Episode 25 - Be a Dear, Unflip Your Dogears with Jennifer Moe

On this episode, Jennifer Moe, a professor and former bookseller, discusses her love for books that fully envelop the reader in a setting. We reminisce about our adventures with Twilight, our shared love for library magazines, and when it might be ok to leave a note or two in a library book. She also gives some 

 

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Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

My Friends by Hisham Matar 

Shred Sisters by Betsy Lerner 

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo 

 

Books Highlighted by Jennifer:

The Man Who Ate the 747 by Ben Sherwood

The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen 

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 

The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Open Book by Jessica Simpson

Educated by Tara Westover 

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 

Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by Charles Taylor 

 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer 

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling 

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen 

Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny 

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 

Becoming by Michelle Obama 

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr