Episode 17 - Book Clubs will Save the World with Allison Yates and Fernanda Wetzel

On this episode, Allison Yates and Fernanda Wetzel come on to talk about their organization, Read and Run Chicago, a book and run club that features specific books with coordinated runs in Chicago. They describe how accessible their organization is, open to anyone who might be interested in participating, and we get to talk about some incredible books that feature information and stories that open and affirm experiences that have been historically ignored.    Read and Run Chicago Fall Event Calendar  Allison’s Small Pack Camping Chair  Italic Type book tracking    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas  Koresh by Stephan Talty  The Stranger Upstairs by Lisa M. Matlin   Books Highlighted by Allison and Fernanda:  The Alice Network by Kate Quinn The Change by Kirsten Miller The Midnight Library by Matt Haig  A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara  The Idea of You by Robinne Lee Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng  Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer  Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo  Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai  Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behar  The Push by Ashley Audrain   Other Books Mentioned in the Episode: All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Temper by Layne Fargo  The Women by Kristin Hannah  Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See  Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski The Hundred Year House by Rebecca Makkai  Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir by Iliana Regan  All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Yellowface by R.F. Kuang  Erasure by Percival Everett  I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez