Podcasts about reading resolutions

Send us a textIn this month's episode, Beth, Brittany, and Stephanie talk about their favorite plant and gardening themed books because Seed Library Season is upon us! March is also Women's History Month, so tune in to hear our librarians' reading recommendations to celebrate and learn about prominent U.S. women. Some upcoming programs:Adults: Women Inventors of the Quad Cities and Beyond - Wednesday, March 26th @ 6:30pm | Eastern  Tweens/Teens: Teen Hunger Games Party - Saturday, March 15th @ 3pm | Fairmount  Kids: Frog Party - Thursday, March 20th @ 1pm | Eastern To find out what books were mentioned in this episode, visit our Checked In LibGuide!Helpful links from our discussion:Seed LibraryPatent and Trademark Resources CenterYouth Media Awards | ALAWomen's History Posts | Special Collections BlogKanopyLibrary Links:Library Social Worker - Do you need help navigating government benefits, affordable housing, or unemployment? Are you wondering what resources are available for you and your family? The Library Social Worker can work with you to navigate these challenges.Calendar of Events - Learn more about the events discussed in this episode and about what is coming up at the Library!Library Catalog - Place holds on all of the books discussed today!Beanstack - Sign up to participate in our reading challenges!2025 Online Reading Challenge

It's episode 208 and time for us to talk about our Reading Resolutions for 2025! We discuss our love of spreadsheets, the churn of books in public libraries, literacy, unschooling, and more!  You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray

Send us a textIn this month's episode, Beth, Brittany, and Stephanie deep-dive into their favorite and least favorite romance novel tropes. Then they sit down with Allie from the City of Davenport to discuss DavenportU Citizens Academy, a new opportunity for Davenport residents to learn more about their local government. Lastly, in honor of Black History Month, our hosts recommend their favorite books to read in celebration all February long.  Some upcoming programs:Adults: Makerspace - Open Hours - Monday, February 10th @ 5-7:45pm | MainTweens/Teens: Teen DIY: Puppy Chow - Friday, February 14th @ 3pm | Eastern Kids: Stuffed Animal Yoga - Friday, February 14th @ 1pm | Eastern To find out what books were mentioned in this episode, visit our Checked In LibGuide!Helpful links from our discussion:FRIENDS of The LibraryDavenportU Citizens AcademyShare your love and support for our library!Makerspace - Studio 321Library Links:Library Social Worker - Do you need help navigating government benefits, affordable housing, or unemployment? Are you wondering what resources are available for you and your family? The Library Social Worker can work with you to navigate these challenges.Calendar of Events - Learn more about the events discussed in this episode and about what is coming up at the Library!Library Catalog - Place holds on all of the books discussed today!Beanstack - Sign up to participate in our reading challenges!2025 Online Reading Challenge

On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing: Bookish Moments: reading resolutions and reading while being tattooed Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: all things DNF: how we define it, how we do it, etc. The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) .  .  .  .  1:59 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week 2:43 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 2:59 - Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri 11:17 - Our Current Reads 11:23 - Letters From Cuba by Ruth Behar (Kaytee) 17:33 - Murder Road by Simone St. James (Meredith) 22:41 - The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James 22:44 - The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James 22:47 - The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James 23:12 - The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley (Kaytee) 27:32 - A Bit Much by Lyndsay Rush (Meredith) 27:58 - @maryoliversdrunkcousin on Instagram 36:37 - Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Kaytee) 37:14 - @lizisreading_  on Instagram 38:01 - Packing for Mars by Mary Roach 39:41 - The Safekeep by Yael Van der Wouden 40:21 - Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney (Meredith) 45:04 - His & Hers by Alice Feeney 45:06 - Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney  45:34 - Deep Dive: The Art Of The DNF 59:59 - Meet Us At The Fountain 1:00:10 - I wish to hang out with you all at the Tucson Festival of Books in March. (Kaytee) 1:00:13 - Tucson Festival of Books *Send Kaytee and email at currentlyreadingpodcast @ gmail.com or directly message her person instagram @notesonbookmarks 1:01:39 - I wish to let you know about an app I found to track my Agatha Christie reading journey. (Meredith) 1:01:47 - Agatha Christie Reading List app Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. January's IPL is a special episode in partnership with All Things Murderful and a total mystery and thriller stack from Fabled Bookshop in Waco, Texas! Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business.  All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller From the Editor's Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

This week JMRL staff share how their 2024 reading year went and talk about their 2025 reading resolutions! On the Same Page's book club, Overbooked is back after a nearly year long hiatus! In January we will be reading Chesapeake Requiem by Earl Swift with a book discussion in February and an author interview in … Continue reading S.9 E.1: Reading Resolutions and Overbooked →

Send us a textIn this month's episode, Beth, Brittany, and Stephanie ring in the New Year with cold weather reading recommendations, upcoming 2025 releases, and their 2025 reading goals!Some upcoming programs: Adults: Formal Wear Dropoff & Giveaway Tweens/Teens: Anime Takeover - Tuesday, January 28th @ 6pm | Eastern Kids: Read to a Dog | Fairmount & Eastern  To find out what books were mentioned in this episode, visit our Checked In LibGuide!Helpful links from our discussion:The Library's Goodreads2025 Online Reading ChallengeLibrary Links:Library Social Worker - Do you need help navigating government benefits, affordable housing, or unemployment? Are you wondering what resources are available for you and your family? The Library Social Worker can work with you to navigate these challenges.Calendar of Events - Learn more about the events discussed in this episode and about what is coming up at the Library!Library Catalog - Place holds on all of the books discussed today!Beanstack - Sign up to participate in our reading challenges!

This episode we're discussing our 2024 Reading Resolutions (and Rants)! We talk about how we've already failed our 2024 reading resolutions, audio books, short stories, reading long things, not being able to read long things, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Media We Mentioned Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy (Wikipedia) Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy (Wikipedia) Animal Farm by George Orwell (Wikipedia) Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways edited by Mike Ashley Baldur's Gate 3 (Wikipedia) Yakuza (franchise) (Wikipedia) Feed by M.T. Anderson The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao Minecraft (Wikipedia) Two Point Hospital (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things Episode 167 (version 2) - 2023 Reading Goals & 2022 Reading Report Which Pokémon are the most goth?

A quick intro to what this podcast is all about and my reading plans and goals for 2024.

With many in our community already elbow deep in our 2024 Reading Challenges, we thought it was a good time to listen in to Ambre and (RA Moderator) Kimberly Schluterman discuss how Kimberly approached the 2023 Reading Challenge. Kimberly's three most influential books:Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenRocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1), also published as October Sky by Homer H. Hickam Jr.Kristy's Great Idea (Baby-Sitter's Club) by Ann M. Martin (Kimberly's breakthrough into love of reading title) Share this episode with a friend!Books and resources discussed in the episode: Feel free to order any titles through our storefront.Love & Friendship movie (based on Lady Susan)A Little History of the World by E. H. GombrichDave Barry's books Elephant & Piggie BooksThere is a Bird on Your Head by Mo WillemsMother Bruce by Ryan T. HigginsGoodnight Already! by Jory John & Benji Davies Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems The Complete Peanuts by Shulz Poultrygeist by Eric GeronCalvin and Hobbes by Bill WattersonGarfield comics by Jim DavisAll Cats Are on the Autism Spectrum by Kathy Hoopmann (updated edition of All Cats Have Aspergers Syndrome) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling All of Jane Austen's books Baby Lit books The Childhood of Famous Americans seriesKeeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton PorterBargain Bride by Evelyn Sibley LampmanShepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell WrightChronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisThanks for spending time with us! Subscribe for future episodes and free booklists! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.reshelvingalexandria.com

Visit JMRL's calendar for information on upcoming programs & events. This episode features several JMRL staff talking about their reading experiences of 2023, and outlining a few reading resolutions for 2024. If you aren't already familiar with Libby, be sure to check it out. A completely free and user-friendly app (and webpage) for reading eBooks … Continue reading S.8 E.5 — Reading Resolutions for 2024 →

Brea and Mallory discuss their old and new reader resolutions, and pick some of their most anticipated books of 2024! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations StoreSponsors -GreenChefwww.greenchef.com/60GLASSESCODE: 60GLASSESMicrodose Gummieswww.microdose.comCODE: GLASSESLinks -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletterLibro.fmTo join our Slack channel, email us proof of your Reading-Glasses-supporting Maximum Fun membership!www.maximumfun.org/joinBooks Mentioned - Murder at the Circus by Lee StraussThe Vaster Wilds by Lauren GroffMislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuireThe Book of Love by Kelly LinkThe Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda MontellMy Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris

The pals close the book on 2023 and chat about what they are looking forward to in the new year.

In this episode, we get excited about two books: Empty Theater by Jac Jemc and Yellowfaceby R.F. Kuang. Then we discuss great reading resolutions for a bookish 2024. Links Empty Theater by Jac Jemc Yellowface by R.F. Kuang The reading resolutions we discussed in our show came from our fantastic (friendly, empathetic, imaginative) supporters on Patreon. Do you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside. Transcript of this episode. The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.com As always, you can find us at: Our site Instagram Twitter Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode was recorded back in January 2023 as part of our annual 2022 year-end recap and a look forward to 2023. Ardo and Yash discuss what they've been reading in the last few months of 2022, the best of the year and what they're excited for in 2023. They also check-in on their 2022 reading resolutions and make new ones (or attempt the old ones again) for this year. What Yash Read - 2:14 What Ardo Read - 7:40 Best of 2022 - 13:52 Anticipated Reads - 40:13 Reading Resolutions - 58:33 The logo was designed by Nick Hanover. The theme song and break music is from Haris Qureshi's song Give AF. You can find his album here. Everything mentioned in the episode can be found on Goodreads. You can also find the podcast on Twitter and Instagram at @PutABlurbOnIt.

Welcome to Beyond the Shelves, a new podcast hosted by the Des Moines Public Library! This podcast is hosted by DMPL Librarians Brooklyn and Jes, both of whom are on the Book Chat team. In this first episode, they introduce themselves and talk about their reading goals this year, while also providing recommendations to each other in regards to those goals. Beyond the Shelves will be released monthly. You can find it in the DMPL Podcast feed.

*New In the Stacks episode alert!* Do you have a New Year's resolution for this year? It's February now, so if you have one and you haven't given up on it yet, you're doing better than most of society, so kudos to you. Because we are librarians by day and book nerds by night, our New Year's resolutions obviously take the form of reading resolutions. In this episode of In the Stacks, the staff of the Lewistown Public Library share their book-related goals for 2023. We hope that by setting our literature intentions that we can inspire you to go after a reading goal of your own in the new year. Intro and Outro music by Cosmik Jru Featured track "Vegan Breakfast" by Couple II

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie is joined by Hunter McLendon (@shelfbyshelf) to chat about their 2023 reading resolutions! We're thrilled that you can now shop for the books mentioned in this episode on our brand-new website: Annie's reading resolutions last year: Recitatif by Toni Morrison Beloved by Toni Morrison Sula by Toni Morrison Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Annie's resolutions this year: Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry Standing by Words by Wendell Berry (unavailable to order) Bleak House by Charles Dickens From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf's daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today's episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.  A full transcript of today's episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.  This week, Annie is reading Games and Rituals by Katherine Heiny. Hunter is reading The Farewell Tour by Stephanie Clifford. If you liked what you heard in today's episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Or, if you're so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff's weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We're so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Our Executive Producers are... Donna Hetchler, Cammy Tidwell, Chantalle C, Kate O'Connell, Nicole Marsee, Wendi Jenkins, and Laurie Johnson.

Listen as we chat with special guest Prescott City Councilman Montoya about the power of books and libraries and share our 2023 reading resolutions.

The pals share their reading goals for the coming year as well as introduce their new meta game: Brag Points.

Josh and Travis start the new year off with making some New Year's reading resolutions. Keep listening as they try to convince it other to take on various media viewings.

KMUW book reviewer Suzanne Perez is setting goals and scanning her bookshelves for titles to fulfill the 2023 ReadICT Challenge. In today's book review, she tells you more.

We're looking at what we accomplished in 2022, what our failures were, and what we're hoping to achieve in our reading lives in 2023!! Links mentioned: Subscribe to our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/c/BooksUnbound Support The Podcast: Our beautiful merch: https://store.dftba.com/collections/books-unbound Join our patreon and become a Dust Jacket! patreon.com/booksunbound Follow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/books_unbound/ Need Info or Some Books? All the books we mentioned in this episode: https://www.booksunboundpodcast.com/books Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com Use our affiliate link to get 2 audiobooks for the price of 1! https://tidd.ly/3dyW1Xw Our Patrons: A special thanks to our Gold Foil Team on Patreon: Allison, Brittany, Chrissy, Christina, Hannah, Jessie, Luna, Malin, Mario, Nicole, Simon, Tina!

Hello, hi! Episode 56 features book recommendations from my reading during Fall and Winter of 2022. I categorize these reviews with three loves, two likes, one bummer and a total wildcard. This is the last episode of 2022, and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for engaging with the Medium Lady Talks podcast and community. Connecting with you has meant the world to me and I will always be grateful for your time and attention. The podcast will take the month of January as hiatus and Season 3 will begin in February of 2023!!   Books reviewed:   This is How it always is by Laurie Frankel Vicious by V.E. Schwab Girl,Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo Don't Overthink it by Anne Bogel Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doer Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armsfield Off hand and totally unplanned Reading Resolutions for 2023 Pass on all books that feature children experiencing vicarious trauma (or direct trauma) Track with more consistency, why and how I came upon a book recommendation when I place a hold at the library Add more V.E. Schwab to my TBR pile Journal more frequently in tandem with non-fiction reading You can always help out the podcast by providing a rating or review, and sharing it with another Medium Lady in your life! Make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss when the new episodes drop for Season 3. I love to connect with listeners, you can swing by to say hi on Instagram, @medium.lady any time, I'm sure we'll become fast friends. Music is Climb by The Ghost in Your Piano. I'm grateful for its use via creative commons license. ~~~~~ Other Books mentioned: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune An Unthinkable Thing by Nicole Lundrigan A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue by V.E. Schwab Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots The Lazy Genius by Kendra Adachi My Reading Life: A Book Journal by Anne Bogel Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam The Anomaly by Herve Leger Blindness by Jose Saramago   Also mentioned: The concept of Good Enough Parenting The Currently Reading Podcast Book Genuis Writing Camp hosted by author Jayne Allen What Should I read Next? With Anne Bogel Will Byrnes academic GoodReads review of Cloud Cuckoo Land The Reading Soundtrack ™ for Our Wives Under the Sea   Similar to this episode Episode 38:Medium Lady Reads Sure-Fire Summer Reading Recommendations Episode 22: with author Jayne Allen Episode 44: Medium Lady Reviews Books Summer 2022 Episode 32: Books I read Early Winter 2022

In Episode 83 of Book Talk, Etc. Tina and Renee share their January Books on the Radar. They also share what they've been loving lately, their latest reads, shelf additions, and have book talk about their reading resolutions for 2023**If you enjoy our commercial free podcast please consider supporting us on Patreon!  We have great bonus episodes including: Books we DNFed, Books We Disagreed On, What's in the Mailbag, + Criminally Booked! Plus, we host fun Zoom events like Mood Reader Happy Hour and Book Talk Book Club, a private Facebook group & a lively DISCORD where you can interact with other patrons all for just $5 a month! Check out our Merchandise Shop! Loving Lately Book Challenges on The Storygraph (T) --- Melanated Reader Ezra Klein Podcast Episode -  Research article  Latest Reads A Quiet Life | Ethan Joella (T)      One's Company | Ashley Hutson     Book Talk The New Life | Tom Crewe (T)  The Social Climber | Amanda Pelligrino   Night Wherever We Go | Tracey Rose Peyton (T)  City Under One Roof | Iris Yamashita  The Survivalists | Kashana Cauley (T) Vintage Contemporaries | Dan Kois  The Minus One Club | Kekla Magoon (T) How it Went Down Central Places | Delia Kai   Current Reads Speak | Tunde Oyeneyin (T) The Villa | Rachel Hawkins (T)    Migrations | Charlotte McConaghy         Beautiful Ruins | Jess Walter        *The book titles listed are Amazon Affiliate links (our additional affiliate links to Bookshop & Blackwell's are below) where we make a small commission from qualifying purchases (at no cost to you). Thanks for your support!Bookshop.org  | Blackwell's  Support the showThanks so much for listening!

Do you have reading resolutions for the new year? Whether you want to focus your efforts on reading outside your comfort zone or simply want to read more, check out these suggestions from librarians Katie, Meagan and Sarah. They also talk about book discovery resources and what they're looking forward to reading next. Titles mentioned in this episode include: Empire of Pain and Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe; Rust Belt Femme by Raechel Anne Jolie; Olga Dies Dreaming by by Xochitl Gonzalez; The World Record Book of Racist Stories and You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin; The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas; My First Popsicle, edited by Zosia Mamet; The Song of the Cell and The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee; The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty; Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan; A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny; and Now Is Not the Time to Panic, The Family Fang and Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson. Also mentioned: Archive of Our Own Check out books and movies at countycat.mcfls.org, wplc.overdrive.com and hoopladigital.com. For more about WAPL, visit westallislibrary.org. Music: Tim Moor via Pixabay

This episode we're talking about our Favourite Reads of 2022! (Some of them were even published in 2022!) We discuss our favourite things we read for the podcast and our favourite things we read not for the podcast. Plus: Many more things we enjoyed this year, including video games, manga, graphic novels, food, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Favourite Fiction For the podcast Anna Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell, narrated by Tanya Eby Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction Jam Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg Episode 160: Biographical Fiction & Fictional Biographies Matthew Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction Meghan Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler Episode 164 - Military Fiction Not for the podcast Jam Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh Episode 147 - Contemporary Fantasy Matthew Semiosis by Sue Burke Meghan Black Helicopters by Caitlín R. Kiernan Anna The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel Favourite Non-Fiction For the podcast Matthew Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig and Owen Hatherley Episode 141 - Architecture Non-Fiction Meghan The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque Episode 149 - Astronomy & Space Anna Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind by Sarah Posner Episode 162 - Investigative Journalism Jam Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King Episode 145 - Anthropology Non-Fiction Not for the podcast Meghan Fashion Is Spinach: How to Beat the Fashion Racket by Elizabeth Hawes Anna Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us by Rachel Aviv Jam Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth to Age Five by Lisa Guernsey Matthew X-Gender, vol. 1 by Asuka Miyazaki, translated by Kathryn Henzler, adapted by Cae Hawksmoor Other Favourite Things of 2022 Anna Tasting History with Max Miller Debunking the Myths of Leonardo da Vinci Jam Dirty Laundry/“Garbage Tuesday” French tacos (Wikipedia) Matthew Unpacking Meghan Favourite manga: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, vol. 1 by Sumito Oowara, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian Runner-Ups Anna Video Games: Crashlands Wobbledogs YouTube: Ryan Hollinger (horror movie reviews) Podcasts:  American Hysteria Maintenance Phase You Are Good Other (Audio)Books: Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia) Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty The Invisible Kingdom by Patrick Radden Keefe Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara Jam Favourite classic:  The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Episode 151 - Classics Favourite manga:  Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler (Wikipedia)  Favourite Album:  Laurel Hell by Mitski (Wikipedia) Working for the Knife (YouTube) Favourite AAA video game:  Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Wikipedia) Favourite indie video game:  Wytchwood Favourite Wordle spin-off:  Worldle Matthew Video game: Hyper Light Drifter Manga Dai Dark by Q Hayashida, translated by Daniel Komen My Dress Up Darling by Shinichi Fukuda, translated by  Taylor Engel Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun by Izumi Tsubaki, translated by Leighann Harvey Descending Stories by Haruko Kumota, translated by Matt Treyvaud Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma, translated by Amy Forsyth Biomega, vol. 1 (just the first volume really, it does not stick the landing) by Tsutomu Nihei, translated by John Werry Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki, translated by Toshifumi Yoshida Disappearance Diary by Hideo Azuma, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian and Elizabeth Tiernan Graphic novels: Beetle and Hollowbones by Aliza Layne A Gift for a Ghost by Borja González, translated by Lee Douglas Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud Books Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots Meghan Favourite new-to-me author: Zviane Favourite work of translation: The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate, translated by David Bowles Podcast non-fiction runner up:  Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism by Barnabas Calder Podcast fiction runner up: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Non-fiction The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective by Pat Summitt and Sally Jenkins Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker Runner up graphic novels: Himawari House by Harmony Becker Taproot by Keezy Young Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu Sunny Sunny Ann! by Miki Yamamoto, translated by Aurélien Estager (French) L'homme qui marche by Jirō Taniguchi, translated by Martine Segard (French, available in English as The Walking Man) Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera  Le petit astronaute by Jean-Paul Eid (French) Tony Chu détective cannibale by John Layman with Rob Guillory (French, available in English as Chew) Radium Girls by Cy. (French) Queen en BD by Emmanuel Marie and Sophie Blitman (French) Memento mori by Tiitu Takalo (French) Enferme-moi si tu peux by Anne-Caroline Pandolfo and Terkel Risbjerg (French) Links, Articles, Media, and Things Episode 140 - Favourite Reads of 2021 Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two ChatGPT (Wikipedia) There no longer appears to be an easy way to find images sent through Google Chat anymore, so no screenshots of fake podcast co-hosts discussing reptile fiction. Sorry! I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki (Wikipedia) Brian David Gilbert - The Perfect PokéRap 24 Travel Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature by Kamal Abdel-Malek Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by Faith Adiele Due North: A Collection of Travel Observations, Reflections, And Snapshots Across Colors, Cultures and Continents by Lola Akinmade Åkerström All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō, translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battuta Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana by Stephanie Elizondo Griest A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing edited by Farah Jasmine Griffin & Cheryl J. Fish I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey by Langston Hughes Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors by James Edward Mills The Middle Passage by V.S. Naipaul Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nanjala Nyabola Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham An Indian Among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud by Sun Shuyun Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections by Virginia Whatley Smith Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain by Lori L. Tharps Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, January 3rd we'll be talking about Sports non-fiction! Then on Tuesday, January 17rd we'll be discussing our 2023 Reading Resolutions!

Listen as we reflect on our 2022 reading resolutions and share some of our favorite bookish moments of the year!

Want to jump around? Use these time codes to visit different segments in today's episode:  2:05 — JMRL email newsletters 4:15 — Abby and EJ's favorite reads, most anticipated reads, and reading resolutions 23:00 — JMRL reading resolutions and favorite reads of 2022 This is our last episode of 2022. We hope you enjoyed this … Continue reading S. 6. E. 15 – Reading Resolutions for 2023 →

Becca and Gary are back for a full length episode, and this time we're talking about our New Year's Reading Resolutions. It's easy to get into a rut with what we're reading and consuming, and so this year we're determined to try new things and set aside more time to enjoy the books we're consuming. Join us, and let us know what your reading resolutions are!   Subscribe to the SciFi & Fantasy Book Crate or the Cozy Mysteries Book Crate now! You can now find us on Patreon! Unlock exclusive content by subscribing today! Special thanks to Austin Farmer for letting us use the track "Kill the Farm Boy", from his album Bookshelf Symphony Orchestra!  Send us your questions to mystgalaxypod@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook,  YouTube, and TikTok!  And support the store by ordering books at mystgalaxy.com!

The pals share their aspirations for the new year.

We are well into the new year and maybe now is really the best time to discuss our resolutions for this 2022, when we've had a chance to feel them out and decide whether we want to hang on to them through the rest of the year or abandon them to wishful thinking. In this episode, Alissa and Brittney revisit Their resolutions from last year, let you know how they went, and then lay out their resolutions for 2022, book-related and otherwise. Subscribe to In the Stacks on Spotify, Google, and all other major podcast platforms. You can email us at lewistownpubliclibrary@gmail.com. Follow us at @lplgram on Instagram or Lewistown Public Library on Facebook.

This week, Annie is breaking down her 2022 Reading Resolutions with her friend and frequent co-host, Hunter Mclendon. You might recognize Hunter from his work on Instagram (you can find him @shelfbyshelf), or from his weekly newsletter of the same name, which you can find on Substack. The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Beloved by Toni Morrison (Backlist Book Club, in March) Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Sula by Toni Morrison (back-ordered) Jazz by Toni Morrison The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib Shelf Subscription program Storygraph Track Your Reading (If you purchase a ticket, we will send you a link to the recording) From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf's daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today's episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.  A full transcript of today's episode can be found here. Special thanks to Studio D Podcast Production for production of From the Front Porch and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.  This week, I'm reading The Maid by Nita Prose. Hunter is reading Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.  If you'd like to support From the Front Porch, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your input helps us make the show even better and reach new listeners. All you have to do is open up the Podcast App on your phone, look for From the Front Porch, scroll down until you see ‘Write a Review' and tell us what you think. Or, if you're so inclined, support us for $5 a month on Patreon, where you can follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic and participate in live video Q&As in our monthly lunch break sessions. Just go to:  patreon.com/fromthefrontporch We're so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Libro.FM: Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you'll be part of a different story -- one that supports the community. All you need is a smartphone and the free Libro.fm app. Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link: libro.fm/redeem/FRONTPORCH Flodesk: Do you receive a weekly or monthly newsletter from one of your favorite brands? Like maybe From the Front Porch (Or The Bookshelf)... Did you ever wonder, ‘how do they make such gorgeous emails?'  Flodesk is an email marketing service provider that's built for creators, by creators, and it's easy to use. We've been using it for a couple of years now, and I personally love it. And right now you can get 50% off your Flodesk subscription by going to: flodesk.com/c/THEFRONTPORCH

Listen as we chat about easy ways to fit reading into your everyday life. We also share our reading resolutions for the new year. Plus, hear from two young book lovers--Abbey and Cody--about the books, series, and characters they love and how they make time for reading!

We're halfway through January and there is still plenty of time to set your reading resolutions for 2022! If you are looking for something beyond keeping track of the number of books you read, today's episode is for you because Jill offers some suggestions and alternative reading resolutions beyond just the number of books you read. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We discuss the upcoming releases we are excited for, the TBR books that we WILL get to this year, and the ways that we make reading resolutions. As always: https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/199351343/posts/9 https://www.instagram.com/on_the_shelf_podcast/

Erin is joined this month by special guests from the Youth Services department, Danielle Masterson and Nicole Chevalier! They offer their favorite books for kids, teens and adults in 2021, the books they are looking forward to in 2022, and their "Reading Resolutions" for the New Year.

IT'S TIME FOR BIG PLANS! Here are our reading goals, anticipated reads, and reflect on how our 2021 goals went! Support The Podcast: Our beautiful merch: https://store.dftba.com/collections/books-unbound Support the Podcast and become a Dust Jacket! patreon.com/booksunbound Need Info or Some Books? All the books we mentioned in this episode: https://www.booksunboundpodcast.com/books Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com Use our affiliate link to get 2 audiobooks for the price of 1! https://tidd.ly/3dyW1Xw Our Patrons: A special thanks to our Gold Foil Team on Patreon: Lydia Gappa, Kate, Mareike, Lotus Luo, Nicole, Luna, Charlie, Liz, and Manogni!

In Episode 31 of Book Talk, Etc. Tina and Renee share a few of their most anticipated January releases. They also share what they've been loving lately, their latest reads, shelf additions, and have book talk about their reading resolutions for 2022. **Support us on Patreon ! We would love for you to join our Book Talk community! We have great bonus episode content including: books we DNFed, Books we disagreed on, even more best of the year, & More, Zoom Mood Reader/Latest Read Happy Hour, an engaging private Facebook group where you can interact with other listeners, and more- all for just $5 a month! *The book titles listed are linked to Amazon Affiliates, where we make a small commission from qualifying purchases (at no cost to you). Thanks for your support!Loving Lately 5:13 Trish McEvoy Instant Eye Lift (R) 7:34 Smashbox Under-eye Brightener (T) 9:00 Orange Theory (T)      Latest Reads11:54 Eight Perfect Hours | Lia Lewis  (T) 

Thank you to JMRL staff members who agreed to be guest stars on today's podcast! In order of appearance, they are:  David Plunkett Jess Moore Andrew Grimm Kayla Payne Heather Pehnec  Tish Colvin Jennifer MacAdam-Miller   We talked about the following titles:  Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon … Continue reading S.5 Ep. 4 — Reading Resolutions →

We are excited to release our very first episode! In this one, we discuss our current reads, how our 2020 went, and much more!  Thanks for tuning in! Follow us on Instagram @poetandreader

In Episode 8 of the EWBR podcast, Anisha and Dhruv talk about their favourite comedies – from the classic American sitcom format mastered by Seinfeld, Friends and The Office, to the cynicism of Veep and Schitt's Creek and Phoebe Waller Bridge's dark masterpiece Fleabag. Also, do subtitles detract from the tv/movie experience or is dubbing massively overrated (hint: it is!). Moving on to reading resolutions – John Steinbeck, Stephen King, Iris Murdoch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Faulkner, William Thackeray and many, many more. Finally, are meal kits worth the fuss? Tune in now!  WATCH  Friends (specifically the pivot episode) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends ; Modern Family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Family ; Parks and Recreation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_and_Recreation ; Seinfeld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld ; Fleabag https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p070npjv/fleabag ;Malcolm In the Middle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_in_the_Middle ;Titus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_%28TV_series%29 ;The Office (USA version) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(American_TV_series) ;Schitts Creek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schitt%27s_Creek ;Brooklyn Nine Nine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Nine-Nine ;Watch this clip and you will love Brooklyn Nine Nine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlBYdiXdUa8 ;Coupling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_(British_TV_series) ;Good Girls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Girls_%28TV_series%29 ; The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marvelous_Mrs._Maisel ; Sex Education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Education_%28TV_series%29 ; Veep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veep ;That 70's Show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_%2770s_Show ; One Day At A Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_at_a_Time_%282017_TV_series%29 ; Kim's Convenience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%27s_Convenience  Dhruv's recommendations for subtitled shows/movies  Open Your Eyes https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125659/ House of Flowers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Flowers_%28TV_series%29 Call My Agent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_My_Agent! ;Deutschland 83 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland_83 ;Gran Hotel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Hotel_%28TV_series%29  BINGE READ Dhruv's reading resolutions Read Iris Murdoch Sea the Sea https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780099284093 2. Read John Steinbeck East of Eden https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780241980354 Of Mice and Men https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781781125939 Grapes of Wrath https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780241980347 Winter of our Discontent https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780141186313 The Moon is Down https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780141395371 Sweet Thursday https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780141185521 3. William Faulkner Sound and the Fury https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780099475019 Light in August https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780099283157 4. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 100 Years of Solitude https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780241968581 Love in the Time of Cholera https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780241978924 Collected Stories https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780241968758 Speical mention: I Only Came to Use the Phone Anisha's reading resolutions 1. Read Stephen King On Writing https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781444723250 Dead Zone https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781444708097 2. Middlemarch by Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot) https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9788027305056 3. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780141439839  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eatwatchbingeread/message

We are back! This week Annie is joined by frequent guest, good friend and bookstagrammer of @shelfbyshelf, Hunter McClendon. The two will discuss their 2021 reading resolutions. The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase at The Bookshelf: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Persuasion by Jane Austen Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Emma by Jane Austen Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford The Removed by Brandon Hobson Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson The Round House by Louise Edrich Middlemarch by George Eliot Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Moby Dick by Herman Melville Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust Swan’s Way by Marcel Proust Culture Warlords by Talia Lavin Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley Jesus and John Wayne by Kristen Kobes Du Mez The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Bloomability by Sharon Creech From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.  A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.  This week, Annie is reading The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin and Hunter is reading Let’s Get Back to the Party by Zak Salih. If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

This episode we’re talking about Our Reading Resolutions and Intentions for 2021! We discuss failing our reading resolutions from 2020, reading in a pandemic, reading for fun, reading for work, reading (or not reading) books given to us as gifts, and how we deal with To Read lists. Plus: Matthew’s appalling reading plans for 2021. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Media We Mentioned I’m on lockdown so I watched all 14 Land Before Times by Jenny Nicholson SciShow YouTube channel Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People, and Fantastic Adventure from Chess to Role-Playing Games by Jon Peterson Drokk! Judge Dredd readthrough podcast The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Links, Articles, and Things Stream of The Lady’s Choice (with Matthew & Meghan) Part 2 on Friday, January 22nd, 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific at https://www.twitch.tv/bookclub4m  Stream of Northanger Abbey (with Matthew & RJ) Part 2 on Friday, January 29nd, 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific at https://www.twitch.tv/bookclub4m  Episode 093 - 2020 Reading Resolutions and Intentions Episode 114 - Hot Cocoa & Book Recommendations Our 2020 Reading Resolutions and Intentions Bingo sheet 18 Cozy Mystery Books by POC (People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. The Plot Is Murder by V.M. Burns In the Dog House by V.M. Burns Murder, Mayhem, and a Fine Man by Claudia Mair Burney A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette Sex, Murder and a Double Latte by Kyra Davis Mama Solves A Murder by Nora DeLoach A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon Going Nowhere Fast by Gar Anthony Haywood The Company You Keep by Angela Henry Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala (forthcoming, May 2021) The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey Mayhem & Mass by Olivia Matthews Deep Fried Trouble by Tyora Moody Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu Aunty Lee's Delights by Ovidia Yu Give us feedback! Would you subscribe to/pay for a print newsletter of reviews of titles we don’t mention on the podcast? Let us know! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 2nd, just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ll be doing our annual romance fiction episode and talking about the genre of Regency Romance! Then on Tuesday, February 16th we’ll be discussing What makes a good book cover? Design and art of books!

In this celebratory 1 year anniversary episode, we sit down to discuss our reading resolutions for 2021 as well as take a look back at how YA literature has changed over the past year! Listen in for ideas about how to spice up your reading this year along with our thoughts on the importance of Own-Voices stories in YA. For more reviews, recommendations, and T.A.B. click here And explore Quail Ridge Books' upcoming events and online catalog here

Brittney and Dani ring in the new year with a conversation about their 2020 reading and the reading goals they resolve to accomplish in 2021. Book recommendations in this episode include City of Brass (Daevabad Trilogy #1) by S.A. Chakraborty from Dani and Gutshot: Stories by Amelia Gray from Brittney. Do you have any 2021 reading resolutions? Any favorite reads from 2020? What books are you looking forward to reading in 2021? Let us know! You can email us at lewistownpubliclibrary@gmail.com. Follow us at @lplgram on Instagram or Lewistown Public Library on Facebook. Subscribe to In the Stacks on Spotify, Google, and all other major podcast platforms.

Ep. #511- Jill and Adam are back together sharing their most recent reads before getting into their own reading resolutions for 2021 Then, they offer up book recommendations for one of the tasks on the Professional Book Nerds 2021 Reading Challenge- Read a book published in the 1990s. Take a listen! Sponsor: Kencko - Be one of the first 100 listeners to visit http://kencko.com/pbn for 25% off your first order of ready to enjoy smoothies. Recent Reads: Cuyahoga by Pete Beatty Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang Plainsong by Kent Haruf Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney 1990s books - #PBNread2021 The Things They Carried By Tim O'Brien A Lesson Before Dying By Ernest J. Gaines Jurassic Park By Michael Crichton Sabriel By Garth Nix The Witching Hour By Anne Rice The Sparrow By Mary Doria Russell Game of Thrones by George RR Martin The Secret History by Donna Tartt Rose Madder by Stephen King The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead Adam’s page on The StoryGraph Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode we’re reading Sociology Non-Fiction! We discuss the differences between sociology and psychology, what Karl Marx and Aziz Ansari have in common, the over-educated but kind-of-broke worker, and the difficulties of reading books that make us both sad and angry. Plus: Pandemic Monkey Brains! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Amanda Wanner Things We Read (or tried to read) From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks (this is better than Matthew implied in the episode, it is worth reading) Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon Other Media We Mentioned The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshona Zuboff Disasters: A Sociological Approach by Kathleen Tierney The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification by Randall Collins Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability by Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder Beyond the Body: Death and Social Identity by Elizabeth Hallam, Glennys Howarth, Jenny Hockey The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlamn Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal by Abigail Carroll  Death of Sandra Bland (Wikipedia) Food Mirages in Guelph, Ontario: The Impacts of Limited Food Accessibility and Affordability on Low-income Residents by Benjamin Reeve (not mentioned during the episode, but this is someone’s actual sociology thesis that Matthew thinks is neat) Body Politics: Power, Sex, and Nonverbal Communication by Nancy M. Henley (Amanda meant to mention this book but forgot!) Links, Articles, and Things Where Do Librarians Come From? Examining Educational Diversity in Librarianship by Rachel Ivy Clarke (I think this is way less humanities-focussed than our program was…) Michel Foucault (Wikipedia) Dr. Thomas Kemple Readers' Advisory for Library Staff (Facebook Group) JUMPSUIT - “Jumpsuit: how to make a personal uniform for the end of capitalism” Code Switch (NPR Podcast) Louder Than A Riot (NPR Podcast) According to Need (99% Invisible Podcast) Sabrina and Friends: Answers in Progress How Conspiracy Theories Work (a good example of a video showing the research process) Trader Joe's (Wikipedia) What does it mean to be working class in Canada? (Macleans article) 15 Sociology Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation by Oluwakemi M. Balogun W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America edited by by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs &  Scott Kurashige Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims by Hussein Kesvani I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and The Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles by Rocío Rosales Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor by Sudhir Venkatesh Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Watch us Stream! Our Twitch channel - Fridays in January, 9pm Eastern Our YouTube channel - Recordings of streams Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, January 19th when we’ll be talking about our Reading Resolutions for 2021! Then on Tuesday, February 2nd, just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ll be doing our annual romance fiction episode and talking about the genre of Regency Romance!

What books do we NEED to read in 2021? Most anticipated releases? Raeleen is doing a book buying ban? And we share some new podcast updates! CMON, 2021, WE'RE READY! Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound

Today we talk with readers and ask them to tell us a little about their bookish goals for 2021. They share their tracking style, what worked and what didn’t and why they think it’s important to give tracking a go. So let’s get reading books together and welcome in 2021 with open book-filled arms !! Books discussed in this episode:  A Swim in a pond in the Rain by George Saunders She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell  Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule  The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin  Chasing Lucky by Jenn Bennett

In this episode, we talk about our reading resolutions for the new year. We also talk about what we’re reading. Abby and Abby talked about reading: After the Flood by Kassandra Montag Kid Gloves by Lucy Knisley Next, we hear talk about our reading resolutions: Put down books we’re not enjoying Read Coretta Scott King … Continue reading S.4 Ep.8 – Reading Resolutions →

This episode we’re talking about the Best Books We Read in 2020! (Not necessarily things that came out in 2020, but there are some of those too!) We discuss reading in the pandemic era, “good enough” reads, academic publishing, and more! Plus: Are noodles media? You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Favourite Fiction For the podcast Matthew The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark  (From Episode 106 - Alternative/Alternate History) Serre Watch Matthew and Meghan play this visual novel! (From Episode 108 - Visual Novels) Anna Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer (From Episode 115 - New Weird) Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville (From Episode 106 - Alternative/Alternate History) Meghan The Etched City by KJ Bishop (From Episode 115 - New Weird) RJ Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (From Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi) Not for the podcast Anna Binding Shadows by Jasmine Silvera Meghan The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley RJ Saturday by Oge Mora Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira Read online for free Delicious In Dungeon, vol. 1 by Ryoko Kui Matthew A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark Read online for free The Space Traders by Derrick Bell (Wikipedia) Collected in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora edited by Sheree Thomas  68:Hazard:Cold by Janelle C. Shane Read online for free Listen to the podcast version Houses by Mark Pantoja Read online for free The Murderbot Diaries Series by Martha Wells Favourite Non-Fiction For the podcast Meghan Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery (From Episode 092 - Arts (Non-Fiction)) RJ The Debunking Handbook by John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky (From Episode 100 - Library and Information Studies) Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms by John Hodgman (From Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction) Matthew Comics and Critical Librarianship: Reframing the Narrative in Academic Libraries edited by Olivia Piepmeier and Stephanie Grimm (From Episode 100 - Library and Information Studies)     A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer (From Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction) Anna Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction by Maria T. Accardi (From Episode 100 - Library and Information Studies) Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film by Adilifu Nama (From Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction) Not for the podcast RJ Dinosaur Feathers by Dennis Nolan Matthew Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots by Kate Devlin Anna On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss Meghan The Undying by Anne Boyer  Other Favourites Things of 2020 Anna The Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb (trailer on YouTube) RJ Dan-Dan Noodles?? Noodles are media, right??? Dandan noodles (Wikipedia) RJ’s recipe  Leather Archives & Museum Instagram account Game Changer episode 1 - The Game Show Where Nobody Knows the Rules (YouTube) Matthew Reply All, episode 158, The Case of the Missing Hit Anarchism & Police Abolition｜Feat. Domri Rade Mis(h)adra by Iasmin Omar Ata Meghan Nature (no hyperlink, see: outside) (No, there’s a hyperlink - Matthew) Runner-Ups RJ  Fiction Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong RJ  Other Steven Universe Future (Wikipedia) Sohla El-Waylly / Stump Sohla Meghan  Fiction Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya Self Care by Leigh Stein Dread Nation by Justina Ireland After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones  The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis  Meghan Non-fiction Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Turning by Jessica J. Lee Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language by Katherine Russell Rich  Meghan  French Language Tom Thomson, esquisses du printemps by Sandrine Revel Les petites victoires by Yvon Roy Waves by Ingrid Chabbert Un soleil entre des planètes mortes by Anneli Furmak  Matthew Comics Emanon, vol. 1 by Shinji Kajio and Kenji Tsuruta  On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden Read online Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll Monstress, vol. 3: Haven by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda (yes, I’m two volumes behind, the next volume is literally sitting on my shelf waiting to be read) Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, vol. 1 by Kagiji Kumanomata Steeple by John Allison (webcomic) Blade Runner 2019, vol. 1 by Michael Green, Mike Johnson, Andres Guinaldo (Illustrator) Le facteur de l'espace by Guillaume Perreault (in French! It’s not just Meghan who reads French language things now) Available in English as The Postman from Space Rock Mary Rock, vol. 1 by Nicky Soh Webcomic version Gardens of Glass by Lando Other Media We Mentioned You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane Robots: The Recent A.I. edited by Rich Horton and Sean Wallace Pulgasari (Wikipedia) - North Korean giant monster movie I Blame the Patriarchy by Twisty Faster Links, Articles, and Things #LibFaves20 (library worker’s favourite books published in 2020) National Magazine Awards Winners 2020 AI Weirdness Overlay journal Our Twitch channel! 21 Books in Translation by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Mama Hissa's Mice by Saud Alsanousi, translated by Sawad Hussain (Arabic) Mirror of the Darkest Night by Mahasweta Devi, translated by Shamya Dasgupta (Bengali) Invisible Planets: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF in Translation, edited and translated by Ken Liu (Chinese) Beijing Comrades by Bei Tong, translated by Scott E. Myers (Chinese) The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar, translated by Anonymous (Farsi) Ru by Kim Thúy, translated by Sheila Fischman (French) Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated by Roland Glasser (French) Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye, translated by John Fletcher (French) Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen, translated by Anna Halager (Greenlandic/Danish) Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker (Indonesian) Beyond Babylon by Igiaba Scego, translated by Aaron Robertson (Italian) Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo, translated by Jamie Chang (Korean) Your Republic is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim, translated by Chi-Young Kim (Korean) The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya, translated by Asa Yoneda (Japanese) Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur (Kannada) The Sun on My Head by Geovani Martins, translated by Julia Sanches (Portugese) Good Morning Comrades by Ondjaki, translated by Stephen Henighan (Portugese) Time Commences in Xibalbá by Luis de Lión, translated by Nathan C. Henne (Spanish) La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono, translated by Lawrence Schimel (Spanish) Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat by Perumal Murugan, translated by N. Kalyan Raman (Tamil) Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks by Boubacar Boris Diop, translated by Vera Wülfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop (Wolof/French) Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, January 5th we’ll be discussing the genre of Sociology! Then on Tuesday, January 19th we’ll be talking about our Reading Resolutions for 2021!

In this minisode, we share our reading resolutions for the new year. Some of our goals are conventional… and some of them are decidedly not. Enjoy!

This episode we’re talking about our 2020 Reading Resolutions and Intentions! We discuss how we are bad at reading resolutions, loot boxes filled with books, giving up books two pages from the end, setting aside time to read, reading bingo, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards  Media We Mention Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People, and Fantastic Adventure from Chess to Role-Playing Games by Jon Peterson All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders Autonomous by Annalee Newitz Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor  Links, Articles, and Things Translated books subscription Meghan didn't buy Popular DNF books on Goodreads 2020 Reading Resolutions and Intentions Bingo Square Bullet Journal (Wikipedia) Hark! The Holiday Music Podcast Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men Romance is publishing’s most lucrative genre. Its biggest community of writers is imploding Suggest new genres or titles! Fill out the form to suggest genres! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 4th when we’ll be discussing the romance subgenre of Chick Lit! Then on Tuesday, February 18th we’ll be playing a Readers’ Advisory themed Dungeons and Dragons adventure!

As we turn the page to a new decade, we’ve made some New Year resolutions. John Mitchinson and Andy Miller of Backlisted Podcast join the Slightly Foxed Editors to bring new life to old books, leading us off the beaten track with wide-ranging reading recommendations. From Frank O’Connor’s letters, Selina Hastings’s lives and Barbara Tuchman’s histories to the poetry of John Berryman, Gayl Jones’s Corregidora and Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, they journey through genres to revive literary curiosity. And in this month’s reading from the magazine’s archives, Richard Platt makes a convincing case for The Quincunx by Charles Palliser, falling under its curse of sleepless nights.    Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 38 minutes; 49 seconds)  Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch (mailto:anna@foxedquarterly.com) with Anna in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. - To War with Whitaker (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/to-war-with-whitaker-hermione-countess-of-ranfurly/) , Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly. Slightly Foxed Edition No. 50, published 1 March 2020 (1:21) - The Year of Reading Dangerously (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/andy-miller-the-year-of-reading-dangerously) , Andy Miller (3:32) - A Distant Mirror (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/barbara-tuchman-a-distant-mirror/) , Barbara Tuchman (6:05) - Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/dominic-sandbrook-who-dares-wins/) and The Great British Dream Factory (https://foxedquarterly.com/dominic-sandbrook-the-great-british-dream-factory) , Dominic Sandbrook (8:08) - Corregidora (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/gayl-jones-corregidora/) , Gayl Jones (9:33) - Independence Day (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/richard-ford-independence-day/) , Richard Ford (12:28) - The Happiness of Getting it Down Right: Letters of Frank O’Connor and William Maxwell is out of print (14:12) - A Tale of Love and Darkness (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/amos-oz-a-take-of-love-and-darkness/) , Amos Oz (16:34) - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/jeanette-winterson-why-be-happy-when-you-could-be-normal) and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/jeanette-winterson-oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit) , Jeanette Winterson (18:45) - Selina Hastings has written biographies of Somerset Maugham, Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Rosamond Lehmann (22:43) - 77 Dream Songs, John Berryman is out of print (25:32) - Diving into the Wreck (https://wwnorton.co.uk/books/9780393346015-diving-into-the-wreck) , Adrienne Rich (27:45) - The Quincunx (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/charles-palliser-quincunx/) , Charles Palliser (32:08) Related Slightly Foxed Articles - A World of Words (https://foxedquarterly.com/amos-oz-a-tale-of-love-and-darkness-literary-review/) , Annabel Walker on Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness in Issue 37 (16:34) - Grave Expectations (https://foxedquarterly.com/the-quincunx-charles-palliser-literary-review/) , Richard Platt on Charles Palliser, The Quincunx in Issue 60 (32:08) Other Links - The Slightly Foxed mug (now sold out) displayed the quote: ‘Charles Lamb once told Coleridge he was especially fond of books containing traces of buttered muffins.’ Please do get in touch with suggestions for a quote (up to 20 words) for a forthcoming mug design: office@foxedquarterly.com (mailto:office@foxedquarterly.com) (2:21) - Backlisted (https://www.backlisted.fm/) , the literary podcast giving new life to old books, presented by John Mitchinson and Andy Miller (3:22) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach Reading music: Songs Without Words - No.12 in F Sharp Minor, Op.30 (https://musopen.org/music/348-songs-without-words-op-30/) by Felix Mendelssohn The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable (https://www.podcastable.co.uk/)

This month we’re discussing the non-fiction genre of Arts! We discuss “capital-A” art, creating, consuming, and destroying art, library hold-list hacks, Video Game Club for Masochists, woo woo, and scraping ideas off of the sides of artist Faraday cages. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Kaya Fraser Things We Read Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Irvin Painter Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks Me Artsy edited by Drew Hayden Taylor Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert Gorey's Worlds by Edward Gorey Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey by Karen Wilkin Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey by Edward Gorey La Bande Dessinée by Benoît Mouchart Other Media We Mention Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud  The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville Graphic Annotations of China Miéville’s The Last Days of New Paris The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia) Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Girl with a Pearl Earring painting by Johannes Vermeer (Wikipedia) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum Stardew Valley (Wikipedia) Krobus: “He is a shadow person who lives in the sewers.” Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Halo (franchise) (Wikipedia) Mass Effect (Wikipedia) Book Club for Masochists Episode 003 - Technology (non-fiction) Episode 064 - Video Games Trailer for Take Me (a short film Matthew’s mom wrote) The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey Three Books From The Fantod Press by Edward Gorey (are they zines? Maybe?) Redburn: His First Voyage by Herman Melville This is the one with the cover by Edward Gorey featuring some sailors Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, illustrated by Edward Gorey Dracula (1924 Play) > 1977 Revival (Featuring art design by Edward Gorey) Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug Real Artists Have Day Jobs: (And Other Awesome Things They Don't Teach You in School) by Sara Benincasa Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Me Funny edited by Drew Hayden Taylor Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality by Drew Hayden Taylor The Secret by Rhonda Byrne The Creative Independent The Art of Process with Aimee Mann and Ted Leo The Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs and illustrated by Edward Gorey The Coasters - Searchin’  Wikipedia article on the song Links, Articles, and Things Paradise, Nevada (Wikipedia) “Paradise is an unincorporated town” (it’s for tax reasons, of course…) David Datuna (Wikipedia) “Known for: Sculpture, installation; consuming the banana from Comedian” Love is in the Bin (Wikipedia) Banksy artwork that was shredded after auction Twitter thread from Stephanie about books they read in their art book club Shia LaBeouf's extremely loud motivational speech, explained Rupi Kaur Is the Writer of the Decade (Instagram poetry) Matthew’s analysis of the Goodreads top graphic novels of the year CinemaSins (Wikipedia) Suggest new genres or titles! Fill out the form to suggest genres! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, January 21st we’ll be talking about our 2020 Reading Resolutions! Then on Tuesday, February 4th we’ll be discussing the romance subgenre of Chick Lit!

Ardo and Yash kick-off the new year with their list of most anticipated reads! Then the duo discuss how well they've done on their 2019 reading resolutions and make new ones for 2020. Reading Resolutions (34:57) The logo was designed by Nick Hanover. The theme song and break music is from Haris Qureshi’s song Give AF. You can find his album here. Everything mention in the episode can be found on Goodreads. You can also find the podcast on Twitter and Instagram at @PutABlurbOnIt.

Happy New Year to all of our listeners! This week, we're here to help you get a jump start on your 2020 TBR list, with recommendations from our panel.  Managing Editor Cody Sisco, along with Co-Hosts Rachelle Yousuf and Irene Yoon recap their year in reading and discuss what they'd like to see in the literary landscape next year.Cody sits down with local LA author Carla Sameth to talk about her recent release, One Day on the Gold Line. They delve into religion, addiction, and the writing process, as well as their shared appreciation for the LA writing scene.If your New Year's Resolution is to attend more literary events, Shannon Eagen has you covered with events for the whole family in early January.

It’s our Best of 2019 episode! Of course, these are not necessarily the best things published in 2019, but instead the best things we read for the podcast (including everything from Bizarro Fiction to True Crime) and the best of everything else we read. Join us! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Favourite Non-Fiction read in 2019: For the podcast:  Anna:  Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic by Emma Episode 084 - Political Non-Fiction Matthew:  The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements by Gord Hill The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill RJ:  I’ll Be Gone In the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara Episode 080 - True Crime Meghan:  The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Not for the podcast:  Matthew:  You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane AI Weirdness blog Twitter thread including neural net generated smut titles - Featuring “Sex Tongs” and “The Nutwoble Resort” RJ:  Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob Meghan:  How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell Anna: They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib Thick and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom Favourite Fiction read in 2019: For the podcast RJ: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson  Episode 086 - American Gothic Meghan:  Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers Anna:  Gutshot by Amelia Gray Episode 074 - Short Story Collections Matthew: Robots vs. Fairies edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe Not for the podcast Meghan:  All Systems Red by Martha Wells Anna:  Abara: Complete Deluxe Edition by Tsutomu Nihei Matthew:  Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee RJ:  Next Year, For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson Favourite other stuff from 2019: Meghan:  Au-dela des limites: L'histoire des sports en fauteuil roulant by Judith Lussier and Donald Royer Les petits garcons by Sophie Bédard Matthew: Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni Lego Rewind Lego Rewind Ep.20- Halloween Special RJ:  A Tour of My Plants by Jenna Marbles Anna:  SciShow Safiya Nigard Jungle Chvrches Billie Eilish Lizzo Flume Sofi Tukker King Princess The Dø Like a Version (triple j) CHVRCHES cover Arctic Monkeys 'Do I Wanna Know?' for Like A Version CHVRCHES cover Kendrick Lamar 'LOVE.' for Like A Version Runner ups (not necessarily mentioned in the podcast): Meghan: The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus  The Breakaway by Nicole Cooke Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Michele Lent Hirsch Anna:  The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change by Raewyn Connell For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisely Beneath the Dead Oak Tree by Emily Carroll Matthew:  Fiction Clade by James Bradley A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White Our Lady of the Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke Non-Fiction Thrill-Power Overload: The First Forty Years by David Bishop and Karl Stock Academia Obscura by Glen Wright 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph Comics Hex Vet, vol. 1: Witches in Training by Sam Davies Stonebreaker by Peter Wartman My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 by Gengoroh Tagame Sugar & Spike: Metahuman Investigations by Keith Giffen and Bilquis Evely Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer by Sylvie Rancourt (the first Canadian autobio comic) SP4RX by Wren McDonald (Cyberpunk!) Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore O Human Star, Volume One by Blue Delliquanti Hilda and the Mountain King by Luke Pearson Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu Coda, Vol. 1 by Simon Spurrier and Matías Bergara Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 by Kamome Shirahama RJ Pokémon Cafe Ghibli Museum I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll Radishes by Carolyn Nowak (also published in Girl Town) Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings Santa’s Husband by Danielle Kibblesmith & AP Quach Links, Articles, and Things Visual novel (Wikipedia) Now Kiss — Love Thyself - A Horatio Story Doki Doki Literature Club! (Wikipedia) Top Visual Novel games - itch.io We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Ida B. Wells (Wikipedia) Hermitude cover Nirvana 'Heart-Shaped Box' for Like A Version Ft. Jaguar Jonze Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! 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A few members of the Virago team gathered together earlier this year to discuss 2019 reading resolutions and books we are looking forward to reading this year.In this episode you will hear from Sarah Savitt, Zoe Hood, Hayley Camis, Susan de Soissons, Grace Vincent and Madeleine Hall.Do you have any reading resolutions? Let us know on Twitter using #ViragoPodcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Happy New Year! For real this time. This week, Annie and Chris talk about what worked and what didn't in 2018 and about setting their reading goals and intentions for the new year. It's just the time for a fresh start.  Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like Chris and Annie's Unpopular Opinions, consider supporting us on Patreon here.  

New revelations of the bookshelves that made them, from novelists Patrick de Witt and Lisa Ireland; while Cassie talks to Christos Tsiolkas about reading Patrick White, and Mireille Juchau and Susan Johnson enjoy Rachel Cusk's Kudos.

Time for another BCL Chat. We asked you all to share your reading resolutions, and an overwhelming number of you shared that this year you aim to read more books written by women and by people of color. ----more---- A lot of ya'll are also big on personal development. You're doing better than us. We've pretty much given up on that.  Thanks to everyone who shared! Got a question you’d like to see discussed? Email us at contact@blackchicklit.com. And don’t forget to rate, review and subscribe to Black Chick Lit on iTunes.

This episode we look back on our Reading Resolutions from last year and discuss our plans for reading in 2018! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify (new!), or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray Links, Articles, and Things Two-Fisted Library Stories Books on my shelf that I have not read National Novel Generation Month  Book Riot's Reading Tracking Spreadsheet Book Riot’s 2018 Read Harder Challenge The Master List of 2018 Reading Challenges Circulating Ideas - The Librarian Interview Podcast Questions Do you have any Reading Resolutions in 2018? Send us questions for our 50th episode! Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 20th (not the 16th as we said in the podcast) for our episode on our Non-fiction Creative Writing Books! Then come back on on Tuesday, March 6th when we’ll update you on our non-book club reading!

In December Erica set some reading resolutions for herself, which you can read about in her blog post. We thought we would check in with Erica and get some tips on those resolutions, get some good reading recommendations and get some tips on another common reading resolution – reading more books (she read 150 last…

This episode we're reading Family Sagas! Do they have to be incredibly long? Do they have to be boring? Plus: We talk about diversity, reading books from earlier time periods, and we say farewell (for now) to a host. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify (new!) or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi Books We Read This Month Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Moonglow by Michael Chabon Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes (movie) The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin Wikipedia article Books and Other Media We Discuss The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Note: Matthew has never read these and has no idea what he’s talking about. Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Beowulf Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros White Teeth by Zadie Smith Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales edited by Michael Chabon McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories edited by Michael Chabon Dune by Frank Herbert Total Recall Links, Articles, and Things Inside North Korea's bubble in Japan Liberty Osaka (Osaka Human Rights Museum) Michael Chabon Returns With a Searching Family Saga (The New York Times) Fried Green Tomatoes (the food) Magical Negro (Wikipedia) Magical Negro (TV Tropes) Questions Send us questions for our 50th episode! Ask us for reading suggestions! Do you like family sagas? Why? Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 6th for our episode on our 2018 Reading Resolutions! Then come back on on Tuesday, February 20th for our episode about Non-fiction Creative Writing Books!

In today's episode, Adam and Jill sit down with their OverDrive co-workers and former podcast guests to discuss what their reading resolutions for 2018 are! For some, it's a number of books, for others it's the type of books they are reading. We also hear how everyone plans on keeping track of what they read, be it Goodreads, a notebook, and of course there is Jill's classic spreadsheet. Find us on Twitter @ProBookNerds or email us at professionalbooknerds @ overdrive.com to share your own reading resolutions!  Books Mentioned In this Episode Corruption by Jessica Shirvington Bring Me Back by BA Paris Celtic Tales by Kate Forrester The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui Relish by Lucy Knisley Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks Gold Dust Woman by Stephen Davis Love, Janis by Laura Joplin A Natural Woman by Carole King Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson Foundation series by Isaac Asimov Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlen Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlen Roma series by Arthur C. Clarke Ringworld by Larry Niven The Hunger by Alma Katsu Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin Middlemarch by George Eliot A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Kissing Tolstoy by Penny Natasha, Pierra, and the Great Comet of 1812 by Leo Tolstoy Behave by Robert M. Sabolski The Only Girl in the World by Maude Julien Blackdog by K.V. Johansen $2 a day by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer Evicted by Matthew Desmond Charlotte's Web by E.B. White Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson   Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter.

It's a new year, so Chris and Annie are back to discuss their reading plans for 2018. Spoiler: We're not doing quantitative tracking. Also, what is the natural habitat of the North American beaver? Additionally, an extended discussion on Jason Rekulak's The Impossible Fortress​​​​​​​ and what "YA" means in terms of readership.  Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like our side-podcast Unpopular Opinions, consider supporting us on Patreon here. 

New year, new reading resolutions! Join Emily, Aubrey, and Jessica for a fun discussion on 2018 reading goals and what they're "Geeking Out" over this week.

We have a full load of fun this week with our 2018 resolutions and our guest Brittany who drove all the way from Dallas to be on the show! 5 reviews and tons of shout-outs on this episode!

It’s time for our Best of 2017 episode! We’ll talk about our favourite things we read for the podcast, our favourite things we read that weren’t for the podcast, and lots more! Please note, while many of the titles we recommend were published in 2017, this is our list of best of that we read in 2017, so there is some older material on the list as well. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi Top Book Club Picks Non-Fiction Anna The Argonauts (2015) by Maggie Nelson (Episode 031 - LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction) Jessi The Witches: Salem, 1692 (2016) by Stacy Schiff (Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks) Matthew Prose: The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA (2017) by Doug Mack (Episode 039 - Non-Fiction Travel) Comic: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness (2017) by Nagata Kabi (Episode 031 - LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction) Meghan In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote, narrated by Scott Brick (Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks) Fiction Anna Death in the Vines (2013) by M.L. Longworth (Episode 025 - Detective Fiction) The Snowman (2011) by Jo Nesbø (Episode 043 - Page to Screen (Books turned into movies and TV shows)) Jessi Stardust (1998) by Neil Gaiman (Episode 043 - Page to Screen (Books turned into movies and TV shows)) Matthew Prose: Autonomous (2017) by Annalee Newitz (Episode 041 - Dystopian Fiction) Comic: Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind (1982-1994) by Hayao Miyazaki (Episode 043 - Page to Screen (Books turned into movies and TV shows)) Meghan The City and the City (2009) by China Miéville (Episode 025 - Detective Fiction)   Top Non-Book Club Picks Non-Fiction Anna American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land (2017) by Monica Hesse Jessi Tomboy Survival Guide (2016) by Ivan Coyote (we mention this one in Episode 021 - Coming-of-Age and Episode 031 - LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction) Matthew Prose: Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate (2017) by Zoe Quinn (mentioned in Episode 032.5 - BookExpo America and the American Library Association Annual Conference) Comic: Lighter than my Shadow (2017) by Katie Green (Episode 040 - Precipitation in Video Games) Meghan Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues (2016) in Canada by Chelsea Vowel Métis in Space podcast with Chelsea Vowel and Molly Swain Fiction Anna The Queen of Blood (2016) by Sarah Beth Durst (Episode 040 - Precipitation in Video Games) Jessi The Bear and the Nightingale (2017) by Katherine Arden (mentioned in Episode 034 - Reading Resolutions) Matthew Prose: Red Spider White Web (1990) by Misha (mentioned in Episode 034 - Reading Resolutions) Comic: Giant Days (2015-present) by John Allison and Max Sarin Meghan Next Year for Sure (2017) by Zoey Leigh Peterson   Other recommendations Anna From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty Lucky Penny (2016) by Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota (Episode 021 - Coming-of-Age) Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us: A Johnny Wander Collection (2017) by Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (2016) by Patrick Phillips The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (2016) edited by Jesmyn Ward The Fire Next Time (1992) by James Baldwin Clean Sweep (2013) by Ilona Andrews (and the rest of that series) Spill Zone, vol. 1 (2017) by Scott Westerfeld and Alex Puvilland Volume 2 is being serialized as a webcomic (frustratingly the site seems to be setup so that you cannot link directly to pages, so to get to the beginning of volume two hit the previous chapter link a few times) HiLo, vol. 1: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth (2015) by Judd Winick Here’s the full panel (Read-Alikes: What to Suggest When They've Already Read Smile & The Walking Dead) from the Comics Conference for Educators and Librarians that Anna mentioned Jessi Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (2014) by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell Queers Were Here: Heroes & Icons of Queer Canada (2016) edited by Robin Ganev and RJ Gilmour (Episode 031 - LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction) Green River, Running Red (2007) by Ann Rule (Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks) The Hating Game (2016) by Sally Thorne (Episode 028 - Accidental Romance) Matthew Three Parts Dead (2012) by Max Gladstone (Episode 33 - Legal Thrillers) True Grit (1968) by Charles Portis (Episode 29 - Westerns) The Sisters Brothers (2011) by Patrick deWitt (Episode 29 - Westerns) No Mercy, vol. 2 (2016) by Alex de Campi, Carla Speed McNeil, and Jenn Manley Lee (specifically issue #9) Matthew’s longer list of favorite comics he read in 2017 is below Meghan Turning (2017) by Jessica J. Lee (Non-fiction memoir) See What I Have Done (2017) by Sarah Schmidt (Fictionalized true crime) Dreams of Shreds and Tatters (2015) by Amanda Downum (New Weird) Need for the Bike (2011) by Paul Fournel, translated by Allan Stoekl (non-fic BICYCLES) Blue Light Yokohama (2017) by Nicolás Obregón (Mystery) Matthew’s List of Top Comics he Read in 2017 that weren’t his top picks (Anna’s recommendations were also good!) Monstress vols. 1-2 by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda (2016-2017) This is an insanely epic (and beautiful) fantasy. You should read it! No Mercy, vol. 2 (2016) by Alex de Campi, Carla Speed McNeil, and Jenn Manley Lee No, I haven’t read volume 3 yet... Omega Men: The End is Here (2016) by Tom King, Barnaby Bagenda, Toby Cyprus, and Ig Guara Invincible vols. 23-24 (2017) by by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, Ryan Ottley, and  Nathan Fairbairn It’s superheroes meet Dragonball Z, except much bloodier. It’s ending with volume 25, and I’m kind of sad about that. The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (2016) by Sonny Liew Despite really liking this, I don’t think it should have won the Eisner for “Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia” The Private Eye (2015) by Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente As much as I enjoyed this, I don’t think the hardcover is worth $50. 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank (2017) by Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss I was supplied with a review copy by the publishers. Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea (2017) by Mike Mignola and Gary Gianni Delicious in Dungeon vol. 1 (2017) by Ryoko Kui Yowamushi Pedal vols. 3-4 (2016) by Wataru Watanabe Bicycles! Demon vols. 1-4 (2016-2017) by Jason Shiga The first volume is the best and, to be honest, this series is kind of gross, so be warned... Order of the Stick: How the Paladin Got His Scar (2017) by Rich Burlew This was a reward only given to backers of the 2012 Kickstarter so you can’t actually buy or read it, but it’s really good! Questions What were your favourite reads of 2017? What would you recommend to us? Is there a supernatural gardening book you could recommend to Jessi? What is “Clean Sweep”? A curling related cozy mystery? A high school hijinx sports novel? A romance novel about a chimney sweep who is reforming himself after his criminal past? Something else? Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on January 16th for our episode on Family Sagas! Then come back on February 6th for our episode on our Reading Resolutions for 2018!

Scholastic's Kids & Family Reading Report is a national survey of children ages 6–17 and their parents that explores attitudes and behaviors around books and reading. Andrea Davis Pinkney In this episode, I'm joined by author, Vice President, and Editor-at-Large at Scholastic, Andrea Davis Pinkney. We talk about what the most recent report means for us as parents-- and there's a lot for us in there! In this episode, you'll hear: why we need to build home libraries, and how to do that without breaking the bankwhat kids are really hoping they'll find in the books they readhow to make our kids readers for life (listen until the end for five 'Reading Resolutions')  Click the play button below: More free resources & booklists Get the best episodes and reources from the Read-Aloud Revival Keep an eye on your inbox! We'll keep you posted whenever we have a new podcast episode or a great free booklist or resource for you. There was an error submitting your subscription. Please try again. Email Address I'd like to receive the free email course. Yes! Powered by ConvertKit /* Layout */ .ck_form.ck_minimal { /* divider image */ background: #f9f9f9; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; overflow: hidden; color: #666; font-size: 16px; border: solid 1px #d1d1d1; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -moz-box-shadow: none; box-shadow: none; clear: both; margin: 20px 0px; text-align: center; } .ck_form.ck_minimal h3.ck_form_title { text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 28px; } .ck_form.ck_minimal h4 { text-align: center; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; } .ck_form.ck_minimal p { padding: 0px; } .ck_form, .ck_form * { -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; } .ck_form.ck_minimal .ck_form_fields { width: 100%; float: left; padding: 5%; } /* Form fields */ .ck_errorArea { display: none; /* temporary */ } #ck_success_msg { padding: 10px 10px 0px; border: solid 1px #ddd; background: #eee; } .ck_form.ck_minimal input[type="text"], .ck_form.ck_minimal input[type="email"] { font-size: 18px; padding: 10px 8px; width: 68%; border: 1px solid #d6d6d6; /* stroke */ -moz-border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; border-radius: 3px; /* border radius */ background-color: #fff; /* layer fill content */ margin-bottom: 5px; height: auto; float: left; margin: 0px; margin-right: 2%; height: 42px; } .ck_form input[type="text"]:focus, .ck_form input[type="email"]:focus { outline: none; border-color: #aaa; } .ck_form.ck_minimal .ck_subscribe_button { width: 100%; color: #fff; margin: 0px; padding: 11px 0px; font-size: 18px; background: #6fc171; -moz-border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; border-radius: 3px; /* border radius */ cursor: pointer; border: none; text-shadow: none; width: 30%; float: left; height: 42px; } .ck_form.ck_minimal .ck_guarantee { color: #626262; font-size: 12px; text-align: center; padding: 15px 0px 0px; display: block; clear: both; } .ck_form .ck_powered_by { display: block; color: #aaa; font-size: 12px; } .ck_form .ck_powered_by:hover { display: block; color: #444; } .ck_converted_content { display: none; padding: 5%; background: #fff; } .ck_form.ck_minimal.width400 .ck_subscribe_button, .ck_form.ck_minimal.width400 input[type="email"] { width: 100%; float: none; margin-top: 5px; } .ck_slide_up, .ck_modal, .ck_slide_up .ck_minimal, .ck_modal .

We give an update on how our reading resolutions for the year are going, talk about recent reads (and watches) we’ve enjoyed, and briefly discuss San Diego Comic-Con. Plus: Enter our contest to win fabulous prizes! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi Books We Mentioned Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Waters, Shannon Watters, Brooke A. Allen, and others Ooku by Esme Shapiro Princess Jellyfish by Akiko Higashimura B.R.U.H.: Black Renditions of Universal Heroes by Markus Prime The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevskii The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Chew by  John Layman and Rob Guillory Tortall Universe (series) by Tamora Pierce Tempests and Slaughter (out February 2018) Tortall: A Spy's Guide (out in October) Alanna (the Song of the Lioness series) Wild Magic (the The Immortals series) Terrier (the Beka Cooper series) First Test (the Protector of the Small series which includes Page and Squire) Trickster’s Choice (the Daughter of the Lioness series which includes Trickster’s Queen) Circle of Magic (series) by Tamora Pierce My Brother’s Husband by Gengoroh Tagame G-Men (magazine): “G-men was founded in 1994 to cater to gay men who preferred "macho fantasy"” Gentlemen of the Shade: My Own Private Idaho by Jen Sookfong Lee Vi by Kim Thúy (I don’t think Meaghan actually named this one) The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin (out August 15th) Written in Red by Anne Bishop The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley God’s War by Kameron Hurley The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley (Meaghan misnamed this “The Geek’s Guide to Feminism”) The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley Red Spider White Web by Misha Nogha Moonstruck by Grace Ellis, Shae Beagle, and Laurenn McCubbin (here’s the Goodreads page of the first volume, but that’s not out until January 2018) Sumage Solution by  G.L. Carriger H.P. Lovecraft's the Hound and Other Stories by Gō Tanabe Links, Articles, and Things 24 in 48 Readathon The Book Riot Insiders Insider-Only Forum is where the Tamora Pierce readathon is happening My Own Private Idaho Criminal Minds Sailor Moon (anime) Hello Sailors by Moonage Kingdom (parody video of Hello Bitches by CL) American Gods (TV) The Dressmaker (movie) Fashion Police San Diego Comic-Con Comic Conference for Educators and Librarians Matthew was on Picture Books for Grown-Ups: Why Graphic Novels Matter to Adults Anna was on Read-Alikes: What to Suggest When Patrons Have Already Read Smile and The Walking Dead Questions Are there any “bicycles in space” books!? Do you like Princess Jellyfish? How are your reading resolutions for the year going? Contest To celebrate 15,000 total downloads of our podcast we’re having a contest! Retweet one of our tweets about episode 34 or (when it comes out) episode 35 of this podcast any time during August, 2017, and you’ll have a chance to win some books or comics! Prizes include Moonstruck #1, Moonshine vol. 1, I Hate Fairyland vol. 2, Howtoons: Tools of Mass Construction, Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips, Run by Ann Patchett, and Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O’Dell (plus probably some other stuff). We can neither confirm nor deny that this is extra stuff we have from ALA and other conferences. (Though all the above listed titles are unread.) Number of prizes will depend on number of entrants. Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, August 15th, when we’ll be discussing Gardening! (And farming! And stuff about plants in general.) Then come back on Tuesday, September 5th, when we’ll talk about our favourite podcasts!

This episode we talk about Legal Thrillers! We discuss how much time lawyers should spend in the courtroom, if we’d prefer to read about a lawyer or a barista investigating a murder, and tariff laws and sci-fi/fantasy cultures. Plus: Tabula rasas and table lamps! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi Books We Read (or tried to) Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone (recommended) Blood Flag by Steve Martini The Pelican Brief by John GrishamBut Remember Their Names by Hillary Bell Locke Hell Gate and Silent Mercy by Linda Fairstein She Hulk: Law and Disorder by Charles Soule, Javier Pulido, and Ron Wimberly (recommended) Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Vol 1+ 2) by Kenji Kuroda (Matthew recommends it, he even read more after the episode!) Books We Mentioned The Client by John Grisham The Runaway Jury by John Grisham Black Water Rising and Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter Links, Articles, and Things How many novels has John Grisham written? 37 as of this year. But 16 are since 2010, so he’s really started pumping them out. (Five of them aren’t legal thrillers.) Kay Hooper is one of many authors who write Romantic Thrillers The Phoenix Wright manga is based on a series of games (or are they Visual Novels?) Marvel asked a court to rule that the X-Men were not human Jaffa Cakes were categorisation as cake or biscuit for VAT Questions Do legal thriller exist in other languages/cultures? Do any libraries break out their legal thrillers into its own section? Do you want Blood Flag? Email us! Please? Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all the Legal Thrillers we read, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, August 1st, when we’ll catch you up on how our Reading Resolutions for 2017 are going and what we’ve read recently that hasn’t been for the podcast. Then come back on Tuesday, August 15th, when we’ll be discussing Gardening! (And farming! And stuff about plants in general.)

Time for a special bonus episode (which apparently happen every sixteen episodes?) where we talk all about what we did at BookExpo America and the American Library Association Annual Conference. Plus: Reviews and previews of upcoming books we’re excited about. (If you just want to hear about upcoming books skip to 21:54.) You can download the podcast directly, find it  on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Matthew Murray Books We Mentioned Many of the books we discuss this episode are not yet published, but are books we are looking forward to. Check their release dates and place holds or make purchase requests at your local public library! From DC’s Young Animal Imprint Doom Patrol, Volume 1: Brick by Brick Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye, Vol. 1: Going Underground Shade, the Changing Girl, Volume 1: Earth Girl Made Easy Mother Panic, Volume 1: Work in Progress Balance: A Dizzying Journey Through the Science of Our Most Delicate Sense by Carol Svec Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. by Danielle S. Allen Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate by Zoë Quinn The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darryl W. Bullock (Discussed more in Episode 31: LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction) Autonomous by Annalee Newitz Artemis by Andy Weir Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty Links, Articles, and Things The schedule for the 2017 Library Journal Day of Dialogue with all the author panels listed For those who want just a little psyching up for The Tiger’s Daughter there’s a little announcement or, if you want more, the first 4(!) chapters. One attendee’s experiences of both BookExpo America and the American Library Association Annual Conference this year (w/ charts from the show organizer, ReedPOP) The comicjam minicomic that Matthew mentioned he edited at ALA Questions Did you attend either of these events (or ones like them)? Share your experience! What book or comic that is yet to come out this year are you most excited about? Do you do a library podcast and do you want to have a presence at the ALA Annual Conference? (Contact us!) Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, July 18th, when we will inflict upon you the genre of Legal Thrillers! Then come back on Tuesday, August 1st, when we’ll catch you up on how our Reading Resolutions are going and what we’ve read recently that hasn’t been for the podcast.

In this 40 minute (short!) episode we try to define reading slumps and reading fatigue, talk about reading as a job, extol the wonders and magic of giving up on books, and discuss choosing what to read next. Plus: Matthew finds a way to complain about the comic book publishing industry (because of course he does). You can download the podcast directly, find it  on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray Books We Mentioned Sex the Paranormal: Human Sexual Encounters with the Supernatural by Paul Chambers The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (recommended) Crying Freeman by by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami Links, Articles, and Things Reader’s Fatigue (What Are You Reading?, post by friend of the podcast Alan Woo) When Your Reading Life Falls Apart (Book Riot) 5 Things My Six-Month Long Reading Slump Taught Me (Book Riot) Reading Fatigue And The Marginalized Reader (Book Riot) Reading Slumps: What’s That All About? (Tales from the Reading Room) The OTHER Reading Slump (All About Romance) How to Break Out of a Reading Slump (Bookish) Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney Questions Why does Meghan keep saying “Schlump”? How do you deal with the times when you don’t want to read? (Clearly “not-reading” is not an answer.) Has anyone never had a reading slump? Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, July 18th, when we will inflict upon you the genre of Legal Thrillers! Then come back on Tuesday, August 1st, when we’ll catch you up on how our Reading Resolutions are going and what we’ve read recently that hasn’t been for the podcast.

2016 is over, but of reading many books there is no end. In this episode, Annie and Chris talk about their resolutions for the new year and challenge one another to read outside of their usual habits--with hypothetically apocalyptic results. + Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow + Rita Dove + Claudia Rankine

The year has flown by! It’s time to revisit our reading resolutions of 2016, and make some new plans for the coming year. And we’ll close with what we’re reading this week. Books and other media mentioned in this episode: Episode 17 – 2016 Reading ResolutionsGoodreads Reading ChallengeBook Riot Read Harder ChallengeThe Book with No Pictures by B.J. NovakPop Sugar Reading ChallengeSarah MacLean booksCeleste Ng booksDaniel José Older booksAround the Year in 52 BooksModern Mrs. DarcyWhat Should I Read Next (podcast)Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading ChallengeLitsy#LitsyAtoZ ChallengeEurovisionA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaNeopolitan Novels series by Elena Ferrante“The Subtle Genius of Elena Ferrante’s Bad Book Covers” (The Atlantic article by Emily Harnett“Elena Ferrante: An Answer?” (The New York Review of Books article by Claudio Gatti)Homegoing by Yaa GyasiA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesRules of Civility by Amor TowlesWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace (TV)The Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayDublin Murder Squad series by Tana FrenchIn the Woods by Tana FrenchThree Pines (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache) series by Louise PennyStill Life by Louise PennyThe Magicians series by Lev GrossmanA Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab“Damn, You’re Not Reading Any Books by White Men This Year? That’s So Freakin Brave and Cool” (Jezebel article by Jia Tolentino)Flavia de Luce series by Alan BradleyI Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan BradleyMaisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear What We’re Reading This Week: Ann: Sex Object by Jessica Valenti– The Guardian – Jessica Valenti books– The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis Halle: Leave Me by Gayle Forman– Gayle Forman books

If you're a book nerd, there's one goal that's always on your list of New Year's resolutions: read more books. But with the hustle and bustle of daily life, the question remains -- how do you set a good reading resolution and actually accomplish it in the year? Luckily, we brought in an pro to give us some advice. This week on the MashReads Podcast, we are joined by Lisa Lucas, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. The National Book Foundation is non-profit organization dedicated to honoring great American literature, with a plethora of annual programs ranging from the Innovations In Reading Prize to the National Book Awards. In other words, they are experts at discovering and celebrating great books. "It seems to me that so many of the things every community really loves has some relation to books and literature," says Lisa. "Books are one of our most important keepers and disseminators of our ideas." Join us as we chat about celebrating books of all genres, how to set a New Year's reading resolution (that you can actually accomplish), how to discover great new books, how get through a reading funk and more.

It’s time for our year-end favorites list! Find out what books we enjoyed the most this year. As always, we’ll end with what we’re reading this week.   Books and other media mentioned in this episode: Episode 16 – Favorite Reads of 2015Goodreads Ann’s Favorites of 2016: In the Woods by Tana French– Episode 29 – Tackling Our TBRs– Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling– We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson People Who Knew Me by Kim Hooper– Episode 31 – Books about the Lowcountry Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk– Episode 37 – What to Read Next Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay– Episode 38 – Horror for the Brave and the Scaredy Cats The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton– Episode 41 – Holiday Book Buying Guide The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins– Episode 23 – Award Winners A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn– Detective Emmanuel Cooper series by Malla Nunn Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean– Still Life by Louise Penny– Episode 18 – Out of Our Comfort Zones– Sarah MacLean books Halle’s Favorites of 2016: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara– Episode 17 – Reading Resolutions for 2016 Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld– Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen– The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan– Curtis Sittenfeld books Lab Girl by Hope Jahren– Episode 29 – Tackling Our TBRs One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid– Taylor Jenkins Reid books– Jojo Moyes books– Liane Moriarty books The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes Anything For You by Kristan Higgins– Blue Heron series by Kristan Higgins– On Second Thought by Kristan Higgins (releases January 31, 2017) March: Book One by John Lewis– March series by John Lewis The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis In the Country by Mia Alvar– Episode 26 – Short Stories My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodie Ashton, and Jodi Meadows– The Princess Bride (film)– As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes What We’re Reading This Week: Ann: A Rumpole Christmas by John Mortimer– Rumpole of the Bailey (TV) Halle: The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner– John Green books

What are your reading goals for 2016? Annie chats reading resolutions with returning podcast guest Hunter McLendon. Annie and Hunter also make their way through Modern Mrs. Darcy's 2016 Reading Challenge, plus talk about what they're reading right now (him: Americanah; her: The Expatriates).  What Should I Read Next? podcast Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

    ‘Tea or Books?’ is back for the new year – and it starts pretty shambolically, as we can’t remember the episode number. Once that is sorted out, we discuss whether or not we set New Year’s Reading Resolutions,

This week, Ann and Halle talk about their reading goals for 2016 and close with what they're reading this week.

We're back after a holiday hiatus! This episode, Annie and Katie discuss their reading resolutions and their words of the year. - Annie's currently reading -- and loving -- All the Light We Cannot See, with her sights set on more nonfiction in 2015, particularly historical nonfiction. Any books in particular you'd recommend? - Katie's favorite book for the new year is The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (a Christmas gift from husband Scott), and it ties in perfectly with her word of year; any guesses? - If book clubs aren't your thing -- for shame! -- start an article club, like Katie did with her friends. Tips for hosting your own can be found on Cup of Jo. - Both Katie and Annie love the concept of setting margins in your life; Hayley from Tiny Twig elaborates in this post. - It's not too late to determine your own word for 2015! Need help getting started? Try Ali Edwards' blog posts about the One Little Word concept, then hop on over to this 2015 workbook by Susannah Conway. (Annie and Jordan use this for their end-of-year review.) - Fellow Thomasvillians, Katie's working with some local fifth graders to make MacIntyre Park even better. Take the survey here. And, as always, you can follow along with The Bookshelf's adventures on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!