Episode 63 - Golden Retriever & Grumpy Cat with Amy Smalley and Carrie Vittitoe of the Perks of Being a Book Lover

On this episode, Amy Smalley and Carrie Vittitoe, co-hosts of the Perks of Being a Book Lover Podcast, discuss their sometimes opposite book preferences, how having a podcast has changed their reading lives, and we laugh a lot. If you enjoy this conversation, definitely check out their show, which has a lot of their fun banter.    The Perks of Being a Book Lover  Follow The Perks of Being a Book Lover on Instagram   Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips  Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa   Books Highlighted by Amy & Carrie: The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith Gone Girl by Gyllian Flynn Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me by Donna Gordon I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry American Ghost: A Family’s Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier by Hannah Nordhaus Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain Paris Letters by Janice McLeod   All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise by Colleen Oakley  Prophet Song by Paul Lynch  Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward Circe by Madeline Miller  Ariadne by Jennifer Saint  My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris Border Crossings by Emma Fick  The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque American Sniper by Chris Kyle  Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky  It by Stephen King The Changeling by Victor LaValle  The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin  The Marmalade Diaries by Ben Aitken  Clay’s Quilt by Silas House  Ulysses by James Joyce  How to Read Ulysses and Why Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta  Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk  The Book Thief by Markus Zusak  Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert