Your Shelf or Mine

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!

A Book Recommended by a Favorite Author, Actor, or Musician

Season 3 premiere with Jakob Collins!

where we talk about:

would you rather?; 
Jakob's cats; 
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; 
Lucifer; 
Memoirs and Misinformation by Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon, read by Jeff Daniels; 
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk; 
Sonic the Hedgehog; 
Jim & Andy: the Great Beyond; 
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-06-30/jim-carrey-book-memoirs-misinformation 
This Darkness Mine by Mindy McGinnis; 
Roleplaying Games; 
upcoming online youth programs; 
the LPL Discord; 

and more!

A Book You Judge By the Cover

with Jennifer King!

where we talk about: 

embroidery; 
hammocks; 
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi; 
Stamped by Jason Reynolds; 
Melanated Reader: https://www.melanatedreader.com/ ; 
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez; 
Books with Emily Fox: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW5R53ckTBE4JJtUmc64lng ; 
Invisible Kingdom by G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward; 
ODY-C by Matt Fraction and Christian Ward; 
Hawkeye: My Life As A Weapon by Matt Fraction and David Aja; 
Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughn and Cliff Chiang; 
Saga by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples; 
Runaways by Rainbow Rowell; 
Snapdragon by Kat Leyh; 
Watersnakes by Tony Sandoval; 
Harrow County by Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook; 
Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez; 
Junji Ito; 
Umbrella Academy; 
The People vs. OJ Simpson; 
Legion; 
Cub by Cynthia L. Copeland; 
Making Comics by Linda Barry; 
Bitter Root by David F. Walker and Chuck Brown; 
library sampler: http://longviewlibrary.org/sampler.php 

and more!

A Book About a Pioneering Woman

with Austin Brigden! 

Where we talk about:

the library garden; 
https://conversationstartersworld.com/would-you-rather-questions/ ;
Yellow Bird: oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country by Sierra Crane Murdoch; 
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/706/a-mess-to-be-reckoned-with ; 
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland; 
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/06/11/final-destination ; 
Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim;
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm; 
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld; 

and more!

A Book with a Horse on the Cover

with guest Daniel Tate!

 

Where we talk about:

bird watching; 
Grant by Ron Chernow; 
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck; 
Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore; 
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman; 

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; 
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text (cohost Vanessa Zoltan studied Jane Eyre as a sacred text) : https://www.harrypottersacredtext.com/ ; 
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman; 
Far Side by Gary Larson; 

Subscribe to our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY6lrzgdqjlBBCoSte84PAw/ ; 
and more!

A Book About Books, Libraries, or Book Stores

Where we talk about: 

Elizabeth leaving Longview for Manatee County Libraries in Florida! 

The futures of libraries; 
Craft Challenge videos on the LPL's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY6lrzgdqjlBBCoSte84PAw
One Book in the Grave by Kate Carlisle; 
Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson; 
Cold Storage by David Koepp; 

and more!