Episode 31 - These are my Trophies with Jenn Moland-Kovash

Books with Betsy

On this episode, Jenn Moland-Kovash and I discuss our shared interest in thrift-store book sections, the joy of walking around a bookstore and pointing out the books we have read, and her theories about why romantasy is popular. Jenn also gets me on a roll about the difference between book collecting and reading and why sprayed edges mean nothing to me.

The Mail-a-Book program is still alive and well!

The Read & Run Chicago Gift Guide

Books mentioned in this episode:

What Betsy’s reading:

The City and It’s Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

Yr Dead by Sam Sax

Not my Father’s Son by Alan Cumming

Still Life by Louise Penny

Books Highlighted by Jenn:

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

The Winners by Fredrik Backman

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Fumi Nakamura

Take What You Need by Idra Novey

The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing by Kevin Young

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies that I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Nora Goes off Script by Annabel Monaghan

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

The Abominable by Dan Simmons

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow

Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar

How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair

The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln & Claire Powell

The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde