Hey guys, welcome back to Frenchtown’s Last Best Stories — the podcast where we share the real stories from real people in our school. I’m Curtis Wilson, your host, and apparently autocratic dictator, but you didn’t hear that from me.

Today’s episode is called Humans of Reading.

Because reading isn’t just “something for English class.” It’s personal.

You know those books that absolutely wrecked you? Like… you finished them and just sat there staring at the wall?

Or the ones you couldn’t stop thinking about for days — replaying scenes in your head like it was a movie?

Or that one character you loved so much they felt like an actual person? The kind where you had to remind yourself, “Wait… they’re not real.”

Yeah. Those books.

Some of us are big readers. Some of us “don’t really read”… until we find that one book that changes everything. The one that hits at the exact right time.

Reading isn’t just about pages or points or passing a quiz. It’s about feeling seen. It’s about escaping when you need to. It’s about finding pieces of yourself in a story you didn’t expect to care about.

So in this episode, we’re talking to students and staff about the books that stuck with them. The ones they loved. The ones that broke them a little. The ones they still think about.

Because behind every book is a human… and behind every human is a story.

Let’s get into it.

(Quietly) I’m Batman…