Reading with Libraries Podcast

Thank you for joining us again on our book group and Reader's advisory podcast!  We are here to talk about books and share library ideas!   And now we are wrapping up the season! We've really enjoyed reading books with you, and having book group fun!  If you have missed any RWL, our archives are on the website. You can go back to cmle.org any time and listen to any of our podcast episodes. The book group is always here for you!   This week is pretty frustrating to discuss. We are librarians, and CMLE helps to support over three hundred different kinds of libraries across Central MN. We support the freedom to read, and the freedom to choose the books you want to read. If you have kids, you can encourage them to read the books you like and think are good. But it does not give anyone the right to tell other people they cannot read and enjoy a book. It's so wrong to keep books away from people, just because of the irrational fears or prejudices of a few individuals.   Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.   If you want to talk with me about library training, you can reach me at LibraryDrPod@gmail.com.

This is a week of fun books, because the idea of starting a new TV series or a new movie is always exciting! It might be great, it might be terrible - but the possibility is real and there are so many opportunities to enjoy new things. Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

It's fun to feel like you are in the know, that you see a small secret or an easter egg - and knowing the secret of a title is actually a character's name can be a fun way to encourage us to get in there and try some new books! Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

We aren't going to sing about it this week, but we are going to celebrate this week's books with song titles! Enjoy all of the books that always sound like they are going to be fun - but sometimes go in sad, scary directions. So this is a good week to try some new books of all genres! Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

This is such a fun week - retelling a classic story with a modern twist! Did you read a book in high school that was maybe okay - but you want to read a better version? Do you have a favorite book from a long time ago - and reading a current version would be fun? Or, have you always wanted to try a specific book - but never got around to reading it, and maybe a current version would be more fun? This is your week! Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

It's spring time! When everyone's fancy turns to thoughts of love - of books! It's a time of melting snow, flowers growing, green everywhere; and it's also a time for all kinds of new books to try. This week we are looking at books that have just been published, and are ready to enjoy all sorts of new, interesting stories. Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

We see the glamor of Hollywood this week, along with some of the backstage sadness and ick. This is a genre where we know a lot of the story, but only the front-facing ideas. We can always learn more about the secrets and mysteries that we don't see. Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

This week will be filled with drama, intrigue, hijinks, and of course romance! So basically yes: it will be the best week for finding all kinds of good books to read! You know that Ariel is our romance expert, and we can all count on her to share some great book ideas and insights. Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

This week's books are a slightly strange genre - easy to pick out but not always easy to categorize. They can be all kinds of genres and all kinds of different stories, and that is the fun of exploring these books! Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

This week our books all have a color in the title! Sometimes the colors are relevant to the storyline, and sometimes they are just fun things to enjoy. Feel free to wear your favorite colored items while we all enjoy this week's books.   Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

This week's books are such an easy genre to find, and to enjoy! There are tons of celebrity bios, covering all types of celebrities in all sorts of areas. They can be fun, silly, inspirational, and even life-changing. Jump into it with us this week! Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

We have so many books to enjoy this week! There are so many good developments happening with romance books; adding in fat characters make them more like real life and let many of us see ourselves in these stories. Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

We are ready to have a good time this week, as we explore books with mythical creatures! If you can dream it up, it's in a book somewhere; so let's explore some stories that will be filled with adventures.   Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

This week we are exploring some first-time authors! Of course, everyone is a first-time at some point. And whether they go on from there, or decide they are one and done - those first books are special. Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

This season we are exploring all new ideas for books and book suggestions, so you can expand your reading horizons, and share more information with your library community. We are looking at prompts from the 2023 PopSugar reading challenge this season. You can read along with their challenge, linked in our show notes, or just enjoy some different books.   This week will be a fun one, because we can all use a vacation right now. And of course it's always fun to have your favorite people on vacation with you. So we invited the coolest person we know: Ariel Kirst, our official Podcast Correspondent, from the Great River Regional Library System!   Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

This season we continue to travel around Minnesota but this time we're learning about all the fascinating historical sites our state has to offer and giving you a book prompt inspired by each site.  This is the end of Season One. You can get Season Two on our Linking our Libraries feed! We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we encourage you to explore the Mill City Museum. “Built within the ruins of what was once the world's largest flour mill, Mill City Museum is packed with fun for all ages.” Celebrate this by reading a book about baking or cooking. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This season we continue to travel around Minnesota but this time we're learning about all the fascinating historical sites our state has to offer and giving you a book prompt inspired by each site.   We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we encourage you to explore the Marine Mill. “On a bluff overlooking the St. Croix River is the site of what was a thriving industrial sawmill. Today, the ruins of the mill are as much a part of the site as the river, trees, and trails that run through it.” Read a book about nature. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This season we continue to travel around Minnesota but this time we're learning about all the fascinating historical sites our state has to offer and giving you a book prompt inspired by each site.   We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge!   This week we encourage you to explore the Comstock House. “A true Moorhead landmark, the house was home to the Comstocks, a family who worked tirelessly to bring business and educational opportunities to this Red River Valley community.” We suggest that you celebrate these opportunities by reading a book about schools. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This season we continue to travel around Minnesota but this time we're learning about all the fascinating historical sites our state has to offer and giving you a book prompt inspired by each site.   We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge!   This week we encourage you to explore the James J. Hill House. “Explore upstairs and downstairs life in Minnesota's Downton Abbey — a 36,000-square-foot mansion built for railroad titan James J. Hill.” To commemorate Hill's life, we suggest that you read a book about business. When you look for new books to read in this area, branch out beyond that word - otherwise you will be mired in older books by white male voices, and there are so many different voices and different options for you! For example: many cozy mysteries are all about women owning different kinds of businesses and their struggles with them - but they never turn up on lists of novels about business. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This season we continue to travel around Minnesota but this time we're learning about all the fascinating historical sites our state has to offer and giving you a book prompt inspired by each site.   We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge!   This week we encourage you to explore the Lower Sioux Agency. “As the Civil War raged on in the South, tensions between the Dakota and the newly formed Minnesota government erupted at this site in 1862.” To honor this history, we suggest that you read a book set in Minnesota.   We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This season we continue to travel around Minnesota but this time we're learning about all the fascinating historical sites our state has to offer and giving you a book prompt inspired by each site.   We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we encourage you to explore the Charles Lindbergh House and Museum. “Discover the childhood home of Charles A. Lindbergh, the famed environmental activist, inventor, and aviation pioneer.” To help you, we suggest that you read a book about airplanes or flying. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, a multitype system serving all types of libraries. We are here to help you find new books, for yourself or for your library. This season we continue to travel around Minnesota but this time we're learning about all the fascinating historical sites our state has to offer and giving you a book prompt inspired by each site.   We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we encourage you to explore Historic Fort Snelling. “Learn stories of the military fort and its surrounding area, home to a wide history that includes Native peoples, trade, soldiers and veterans, enslaved people, immigrants, and the changing landscape.” To celebrate this, we suggest you read a book about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).  We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

Welcome to Browsing Books!  We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, a multitype system serving all types of libraries. We are here to help you find new books, for yourself or for your library. This season we continue to travel around Minnesota but this time we're learning about all the fascinating historical sites our state has to offer and giving you a book prompt inspired by each site.   We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we encourage you to explore the Lac qui Parle Mission. “Lac qui Parle is the French translation of the Dakota name, “Lake that speaks.” It was at this aptly named site that Joseph Renville worked with missionaries to create the first written Dakota alphabet.” To celebrate this site, read a book that has been translated into English. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

We are here to help you find new books, for yourself or for your library. This season we continue to travel around Minnesota but this time we're learning about all the fascinating historical sites our state has to offer and giving you a book prompt inspired by each site.   We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we encourage you to explore the story of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe through museum exhibits, objects, demonstrations, and tours, and shop for locally made Native American arts and crafts in the restored 1930s trading post. To celebrate this museum, read a book about arts and crafts. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This season, we continue to travel around Minnesota, but this time we're learning about all the fascinating historical sites our state has to offer and giving you a book prompt inspired by each site.   We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we admire the 19th-century home of lumber baron W.H.C. Folsom, located in Taylors Falls, nestled among other New England style buildings and filled with original furnishings. To celebrate that style, read a book set in New England. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This is our final episode of the season! It's been so great reading with you for the last few months. Don't worry - we aren't leaving you. We'll be back with our short book suggestion podcast on Tuesday. This season we have been exploring a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons, and share more information with your library community. We are looking at the prompt from the 2022 PopSugar reading challenge this season. You can read along with their challenge, linked in our show notes, or just enjoy some different books.  This week we are exploring a fun genre: books with a parallel reality! It's always fun to think about another world where we might be richer or smarter, or where troubles that missed us may have managed to clobber us in that parallel universe. Was it part of the multiverse, where every single decision each of us makes spawns a new universe? Is it a virtual reality, where we are NPCs in a video game being played by our ancestors? We'll never know for sure, but it's endlessly fascinating to read people's ideas about some possibilities.  Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

This week we are exploring books about someone leading a double life! Are they spies? Are they bad guys? Do they just have secrets? We have to read them to find out! Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today. This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons, and share more information with your library community. We are looking at the prompt from the 2022 PopSugar reading challenge this season. You can read along with their challenge, linked in our show notes, or just enjoy some different books. 

This week we are looking at cool books in at least two languages! It's not just a neat thing, not just a way to learn about other cultures, not just good to enhance your job prospects; but also knowing more than one language will help to keep your brain functioning at top capacity as you age. Lots of coolness here!  Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today. This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons, and share more information with your library community. We are looking at the prompt from the 2022 PopSugar reading challenge this season. You can read along with their challenge, linked in our show notes, or just enjoy some different books. 

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons, and share more information with your library community. We are looking at the prompt from the 2022 PopSugar reading challenge this season. You can read along with their challenge, linked in our show notes, or just enjoy some different books.    This week will be a fun one, though not without some challenges along the way! Let's read books featuring a party. Grab a nice outfit, and let's get started! Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

This week we are taking a step back in time to the Victorian era, to explore all sorts of interesting new books. And of course the best way to explore is with cool people around. So we invited the coolest person we know: Ariel Kirst, our official Podcast Correspondent, from the Great River Regional Library System! Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today. This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons, and share more information with your library community. We are looking at the prompt from the 2022 PopSugar reading challenge this season. You can read along with their challenge, linked in our show notes, or just enjoy some different books. 

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons, and share more information with your library community. We are looking at the prompt from the 2022 PopSugar reading challenge this season. You can read along with their challenge, linked in our show notes, or just enjoy some different books.  This week we look at books about man-made disasters. We have also looked at books on Natural Disasters, back in episode 405. Check out our show notes page for information on the resources we share this episode, links to the beverages we enjoy, and links to the books we discuss today.

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons, and share more information with your library community. We are looking at the prompt from the 2022 PopSugar reading challenge this season. You can read along with their challenge, linked in our show notes, or just enjoy some different books.  This week we are looking at books with the name of a board game in the title. If this leads you to play some extra games this week - fantastic! We support you being able to enjoy yourself with books and with some games. So spend this week having a little extra bit of fun for yourself. Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons, and share more information with your library community. We are looking at the prompt from the 2022 PopSugar reading challenge this season. You can read along with their challenge, linked in our show notes, or just enjoy some different books.  This week we are looking at sapphic books.This is a wide genre, with all sorts of books for all of us to enjoy! As always, be sure you check out our show notes page. All the links to the books, beverages, and resources we share today will be available there for you!

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons, and share more information with your library community. We are looking at the prompt from the 2022 PopSugar reading challenge this season. You can read along with their challenge, linked in our show notes, or just enjoy some different books.    This week will be a fun one, because it's always good to have opportunities to celebrate! Check out our show notes page for links to our beverages, our resources, and the books we share today.

This week we are looking at books set on plans, trains, or cruise ships. If you need to take time for a vacation, but can't go anywhere right now; these books can be your ticket to a quick vacation at home! And if you are traveling, it can be fun to read about other travels in other places. Check out our show notes page for information on the resources we share, links to the beverages we enjoy, and links to the books we discuss today.

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons, and share more information with your library community. We are looking at the prompt from the 2022 PopSugar reading challenge this season. You can read along with their challenge, linked in our show notes, or just enjoy some different books.  This week, we will chat about books with secrets. Everyone has secrets, and those make for the most interesting stories!  Check out our show notes page for information on the resources we share, links to the beverages we enjoy, and links to the books we discuss today.

This week, we will chat about books with a recipe in it! Sure, you can go the easy route and read some cookbooks - a fun, tasty choice. And there are other options that will give you some new things to read as well as new things to eat! Check out our show notes page to get all the links to everything we share today.

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons, and share more information with your library community. We are looking at the prompt from the 2022 PopSugar reading challenge this season. You can read along with their challenge, linked in our show notes, or just enjoy some different books.  This week, we're reading books about gender identity. Check out our show notes page for information on the resources we share, links to the beverages we enjoy, and links to the books we discuss today.

Thank you for joining us again on our book group and Reader's advisory podcast!  This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons, and share more information with your library community. We are looking at the prompt from the 2022 PopSugar reading challenge this season. You can read along with their challenge, or just enjoy some different books. This week, we share the very broad suggestion of reading a book by a Latinx author. You have so many great choices! Check out our show notes page to get all the links to our beverages and books we share this week.

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons, and share more information with your library community. We are looking at the prompt from the 2022 PopSugar reading challenge this season. You can read along with their challenge, linked in our show notes, or just enjoy some different books.  For the first episode of this season, we're again visiting the world of BookTok to get reading recommendations! If you missed our earlier episode where we give a background explanation on the popularity of BookTok, you can catch up here. You can find links to all the books we share today, to the beverages we enjoy, and the resources we have today for you on our show notes page.

This week we admire Norman County. To celebrate early Norwegian settlers, also known as Norman settlers, we're reading books set in Norway or another Scandinavian country.  We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This week we admire Mower County. This county is the location of the Paramount Theater, a 1929 movie theater, the only atmospheric theater and commercial use of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. Let's celebrate this historical theater by reading a book made into a movie! We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This week we admire Meeker County. This county was named for Bradley B. Meeker (1813–1873), Associate Justice of the Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court (1849–1853). To celebrate the county, we suggest that you read a book set in a courtroom. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This week we admire Martin County. This county contains contains Fairmont Opera House, theater built in 1901, it is  a well-preserved and longstanding venue for cultural and social events. To celebrate this, we suggest that you read a book about a cultural or social event. You can find all our book suggestions on our show notes page! We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This week we admire Lyon County. This county contains Lady Slipper Lake. To celebrate the fancy name of this lake, read a book with people on the cover or in the plot who wear fancy clothes. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we admire Lac qui Parle County. Lac qui parle is a French phrase meaning "lake which talks". To celebrate that meaning, read a book set in France or with a French character.

This week we admire Kittson County. This county contains contains the Smokey Bear State Forest; to celebrate that we suggest that you read a book about bears or Teddy Roosevelt.  We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This week we admire Kittson County. In this county is the town Pelan - officially a ghost town. To celebrate this county, we suggest that this week you read some scary stories, particularly if they have a ghost and especially if you stay up late and enjoy them or if you read them around a campfire while enjoying the outdoors. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This week we admire Itasca County. Our prompt comes from Lake Itasca, source of the Mississippi River. We suggest you celebrate by reading a book with someone who visits the Mississippi River! We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we admire Isanti County. Its county seat is Cambridge, so celebrate that fact by reading a book set in a college or university And since Isanti County is in CMLE's geographic territory, that means all the libraries located there are our members! Hooray for CMLE libraries! 

his season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we admire Goodhue County. James Madison Goodhue was the first newspaper editor in Minnesota. To celebrate the value he brought to Minnesota, read a book with a journalist or involving a newspaper. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!