Episode 50 - How to Raise a Reader with Mary Hopper Welander

On this episode, my mom, Mary Hopper Welander, and I discuss shared reading memories from my childhood, how much the library has impacted both of our reading lives, and how her reading life has changed in retirement. She also gives some great advice about how to develop a love of reading in your child.    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1) by Solvej Balle  Moms Like Us by Jordan Roter   Books Highlighted by Mary: The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny  Bel Canto by Ann Patchett A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Pachinko by Min Jin Lee  Trust by Hernan Diaz  Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson  The Women by Kristin Hannah Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle Come, Have Breakfast: Meditations on God and the Earth by Elizabeth A. Johnson The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris    All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg  Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell  The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun  The Black Wolf by Louise Penny  The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman  The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis  My Name is Barbara by Barbara Streisand  Animal Farm by George Orwell  Political Theology Based in Community by Marty Tomszak  Rules of Civility by Amor Towles  The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles  The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict  Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson  Gilead by Marilynne Robinson A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle  Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle