Episode 66 - Life Reader with Karishma Verma

On this episode, Karishma Verma, an English professor who keeps her reading life outside of school alive, talks about her love for celebrity memoirs, and gives a really great list of places she gets her book recommendations. She also talks about her own podcast, Gilmore Gals, which discusses and recaps all things Gilmore Girls.    Karishma on Instagram  Gilmore Gals   Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  Ask Me Again by Claire Sestanovich Monkey Grip by Helen Garner Biography of X by Catherine Lacey   Books Highlighted by Karishma: Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman By The Book by Jasmine Guillory The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Yes Please by Amy Poehler   All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware  Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park & Denise Brunkus  The Clique by Lisi Harrison  A Promised Land by Barack Obama  Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple Educated by Tara Westover The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls  Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling  Why Not Me?  by Mindy Kaling  The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey