Episode 5 - Yummy Trash with Francesca Musumeci
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On this episode, Francesca Musumeci and I discuss the wealth of indie bookstores we have in Chicago, how school can make reading less fun, and why it’s important to read what you like. She also tells some pretty great stories about her years working at Half-Price Books, including a hilarious mystery request from a customer that she manages to solve.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
His Name is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Victim by Andrew Boryga
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Books Highlighted by Francesca:
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The Push by Ashley Audrain
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden
Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Iliad by Homer
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Marlena by Julie Buntin
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
High on Arrival by MacKenzie Phillips
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
The Body of Evidence Series by Christopher Golden
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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