On this episode, Sam Luchsinger, an eclectic reader and artist, talks about their love of picking up whatever strikes their interest, beautiful book covers, and the joy of reading children’s books into adulthood. They also discuss their love of graphic novels and some tips on how to get into the format that might feel a little overwhelming.
Books mentioned in this episode:
If you want to get ahead and join us at Off Color Book Club:
October 15 - Trust by Hernan Diaz
November 19 - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishigur...
On this episode, Sam Luchsinger, an eclectic reader and artist, talks about their love of picking up whatever strikes their interest, beautiful book covers, and the joy of reading children’s books into adulthood. They also discuss their love of graphic novels and some tips on how to get into the format that might feel a little overwhelming.
Books mentioned in this episode:
If you want to get ahead and join us at Off Color Book Club:
October 15 - Trust by Hernan Diaz
November 19 - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
January 21 - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
What Betsy’s reading:
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliot
Books Highlighted by Sam:
Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence by Nick Bantock
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints by Tim Severin
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Swing Low: A Life by Miriam Toews
Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake and Jon Klassen
Brazen: Rebel Ladies who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb by Neal Bascomb
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Little Women by Lousia May Alcott
Bimwili and the Zimwi by
The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Bells of London by Ashley Wolff
Sloth’s Birthday Party by Diane Redfield Massie
The Brave Brushtail Possum by Diane Redfield Massie
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Clever Girl: Jurassic Park by Hannah McGregor
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture by Jenny Odell
The Forgetting Room by Nick Bantock
If We Were Villans by M.L. Rio
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane
Runes of the North by Sigurd F. Olson
Twists of Fate by Paco Roca
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Wrinkle inTime: The Graphic Novel by Hope Larson and Madeleine L’Engle
Perpetua’s Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire by Jennifer A. Rea and Liza Clarke
March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, et al.
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug
