Your Shelf or Mine

Herman Melville

Where we talk about:

Herman Melville; 
Moby Dick; 
Bartleby the Scrivener;
Billy Budd; 
Herman Melville at Home by Jill Lepore: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/herman-melville-at-home ; 

The Beige Moth blog: https://beigemoth.blog/moby-dick/ ; 

In the Heart of the Sea; 
Drifting Dragons; 

and more!

David Rakoff

Where we talk about:

Seed Library; 
NW Voices: http://longviewlibrary.org/nwvoices.php ; 
David Rakoff; 
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish; 
Half Empty

and more!

Our Friend David: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/472/transcript ; 
Invisible Made Visible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P7V0UKySaI ; 
Lindsey Ellis on Rent: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q0qfFbtIj5w ; 
Article from 2020: https://www.timesofisrael.com/locked-down-open-up-to-david-rakoffs-defensively-pessimistic-wit/ ; 
Poems to get you through hard times: https://www.oprah.com/spirit/poems-that-get-you-through-hard-times/all ; 
Ira Glass on making the audiobook: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/books/david-rakoffs-last-deadline.html ; 

Beverly Cleary

with Joanne Dallas, Austin Brigden, and Jakob Collins

where we talk about:

Story Walks; 
Fatima's Great Outdoors by Ambreen Tariq; 
Oi Frog! by Kes Gray; 

Beverly Cleary; 
Drop Everything and Read Day; 
Henry Huggins; 
A Girl from Yamhill; 
Ramona the Pest; 
Ramona and her Mother; 
Beezus and Ramona; 
My Own Two Feet; 
Dear Mr. Henshaw; 
Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland by Laura O. Foster; 
https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/6456 

Beverly Cleary Endowed Professorship: https://ischool.uw.edu/faculty-affairs/beverly-cleary-professorship 

Corrections:
Beverly Clearly was 104 when she died; 
Becky refers to Beverly several times as "Ramona." :) 

Excerpt from "Ramona the Pest" by Beverly Cleary, published by Harper Collins Publishers.

Jason Reynolds

excerpt from "Long Way Down," by Jason Reynolds, published by Simon and Schuster.

Where we talk about:

the work of Jason Reynolds; 
Long Way Down; 
Ghost; 
All American Boys; 
Brendan Kiely; 
Ain't Burned All the Bright; 
Jason Griffin;
Stuntboy, in the Meantime; 
Raul the Third. His picture books are the "Vamos!" series: "Vamos! Let's Go to the Market," "Vamos! Let's Go Eat!" and "Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge."

Tired as F*ck by Caroline Dooner; 
Breathing Fire by Jaime Lowe; 

and more!

Helen Hoang

Where we talk about:

The 2022 Our Shelf Reading Challenge; 
www.longviewlibrary.beanstack.org ; 
The 2022 Printz Award; 
https://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz-award#previous ; 
Library building restoration; 
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang; 
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang; 
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang; 

and more!

Carrie

with Jennifer Jensen!

Where we talk about:

Carrie by Stephen King; 
Carrie directed by Brian de Palma; 
Maneaters by Chelsea Cain; 

and more!

Where the Buffalo Roam

where we talk about:

library news; 
new library staff; 
Becky and Austin's road trip; 
Glacier National Park; 

Deep Creek by Pam Houston; 
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy; 

Pine Creek Lodge and the Montana Gang of writers; 
Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison; 
The Traveling Feast by Rick Bass; 
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Erlich; 
The Meadow by James Galvin; 
Outlawed by Anna North; 
The Eagles of Heart Mountain by Bradford Pearson; 
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei; 
Longmire show and series by Craig Johnson; 

and more!

East of Eden

with Austin Brigden

where we talk about:

Summer Reading 2021;
East of Eden by John Steinbeck;
other works by John Steinbeck;

and more!

Watch our Summer Reading Promotional Video here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZwyHlZ71-0 

Elizabeth Reunion

With special guest Elizabeth Partridge!
Recorded May 7, 2021

Where we talk about:

Her work at Manatee County Libraries;
Navigating the management of libraries during COVID;
Audiobooks;
Learning from the Germans by Susan Neiman;
Radical Candor by Kim Scott;
Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen;
Devolution by Max Brooks;
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt;
The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst;
Talking to Strangers by Malcom Gladwell;     
Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater;  
All Rise by Nick Offerman;
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders;  

And more!

National Poetry Month Part 2

With special guest Hiedi Bauer, poet & LCC professor, and Austin Brigden!

Where we talk about:

Hiedi’s background with poetry;
the Salal Review;
Hamilton;
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman;
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe;
Kathleen Flenniken;
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats;  
The Girl Who Goes Alone by Elizabeth Austen;
Dolce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen;
writing during the pandemic;
Dear Heathcliff by Hiedi Bauer;
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law by Adrienne Rich;
Addict by Hiedi Bauer; 

and more!