On this episode, Marla Taviano, writer and poet, who has a very fun project she’s attempting to complete before her 50th birthday talks about her love for annotating books, why she loves to read writers on writing, and her bookstagram project that greatly influenced her reading life.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Make Your Way Home by Carrie R. Moore
Books Highlighted by Marla:
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler by Lynell George
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
Books & Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Lands of My Ancestors by Louise Erdrich
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Painter
Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions by Rachel Held Evans
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
Novelist as Vocation by Haruki Murakami
Conversations with Toni Morrison by Toni Morrison & Danille K Taylor-Guthrie
Absolutely on Music by Haruki Murakami & Seji Ozawa
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Toni at Random by Dana A. Williams
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Back in Blues by Imani Perry
South to America by Imani Perry
Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry
Full of Myself by Austin Channing Brown
Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
unbelieve by Marla Taviano
jaded by Marla Taviano
whole by Marla Taviano
What makes you Fart? by Marla Taviano
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd
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