Memories and nostalgia are a mainstay of fiction. Jenn Martin and Jennifer Wong talk about their favourite nostalgic moments and what happens when nostalgia looks not only backwards, but forwards. Then Jenn and Jenn discuss the book started their friendship, The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg.

Authors and books mentioned in this episode

• Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• Through the Children’s Gate by Adam Gopnik
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
• Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
• The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth by E.L. Konigsburg
• About the B’nai Bagels by E.L. Konigsburg
• A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg
• The Second Mrs Giaconda by E.L. Konigsburg
• The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper by E.L. Konigsburg
• The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
• The Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans
• The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg
• The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber

Reading suggestions for Lauren from Sydney

Lauren loved:

The Nancys by R. W. R. McDonald

Jenn’s suggestions:

• Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

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