Your Shelf or Mine

Where we talk about:

Herman Melville;  Moby Dick;  Bartleby the Scrivener; Billy Budd;  Herman Melville at Home by Jill Lepore: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/herman-melville-at-home ; 

The Beige Moth blog: https://beigemoth.blog/moby-dick/ ; 

In the Heart of the Sea;  Drifting Dragons; 

and more!

Where we talk about:

Seed Library;  NW Voices: http://longviewlibrary.org/nwvoices.php ;  David Rakoff;  Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish;  Half Empty

and more!

Our Friend David: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/472/transcript ;  Invisible Made Visible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P7V0UKySaI ;  Lindsey Ellis on Rent: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q0qfFbtIj5w ;  Article from 2020: https://www.timesofisrael.com/locked-down-open-up-to-david-rakoffs-defensively-pessimistic-wit/ ;  Poems to get you through hard times: https://www.oprah.com/spirit/poems-that-get-you-through-hard-times/all ;  Ira Glass on making the audiobook: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/books/david-rakoffs-last-deadline.html ; 

with Joanne Dallas, Austin Brigden, and Jakob Collins

where we talk about:

Story Walks;  Fatima's Great Outdoors by Ambreen Tariq;  Oi Frog! by Kes Gray; 

Beverly Cleary;  Drop Everything and Read Day;  Henry Huggins;  A Girl from Yamhill;  Ramona the Pest;  Ramona and her Mother;  Beezus and Ramona;  My Own Two Feet;  Dear Mr. Henshaw;  Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland by Laura O. Foster;  https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/6456 

Beverly Cleary Endowed Professorship: https://ischool.uw.edu/faculty-affairs/beverly-cleary-professorship 

Corrections: Beverly Clearly was 104 when she died;  Becky refers to Beverly several times as "Ramona." :) 

Excerpt from "Ramona the Pest" by Beverly Cleary, published by Harper Collins Publishers.

excerpt from "Long Way Down," by Jason Reynolds, published by Simon and Schuster.

Where we talk about:

the work of Jason Reynolds;  Long Way Down;  Ghost;  All American Boys;  Brendan Kiely;  Ain't Burned All the Bright;  Jason Griffin; Stuntboy, in the Meantime;  Raul the Third. His picture books are the "Vamos!" series: "Vamos! Let's Go to the Market," "Vamos! Let's Go Eat!" and "Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge."

Tired as F*ck by Caroline Dooner;  Breathing Fire by Jaime Lowe; 

and more!

excerpt from "Long Way Down," by Jason Reynolds, published by Simon and Schuster.

Where we talk about:

the work of Jason Reynolds;  Long Way Down;  Ghost;  All American Boys;  Brendan Kiely;  Ain't Burned All the Bright;  Jason Griffin; Stuntboy, in the Meantime;  Raul the Third. His picture books are the "Vamos!" series: "Vamos! Let's Go to the Market," "Vamos! Let's Go Eat!" and "Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge."

Tired as F*ck by Caroline Dooner;  Breathing Fire by Jaime Lowe; 

and more!

Where we talk about:

The 2022 Our Shelf Reading Challenge;  www.longviewlibrary.beanstack.org ;  The 2022 Printz Award;  https://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz-award#previous ;  Library building restoration;  The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang;  The Bride Test by Helen Hoang;  The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang; 

and more!

with Jennifer Jensen!

Where we talk about:

Carrie by Stephen King;  Carrie directed by Brian de Palma;  Maneaters by Chelsea Cain; 

and more!

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!