Episode 31 - These are my Trophies with Jenn Moland-Kovash

On this episode, Jenn Moland-Kovash and I discuss our shared interest in thrift-store book sections, the joy of walking around a bookstore and pointing out the books we have read, and her theories about why romantasy is popular. Jenn also gets me on a roll about the difference between book collecting and reading and why sprayed edges mean nothing to me.    The Mail-a-Book program is still alive and well! The Read & Run Chicago Gift Guide    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  The City and It’s Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami  How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix  Yr Dead by Sam Sax  Not my Father’s Son by Alan Cumming  Still Life by Louise Penny    Books Highlighted by Jenn: Beartown by Fredrik Backman Us Against You by Fredrik Backman  The Winners by Fredrik Backman  The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese  Pachinko by Min Jin Lee  First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston  The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland  World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Fumi Nakamura  Take What You Need by Idra Novey The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing by Kevin Young Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies that I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler    All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Nora Goes off Script by Annabel Monaghan  Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor  The Color Purple by Alice Walker  Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger  The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey  The Abominable by Dan Simmons  A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas  Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros  Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck  Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver  Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe  This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins  Divergent by Veronica Roth  Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar  How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair  The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln & Claire Powell  The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde