Your Shelf or Mine

Where we talk about Toni Morrison! Including:

"The Bluest Eye;" 
"Beloved;" 
"Home;" 
"Song of Solomon;" 
"Remember: the journey to school integration;" 

"Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am" directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; 
"The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison" by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/magazine/the-radical-vision-of-toni-morrison.html

and mention:
"Miss Chloe: a memoir of a literary friendship with Toni Morrison" by A.J. Verdelle; 
"The Toni Morrison Book Club" by Piper Kendrix Williams, Cassandra Jackson, Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude, and Juda Bennett.

Introductory excerpt from "The Bluest Eye."

Where we talk about:

The work of Susan Orlean:

The Orchid Thief; 
The Library Book; 
Rin Tin Tin; 

Dogs of War by Sheila Keenan;

and more!

Where we talk about:

RFID tagging; 
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett; 
Louise Erdrich; 
Birchbark Books; 
LaRose; 
The Round House; 
The Plague of Doves; 
The Sentence; 
The Birchbark House; 
The Night Watchman; 
Love Medicine; 
The Beet Queen; 
Tracks; 
The Blue Jay's Dance; 
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country; 
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse; 
Tales of Burning Love; 

and more!

Intro excerpt from the first edition of Love Medicine, 1984

Where we talk about:

Armistead Maupin; 
Tales of the City (1978 book); 
Tales of the City (1993 TV miniseries); 
More Tales of the City (1980 book); 
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (2017 documentary); 

and more!

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!

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 ; 

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.

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!

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!

with Jennifer Jensen!

Where we talk about:

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

and more!