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You know what occurred to me neither of my kids have ever had to do a book report.

Wow. Can you believe it? My oldest is in seventh grade. I remember

giving oral book reports like having to stand in front of the class and give a book report. Yeah, it's all we ever did starting

in first grade.

When I was in seventh grade, everyone had to find a memoir

or a biography from the library in my Catholic school

and do a book report on it.

And I chose the singer Meat Loaf and read his memoir and learned so much everyone else was doing like famous Catholic whatever yeah or like politicians yeah and I was like you guys ever heard in Paradise by the dashboard like

I'm going for a rock-year worlds.

That's awesome.

That is so funny.

Well a friend once told me how when he was in school like elementary and middle school that

whenever he had to do a book report he would just read the first few pages you

know maybe a chapter he talked about whatever happened in that little section and then he'd always

end every report with, and if you want to know more, you'll just have to read the book.

And that's going to be a recurring theme on this episode because we are talking about a new book that has way more than we could ever cover in a single show.

Ann Powers, Marissa Lu Russo, the book from In Piar Music that's out now, it's called How Women Made Music a Revolutionary

History and it is this collection of essays and archival interviews that go really as far back as 50 years ago from NPR,

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