Marjory Hall

Hi, I’m Marjory Hall from Goodwell, Oklahoma with a Summer BookByte! Sometimes life gives us unexpected bonuses, like when you find a $20 bill forgotten in a pocket or when your favorite store has a buy one/get one special. For me, Olivia Hawker’s novel The Stars and Their Light was just that sort of happy surprise.

Greetings from Goodwell in the Oklahoma Panhandle! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Series. Words are important. The words we use reflect how we perceive the world and how we react to it. We can choose whether that perception is positive and accepting or negative, rejecting people and experiences without really giving them much consideration.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.