On this episode, Blake Chastain, author and podcaster, talks about how reading has helped him slow down through the difficult times we live in now, how technology helps and hurts his reading life, and some really excellent book recommendations. He will likely make you want to read comics and if that’s new for you, go for it!!
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Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
Phantasma by Kaylie Smith
What Happened to Lucy Vale by Lauren Oliver
Books Highlighted by Blake:
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart
Females by Andrea Long Chu
Devotions by Mary Oliver
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
House of X/Powers of X by Jonathan Hickman
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting by Shannon Vallor
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon Vallor
Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Fantastic Four: Solve Everything by Jonathan Hickman
Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman
God Is Disappointed in You by Mark Russell & Shannon Wheeler
Apocrypha Now by Mark Russell & Shannon Wheeler
Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
The Power Worshippers by Katherine Stewart
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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