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Marjory Hall

Marjory Hall

HPPR Radio Readers Book Club Contributor

Marjory Hall is an Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma Panhandle State University in Goodwell, Oklahoma. Her lifelong love of reading led her to earning a Bachelor of Arts in English, summa cum laude, and a Master of Liberal Arts in English at Henderson State University in southwest Arkansas. She later earned a Doctorate of Biblical Studies in another abiding interest, theology. She has taught English since 2005, moving to Panhandle State in 2021. She teaches Freshman Composition and Advanced Composition as well as a variety of literature classes including Dystopian Literature, Introduction to World Literature, and Multicultural Literature. In her spare time, Marjory reads – a lot - and enjoys many types of needlework.

  • The sad clown paradox is the contradictory association, in performers, between comedy and mental disorders such as depression and anxiety. Family relations are often contribute to and are examples of the sad clown paradox. Here, the Polish artist Jan Matejko illustrates the concept in this 1862 painting titled Stanczyk.
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    What’s so True?
    Marjory Hall
    Greetings from Goodwell in the Oklahoma Panhandle! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Series. Don’t you think most people have been taught that rhetorical questions are great attention-grabbers? After all, such questions immediately invite the reader into the conversation.
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    Nowhere but Down
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    Hi! I’m Marjory Hall back again with a BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Series. There are few names in young adult fiction that command as much respect as Jason Reynolds, and that is for good reason. Reynolds is reported to have absorbed poetry by exposure to the lyrics of the rap music he loved, not reading a prose novel until he was seventeen years of age.
  • Combined flag of the Celtic nations
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    Old Roots
    Marjory Hall
    Greetings from the Oklahoma Panhandle! I’m Marjory Hall in Goodwell with a BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Series. In The Blue Book of Nebo, his Welsh identity is foundational to Dylan’s worldview.
  • Dylan and Rowenna live their lives with courage and optimism, seeing each seeing each page “blank and wide, like a new day.”
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    Living Well
    Marjory Hall
    Greetings from Goodwell, in the Oklahoma Panhandle! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Series. What are the criteria by which we determine whether a life is so-called good or bad?
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    Daniel’s Perfect Storm
    Marjory Hall
    Hello from Goodwell, Oklahoma! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Series. One component of the American Dream is choosing one’s home in the location of one’s choice. If the youthful narrator of Daniel Nayeri’s book Everything Sad Is Untrue was permitted to make this choice, I suspect he would have chosen to remain in Iran, in the comfortable home of his earliest childhood.
  • Fairy tales from the Arabian nights. E. Dixon [ed.] J. D. Batten [ill.] New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons. c.1915
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    Fairy Tale Endings
    Marjory Hall
    Hello, High Plains! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Series. At first glance, the title Everything Sad Is Untrue might strike one as a bit of clichéd wishful thinking. The more I think about it, though, the more it seems right in line with all I know about fairy tales.
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    Compass Rose
    Marjory Hall
    Hello, High Plains! I’m Marjory Hall from Goodwell, Oklahoma with a BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Series. Years ago, I was fortunate enough to attend an event in which Maya Angelou spoke to a full-house audience at my university.
  • Everything Sad is Untrue: (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri, 2020
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    Book Leader Marjory Hall Discusses "Everything Sad is Untrue"
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    Featuring tales of his family’s history stretching back for years and centuries, we learn Nayeri’s story of attending middle school as an immigrant in Oklahoma. This story ranged from Persia to refugee camps in Italy and finally to asylum in the U.S.
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    Relevanter and Relevanter!
    Marjory Hall
    Greetings from Goodwell, Oklahoma! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for the Radio Readers Book Club. It might seem silly to revisit a book just for love of it when there are so many great books waiting out there. Like most bibliophiles, though, I have some that I will continue to re-read.