Episode 50 - How to Raise a Reader with Mary Hopper Welander

Books with Betsy

On this episode, my mom, Mary Hopper Welander, and I discuss shared reading memories from my childhood, how much the library has impacted both of our reading lives, and how her reading life has changed in retirement. She also gives some great advice about how to develop a love of reading in your child.

Books mentioned in this episode:

What Betsy’s reading:

On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1) by Solvej Balle

Moms Like Us by Jordan Roter

Books Highlighted by Mary:

The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Trust by Hernan Diaz

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Come, Have Breakfast: Meditations on God and the Earth by Elizabeth A. Johnson

The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.

Other books mentioned in this episode:

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun

The Black Wolf by Louise Penny

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

My Name is Barbara by Barbara Streisand

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Political Theology Based in Community by Marty Tomszak

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle

Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle