other."
Penn and Joy talk "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers. A story unique in that it is a first time read for both ladies, it is a highly acclaimed and highly banned book in America. When Black teenager Steve is falsely accused of participating in a mur...
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Episode 66
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56:00
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."
Penn and Joy discuss the classic "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan. The complicated relationship between mother and daughter transcends any culture. From tales of the mothers in China, to their adaptation to America, and to the struggle of t...
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Episode 65
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49:42
Flowers for Algernon: "There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin."
Cry with Joy and Penn as they discuss Daniel Keyes classic work "Flowers for Algernon." Can you imagine science making you smarter, changing your life, and to lose it all? That is the heartbreak of this short story turned novel.
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Episode 64
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55:48