Do you love to read? What are you reading that sparks your curiosity and brings you joy?
Kimberly Hatch Harrison (co-founder of Socratica) created this podcast to share her love of reading - a love that has the power to transform your life.
Today Kim talks about her favourite part of Star Daughter, by Shveta Thakrar
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Transcript:
Welcome Everybody! To Socratica Reads. My name is Kimberly Hatch Harrison, and I’m the co-founder of Socratica. You may know our YouTube channel, where we teach math, science, computer programming…the real focus of our work is lifelong learning.
And for me, the SECRET to lifelong learning is READING.
The love of reading has taken me further in life than anything else.
It’s great, of course, that there are online videos (like ours!) to teach you a lot of different things, but, at least so far, there’s not a video for everything. Maybe one day. We’re working on it. It’s going to take a few generations of edutubers to cover the basic curriculum.
If you really want to be able to get inside the mind of a great thinker, you’re going to want to read what they write.
So in this podcast, I’m giving you a taste of the kinds of things I’m reading - what I find inspiring. And because time is short, I’m skipping to my favourite part.
Today I want to share with you a fantasy novel called Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar. This is a novel about a young woman named Sheetal who is half human, half star, who lives among us. Her true nature is hidden, along with her silvery hair that she has to keep dying. Speaking of dying, her father suddenly takes ill because of something Sheetal did, and she has to go searching for a way to rescue him. This involves a reunion with her starry relations.
But first, she visits a Magical Night Market. And this is my favourite part.
(reads excerpt)
One of the best parts about reading is that you enter someone else’s MIND. It’s one brain, talking to another brain. This might be someone who lives on the other side of the country, or in a different country, or someone from a whole other time that you would never get a chance to talk to. If you’re used to picking up books about people who are just like you, I encourage you to expand your horizons a little. You know what your life is like. Read about someone else’s life. Listen to someone else’s thoughts. Thanks for listening.
