On this episode, Lydia Plahn, a journalism student in Chicago, who talks about how she incorporates reading into her life as a student, how being a younger sister prompted her to read more as a child, and how important used bookstores are to her. We also talk about one of the classes she took entitled Millenial Fiction so lookout for that!! 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Warning Signs by Tracy Sierra 

The Renovation by Kenan Orhan 

Books Highlighted by Lydia:

Here in the Dark by Alexis Soloski 

Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 

Theater Kid by Jeffrey Seller 

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert 

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Life Would be Perfect if I Lived in that House by Meghan Daum

Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York by Francis Spufford 

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 

A Journey to the New World (Dear America) by Kathryn Lasky 

American Girl by Sydney Hanson 

Flashout by Alexis Soloski 

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell 

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan 

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James 

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

Verity by Colleen Hoover 

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 

Normal People by Sally Rooney 

Luster by Raven Leilani 

Real Life by Brandon Taylor 

Kin by Tayari Jones 

Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott