On this episode, my mom, Mary Hopper Welander, and I discuss shared reading memories from my childhood, how much the library has impacted both of our reading lives, and how her reading life has changed in retirement. She also gives some great advice about how to develop a love of reading in your child.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1) by Solvej Balle
Moms Like Us by Jordan Roter
Books Highlighted by Mary:
The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Come, Have Breakfast: Meditations on God and the Earth by Elizabeth A. Johnson
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
The Black Wolf by Louise Penny
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
My Name is Barbara by Barbara Streisand
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Political Theology Based in Community by Marty Tomszak
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle
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