Episode 49 - Read Everything All the Time with Alayna Mills

On this episode, Alayna Mills, a college writing teacher, discusses their love for reading everything all the time, by incorporating reading into all parts of their day. We also talk about their wide reading preferences, we get deep on a few specific books, and we find a shared notebook of book prize stress. 

 

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Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1) by Solvej Balle 

Audition by Katie Kitimura 

Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 

 

Books Highlighted by Alayna:

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

What If We Get it Right: Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte 

On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1) by Solvej Balle

The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma

Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe 

Oye by Melissa Mogollon

Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

Exalted by Anna Dorn

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

 

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Other books mentioned in this episode:

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

Prodigal Summer by Barabara Kingsolver 

The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave 

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver 

The Details by Ia Genberg 

Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa 

Dune by Frank Herbert 

All Fours by Miranda July 

Heir by Sabaa Tahir 

All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir 

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon 

Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta

Perfume and Pain by Anna Dorn

Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar

Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond