This week we're talking about what we've been reading, and revisiting some favorites from childhood. Do our favorites still hold up? Or, are they better in memory like the film Beetlejuice? Website: https://randysbookreviews.com/ Rachel's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bookish.home.life/ Andy's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andy.does.books/ The books we talked about this week: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster - https://amzn.to/3TIu3gu And Then? And Then? What Else? by Daniel Handler - https://amzn.to/3vyIoEh Dark Matter by Blake Crouch - https://amzn.to/3vyu0Mb Olivetti by Allie Millington - https://amzn.to/49k45pi How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin - https://amzn.to/3vJfHo5 The Woman in Me by Britney Spears - https://amzn.to/3vJfWzv Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary - https://amzn.to/3TZG2YD Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Bloom - https://amzn.to/3VCEEMv The Wayside School by Louis Sachar - https://amzn.to/4aDJyNN Matilda by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3vnr2KE Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3TXOmYH Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3TVyGoK James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3TVyHsO The BFG by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3vB3sdf The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3TUjPLj The Twits by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/3PIccoO The Witches by Roald Dahl - https://amzn.to/4ayBo97 Homer Price by Robert McCloskey - https://amzn.to/3VGLErQ Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville - https://amzn.to/43GWOyP Dear America by Various Authors - https://amzn.to/3TFmQhd Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls - https://amzn.to/3TGK1aR Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - https://amzn.to/3Q6Ugof The Odyssey by Homer - https://amzn.to/3VAfFtn Interview With A Vampire by Anne Rice - https://amzn.to/3PNOrf1 The Old Man and the Sea by Papa Hemingway - https://amzn.to/43HtwAf The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne - https://amzn.to/3PKXgq2 Other favorites we didn't get a chance to mention: The Cooper Kids Adventure Series by Frank Peretti - https://amzn.to/3PLo2OV Forbidden Doors (https://amzn.to/3xb9S3a) and Wally McDoogle (https://amzn.to/3TGInpP) by Bill Myers The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket - https://amzn.to/3xhAIXz Redwall by Brian Jacques - https://amzn.to/4czU2PP The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper - https://amzn.to/3xeSAT0 The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis - https://amzn.to/3PEX4IY Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren - https://amzn.to/3xkq4zm The Heartwood Hotel Series by Kallie George - https://amzn.to/4agKQ1p The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews - https://amzn.to/49kPlGX Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse - https://amzn.to/4afvKcu Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan - https://amzn.to/49ol6yB *Note: we may receive a small compensation at no extra cost to you if you purchase a book through one of these links. Intro music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/an-open-book License code: 2LDHQQDS655YAJYX
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