Episode 5 - Yummy Trash with Francesca Musumeci

On this episode, Francesca Musumeci and I discuss the wealth of indie bookstores we have in Chicago, how school can make reading less fun, and why it’s important to read what you like. She also tells some pretty great stories about her years working at Half-Price Books, including a hilarious mystery request from a customer that she manages to solve.    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  His Name is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros  Victim by Andrew Boryga Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel    Books Highlighted by Francesca:  Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah World War Z by Max Brooks The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin  The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Verity by Colleen Hoover The Push by Ashley Audrain  Columbine by Dave Cullen Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden    Other Books Mentioned in the Episode: All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   The Once and Future King by T.H. White  The Iliad by Homer To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee  The Mothers by Brit Bennett  The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid  The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix  How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix  Marlena by Julie Buntin  The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald  The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger  The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway  The Woman in Me by Britney Spears High on Arrival by MacKenzie Phillips  The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille  Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder  The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan  The Body of Evidence Series by Christopher Golden  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins  Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman  The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold  Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway