Your Shelf or Mine

A Book with a One-Word Title

Where we talk about:

Drive-Thru book pickup; 
Summer Reading program; 
Stiff by Mary Roach; 
Dig by A.S. King; 

and more!

A Goodreads Choice Award Winner

Where we talk about:

Library drive-thru service; 
Elizabeth's opinions; 
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb; 
Brain Wash by David Perlmutter; 
Recursion by Blake Crouch; 
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs by Caitlin Doughty; 

and more!

An Edgar Award Winner

Where we talk about:

New releases from Libro.fm; 
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld; 
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester; 
Don't Believe a Word by David Shariatmadari; 
Wildpreneurs by Tamar Jacobi; 
The Gumbo Coalition by Marc Morial; 
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing; 
Fire in Paradise by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano; 
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty; 
birthdays; 
cooking; 
The Edgar Awards: http://www.theedgars.com/ ; 
Other Wood by Pete Hautman; 
Slider by Pete Hautman; 
In the Woods by Tana French; 
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins; 
Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer; 

and more!

A Book with a Number in the Title

Where we talk about:

Library resources for small business webinar; 
Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill; 
iZombie; 
A Thousand Sisters: the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein; 
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein; 
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys; 
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson; 
Burnt by the Sun; 
Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin; 
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater; 

and more!

A Book About a Family Secret

We are recording at home over Skype - please forgive the lower quality!

Where we talk about:

Working from home; 
Library content on Facebook; 
Barry the Fish with Fingers by Sue Hendra; 
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates; 
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro; 
When I Was White by Sarah Valentine; 
Virtual hiring events; 
Online poetry readings with Austin; 

and more!

A Self-Help Book

Recorded remotely! Stay Home. Stay Safe.

Where we talk about:

Gardening; 
Digital Library Services; 
All By Your Shelf Beanstack challenge; 
Libro.fm; 
A Self-Help Book; 
Everyday Ubuntu by Nompumelelo Mungi Ngomane; 
The Leader's Greatest Return by John C. Maxwell;

and more!

A Book with Garden in the Title

Where we talk about:

Possible COVID-19 related closures and cancellations (UPDATE: the library is closed beginning March 17, 2020; see our website for more information: longviewlibrary.org);
Seed Library;
Gardening;
Frozen on Broadway (in Portland);
A book with “garden” in the title;
“A Child’s Garden: 60 ideas to make any garden come alive for children” by Molly Dannenmaier;
“The Forgotten Garden” by Kate Morton;
Ted Chiang stories;

And more!

A Cookbook

Where we talk about:

LPL Seed Library; 
Plant Exchange; 
Bad Art Night (for teens); 
Messy Art Night (for babies); 
Humanities WA: Undiscovered Feminists of Washington State; 
Indian-ish by Priya Krishna; 
The World Eats Here: amazing food and the inspiring people who make it at New York's Queens Night Market by John Wang and Storm Garner; 
Monty Don; 

and more!

A RITA Award Winner

Where we talk about:

Library happenings; 
Book juries; 
Becky's 58 books in 29 days February goal;
Elizabeth's Panama trip; 
The Romance Writers of America; 
The RITA Awards; 
Crazy Thing Called Love by Molly O'Keefe; 
Clint Malarchuk’s hockey injury;
Advanced Physical Chemistry by Susannah Nix; 

and more!

Little Women

with special guest Daniel Tate!

where we talk about:

Fire It Up! Adult Winter Reading program; 
Curl Up with a Good Book; 
Art Speaks Volumes; 
Teen Tuesdays; 
Kids Events; 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; 
Little Women (1994) directed by Gillian Armstrong; 
Little Women (2017) BBC miniseries; 
Little Women (2019) directed by Greta Gerwig; 

and more!