Episode 52 - My Entire Life is Words with Hannah Gordon

On this episode, Hannah Gordon, a fellow CPS teacher and I discuss the importance of the library as a public service, how your reading life can turn around from what people expect of you as a child, and she brings some really great books to the show that haven’t been talked about yet.    Find Hannah on TikTok Book Talk and Signing for The Kat Bunglar with Tanima Kazi    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  Are You Happy? By Lori Ostlund On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1) by Solvej Balle  The Kat Bunglar by Tanima Kazi    Books Highlighted by Hannah: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson My Death by Lisa Tuttle  The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, trans. Ruth L.C. Simms  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin  Shred Sisters by Betsy Lerner  Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali, trans. Maureen Freely & Alexander Dawes  Penance by Eliza Clark  Woman at Point Zero by Nawal el Sadaawi I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz   All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Severance by Ling Ma  How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu  Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado  In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado  Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler  The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai  Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah  Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros  Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros  Boy Parts by Eliza Clark