Summary: Siân and Roger chat about one headmaster's desire to keep "literary fast food" out of classroom libraries. And skipping pages. They also talk a lot about skipping pages. https://www.kcs.org.uk/senior-school/head-masters-welcome/head-master-writes-sunday-times-blog Books we talk about CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye World War Z by Max Brooks The Dark Tower series by Stephen King The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Awakening by Kate Chopin American Gods by Neil Gaiman Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Babysitters Club series Ann M. Martin Sweet Valley High series by Francine Pascal Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night by Mark Haddon Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan People we talk about Elizabeth Law: https://twitter.com/ElawReads Gene Luen Yang Stephen King Horatio Alger Links Reading 'Harry Potter' Makes You A Better Person, Research Shows: http://www.businessinsider.com/harry-potter-teaches-empathy-2014-9 Read Roger on empathy study: http://www.hbook.com/2013/10/blogs/read-roger/science-aunt-fanny/ JK Rowling says she received ‘loads’ of rejections before Harry Potter successs: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/24/jk-rowling-tells-fans-twitter-loads-rejections-before-harry-potter-success Roger and Gene Luen Yang: http://www.hbook.com/2017/03/authors-illustrators/interviews/reading-without-walls-a-conversation-with-gene-luen-yang/ JK Rowling animation: http://www.spin1038.com/entertainment/this-animation-of-jk-rowlings-life-is-seriously-powerful
