On this episode, Austin Waters, a friend of mine from high school, describes how he has had lots of experience with many different types of reading and writing. We discuss reading plays, how we read so many good books in high school, and how competition in reading can be detrimental.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Books Highlighted by Austin:
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut ...
On this episode, Austin Waters, a friend of mine from high school, describes how he has had lots of experience with many different types of reading and writing. We discuss reading plays, how we read so many good books in high school, and how competition in reading can be detrimental.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Books Highlighted by Austin:
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Assata: an Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon
Someone Like You by Roald Dahl
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
Educated by Tara Westover
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson & GB Trudeau
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Decoded by Jay-Z
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri by Martin McDonagh
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
The Epic of Gilgamesh trans. Andrew George
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Odyssey by Homer
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
On The Calculation of Volume Book I by Solvej Balle, trans. Barbara J. Haveland
House of Fury by Evelio Rosero, trans. Victor Meadowcroft
On The Clock by Claire Baglin, trans. Jordan Stump
