Episode 21 - The Story Sits in Your Bones with Sam Luchsinger

Books with Betsy

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