Episode 28 - Intellectually Affectionate with Annette LaPlaca

On this episode, Annette LaPlaca, a self-proclaimed church lady who loves mysteries and thrillers, discusses her career in editing, how she developed a love of reading in her children, and why it’s ok to have a lot of books. We also discuss the moral and empathetic benefits of a murder book and why people shouldn’t shy away from them.    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  Dearest by Jacqui Walters  Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda  Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro  How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix    Books Highlighted by Annette: Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith  Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers  Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt  The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman  The Storied Life A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro   All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis  Matilda by Roald Dahl 1984 by George Orwell  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  Leap Over a Wall by Eugene H. Peterson  The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta  Puritan Pleasures of the Detective Story by Erik Routley Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott  Peace Like a River by Leif Enger  I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger  Case Histories by Kate Atkinson  The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton  Little Women by Louisa May Alcott  The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle  Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle  Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard  The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt  Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne  The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun  Moby-Dick by Herman Mellville  Trust by Hernan Diaz  The Chosen by Chaim Potok  Life After Life by Kate Atkinson  The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt  Life of Pi by Yann Martel  Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey  Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey  The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin  Silas Marner by George Eliot  Middlemarch by George Eliot  Emma by Jane Austen  The Keeper of Lost Causes: The First Department Q Novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen  The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell  Father Brown: The Essential Tales by G.K. Chesterton  Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro  Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro  An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro