On this episode, Marla Taviano, writer and poet, who has a very fun project she’s attempting to complete before her 50th birthday talks about her love for annotating books, why she loves to read writers on writing, and her bookstagram project that greatly influenced her reading life.    Please Cut Up My Poems Liberation is Lit   Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  The Secret History by Donna Tartt  Make Your Way Home by Carrie R. Moore    Books Highlighted by Marla: You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith  A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler by Lynell George The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley  The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander  The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs  Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor  Books & Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Lands of My Ancestors by Louise Erdrich  Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Painter Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions by Rachel Held Evans  Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell    All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan  Novelist as Vocation by Haruki Murakami  Conversations with Toni Morrison by Toni Morrison & Danille K Taylor-Guthrie  Absolutely on Music by Haruki Murakami & Seji Ozawa  What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami  Toni at Random by Dana A. Williams  Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson  Back in Blues by Imani Perry  South to America by Imani Perry  Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry  Full of Myself by Austin Channing Brown  Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel  unbelieve by Marla Taviano  jaded by Marla Taviano  whole by Marla Taviano  What makes you Fart? by Marla Taviano  Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad  The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd