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Check It Out
by Normal Public LibraryThe Normal Public Library's podcast, featuring book, audio, and movie recommendations, information about the library's programs and services, and other fun odds and ends.
Episodes
Episode Thirty-Nine (July 2018)
18m · PublishedCheck It Out host Mari McKeeth examines Normal Public Library'sscience fictionofferings with Kristi Cates, our Teen Librarian and resident SciFi reader and advisor. She also buys all of our SciFi, by the way! Pretty cool job, huh?
Titles that our host and guest discuss include:
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- Space Opera by Catherynne Valente
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
- Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
- Lock In and Head On by John Scalzi
- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
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Episode Thirty-Eight (June 2018)
26m · PublishedCheck It Out host Mari McKeeth examines Normal Public Library music offerings with four guests: Amy, Kristi, Cedric, and John. John talks folk and trombones, Kristi talks some film, and more! Tim Burton soundtracks? You'll find out all this, about Make Music at Normal Public Library (June 22-23), and what Mari likes in music when you Check It Out with Mari!
Episode Thirty-Seven (May 2018)
13m · PublishedCheck It Out host Mari McKeeth examines all things tea with our resident barista and teasommelier, Ben Mills. Ben's favorite tea is revealed, he talks tea, tea geography, tea books,and he advises on tea sipping be it local or afar. Melons and tea? Who knows?Give it a listen and give it a read:
- Tea: History, Terroirs, Varieties
- The Art and Craft of Tea by Joseph Uhl
- Tea Bliss by Theresa Fancis-Cheung
- The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura
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Episode Thirty-Six (April 2018)
12m · PublishedCheck It Out host Mari McKeeth takes time out to speak with Children's Librarian Lyndsey Carneyas she discusses reading and visiting with Margaret Peterson Haddix coming up soon on April 28, 2018. Our visiting author series is sponsored by the Normal Public Library Foundation and otherwonderful local sponsors.
Episode Thirty-Three (October 2017)
45m · PublishedBen Mills recommends a cookbook full of year-round farm-fresh recipes (11:12); Silvia Schuh talks October and November arts and crafts (7:57); and Mari McKeeth recommends some epistolary novels, with the help of the host (19:07).
Ben recommends:
Dishing Up the Dirt by Andrea Bemis
Mari recommends:
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Giliad by Marilynne Robinson
Jared recommends:
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Let us know what you think!
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @NPLTweets
Episode Thirty-Two (September 2017)
43m · PublishedIn this episode, Tori Lieggi introduces us to a unique and quirky travel book (9:31), and Kristi Cates recommends a stack of young adult historical fiction (17:16). Plus, we interview visiting antique and fine art appraiser Mark Moran (11:17).
Mark Moran's website is here.
Tori recommends:
Atlas Obscura by Joshua Foehr, Dylan Thuras, and Ella Morton
Kristi recommends:
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson
The Wicked and the Just by J. Anderson Coats
Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
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Episode Thirty-One (August 2017)
45m · PublishedIn this back-to-school-themed episode, Laura Rocco gives us one last school-themed recommendation before heading back to school herself (17:43); Silvia Schuh ushers in the fall semester with September arts and crafts (6:51); and Mari McKeeth takes us all to school with some quirky and educational nonfiction (15:10).
Laura recommends:
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Mari recommends:
Away With Words by Joe Berkowitz
The Not-Quite States of America by Doug Mack
The Physics of Everyday Things by James Kakalios
How to Hygge by Signe Johansen
The Photo Ark by Joel Sartore
Register for Mark Moran's What's It Worth? session by calling NPL on the old-fashioned (but classic!) telephone at (309) 452-1757 (registration opens on August 30th). Email Mark to schedule a private session [email protected]. (A portion of his fee benefits NPL.)
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Episode Thirty (July 2017)
42m · PublishedIn this, our thirtieth episode, Kathleen Kirk recommends an especiallyliterary cookbook (7:29); Ally Byerly puts out the call for submissions to our Normal Library Extraordinary Stories project (6:11); and Kristi Cates sorts some YA novels into their appropriatewizarding houses (23:20).
Kathleen recommends:
Feast: Poetry and Recipes for a Full Seating at Dinner, edited by Diane Goettel and Anneli Matheson
Kristi recommends:
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
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Check It Out has 83 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 46:16:51. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on July 30th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on March 25th, 2024 18:12.
