Episode 50 - How to Raise a Reader with Mary Hopper Welander

On this episode, my mom, Mary Hopper Welander, and I discuss shared reading memories from my childhood, how much the library has impacted both of our reading lives, and how her reading life has changed in retirement. She also gives some great advice about how to develop a love of reading in your child. 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

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

Moms Like Us by Jordan Roter

 

Books Highlighted by Mary:

The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny 

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 

Trust by Hernan Diaz 

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson 

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Come, Have Breakfast: Meditations on God and the Earth by Elizabeth A. Johnson

The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris 

 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg 

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun 

The Black Wolf by Louise Penny 

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 

My Name is Barbara by Barbara Streisand 

Animal Farm by George Orwell 

Political Theology Based in Community by Marty Tomszak 

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles 

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict 

Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson 

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle 

Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle