DiscoverBooks with BetsyEpisode 66 - Life Reader with Karishma Verma
Episode 66 - Life Reader with Karishma Verma

Episode 66 - Life Reader with Karishma Verma

Update: 2025-08-11
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On this episode, Karishma Verma, an English professor who keeps her reading life outside of school alive, talks about her love for celebrity memoirs, and gives a really great list of places she gets her book recommendations. She also talks about her own podcast, Gilmore Gals, which discusses and recaps all things Gilmore Girls. 


 


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Gilmore Gals


 


Books mentioned in this episode: 


 


What Betsy’s reading: 


Ask Me Again by Claire Sestanovich


Monkey Grip by Helen Garner


Biography of X by Catherine Lacey


 


Books Highlighted by Karishma:


Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky


The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden


Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman


By The Book by Jasmine Guillory


The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson


I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy


Yes Please by Amy Poehler


 


All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  


Other books mentioned in this episode:


The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware 


Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park & Denise Brunkus 


The Clique by Lisi Harrison 


A Promised Land by Barack Obama 


Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple


Educated by Tara Westover


The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 


Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling 


Why Not Me?  by Mindy Kaling 


The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey

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Episode 66 - Life Reader with Karishma Verma

Episode 66 - Life Reader with Karishma Verma

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