Episode 13 - Book Hunting with Tanima Kazi

On this episode, Tanima Kazi, a writer (get her novel here!) who loves language, shares her love of romance novels, favorite parts of her favorite books, and how her day job helps her build ideas for her own writing. She describes how books speak to her and even shares excerpts from her favorite books. 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

The Nix by Nathan Hill 

Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange 

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon 

Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne 

 

Books Highlighted by Tanima: 

Circe by Madeline Miller 

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

How to Order the Universe by María José Ferrada, trans. Elizabeth Bryer

Siddartha by Herman Hesse  

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware 

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

How to Escape an Arranged Marriage in High Heels by Tanima Kazi 

Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Addicted by Zane 

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert 

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

 

Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

The Babysitters Club by Anne M. Martin 

Are You There God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume 

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella 

Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella 

Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes 

Watermelon by Marian Keyes 

This Charming Man by Marian Keyes 

London Seance Society by Sarah Penner 

Jezebel by Megan Barnard 

Becoming by Michelle Obama 

Know My Name by Chanel Miller 

Vengeance by Zane