Courtney is a listener who contacted me to chat books on an episode (you can do this too!) She talks about herself as a reader, including a unique book club, and then we talk about books we've read and liked recently - three are fantastical and two are far more realistic. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 179: Think of the Bees with Courtney. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Listen through Spotify Books discussed: A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern The Islanders by Christopher Priest If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 edited by Sam Kean Other mentions: The Missing by Sarah Langan The Hunger by Alma Katsu The Deep by Alma Katsu Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Annihilation (film) The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai Let Her Fly: A Father's Memoir by Ziauddin Yousafzai Fashion is Freedom by Tala Raassi Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant The Deep by Rivers Solomon et al Pet Sematary by Stephen King An American Marriage by Tayari Jones The Kingkiller Chronicles The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 edited by Sy Montgomery Caitlin Doughty The People of the Mist by Kathleen and Michael Gear Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente Flags in the Dust by William Faulkner Related episodes: Episode 115 - Quote, Unquote with Scott Eaton Episode 167 - Book Pendulum with Reggie Episode 172 - The It Book of NYC with Jon Laubinger  Stalk us online: Courtney at Goodreads Courtney is @conservio on Litsy Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy