On this episode, Francisco Rafael Peralta-Cerda, a fellow Read & Runner, talks about his work building a love for reading as a high school teacher, how his mom encouraged him to read when he was little, and a possibly surprising genre that he has fallen in love with this year. We also discuss his hesitation to read in public but also the attempt to dispel the myth of the performative male. 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga

The Sisters by Jonas Hassan Khemiri 

 

Books Highlighted by Fransico:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare by Darren Shan 

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 

We Should Hang Out Sometime by Josh Sundquist

Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos 

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey 

Inkspell by Cornelia Funke 

Batman by Tom King 

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 

Coraline by Neil Gaiman 

The Defining Decade by Meg Jay 

What Happened to Millenials by Charlie Wells 

Looking for Alaska by John Green 

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman 

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin 

Battle of the Bookstores by Ali Brady 

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos