On this episode, Francisco Rafael Peralta-Cerda, a fellow Read & Runner, talks about his work building a love for reading as a high school teacher, how his mom encouraged him to read when he was little, and a possibly surprising genre that he has fallen in love with this year. We also discuss his hesitation to read in public but also the attempt to dispel the myth of the performative male.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga
The Sisters by Jonas Hassan Khemiri
Books Highlighted by Fransico:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare by Darren Shan
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
We Should Hang Out Sometime by Josh Sundquist
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
Batman by Tom King
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Defining Decade by Meg Jay
What Happened to Millenials by Charlie Wells
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Battle of the Bookstores by Ali Brady
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos
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