Your Shelf or Mine

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!

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!

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!

Where we talk about:

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

and more!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!