Episode 56 - Feels Folkloric with Meara McNitt

On this episode, Meara McNitt, a social media professional who loves stories of all types, discusses her love for all kinds of books, including an interest that her friends suggest she doesn’t yell about in the bookstore. She talks about a lot of books that haven’t appeared on the show yet and I go on a bit of a rant about one of my favorite hot takes.    Meara on TikTok    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak  Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe    Books Highlighted by Meara: Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell  That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. Williams  Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson  Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker The Thirteenth Child by Erin A. Craig  They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas  The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury    All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Perfume and Pain by Anna Dorn The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins  Divergent by Veronica Roth  Matched by Ally Condie  Vampires Don’t Wear Polka Dots: Bailey School Kids #1 by Debbie Dadey  Magic Treehouse by Mary Pope Osborne  The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis  Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz & Stephen Gammell  Unwind by Neal Shusterman  Scythe by Neal Shusterman  House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig  Hose of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig  Small Favors by Erin A. Craig  The Belladonna Collection by Adalyn Grace  All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace  A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen  Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi  The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict  Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah  Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell  My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite  Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite  Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins  Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros  My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh  Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas  The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas  Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel  Severance by Ling Ma Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson  The Lamb by Lucy Rose  A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers  Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda  1984 by George Orwell  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley  Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell’s 1984 by Sandra Newman