Your Shelf or Mine

Percival Everett

Becky, Austin, and Holly talk about the work of National Book Award winner Percival Everett, including Erasure (and the movie adaptation "American Fiction"), God's Country, Watershed, So Much Blue, Telephone, The Trees, James, and more!

Fall Book Club Convo

Becky, Jennifer, Jo, and Jakob talk about library book club selections from September through November 2024!

Including:
Looking for Alaska by John Green, The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld, Monica by Daniel Clowes, Air by Monica Roe, The Getaway by Lamar Giles, Mexikid by Pedro Martin, Witchlings by Claribel Oretga, the Samantha books from American Girl, and much more!

Holiday Books

Becky and Jakob talk about Christmas books, including:

Santa's Gotta Go by Derrick Barnes

A City Full of Santas by Joanna Ho

Love, Santa by Martha Brockenbrough

One Foggy Christmas Eve by Kerilynn Wilson

Santa's First Christmas by Mac Barnett

How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney by Mac Barnett

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by Natalie Andrewson

Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn

A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone

A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone

You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky

Flopping in a Winter Wonderland by Jason June

Make My Wish Come True by Rachel Lippincott and Alyson Derrick

How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow

and more!

 

Stephen Graham Jones

Becky, Jenny, Jakob, and Heather talk about the work of Stephen Graham Jones including:

The Only Good Indians 

My Heart is a Chainsaw 

I Was a Teenager Slasher

Mongrels

and more!

Misery

Becky, Jakob, Heather M, and Jennifer talk about Misery by Stephen King, the 1990 movie starring Kathy Bates, and season two of Castle Rock. Plus more! Spoilers abound, plus some discussion of graphic violence in the book, movie, and show.

Summer Book Club Convo

Becky, Jennifer, Austin, Jakob, and Jo talk about library book club selections from summer 2024.

Ann Patchett

Becky and Austin talk about the work of Ann Patchett including:
These Precious Days, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Tom Lake, The Patron Saint of Liars, The Magician's Assistant, The Dutch House, Commonwealth, and more!

Introductory reading from Commonwealth.

Listen to Ann Patchett in conversation with Cheryl Strayed at Literary Arts here: https://literary-arts.org/archive/ann-patchett-cheryl-strayed/

The Tom Lake jam is no longer available, but other Michigan jams are from American Spoon: https://spoon.com/collections/cherries

Visit Parnassus Books here: https://www.parnassusbooks.net/ 

M.T. Anderson

Becky, Austin, and Jakob talk about the work of M.T. Anderson including:

Feed (2002); 
Landscape with Invisible Hand (2017); 
Landscape with Invisible Hand movie (2023); 
Elf Dog & Owl Head (2023); 
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (2015); 
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I: The Pox Party (2006); 
The Daughters of Ys (2020)

introductory reading from Feed. 

Wired article: https://www.wired.com/story/m-t-anderson-feed-20-years-later/

Contemporary Romance

Becky and Jo dish on contemporary romance novels, particularly the work of Emily Henry and Ali Hazelwood including:

"Love, Theoretically" by Ali Hazelwood;
"Check & Mate" by Ali Hazelwood;
"People We Meet on Vacation" by Emily Henry;
"Happy Place" by Emily Henry;
"Funny Story" by Emily Henry;

Introductory reading from "Book People" by Emily Henry.

Rita Mae Brown

Becky, Austin, and Shelley talk about the work of Rita Mae Brown including:

Six of One; 
Rubyfruit Jungle; 
Wish You Were Here (Mrs. Murphy #1); 

and more!