On this episode, Emily McClanathan, a Chicago Public Library superuser, discusses her love of character-driven stories and excellent prose. She also talks about how reading has helped her become a better writer, as she writes both book reviews and theater reviews in Chicago. We get into some shared loves and Emily gets to share a hot take about a book she thinks is overrated.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Horror Movie by Paul Trembla...
On this episode, Emily McClanathan, a Chicago Public Library superuser, discusses her love of character-driven stories and excellent prose. She also talks about how reading has helped her become a better writer, as she writes both book reviews and theater reviews in Chicago. We get into some shared loves and Emily gets to share a hot take about a book she thinks is overrated.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkle
Books Highlighted by Emily::
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph
Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse by Maya Phillips
My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety by Georgia Pritchett
Born to be Mild: Adventures for the Anxious by Rob Temple
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
Everybody’s Favorite: Tales From the World’s Worst Perfectionist by Lillian Stone
One in a Millenial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In by Kate Kennedy
This is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something - Anything - Like Your Life Depends on It by Tabitha Carvan
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein
Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray
Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
Return to Blood by Michael Bennett
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Eye of the World: Book One of the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
Zorrie by Laird Hunt
Wolf Hall by Emily Mantel
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
