Your Shelf or Mine

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!

National Poetry Month

with Austin Brigden and Chris Skaugset!

Where We Talk About: 

Poetry!
Including work by:

Jim Harrison; 
Richard Hugo; 
Kathleen Flenniken; 
William Stafford; 
Elizabeth Bishop; 
T.S. Eliot; 

and more!

Attention & Laziness

With Austin Brigden!

Where we talk about:

Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price;
How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell;
Work, rest, attention, time, 

And mention:
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss;
Work Won’t Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe;
Rescuing Mrs. Birdley by Aaron Reynolds and Emma Reynolds;

And more!

Body Positivity & Anti-Diet

With guest Shira Lile from Hello Life!

Where we talk about:

Hello Life, a Cowlitz County organization that provides peer support to people who struggle with eating disorders or negative body image;

Contact: hellolifeservices@yahoo.com, helloliferecovery.org, or text or call 971.770.0680

Love Your Body by Jessica Sanders;
The Self-Love Revolution by Virgie Tovar;
Body Respect by Lindo Bacon and Lucy Aphramor;  
Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch;
The Body is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor;
Radical Belonging by Lindo Bacon;
Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison;
The F*ck It Diet by Caroline Dooner;
Shrill by Lindy West;
Dietland by Sarai Walker;
Land Whale by Jes Baker;
Embody by Connie Sobczak;
Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings;
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon;
Untamed by Glennon Doyle;
Daring Greatly by Brené Brown;

Behind the Before and After:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTY_hCTmI98

https://bookriot.com/best-body-positive-books/

and more!

Parable of the Sower

with Austin Brigden and Hillary Strobel!

Where we talk about:

Reopening the library;
Northwest Voices;
Seed Library; 
Comics Corner in the library;
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler;

and more!

Talking Romance

with Angela Stephenson!

Where we talk about:

Valentine craft;
Wi-fi hotspots to checkout;
Digitizing the historic survey and inventory of the Old West Side;
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert;
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert;
You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle;
Princess for Christmas by Jenny Holiday;
A Christmas Movie Christmas (2019);
Midnight at the Magnolia (2020);
Holidate (2020);
Love, Guaranteed (2020);
Roomies by Christina Lauren;
Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren;
The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan;
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang;
My Nerdy Valentine by Vicki Lewis Thompson;
Fool’s Gold series by Susan Mallory;
Virgin River series by Robyn Carr;
Bridgertons series by Julia Quinn;
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang;
Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips;
Writer Friends series by Rachel Gibson;
Aisling Grey series by Katie MacAlister;
The Corset Diaries by Katie MacAlister;
Say No to the Duke by Eloisa James;
Nothing But Trouble by Amy Andrews;
Smitten by the Brit by Melonie Johnson;
The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams;
Sugarplum Way by Debbie Mason;
One Day in December by Josie Silver;
The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory;
Love a la Mode by Stephanie Kate Strohm;
Tweet Cute by Emma Lord;
You Say it First by Katie Cotugno;
Windy City Magic series by Crystal Cestari;
Lucy Valentine series by Heather Webber;

And more!

Library Sampler Part Two

With Austin Brigden and Daniel Tate

where we talk about:

Daniel’s departure;
Mobile hotspots to checkout;
Winter Reading;
NW Voices Programs coming;
Friends of the Library greeting card fundraiser;
Becky’s Library Sampler challenge part 2;
The Meadow by James Galvin;
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller;
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson;
John O’Hara;
The Art of Burning Bridges by Geoffrey Wolff; 
The Tradition by Jericho Brown;
The Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion;
Agnes at the End of the World;

and more!

Library Sampler Part One

with Jennifer King, Chris Skaugset, and Jakob Collins

where we talk about:

three of five books from Becky's Library Sampler! 
Sampler commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncyj13avtng 
Unboxing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmQ9NgN5xd0 
Sampler request form: http://longviewlibrary.org/sampler.php 
Winter Reading 2021; 
A Map to the Sun by Sloane Leong; 
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny; 
Among Others by Jo Walton; 
Cork Dork by Biana Bosker; 
Red Rising by Pierce Brown; 
I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist; 
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero; 
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman; 
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh; 
One of Our Own by Jane Haddam; 
The Hidden Half of Nature: the microbial roots of life and health by David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé

and more!

2020 Therapy Session

with Austin Brigden!

Where we talk about:

Drive-Thru Santa;
Library updates;
Winter Reading;
Bulb Forcing Kit;
Friends Meeting January 11;

2020 Reflections;
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (HBO Documentary);
McCartney III, Paul McCartney;
Evermore & Folklore, Taylor Swift;
Leon Bridges;
Charlie Crockett;
Dolly Parton’s America (podcast);
Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics;
Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square;
A Holly Dolly Christmas;
Heaven’s Gate (podcast);
The Vow (HBO Documentary);
Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer (Amazon Prime Documentary);  
Son of a Gun by Justin St. Germain;
My Favorite Murder (podcast);
The Ballad of Billy Balls (podcast);
The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado and DaNi;
Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence by Joel Christian Gill;
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf;
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich;
The Blue Jay’s Dance: A Birth Year by Louise Erdrich;
Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick;
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader by Vivian Gornick;
Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick;
East of Eden by John Steinbeck;
Moby Dick by Herman Melville;
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville;
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell;  
Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price;
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi;
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle;
Tales of the City (1993 miniseries);
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin;
Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen, and Daniel Casanave;
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron;
Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara;
Sabrina (1954);
Adam’s Rib (1949);
Desk Set (1957);
The Bishop’s Wife (1947);
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946);
Christmas in Connecticut (1945);
White Christmas (1954);  
A Christmas Movie Christmas (2019);
You’ve Got Mail (1998);

and more!

Julia Butler Hansen

with guest John C. Hughes, Chief Historian with Legacy Washington, Washington Secretary of State

where we talk about: 
his new book "Julia Butler Hansen: a trailblazing Washington politician" 
this book and others can purchased here: https://www.sos.wa.gov/store

Julia Butler Hansen was from Cathlamet, Washington and served 21 years in the Washington State House of Representatives (1939-1960) and 14 years in the United States House of Representatives (1960-1974).