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

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