Summary: Podcast the fifth, in which Siân and Roger talk about "boy books," physical therapy, and Tibetan Eye Charts (and Siân misremembers The Case of the Sad Puppies) Books we talk about Jesse Andrews, The Haters Lindsay Ribar, Rocks Fall Everyone Dies J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter series R. L. Stine, Goosebumps series Somali Dev, The Bollywood Bride Megan McDonald, Judy Moody series and Stink series Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Philip Pullman, Dark Materials series People we talk about Marc Aronson Betty Carter John Scieszka John Green Andrew Smith (Curious Case of Andrew Smith: http://www.yainterrobang.com/the-curious-case-of-andrew-smith-twitter-sexism/) Debbie Taylor Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl Lee Child, Jack Reacher series Things we talk about Siân mentions the Ivory Billed Woodpecker and here’s a cool book starring them. Kind of… John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back 2007 Girls and Boys issue of the Horn Book Magazine Guinness Book of World Records 30 Rock (woot!) Nerdfighters: http://www.nerdfighteria.com/ Tom Barron (T. A. Barron), Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes: http://barronprize.org/ Five questions for T. A. Barron: http://www.hbook.com/2015/04/blogs/read-roger/what-else-do-you-do-five-questions-for-t-a-barron/#_ Do Teens Read Seriously Anymore?: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/books-smell-like-old-people-the-decline-of-teen-reading Lee and Low stats: http://blog.leeandlow.com/2016/01/26/where-is-the-diversity-in-publishing-the-2015-diversity-baseline-survey-results/#more-11897 i09: http://io9.gizmodo.com/ Great piece about the sad and rabid puppies (and much better clarification than Siân’s misremembered history): http://www.npr.org/2015/08/26/434644645/how-the-sad-puppies-won-by-losing The Hugo Awards: http://www.thehugoawards.org/ Do the Tibetan Eye Chart thing! Tibetan Eye Chart: http://www.hangthebankers.com/improve-your-vision-naturally-with-a-tibetan-eye-chart/
