like most people i first heard nancy pearl when i heard her voice on the radio recommending books. she was funny, she was warm and most of all she was enthusiastic. she immediately reminds me of my first librarian whose voice through my classmates through adventures around the world and across the galaxy. later the enthusiasm for literature came from experience. and titled her memoir girl discovers reading then discovers life. growing up in detroit, nancy found the public library offered a refuge from a difficult home. she was rescued from despair from books. it is not too much of an exaggeration to say reading save my life. at a young age she discovered that books allow turbo to find herself into escape herself. by the time she was 10, she knew she wanted to be a librarian. a self-described rita holick. she started working at a bookshop in detroit even before she graduated from high school. she eventually earned a bachelors degree from the university of michigan and from there her involvement with books cap evolving. she began her career as a children my beer and in the move to th

like most people i first or nancy pearl when he heard her voice on the rate at recommending books fors a funny, she was warm and most of all she was enthusiastic. she immediately reminded me of my first vibrator's voice drew my classmates and me through comedies and adventures around the world and across the galaxy. later i would learn that nancy's enthusiasm from literature came from experience. this is heaven who entitled her memoir girl discovers reading then discovers life. growing up in detroit, nancy found the library offered rescued. she was rescued from despair by books. libraries and librarians. it's not too much of an exaggeration to say reading saved my life. at a young age she discovered books allowed her to find yourself in to escape herself. by the time she was ten she knew she wanted to be a librarian. self-described rita holick she started working at the bookshelf in detroit before she graduated from high school. she had a masters degree in library science university of michigan and from there her involvement with books kept evolving. she began her career as a children

the recipient of 2021 literary word outstanding service to the literary community, nancy pearl. >> thank ron for that lovely introduction. in terry gross is beyond wonderful. we got to be the age i am there are so many people who made a difference in your life. people who help me become the person i am today. here are just a few my husband joe who is made my reading life possible. miss francis whitehead at children's library in the detroit public library who took this miserably unhappy and gave me the world through the book she recommended. including the hobbits, lois lenski's strawberry girl, and esther forbes johnny tremaine. mms. whitehead showed me books are places you can both find your self and loseel yourself. i knew when i was ten wanted to be a laboring just like ms. whitehead so i can get the other children what she gave me. ms. glenn that elementary school librarian who made sure i read helen gannon's, my father's dragon eleanor cameron's the wonderful flight to the mushroom planet. tracy who hired me too work at the yorktown alley bookstore in tulsawnn oklahoma. by creating a

nancy from charlotte. host: what is on your mind? caller: i want to praise representative chip roy from texas just a few weeks ago when we were recognizing the pearlbor incident, he gave a moving speech on the floor one evening that i listened to. i was very moved by it. i wish c-span would air that speech again if at all possible. more americans need to hear that speech. it had to do with our are men who are going to stand up for our country. it would behoove anyone to hear that speech as to where our nation is headed down the road. i also heard on that same evening broadcast from the floor , a representative from arizona who talked about the debt and had charge and made much sense about what we needed to do to try to get rid of some of this debt we are carrying. fortunately i cannot -- unfortunately i cannot think of his name but he was from arizona and seemed very knowledgeable and do what he was talking about. he said he talked many times on the floor about the economic debt crisis we are in. host: donna in louisiana, republican, good morning. caller: good morning. i know c-span prides itself on being unbiased and you mentioned you will have s

nancy from charlotte. host: what is on your mind? caller: i want to praise representative chip roy from texas just a few weeks ago when we were recognizing the pearlbor incident, he gave a moving speech on the floor one evening that i listened to. i was very moved by it. i wish c-span would air that speech again if at all possible. more americans need to hear that speech. it had to do with our are men who are going to stand up for our country. it would behoove anyone to hear that speech as to where our nation is headed down the road. i also heard on that same evening broadcast from the floor , a representative from arizona who talked about the debt and had charge and made much sense about what we needed to do to try to get rid of some of this debt we are carrying. fortunately i cannot -- unfortunately i cannot think of his name but he was from arizona and seemed very knowledgeable and do what he was talking about. he said he talked many times on the floor about the economic debt crisis we are in. host: donna in louisiana, republican, good morning. caller: good morning. i know c-span prides itself on being unbiased and you mentioned you will have s