1 00:00:07,173 --> 00:00:10,493 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast 2 00:00:10,613 --> 00:00:12,013 Speaker 1: from newstalk STB. 3 00:00:13,493 --> 00:00:16,453 Speaker 2: Twenty to twelve on News Talks. He'd be Katherine Rains 4 00:00:16,493 --> 00:00:18,253 Speaker 2: is here with her book picks for us this week. 5 00:00:18,333 --> 00:00:22,733 Speaker 2: She is our reviewer. She always has great recommendations. Morning Catherine, 6 00:00:22,773 --> 00:00:26,013 Speaker 2: Morning Jack. So let's begin with lou Laeden's Little Library 7 00:00:26,053 --> 00:00:30,173 Speaker 2: of Banned Books, which is a fantastic title, and it 8 00:00:30,213 --> 00:00:32,213 Speaker 2: is a great title is by Kirstine Miller. 9 00:00:33,053 --> 00:00:35,933 Speaker 1: So this book is actually about and it senends a 10 00:00:35,933 --> 00:00:39,893 Speaker 1: message of torrance and understanding and about being judgmental when 11 00:00:39,933 --> 00:00:42,773 Speaker 1: you don't actually know the true facts. And so it's 12 00:00:42,773 --> 00:00:45,133 Speaker 1: in the set in the Sound of Troy and Georgia 13 00:00:45,693 --> 00:00:48,893 Speaker 1: and lu Ladin. The main character is this characterture of 14 00:00:48,933 --> 00:00:51,253 Speaker 1: a town busy boy. She's a widow, she's an empty nester, 15 00:00:51,333 --> 00:00:54,813 Speaker 1: she's a the local busybody, and she's taken this quest 16 00:00:54,893 --> 00:00:57,733 Speaker 1: for attention and focused to her and she has this 17 00:00:57,813 --> 00:01:02,213 Speaker 1: crusade against what she terms woke lifestyles and values. And 18 00:01:02,253 --> 00:01:05,813 Speaker 1: she's the founder and leader of the Concerned Parents Committee. 19 00:01:06,373 --> 00:01:09,093 Speaker 1: So she pulls books that are supposedly filled with pornography 20 00:01:09,133 --> 00:01:12,213 Speaker 1: and propaganda out of the schools and libraries and so. 21 00:01:12,293 --> 00:01:14,333 Speaker 1: But she also wants to ensure that the town of 22 00:01:14,413 --> 00:01:17,413 Speaker 1: Troy has better ready material, so she sets up the 23 00:01:17,493 --> 00:01:21,213 Speaker 1: little free library in her front yard and stocks it 24 00:01:21,293 --> 00:01:24,013 Speaker 1: with what she terms wholesome books, with things like Chicken 25 00:01:24,053 --> 00:01:27,373 Speaker 1: Soup for the Soul, The Southern Bowels, Guide to Etiquette, 26 00:01:27,693 --> 00:01:31,773 Speaker 1: our Confederate Heroes, and for her neighbors to borrow. But actually, 27 00:01:32,333 --> 00:01:37,173 Speaker 1: unknown to her, the daughter of her arch Emily, Beverly Underwood, 28 00:01:37,733 --> 00:01:41,253 Speaker 1: takes those books out and replaces them with ones on 29 00:01:41,293 --> 00:01:43,933 Speaker 1: the band list, hiding them under the dust jackets. And 30 00:01:43,933 --> 00:01:47,253 Speaker 1: that's when things start to get really interesting because via 31 00:01:47,333 --> 00:01:49,533 Speaker 1: the box you see the spotlight on this town and 32 00:01:49,573 --> 00:01:52,533 Speaker 1: it's different inhabitants and the divergent views and lives. And 33 00:01:52,573 --> 00:01:55,093 Speaker 1: there's a huge cast of characters in this and some 34 00:01:55,133 --> 00:01:56,973 Speaker 1: of the stories are really funny and make you laugh, 35 00:01:57,133 --> 00:01:59,773 Speaker 1: and some are the complete opposite of that. Instead of 36 00:01:59,813 --> 00:02:03,093 Speaker 1: shen shivers down your spine, and it exposes the hypocrisy 37 00:02:03,213 --> 00:02:06,293 Speaker 1: and the misogyny and racism and anti seminism and all 38 00:02:06,413 --> 00:02:09,333 Speaker 1: all the affiliations that people have, and it just carries 39 00:02:09,373 --> 00:02:13,173 Speaker 1: this very interesting and timely message through each character's story 40 00:02:13,333 --> 00:02:15,173 Speaker 1: and you know, the author, at the end of the day, 41 00:02:15,213 --> 00:02:17,853 Speaker 1: is trying to illustrate how books don't hurt people. People 42 00:02:17,933 --> 00:02:20,973 Speaker 1: hurt people, but books give access to new ideas and 43 00:02:21,093 --> 00:02:24,733 Speaker 1: thoughts and perspectives and role models. And it's a story 44 00:02:24,733 --> 00:02:27,013 Speaker 1: that actually stays with you for quite a while after 45 00:02:27,053 --> 00:02:29,213 Speaker 1: which you kind of think through the messages and yeah, 46 00:02:29,413 --> 00:02:31,893 Speaker 1: so great. It's a really well written book, but yeah, 47 00:02:31,973 --> 00:02:33,893 Speaker 1: has a pretty serious message behind it. 48 00:02:34,053 --> 00:02:37,373 Speaker 2: Yeah that sounds great. Okay, that's lu Laeden's Little Library 49 00:02:37,413 --> 00:02:40,373 Speaker 2: of Banned Books by Christine Miller. You've also read Asked 50 00:02:40,413 --> 00:02:42,093 Speaker 2: Not by Maureen Callahan. 51 00:02:42,813 --> 00:02:45,853 Speaker 1: So Maureen Callahan is actually a journalist for The Daily Mail. 52 00:02:46,373 --> 00:02:49,653 Speaker 1: So there's a style of writing that's quite gossipy and juicy, 53 00:02:49,733 --> 00:02:54,293 Speaker 1: and she rehashes some very well publicized scandals involving the 54 00:02:54,333 --> 00:02:57,173 Speaker 1: members of the Kennedy family, but she still tells it 55 00:02:57,333 --> 00:03:00,813 Speaker 1: in a very interesting perspective. And you know, lots of 56 00:03:00,813 --> 00:03:03,693 Speaker 1: accounts of serial cheating, but also some much more serious 57 00:03:03,693 --> 00:03:06,893 Speaker 1: crimes and rape and sex with miners and murder, and 58 00:03:06,933 --> 00:03:11,093 Speaker 1: it's a pretty grown roll full of things that have happened. 59 00:03:11,133 --> 00:03:14,133 Speaker 1: You know, Mary Joe who's suffocated below three feet of 60 00:03:14,173 --> 00:03:17,133 Speaker 1: water and chapiquitic in nineteen sixty nine when she could 61 00:03:17,133 --> 00:03:20,013 Speaker 1: have been saved, and Pamela Kelly who was thrown from 62 00:03:20,053 --> 00:03:22,213 Speaker 1: a geep and she ends up paralyzed for life and 63 00:03:22,253 --> 00:03:24,533 Speaker 1: the driver, who's another Kennedy, walks away with one hundred 64 00:03:24,573 --> 00:03:27,773 Speaker 1: dollar fine. But she also talks about the family's woman 65 00:03:27,893 --> 00:03:31,373 Speaker 1: like Joan Kennedy who was in and out of rehab, 66 00:03:31,413 --> 00:03:35,973 Speaker 1: and lots of DUI's and Rosemary who was the daughter 67 00:03:36,013 --> 00:03:38,733 Speaker 1: of the matriarch and patriarch Joe and rose Kennedy who 68 00:03:38,933 --> 00:03:43,413 Speaker 1: was whose life was destroyed by our family authorized lobotomy, 69 00:03:43,653 --> 00:03:46,613 Speaker 1: and you know, and much newer kind of parts of 70 00:03:46,613 --> 00:03:48,973 Speaker 1: the Kennedy family as well, like Mary Richardson Kennedy, who's 71 00:03:49,013 --> 00:03:52,533 Speaker 1: the second wife of Robert F. Kennedy, who's the current 72 00:03:52,573 --> 00:03:55,053 Speaker 1: presidential candidate, you know, who took her own life in 73 00:03:55,253 --> 00:03:58,413 Speaker 1: twenty twelve. But she tells it from the sort of 74 00:03:58,493 --> 00:04:02,053 Speaker 1: multi generational family legacy which begins with Joe Kennedy, who 75 00:04:02,093 --> 00:04:04,413 Speaker 1: built the family fortune and a family to go with it, 76 00:04:04,493 --> 00:04:07,893 Speaker 1: and his Catholic wife Rose of blind eye to his 77 00:04:07,973 --> 00:04:11,133 Speaker 1: sequence of mistresses, and so his habit of treating woman 78 00:04:11,173 --> 00:04:14,053 Speaker 1: as accessories passed down to his sons and you know 79 00:04:14,133 --> 00:04:17,813 Speaker 1: John Kennedy's white house. You know, an age called it 80 00:04:17,853 --> 00:04:20,533 Speaker 1: a conveyor belt of young woman. And so she paints 81 00:04:20,613 --> 00:04:25,853 Speaker 1: this picture of a very toxic, narcissistic, cruel, snobbish, entitled, 82 00:04:26,013 --> 00:04:29,253 Speaker 1: an extremely unpleasant family and the fact that the Kennedy 83 00:04:29,293 --> 00:04:32,693 Speaker 1: men have got away because of this sphere of influence 84 00:04:32,813 --> 00:04:36,973 Speaker 1: with you know, some very serious crimes and really no 85 00:04:37,173 --> 00:04:40,093 Speaker 1: serious accountability and they're still admired and referred to as 86 00:04:40,173 --> 00:04:43,573 Speaker 1: America's royal family and press courage has kind of protected them, 87 00:04:43,653 --> 00:04:46,293 Speaker 1: what has protected them as they've gone along, And it's 88 00:04:46,333 --> 00:04:49,533 Speaker 1: just fascinating because she sort of redirects the spotlight back 89 00:04:49,573 --> 00:04:54,373 Speaker 1: to the woman and the Kennedy, Kennedy family and you know, 90 00:04:54,413 --> 00:04:57,053 Speaker 1: puts them much more at the center of the story 91 00:04:57,093 --> 00:05:00,013 Speaker 1: and how they should be. And yeah, it's interesting when 92 00:05:00,013 --> 00:05:02,173 Speaker 1: you kind of put everything together and you look at 93 00:05:02,493 --> 00:05:06,093 Speaker 1: you know, what's gone on in the family over the years, 94 00:05:06,453 --> 00:05:07,173 Speaker 1: got away with a lot. 95 00:05:07,293 --> 00:05:09,573 Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds really intriguing, even if you're not you know, 96 00:05:09,653 --> 00:05:12,013 Speaker 2: super into the into the Kennedys, it sounds like there's 97 00:05:12,133 --> 00:05:13,893 Speaker 2: still a lot to learn here and told in a 98 00:05:13,893 --> 00:05:16,573 Speaker 2: really compelling way. So it sounds intriguing thank you that's 99 00:05:16,813 --> 00:05:20,533 Speaker 2: asked not by Maureen Callahan. The first book is Lula 100 00:05:20,613 --> 00:05:23,493 Speaker 2: Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirstine Miller. Will 101 00:05:23,533 --> 00:05:25,533 Speaker 2: have all of the details for those books, just along 102 00:05:25,533 --> 00:05:27,653 Speaker 2: with everything else from our show up on the News Talks. 103 00:05:27,653 --> 00:05:31,773 Speaker 2: He'd be website for more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. 104 00:05:31,933 --> 00:05:35,133 Speaker 2: Listen live to News Talks I'd Be from nine am Saturday, 105 00:05:35,373 --> 00:05:37,373 Speaker 2: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.