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Books we're reading at the station and recommend to you.When we're not on-the-air or at our desks, we like to pick up good books. Most of us here at the station are, in fact, avid readers. In the style of NPR's "What We're Reading" (an excellent weekly guide) we, too, decided to share what we've been reading. Here's a list of books recently read by WKMS staff members, student workers and volunteers.Interested in a book on our list? Follow the Amazon link beneath the picture. A small percentage of your purchase of anything on Amazon through this link goes right to WKMS at no additional cost to you!

Good Read: Every Day by David Levithan

If you're doing some holiday shopping for a young adult or anyone who enjoys a simply good read, consider picking up this week's recommended read, Every Day by David Levithan, from Katherine Farmer, Coordinator of the Racers Children's Preview Collection at Murray State University.

Imagine waking up every day in a new body, a new life, someone else's life. Who would you meet? What would you experience? How would you develop your own identity?

This is what life is like for A.

A is an entity with no gender or physical presence in the world and has no control over who it will occupy next. A must live by a set of rules: never in the same body twice, host much match A's age (16), and stays in a geographic region as long as there are no bodies to occupy. A's personal rules are to not complicate the host's life and not get attached to anyone.

All personal rules in A's existence go out the window, when A meets Rhiannon while in the body of her boyfriend Justin. A makes a connection that A does not want to break.

To find out how A and Rhiannon cope with the constant change of physical form and reality, read Every Day by David Levithan for the answers.

Katherine Farmer is the Coordinator of the Racers Children's Preview Collection at Murray State University. Hear Katherine's next recommended read next week on Sounds Good.

Matt Markgraf joined the WKMS team as a student in January 2007. He's served in a variety of roles over the years: as News Director March 2016-September 2019 and previously as the New Media & Promotions Coordinator beginning in 2011. Prior to that, he was a graduate and undergraduate assistant. He is currently the host of the international music show Imported on Sunday nights at 10 p.m.
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