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Episode 30 - On the Edge of Heartbreak with Cynthia Okechukwu
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On this episode, Cynthia Okechukwu, the founder of Black Girls Read Chicago, and I discuss books that make you cry, her love of hardcover books, and what kinds of audiobooks work for both of us. She also gets to share an incredible story of getting a critical book put into her hands at a young age.
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The Read & Run Chicago Gift Guide
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
The City and It’s Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Books Highlighted by Cynthia:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
Little House Box Set by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe
Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport that Wasn't Built for Us by Alison Mariella Désir
Will by Will Smith & Mark Manson
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
It by Stephen King
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
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