Certain types of people remember summer defining books the way others remember summer defining songs. I am one of the book people. Actually, I might be both types. (Summer, 1993, every song on Indigo Girls’ Rites of Passage album.)
Anyway, I’m on The Mid this week talking about some of the summer defining books I remember from high school and college. I’m also talking about why I don’t care what my kids read this summer, as long as they read something.
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Nina Badzin hosts the top 1% podcast Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship. She's been writing about friendship since 2014 and has had friendship advice in NPR, WSJ, Real Simple Magazine, The Daily Skim, The Guardian, The Telegraph UK, Time Magazine, and elsewhere.
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