Your Shelf or Mine

Where we talk about:

LPL Seed Library; 
Plant Exchange; 
Bad Art Night (for teens); 
Messy Art Night (for babies); 
Humanities WA: Undiscovered Feminists of Washington State; 
Indian-ish by Priya Krishna; 
The World Eats Here: amazing food and the inspiring people who make it at New York's Queens Night Market by John Wang and Storm Garner; 
Monty Don; 

and more!

Where we talk about:

Library happenings; 
Book juries; 
Becky's 58 books in 29 days February goal;
Elizabeth's Panama trip; 
The Romance Writers of America; 
The RITA Awards; 
Crazy Thing Called Love by Molly O'Keefe; 
Clint Malarchuk’s hockey injury;
Advanced Physical Chemistry by Susannah Nix; 

and more!

with special guest Daniel Tate!

where we talk about:

Fire It Up! Adult Winter Reading program; 
Curl Up with a Good Book; 
Art Speaks Volumes; 
Teen Tuesdays; 
Kids Events; 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; 
Little Women (1994) directed by Gillian Armstrong; 
Little Women (2017) BBC miniseries; 
Little Women (2019) directed by Greta Gerwig; 

and more!

Where we talk about:

New Year;
Breakfast foods;
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate;
Libro.fm;
Hopper;
Audiobooks;
2020 Reading Challenge – now on Beanstack!:
longviewlibrary.beanstack.org;
Our 2020 TBRs (to be read lists);

And more!

Where we talk about:

Cookies;
Returning 2020 library events;
An African-based fantasy or sci-fi novel;
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi;
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor; 
A book by or about someone who identifies as neurodiverse;
The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida; 
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang; 
A book by a journalist or about journalism;
He Had it Coming by Marianne Mather and Kori Rumore;
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou;
Our favorite books of 2019;

and more!

Where we talk about: 

Happy Noon Year;
Library events coming up in 2020; 
The Friends of Galileo Solstice Walk; 
The 2020 LPL Reading Challenge; 
Disney Plus; 
Lifetime Christmas movies; 
Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan; 
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney; 

and more!

Where we...

get interviewed by Rose Lundy from The Daily News! Read the article here: https://bit.ly/2QWKdUX ; 

and interview Sharon McAnear author of: 
Raining Love in Dove Creek; 
Raining Love in the Highlands; 
and more! 

Our live at the library show November 18, 2019. With guests Jennifer King, Chris Skaugset, and Austin Brigden. Where we talked about: 

Paper Son by Julie Leung; 
Harold & Hog Pretend for Real! by Dan Santat; 
Beavers (Superpower Field Guide) by Rachel Poliquin; 
Making Friends by Kristen Gudsnuk; 
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks; 
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson; 
Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert; 
America Was Hard to Find by Kathleen Alcott; 
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld;
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson;
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal; 
Love and Ruin by Paula McLain; 
There, There by Tommy Orange; 
The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick; 
The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle; 
Useful Phrases for Immigrants by May-Lee Chai;
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado; 
My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker; 
Acid for the Children by Flea; 
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe; 
Heavy: an American memoir by Kiese Laymon; 
Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott; 
Calypso by David Sedaris; 
Word by Word: the secret life of dictionaries by Kory Stamper; 
Educated by Tara Westover; 

 and more!

 

Where we talk about:

Your Shelf or Mine LIVE!; 
Hands on History; 
Winter at Orchard House; 

2020 Reading Challenge ideas; 
Chinese Dragons by R.A. Montgomery; 
Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North; 
Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh; 
Hurricane Dancers by Margarita Engle; 

and more!

Where we talk about:

The Kilted Man; 
Fall Events; 
The ____'s Wife book list from BooKNet Canada https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/10/1/the-wife ;
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman; 
Personalized book recommendations from Becky: http://longviewlibrary.org/teens-booklists.php ; 
Viral: The Fight Against AIDS in America by Ann Bausum; 
Awards for Good Boys by Shelby Lorman; 
The Swallows by Lisa Lutz; 
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer; 
The Vampire Lestat by Ann Rice; 
Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris; 
Carry On and Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell; 
The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh; 
The Passage by Justin Cronin; 
The Curse of Dracula by Marv Wolfman; 
Buffy the Vampire Slayer; 

and more!