Russell, Rachel, and Rachael chat with our guest Bill Guerrant, local goatherd, Vice President of Pittsylvania Historical Society, and author of four books including “Jim Wrenn” and “Let a Pillar Arise”. We discuss reading in all its many varieties, including newspapers and the dictionary and the importance of keeping historical research alive.

Books we discuss include:

• “A Primer for Star Gazers” by Henry M. Neely
• The Dictionary
• “Nine Who Survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki” by Robert Trumbull
• “Baudolino” by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
• “Looking for Class” by Bruce Feiler
• “Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War” by Maury Klein

View Bill Guerrant's works:

• A Daily Dose of History
• A Daily Dose of the American Rev
• Novels by William Guerrant on Amazon
• Novels by William Guerrant at the library

Russell, Rachel, and Rachael chat about our November reading challenge, books about a historic event. We discuss the wide range of topics, genres and time periods this challenge encompasses and what history can teach us about the time we are living in now.

Books we discuss include:

• “War Games” by Alan Gratz
• “Grenade” by Alan Gratz
• **Fact check: The character in this book lives on the island of Okinawa.
• “By Any Other Name” by Jodi Picoult
• “The House Is on Fire” by Rachel Beanland
• “Yonder” by Ali Standish
• “The Dictionary of Lost Words” by Pip Williams
• “The Demon of Unrest” by Erik Larson
• “Future Boy” by Michael J. Fox
• “The Hacienda” by Isabel Cañas
• “Stalking Jack the Ripper” by Kerri Maniscalco
• “Woods Runner” by Gary Paulsen
• “They Called Us Enemy” by George Takei
• “Wicked Danville” by Frankie Y. Bailey and Alice Green

Get hype! It’s the BRO SHOW! (air horn sounds)
Russell, and also the Rach(a)els, chat with returning guests Scott Longerbeam and Charles Perkins about life, the universe, and every reading rabbit we could possibly chase.

Books we discuss include:

• “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams
• “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll
• “American Rapture” by C.J. Leede
• “The Priory of the Orange Tree” by Samantha Shannon
• “Death Without Company” by Craig Johnson
• “The Witcher” series by Andrzej Sapkowski
• “The Book Eaters” by Sunyi Dean
• “The Passage” by Justin Cronin
• “The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston
• “Jim Wrenn” by William Guerrant
• “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London