Episode 34: Books we wish we could read for the first time again

The Spanish love deception
Braiding sweetgrass
Heaven official
Artemis Fowl
House of Hollow
Strega Nona
Watership Down
Matilda
Matilda
This is how you lose the time war
Avatar, the last airbender
Infinity train
Over the garden wall

This week, Caroline and Sarah pick out the books that if possible, they could read for the first time again.

Library Events

Episode 32: Trivia with Janina

The song of Achilles
Taste : my life through food
I
Steppenwolf
The shining
1984
The great Gatsby
Lady Susan, Sanditon and the Watsons
Wuthering Heights
Rip Van Winkle
A game of thrones
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
Frankenstein

Today on the podcast it is the battle of the literary wits!  Janina joins us as the gameshow host while Caroline and Sarah square off with their knowledge!  Who will be the winner? Listen to find out!

Newsletter

Library events

Episode 31: Our Website Works Now

You made a fool of death with your beauty
Sea of Tranquility
Station eleven
Skin game
We do what we do in the dark
Catch these hands!
My love mix-up!
Gender queer
All boys aren
The summer I turned pretty
To all the boys I

In this episode, Caroline and Sarah talk about book challenges, making sure libraries have inclusive collections, and some upcoming library events.

To the news articles:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/05/politics/republican-states-book-ban-race-lgbtq/index.html

https://apnews.com/article/most-challenged-books-2021-1d5c3a131e951299d02ce2a4152098cb

https://www.pluggedin.com/tv-reviews/summer-i-turned-pretty/

Library events:

https://files.constantcontact.com/115c8b8c701/9d62b378-3fdc-4b9b-b673-8b3b75aae70d.pdf?rdr=true

http://www.eventkeeper.com/mars/xpages/S/SWAMPS/ekpmonth.cfm?curOrg=SWAMPS

Episode 30: Late Spring Cleaning

Today on the podcast we are talking about keeping our shelves tidy, all the books we are reading, and giving a shout out to Leila Mottley for her new book Nightcrawling we cannot wait to read it.

Links to what we discuss can be found here:

Beach read
Shadow and Bone
The red tent
Sea of Tranquility
Station eleven
My love mix-up!
Amberlough
Nightcrawling
A place inside of me

Events

Nightcrawling

News:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/06/14/nightcrawling-leila-mottley/

https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/hanover-chooses-not-to-revoke-book-from-school-library

https://www.wpi.edu/news/announcements/library-book-collections-move

Episode 29: We’re back!

Welcome back to our updated podcast! Sarah and Caroline are excited to be a part of your weekly podcast rotation!

The links for what we discuss in the podcast are:

You made a fool of death with your beauty
The death of Vivek Oji
Bitter
Pet
Freshwater
Go hex yourself
A court of thorns and roses
A court of mist and fury
A court of wings and ruin
A court of frost and starlight
A court of silver flames
The gentleman
The lady
The nobleman
The gentleman
Maus : a survivor

Ukrainian Donations

https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2022/05/ala-announces-ukraine-library-relief-fund

ALA Special report

https://www.ala.org/news/state-americas-libraries-report-2022

Swampscott Library Newsletter June 2022

https://files.constantcontact.com/115c8b8c701/f9c4f902-a08f-4a2a-a167-9bf47a00f39e.pdf?rdr=true