Your Shelf or Mine

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!

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 

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!