Episode 97 - Tragically Beautiful with Stephanie Bailey

On this episode, Stephanie Bailey, a fellow Read & Runner, talks about her love of audiobooks, especially a favorite narrator, how much she enjoys graphic novels, and we discuss our shared love of sad books. She also has a surprising way that school helped her fall in love with reading.    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  This Here is Love by Princess Joy L. Perry Brawler by Lauren Groff  Our Last Resort by Clémence Michallon   Books Highlighted by Stephanie: We Are Okay by Nina LaCour The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool too) by Nora McInerny Purmort Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast The Trees by Percival Everett  Dream City by Brendan Short  Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby   All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr  Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger  The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald  The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas  The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead  If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin  Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon  The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix  The World According to Garp by John Irving  The Water-Method Man by John Irving  Setting Free the Bears by John Irving  A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo  Intermezzo by Sally Rooney  Angel Down by Daniel Kraus  The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai  East of Eden by John Steinbeck  Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck  No Happy Endings by Nora McInerny You by Caroline Kepnes  Shopgirl by Steve Martin  Erasure by Percival Everett  James by Percival Everett  Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir  Les Miserables by Victor Hugo