The Beauty of Escaping into a Book with Carolyn Latshaw

The Beauty of Escaping into a Book with Carolyn Latshaw Episode 2   On this episode, Carolyn Latshaw and I discuss her love of classics, select ones at least, the joy and difficulty of getting absolutely swept up into a book, and a slew of great book recommendations that are a little unusual! Listen for a huge revelation on Carolyn’s part about one of her favorite books.    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  The Gathering by C.J. Tudor  Punk Rock Karaoke by Biana Xunise The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman   Books Highlighted by Carolyn:  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro  Outlander by Diana Gabaldon  The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger  The Aeneid by Virgil  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee  Watership Down by Richard Adams  Catch-22 by Joseph Heller  The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa  Elektra by Sophocles  Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand  Achilles by Elizabeth Cook  How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi    Other Books Mentioned in the Episode: All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   The Babysitters Club by Ann M. Martin  Ducktales by Janette Oke (out of print)  California Diaries by Ann M. Martin (out of print)  The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis  Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach  Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro  Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston  Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War by Jeff Shaara  Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens  Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger  The Odyssey by Homer  The Iliad by Homer  Cat Heaven by Cynthia Rylant  Lord of the Flies by William Golding  The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald  Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcom X and Alex Haley  A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens  Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce  Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain