On this episode, Jess Abra Sandy, a self-described lapsed opera singer and cyber security expert talks about how poetry has provided for her in different ways as her seasons of life change. We also talk about books that make us want to throw them across the room, how her reading life has changed as her kid has grown, and Jess shares a lot of very insightful thoughts about the reading life.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
Devil House by John Darnielle
Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennine Capó Crucet
Lost Man’s Lane by Scott Carson
Books Highlighted by Jess:
What Narcissism Means to Me by Tony Hoagland
Priest, Turned Therapist, Treats Fear of God by Tony Hoagland
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
I Sailed with Magellan by Stuart Dybek
The Ocean in the Next Room by Sarah V. Schweig
Oh the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss
The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
My World - And Welcome to It by James Thurber
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Nancy Drew #1: The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
The Wasteland, Prufrock, and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Fox by Joyce Carol Oates
The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop & Amy Sherman-Palladino
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Midwest Shreds by Mandy Shunnarah
Good Bones by Maggie Smith
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña & Christian Robinson
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
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