On this episode, Molly Page, @mollypg on instagram, talks about her project visiting all of the branches of the Chicago Public Library, how her writing is how she first fell in love with words, and how adaptations drive most of her reading decisions. We also talk a lot about Chicago and how amazing it is to be a reader in the city! 

100 Things to Do in Chicago Before You Die

Books mentioned in this episode: 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash 

Rental House by Weike Wang 

Books Highlighted by Molly:

Trust by Hernan Diaz 

The Need by Helen Phillips 

Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It by Tonika Lewis Johnson and Maria Krysan 

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

Lilian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

Starter Villain by John Scalzi 

Yearbook by Seth Rogan 

Who is This City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago by Blair Kamin & Lee Bey

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

The Odyssey by Homer, trans. Emily Wilson 

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 

Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 

All This and More by Peng Shepherd 

Hum by Helen Phillips