AUGUST 2017 76 | FRONTDOORSMEDIA .COM {what are you reading—culture edition} BOOKMARKED Where Frontdoors Media asks high-profile Valley visitors and residents what books they have been reading. I’d been looking for my page turner and asking around and I decided to buy this book that I’ve been eyeing the writer in the bookstores for a while and I finally did it and I’m really en - joying it the writer is T. C. Boyle and they describe him as this very hip and rock star-y-ish, high turnout type of writing and I agree, he’s very energetic and full of ideas. The book is called Terranauts, it’s not astronauts but they’ve created this on- Earth bio dome that’s supposed to simulate a Mars mission. It’s character based and it’s very fun and fact-filled but he’s just got a lot of fun ideas. When I read something like that I take the energy and some of those fresh ideas into my artwork. The Terranauts BY T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE artist, whose work, with brother of actor James Franco, is on exhibit at the ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center Tom Franco W H AT C H R I S I S R E A D I N G It was kind of interesting it just talked about his sense of style and things like that. It’s inter - esting to me when I read about people it’s not very interesting when a lot of times it’s very dry reports like he was born in this period, he lived in this place, his number one song was this and I don’t know any more about him than I did a minute ago but when they tell me he really loved such and such ice cream and he ate it from a bowl not a glass, then I’m getting a picture of somebody. musician, recently played Celebrity Theatre Chris Isaak The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin' BY BILL ZEHME W H AT T O M I S R E A D I N G R E V I E W E R R E V I E W E R

AUGUST 2017 FRONTDOORSMEDIA .COM | 77 {children’s books...reviewed by children} BOOKMARKED Brought to you by Read Better Be Better, a Phoenix-based nonprofit that helps children improve literacy skills and become better learners. Readbetterbebetter.org Tell about the book, but don’t give away the ending: There were three little pigs. Two were [eaten] by the wolf. He was going to blow the house down and eat the pig but he didn’t. Tell about your favorite part of a connection that you made: The pig was tricking the wolf. Would you recommend this book to others? Why or why not? Yes, because it is funny because the pig was tricking the wolf. W H AT T H A L I A H I S R E A D I N G The Three Little Pigs BY JAMES MARSHALL 3rd Grader, Boys and Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix Thaliah Nunez R E V I E W E R W H AT S E N A J I S R E A D I N G The Escape of Marvin the Ape BY CARALYN AND MARK BUEHNER 3rd Grader, Boys and Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix Senaj Wilson R E V I E W E R Tell about the book, but don’t give away the ending: The book is about an ape escape. And the ape’s name is Marvin. Tell about your favorite part of a connection that you made: I like when the ape went in a [fancy] dinner. Would you recommend this book to others? Why or why not? I think the kids should read this because you don’t [know] if this could happen?