Ep 8: The power of books, English major favorites, and what makes a great YA novel
What Should I Read Next?
Anne Bogel
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Ann Bogall and this is What Should I Read Next Episode 8? |
| 0:15.1 | Welcome to the show that's dedicated to answering the question that plagues every reader. |
| 0:19.1 | What should I read next? We don't get bossy on this show. What we will do here is give you the |
| 0:24.2 | information you need to choose your next read. Every week we'll talk all things books and reading |
| 0:29.0 | and do a little literary matchmaking with one guest. Before we do that have you signed up for |
| 0:34.1 | the What Should I Read Next newsletter? Just go to WhatShouldI Read Next to podcast.com slash newsletter |
| 0:39.9 | and subscribe to make sure you don't miss out. Today's guest is Preston Yancy. Preston is a writer, |
| 0:45.6 | a baker, and is in the process of becoming an Anglican priest. To dispel any stereotypes you may |
| 0:50.5 | have about that, he also loves HBO, TVO, Good Wine, and the Nanny Diaries. He's the author of two books |
| 0:56.8 | currently out, Tables in the Wilderness, and Out of the House of Bread. Preston and I have a great |
| 1:01.3 | conversation about why he reads what makes a good young adult novel, his hatred of a certain 18th |
| 1:06.5 | century novelist, and of course what he should read next. Preston, welcome to the show. |
| 1:14.9 | Hi, thanks for having me. Preston, you're a well-rounded guy, so you're an academic like your degrees |
| 1:21.1 | blow my mind. You're a writer. You're a blocker again, right? Sort of. We might talk about that. |
| 1:28.5 | Your husband, a parent, I know you have a long relationship with books and reading, and I was intrigued |
| 1:32.7 | by something you said in your memoir, Tables in the Wilderness. You wrote, my father believed in |
| 1:37.9 | the power of books, which I think has everything to do with who I have become. Unpack that for a |
| 1:42.9 | little for us. Tell us why you've been. Sure, I read because I feel I don't feel self-conscious |
| 1:54.1 | about the clicheness of this answer other than it's just it's a cliché answer. You want to |
| 1:59.2 | understand the world. Milton in his Paradise Lost, which I could both do without and love at the |
| 2:07.6 | same time. At one point he has Adam say to one of the angels who's explaining the creation to him |
| 2:16.8 | before Adam came into existence because he wasn't present to know how creation happened. The angel |
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