Episode 101 - Life is Hard and Then We Die with Eric Siewert

On this episode, Eric Siewert, a former colleague of mine at our college bookstore, talks about his favorite authors, the ways recommendations are important to him, and he waxes poetic about his love for hardcover books. We also talk about our individual authors we think should be more of a household name.    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow Wild Life by Amanda Leduc The Sea Gives Up the Dead by Molly Olguín   Books Highlighted by Eric: In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien The Overstory by Richard Powers  Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller July, July by Tim O’Brien  The Gunslinger by Stephen King  The Dog Stars by Peter Heller  Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller  Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller  Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace by Anne Lemott    All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Golden Son by Pierce Brown The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway  Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman  Trust by Hernan Diaz  Devil House by John Darnielle  Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins  The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien  Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien  If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O’Brien  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro  Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro  Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro  The River by Peter Heller  Daring Greatly by Brene Brown