Miriam Basch Scott

Who is Will Rogers? by Miriam Scott Hello again, this is Miriam Scott from Amarillo for the Radio Reader’s Book Club. I have to admit that I would not have chosen this book for myself. Will Rogers, the man who never met a man he didn’t like invoked in me vague images of cowboys, lassos, and traveling wild west shows. None of these things are a part of the culture I grew up in. Just ask my husband how I reacted when I saw my first man in a cowboy hat -- honest to goodness tapping it in greeting.

Fascinated by the American Dream by Miriam Scott Hello booklovers, Miriam Scott here from Amarillo, Texas. Today I get to share with you my thoughts on the wonderfully written and illustrated book The American Dream? by author and artist Shing Yin Khor. There are a few things she and I have in common. We are both naturalized immigrants, love traveling alone, and we are both fascinated with the American Dream and the many different shapes this Dream takes in such a vast country of great diversity.

Like a Turtle by Miriam Scott Hello booklovers, this is Miriam Scott from Amarillo Texas for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. Today I want to introduce John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. I have to tell you; it’s been a long time since I read this essential and unfortunately timeless book. So long ago that I read it in German, my first language. Not only is the original better, as it always is, but this time, now I live really close to Oklahoma, where the book begins.