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May 5, 2025 59 mins

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. 

 

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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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