On this episode, Annette LaPlaca, a self-proclaimed church lady who loves mysteries and thrillers, discusses her career in editing, how she developed a love of reading in her children, and why it’s ok to have a lot of books. We also discuss the moral and empathetic benefits of a murder book and why people shouldn’t shy away from them.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
Dearest by Jacqui Walters
Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
How to Sell a Haunted House b...
On this episode, Annette LaPlaca, a self-proclaimed church lady who loves mysteries and thrillers, discusses her career in editing, how she developed a love of reading in her children, and why it’s ok to have a lot of books. We also discuss the moral and empathetic benefits of a murder book and why people shouldn’t shy away from them.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
Dearest by Jacqui Walters
Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Books Highlighted by Annette:
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman
The Storied Life A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
Matilda by Roald Dahl
1984 by George Orwell
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Leap Over a Wall by Eugene H. Peterson
The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta
Puritan Pleasures of the Detective Story by Erik Routley
Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle
Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
Moby-Dick by Herman Mellville
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Emma by Jane Austen
The Keeper of Lost Causes: The First Department Q Novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen
The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell
Father Brown: The Essential Tales by G.K. Chesterton
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
