On this episode, Sirenna Blas, of @sirenbee_readsnthings on instagram, talks about how her life as a stay at home mom affords her amazing reading time. We also talk about how she is not afraid to give a spicy review, who she wants an adaptation from, and how she brings the reading life alive with her kiddos. 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Kin by Tayari Jones

A Beast Slinks Toward Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang 

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo 

Books Highlighted by Sirenna:

Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones 

Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Joy is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Endling by Maria Reva

Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due 

Antelope Woman by Louise Erdrich 

Dominion by Addie E. Citchens 

Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle 

The WIld Robot by Peter Brown 

Laleh and the Language of the Birds by Perin Gurel 

Pete the Cat: I Love my White Shoes by Eric Litwin & James Dean 

Kin by Tayari Jones

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones 

The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup 

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 

Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio 

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones 

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw 

The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw