Your Shelf or Mine

A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style Book

Where we talk about:

Your Shelf or Mine LIVE!; 
Hands on History; 
Winter at Orchard House; 

2020 Reading Challenge ideas; 
Chinese Dragons by R.A. Montgomery; 
Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North; 
Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh; 
Hurricane Dancers by Margarita Engle; 

and more!

A Book with Vampires In It

Where we talk about:

The Kilted Man; 
Fall Events; 
The ____'s Wife book list from BooKNet Canada https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/10/1/the-wife ;
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman; 
Personalized book recommendations from Becky: http://longviewlibrary.org/teens-booklists.php ; 
Viral: The Fight Against AIDS in America by Ann Bausum; 
Awards for Good Boys by Shelby Lorman; 
The Swallows by Lisa Lutz; 
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer; 
The Vampire Lestat by Ann Rice; 
Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris; 
Carry On and Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell; 
The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh; 
The Passage by Justin Cronin; 
The Curse of Dracula by Marv Wolfman; 
Buffy the Vampire Slayer; 

and more!

A Book of Short Stories

Where we talk about:

Halloween; 
Little Monster Mash; 
Kids Book Clubs; 
The Kilted Man; 
Humanities Washington: Civil Conversations in an Angry Age; 
Pet Sematary (1989 movie); 
Ghostwriter; 
California Raisins (they were created at Will Vinton Studios in Portland. In 2002, the studio was acquired by Nike owner Phil Knight and changed to Laika, which is now located in Hillsboro); 
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson; 
Cuentos de Eva Luna (The Stories of Eva Luna) by Isabel Allende; 
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang; 
Exhalation by Ted Chiang; 

and more!

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

with guest Daniel Tate!

Where we talk about: 

Banned Books Week; 
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz; 
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark movie; 

and more!

Pet Sematary

Where we talk about:

Season 2! 
Fall library events;
Books that take place in Australia or New Zealand;
The Bone People by Keri Hulme;
Holier Than Thou by Laura Buzo;
Pet Sematary by Stephen King;
Pet Sematary (2019 movie);

And more!

A Book Set in College

Where we talk about: 

Youth Summer Reading report: 881 readers logged 12,151 days of reading; 
Small Business kits; 
Giant Days by John Allison; 
Again, But Better by Christine Riccio; 
Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi; 

and more!

A Book With Pirates Or Robots In It

Where we talk about:

Summer Reading Picnic; 
Gardening; 
Smells; 
Small Business theme boxes for checkout; 
No Pirates Allowed! Said Library Lous by Rhonda Gowler Greene; 
The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot by Margaret McNamara; 
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie; 
our planned Pet Sematary reread;

and more!

A Nebula Award Winner

Where we talk about: 

Elizabeth's trip to Quito and the Galapagos; 
Waterfall hikes; 
A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg; 
Oval by Elvia Wilk; 
The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller; 
Veronica Mars; 
I Love You, Michael Collins by Lauren Baratz-Logsted; 
Apollo 8 by Martin W. Sandler; 
space programs; 

and more!

Summer Reading

Where we talk about:

Dog fitbits; 
Summer events; 
Elizabeth's trip to the Galapagos; 
The Weight of Our Sky by Hannah Alkaf; 
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang; 
Author's Notes; 
The Outsider by Stephen King; 
Between Two Skies by Joanne O'Sullivan; 

and more!

A Historical Novel Set in a Non-English Speaking Country

with special guest Jennifer King!

In which we talk about: 

Booker being a bad dog (he came back!); 
July events; 
Summer Reading; 
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris; 
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan; 
the nature of historical fiction; 
and more!