On this episode, Chelsey Stone, a freelance writer and book tour leader, describes herself as someone who reads to learn. She brings a lot of really great non-fiction books to the show, and while some of them can be a bit of a bummer, these books help Chelsey learn more about herself and the world while facing reality through reading.
NatGeo article about the Chicago River
Read and Run on the Road in DC
Guided Tour of Lemont’s Waterways
Book Talk and Signing for The Kat Bunglar with Tanima Kazi
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
Books Highlighted by:
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barabara Demick
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII by Iris Chang
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
How to Read a Book by Charles Van Doren and Mortimer J. Adler
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
Instagram for Dummies by Corey Walker, et al
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
The Address Book by Deirdre Mask
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
A Woman’s Place Is in the Brewhouse by Tara Nurin & Teri Fahrendorf
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
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