Episode 120 - Complicated Women with Katie Erdman

On this episode, Katie Erdman, a lifelong reader who finds comfort in books, talks about the mystery series she particularly loves, ways that technology have made her reading life better and funnier, and she tells a great story about her Aunt Jan and Grandma doing her a reading solid.    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay  The Mad Wife by Meagan Church Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo    Books Highlighted by Katie:  Attachments by Rainbow Rowell  Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid  Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini  The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson  Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell  Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Bossed Up: A Grown Woman’s Guide to Getting Your Shit Together by Emilie Aries  And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts   All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annier Barrows  Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear  Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore  One for the Money by Janet Evanovich  The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini  Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell  The Women by Kristin Hannah  The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah  It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey  Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey  Me Before You by Jojo Moyes