How does a little girl from Detroit become a librarian icon? Our interview with Nancy Pearl (finally!)

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In some ways, we have been building up to this moment since the podcast began: we finally got to chat with Elizabeth's librarian inspiration and the All Books Aloud unofficial mascot, Nancy Pearl.
Nancy has had a storied life and a career about as influential as a librarian could hope for, and she shares so much of it with us during this hour. We talk about how her difficult childhood led her to the library, how the librarians in that first public library inspired her love of reading and her desire to be a librarian herself, and how that career led to some of her noteworthy epiphanies about books and reading.
How did she come up with reading doorways? How did she realize that no two readers read the same book? What does she think about book bans and the state of libraries today? And what did she once say about finishing books to Elizabeth's grad school class that made them all gasp? Listen and find out!
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Books we're reading in this episode:
The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
The League of Gentlewomen Witches by India Holton
The House Witch #2 by Delemhach

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Intro and outro music: "The Chase," by Aves.
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