Sometime around mid-March, my Earth Mother alter ego kicked in and has since gone into overdrive. Every few days, a malodorous smell wafts from the kitchen—that's the sourdough starter telling me it's ready for attention. I've lost count of how many pics of flowery-patterned loaves I've posted on Instagram. Gone are the bookish images and texts that filled my feed pre-COVID. If I can't eat it, grow it, or walk it, the image isn’t getting posted. I'm not saying my bibliophile persona has gone AWOL. Instead, I'm on a rereading binge; a compulsive need to be comforted by characters dear to my heart and familiar faraway lands.
This episode took me to Nantucket, Massachusetts, a place I’d love to visit. I chat with Wendy Morton, owner of Mitchell’s Book Corner, and local children’s author and illustrator, Wendy Rouillard.
Here’s a list of links, authors, and books mentioned in this podcast.
· Mitchell’s Book Corner & Nantucket Bookworks
· Nantucket Chamber of Commerce
· Isabel Wilkerson – author of Caste
· Ibram X. Kendi – author of How To Be An Antiracist
· Daniel Silva – author of The Order
· Libro.fm – audiobooks
· Ruth Bader Ginsburg – I Know This to Be True
· Wendy Rouillard and Barnaby Bear
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