The Beauty of Escaping into a Book with Carolyn Latshaw

The Beauty of Escaping into a Book with Carolyn Latshaw

Episode 2

 

On this episode, Carolyn Latshaw and I discuss her love of classics, select ones at least, the joy and difficulty of getting absolutely swept up into a book, and a slew of great book recommendations that are a little unusual! Listen for a huge revelation on Carolyn’s part about one of her favorite books. 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

The Gathering by C.J. Tudor 

Punk Rock Karaoke by Biana Xunise

The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman

 

Books Highlighted by Carolyn: 

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 

The Aeneid by Virgil 

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 

Watership Down by Richard Adams 

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa 

Elektra by Sophocles 

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 

Achilles by Elizabeth Cook 

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 

 

Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

The Babysitters Club by Ann M. Martin 

Ducktales by Janette Oke (out of print) 

California Diaries by Ann M. Martin (out of print) 

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 

Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston 

Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War by Jeff Shaara 

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata 

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 

The Odyssey by Homer 

The Iliad by Homer 

Cat Heaven by Cynthia Rylant 

Lord of the Flies by William Golding 

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcom X and Alex Haley 

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain