Your Shelf or Mine

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). 

A YA Nonfiction Book

with Lisa Hedgpeth! 

Where we talk about: 

Dresden Files by Jim Butcher;
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman;
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman;
Practical Magic (1998) directed by Griffin Dunne;
Blacklisted!: Hollywood, the Cold War, and the First Amendment by Larry Dane Brimner;
Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier by Jim Ottaviani, art by Maris Wicks;
Jane Against the World: Roe v Wade and the fight for reproductive rights by Karen Blumenthal;
Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes;
The Room of Requirement, This American Life https://www.thisamericanlife.org/664/the-room-of-requirement;
Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty; 
Kent State by Derf Backderf; 
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candice Fleming;
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed;
Winter Reading; 

and more!

Jane Eyre & Wide Sargasso Sea

with Chris Skaugset and Austin Brigden!

Where we talk about:

Expanded Library Drive-Thru Hours;
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte;
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys;
Jane Slayer by Sherri Browning Erwin;
Jane by April Linder;
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey;
Charlotte Bronte Before Jane Eyre by Glynnis Fawkes;
Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg;
Jane by Aline Brosh McKenna;
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte;
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte;
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing (misstated as The Silent City);
Jane Eyre (2011) directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender;
Jane Eyre TV Mini-Series (2006) starring Ruth Wilson;
Jane Eyre (1943) directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Orson Welles;
Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore;
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen;
Cowboy Christmas Redemption by Maisey Yates;
Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund;
Moby Dick by Herman Melville;
March by Geraldine Brooks;
Little Women by Louise Alcott;
Marley by Jon Clinch;
The Muppet Christmas Carol;

and more!

A Book About Voting

with MaryAlice Wallis, Mayor of Longview and Hillary Strobel, Longview City Council Member

Where we talk about:

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer;
Foundations of Leadership; 
Mount Vernon Love Story by Mary Higgins Clark; 
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh; 
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende; 
Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac; 
Equality’s Call: the story of voting rights in America by Deborah Diesen; 
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery; 
How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and their big idea by Susan Campbell Bartoletti; 
Suffrage: women’s long battle for the vote by Ellen Carol DuBois; 
With Courage and Cloth: winning the fight for a woman’s right to vote by Ann Bausum; 
Lifting As We Climb: black women’s battle for the ballot box by Evette Dionn; 
Freedom Summer: the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy by Bruce Watson; 
Ahead of the Curve: Washington women lead the way 1910-2020 by John C. Hughes;

and more!

The Shining

with Jennifer King and Daniel Tate!

Where we talk about:

Drive-Thru Trick-or-Treat; 
The Shining by Stephen King; 
The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick; 
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King; 
Doctor Sleep directed by Mike Flanagan; 
Candyman title sequence: https://youtu.be/TSd81qwxDNo 
Room 237 directed by Rodney Ascher; 
The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix series); 
The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix series);
Castle Rock (Hulu series); 
lots of scary movies; 

and more!

A Coming of Age Novel

with Angela Stephenson! 

Where we talk about:

Angela's job at the library; 
Drive-Thru Trick or Treat; 
Library samplers and book box prizes; 
Garters by Pamela Morsi; 
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl;
While You Were Sleeping; 
Die Hard; 
Grosse Pointe Blank; 
The Little Mermaid;
The Parent Trap (original); 
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume; 
https://lithub.com/the-50-greatest-coming-of-age-novels/ ; 
Ray vs. The Meaning of Life by Michael F. Stewart; 
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros; 
How to Make Out by Brianna R. Shrum; 
Solstice by Lorence Alison;
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle; 
What I Like About Me by Jenna Guillaume; 
Dumplin' by Julie Murphy;
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins;
Watchmen (show);
13 Reasons Why (show); 
The Vow (documentary series);
WandaVision;
Down to Earth with Zac Efron; 
Swimming to Elba by Silvia Avallone;

and more!