最佳Must Reads播客 (2024)

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Martin's Must Reads: 'A Girl Named Zippy' 1:40

6d ago1:40

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I’m Betty Martin with "Martin’s Must Reads" and Haven Kimmel’s autobiography A Girl Named Zippy took me back to those glorious days of childhood freedom and innocence. Haven grew up in the 1960’s in the small town of Mooreland, Indiana, population 300. Her book is about her life from birth through age 10.…

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Martin's Must-Reads: 'The Good Neighbor' 1:42

13d ago1:42

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“It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?”由Betty Martin

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Martin's Must Reads: 'Virgil Wander' 1:44

20d ago1:44

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This week, Betty reviews Leif Enger’s newest book Virgil Wander. Enger is a master storyteller and this book does not disappoint.由Betty Martin

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Martin's Must Reads: 'Lessons from Lucy' 1:43

27d ago1:43

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Years ago when we enjoyed life with a scrappy Jack Russell terrier named Little Bit, we had a poster hanging on our refrigerator that reminded us of life lessons to learn from her. Things like “live in the moment” and “don't’ hold grudges” and “show compassion.”由Betty Martin

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Martin's Must-Reads: "The Frozen River" 1:48

1M ago1:48

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“The body floats downstream. But it is late November, and the Kennebec River is starting to freeze, large chunks of ice swirling and tumbling through the water, collecting in mounds while clear, cold fingers of ice stretch out from either bank, reaching into the current, grabbing hold of all that passes by."…

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Martin's Must-Reads: "A Court of Thorns and Roses" 1:45

1M ago1:45

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“The forest had become a labyrinth of snow and ice. I’d been monitoring the parameters of the thicket for an hour, and my vantage point in the crook of a tree branch had turned useless."由Betty Martin

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Martin's Must-Reads: "James" 1:44

2M ago1:44

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“That evening I sat down with Lizzie and six other children in our cabin and gave a language lesson. These were indispensable."由Betty Martin

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Martin's Must-Reads: "The Other Mothers" 1:41

2M ago1:41

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“London Evening Post, November 21, 2017. A warning about the dangers of open-water swimming has been issued following the death of a young woman at a local nature reserve. Sophie Blake, twenty-one, went missing on the evening of July 7, 2017."由Betty Martin

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Martin's Must-Reads: "Off the Books" 1:45

2M ago1:45

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“She examines him again, this immaculate twenty something, his tall form folded into the back seat with the large suitcase he’s kept beside him, opting to fill the trunk with smaller things: his tablet and laptop, backpack, duﬀel, cooler bag. Miserable yet sincere."由Betty Martin

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Martin's Must-Reads: "The Princess of Las Vegas" 1:45

2M ago1:45

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“I’m going to tell you what happened in Las Vegas, and I’m going to tell you everything as best I can, but my best is hampered by the fact this all occurred when I was doing two shows a night, channeling a dead princess, sleeping until lunchtime, popping a bit too much Adderal and Valium (yes both), and periodically - like that princess - purging o…

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Martin's Must-Reads: 'America Redux' 1:49

3M ago1:49

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“This book is nothing like the history textbooks I grew up with. It’s visual, it’s handwritten, it jumps around in time. It’s an attempt at a new way of seeing history - placing movements and events and people from across time in conversation with one another in a way that, I hope, offers some insight into who we are as a country, and who we have t…

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Martin's Must-Reads: 'The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store' 1:44

3M ago1:44

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“Forty-seven years before construction workers discovered the skeleton in the old farmer’s well on Chicken Hill, a Jewish theater manager in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, named Moshe Ludlow had a vision about Moses. Moshe had this vision on a Monday morning in February as he was cleaning out the remnants of a Chick Webb one-night stand at his tiny All-A…

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Martin's Must-Reads: 'Crook Manifesto' 1:49

3M ago1:49

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“From then on whenever he heard the song he thought of the death of Munson. It was the Jackson 5 after all who put Ray Carney back in the game following four years on the straight and narrow. The straight and narrow - it described a philosophy and a territory, a neighborhood with borders and local customs.”…

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Martin's Must Reads: 'The Body' 1:43

3M ago1:43

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Over the course of twenty-three chapters Bryson explains the mysteries of the human body. The chapters are also riddled with information about the medical geniuses who discovered how the body works, how they tried to solve medical issues and some of the unique patients who helped with their discoveries.…