Episode 21 - The Story Sits in Your Bones with Sam Luchsinger

On this episode, Sam Luchsinger, an eclectic reader and artist, talks about their love of picking up whatever strikes their interest, beautiful book covers, and the joy of reading children’s books into adulthood. They also discuss their love of graphic novels and some tips on how to get into the format that might feel a little overwhelming.    Books mentioned in this episode:    If you want to get ahead and join us at Off Color Book Club:  October 15 - Trust by Hernan Diaz  November 19 - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro  January 21 - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai   What Betsy’s reading:  Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe  I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones Orbital by Samantha Harvey Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliot   Books Highlighted by Sam:  Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence by Nick Bantock  Moby Dick by Herman Melville  Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe  The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints by Tim Severin All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews  Swing Low: A Life by Miriam Toews Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake and Jon Klassen  Brazen: Rebel Ladies who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu  The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb by Neal Bascomb The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa  The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet   All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode:  The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien  Little Women by Lousia May Alcott Bimwili and the Zimwi by  The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle  The Bells of London by Ashley Wolff Sloth’s Birthday Party by Diane Redfield Massie  The Brave Brushtail Possum by Diane Redfield Massie  The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki  The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki  The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo Siren Queen by Nghi Vo The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett  Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir  A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin  Clever Girl: Jurassic Park by Hannah McGregor  Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture by Jenny Odell  The Forgetting Room by Nick Bantock If We Were Villans by M.L. Rio  The Secret History by Donna Tartt  Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo  Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed  The Magicians by Lev Grossman  Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate  Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane Runes of the North by Sigurd F. Olson  Twists of Fate by Paco Roca  The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel  Wrinkle inTime: The Graphic Novel by Hope Larson and Madeleine L’Engle  Perpetua’s Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire by Jennifer A. Rea and Liza Clarke  March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, et al.  Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug