Check It Out

Please take our survey! It'll take less than five minutes! Check It Out Listener Survey In this episode, Julia Cozad-Callaghan gives us an update on her Read Harder 2017 reading challenge (12:26); Silvia Schuh updates us on March and April crafts, and puts out a call for some charitable knitting (9:07); and Mari McKeeth talks 2017 Oscar Nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay (22:05). Plus, we ask for your feedback! Julia recommends: The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi The Red Umbrella by Christina Gonzalez Princess Princess Ever After by Katie O'Neill Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess by Jeremy Whitley Mari recommends: Arrival: screenplay by Eric Heisserer, based on “Story of Your Life” in Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang Fences: screenplay by August Wilson, based on his play Fences Hidden Figures: screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, based on Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Lion: screenpl