On this episode, Hannah Gordon, a fellow CPS teacher and I discuss the importance of the library as a public service, how your reading life can turn around from what people expect of you as a child, and she brings some really great books to the show that haven’t been talked about yet.
Book Talk and Signing for The Kat Bunglar with Tanima Kazi
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
Are You Happy? By Lori Ostlund
On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1) by Solvej Balle
The Kat Bunglar by Tanima Kazi
Books Highlighted by Hannah:
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
My Death by Lisa Tuttle
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, trans. Ruth L.C. Simms
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Shred Sisters by Betsy Lerner
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali, trans. Maureen Freely & Alexander Dawes
Penance by Eliza Clark
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal el Sadaawi
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
Severance by Ling Ma
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
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