On this episode, Rebecca Tucker, who is working on writing her own fantasy novel, talks about how reading was incentivized for her at an early age but had ups and downs in her reading later in life. We also talk about some great fantasy novels and I make a claim about a book I believe will be considered one of the great memoirs.    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones It’s Not the End of the World by Jonathan Parks-Ramage    Books Highlighted by Rebecca: When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill  The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon  The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones  Modernist Woman Poets  Eurydice by Sara Ruhl Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk I’m Glad my Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Melinda Lo The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien   All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Red Rising by Pierce Brown Katabasis by R.F. Kuang The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien