Episode 43 - Insatiable Curiosity with Rebecca Schinsky and Jeff O'Neal

On this episode, Rebecca Schinsky and Jeff O’Neal of Book Riot sit down and talk to me about their reading lives. We talk about their professional work in the world of books, how Oliver Burkeman would feel about my bad bookish habit, and how any book can be interesting if you’re curious enough.    Listen to the Book Riot Podcast  Listen to First Edition Better Living Through Books Newsletter (and the rest of the Book Riot Newsletters!)  Jeff and Rebecca Live at Powells!   Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found by Christie Tate  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin  Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker   Books Highlighted by Rebecca & Jeff: Sula by Toni Morrison  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro  The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russel The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt  Lab Girl: A Memoir by Hope Jahren  Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes  We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry The Street by Ann Petry How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur The Orchard: A Memoir by Adele Crockett Robertson Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman  When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams  Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott  Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values by Fred Kofman    All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson  House of Cotton by Monica Brashears  Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy  Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros  Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Ingrained: The Making of a Craftsman by Callum Robinson  Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman by Patrick Hutchinson  Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life by Shigehiro Oishi  Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman  Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card  The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien  The Shining by Stephen King  Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro  My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante  Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros  It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover  All Fours by Miranda July  Passing by Nella Larsen