Ep. 42 - Diane Neu: Books That Bring Back Childhood Bliss
Are you nostalgic about a book you read as a kid? What book from your childhood remains vivid in your mind? Our guest today, Diane Neu, hosts a podcast that explores that very question. The podcast titled Shaped by Stories features one avid reader each episode who talks about the book from their childhood or early adolescence that made the biggest impact on them and why. Diane had been a podcast fan for many years; in fact she’s been a podcast listener since almost the beginning of podcasts 12 years ago. But some changes in her own life convinced her there was no time like the present to start her own.
Diane talks to us about her very favorite spot to read when she was a child in small town Idaho, why she loves Jane Austen like no other, why reading children’s books as an adult is an important exercise, and how producing a podcast helped her find her special brand of “people” when she needed it most.
Books mentioned in this episode:
1- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
2- Betsy In Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace
3- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
4- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
5- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
6- No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
7- Neverworld Wake by Marrisha Pessl
8- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
9- The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
10- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
11- Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
12- Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
13- Same Sun Here by Silas House and Neela Vaswani
14- Emma by Jane Austen
15- Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
16- From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
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