Episode 13 - Book Hunting with Tanima Kazi

On this episode, Tanima Kazi, a writer (get her novel here!) who loves language, shares her love of romance novels, favorite parts of her favorite books, and how her day job helps her build ideas for her own writing. She describes how books speak to her and even shares excerpts from her favorite books.    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  The Nix by Nathan Hill  Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange  The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon  Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne    Books Highlighted by Tanima:  Circe by Madeline Miller  Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert How to Order the Universe by María José Ferrada, trans. Elizabeth Bryer Siddartha by Herman Hesse   The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware  Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron How to Escape an Arranged Marriage in High Heels by Tanima Kazi  Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Addicted by Zane  Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert  On the Road by Jack Kerouac   Other Books Mentioned in the Episode: All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   The Babysitters Club by Anne M. Martin  Are You There God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume  Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella  Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella  Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes  Watermelon by Marian Keyes  This Charming Man by Marian Keyes  London Seance Society by Sarah Penner  Jezebel by Megan Barnard  Becoming by Michelle Obama  Know My Name by Chanel Miller  Vengeance by Zane