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As librarians, books are kind of our thing. Listen in as we talk about what we're reading, make book recommendations, and all sorts of book-related fun.
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Nov 25, 2016
Nov 25, 2016
39 min
Pull out a cozy blanket - it's time to find out what you'll be reading this winter! As always, Ann and Halle end with what they're reading this week.
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
Ann's picks:
- Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine by Sarah Lohman (releases December 6, 2016)
- The Dry by Jane Harper (releases January 10, 2017)
- The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (releases January 10, 2017)
- Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran (releases January 10, 2017)
- Hey Harry Hey Matilda by Rachel Hulin (releases January 17, 2017)
- Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough (releases January 31, 2017)
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins - All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai (releases February 7, 2017)
- The Jetsons (TV)
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- Ernest Cline books - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (releases February 7, 2017)
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- Stardust by Neil Gaiman
- Stardust (film)
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Halle's picks:
- Books for Living by Will Schwalbe (releases December 27, 2016)
- The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe - Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel (releases December 27, 2016)
- Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia (releases January 3, 2017)
- The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen (releases February 7, 2017)
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- Episode 26 - Short Stories
- In the Country by Mia Alvar - Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson (releases January 10, 2017)
- The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
- Episode 2 - What to Read After The Girl on the Train
- Rear Window (film) - The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker (releases January 31, 2017)
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (releases February 28, 2017)
- The Fortunate Ones by Ellen Umansky (releases February 14, 2017)
What We're Reading This Week:
Nov 11, 2016
Nov 11, 2016
44 min
Ann and Halle discuss one of their favorite things to read: retellings of classic literature. They'll end with what they're reading this week.
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Ann's picks:
- Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast by Robin McKinley
- Beauty and the Beast - Jane by April Lindner
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Jane Austen books
- William Shakespeare's complete works
- Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - March by Geraldine Brooks
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Ralph Waldo Emerson books
- Henry David Thoreau books
- Little Women (film)
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- Geraldine Brooks books
Halle's picks:
- Longbourn by Jo Baker
- Downton Abbey (TV) - When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James
- Fairy Tales series by Eloisa James
- House M.D. (TV) - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh
- The Arabian Nights
- Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
- The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
- The Taming of the Shrew (film)
What We're Reading This Week:
- Ann: By Gaslight by Steven Price
- Episode 32 - Fall 2016 Book Preview
- By Gaslight on Goodreads
- Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck - Halle: El Deafo by Cece Bell
- Episode 34 - Childhood Favorites
- Newbery Medal
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- Episode 5 - Books That Make You Cry