Check This Out

By Norfolk Public Library

A podcast about books, movies, music, and all things library related.... more

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The podcast currently has 61 episodes available.

Check This Out episodes:

February 03, 2025 "I Think More was Happening on the Prairie than we Realized!"
Join Danae, Emily H., and Allie as they discuss Part 5 and the wrap up of "My Antonia".

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35min
January 27, 2025 "No offense to people who are named Larry"
Join Danae, Emily H., and Allie as they discuss Part Four of My Antonia.

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26min
January 20, 2025 "Willa Cather is where we intersect on our Venn diagram"
Join Danae, Emily H., and Allie as they discuss Part 3 of My Antonia.

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26min
January 13, 2025 "A Little Friend Zoned"
Join Danae, Emily H. and Allie as they discuss Part Two of My Antonia for the Norfolk Public Library Winter Reading Challenge. Rachel Olsen, the Director of Education and Engagement at the National Willa Cather Center, sent us this link where you can go and take a virtual tour of the Institute and see the native prairie as it was in Willa Cather's time:
https://www.willacather.org/visit/willa-cather-memorial-prairie

Music provided by Pixabay.

*apologies for the intermittent crackling in the audio!
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43min
January 06, 2025 "I Would at Least, like, Rock Paper Scissors"
Join Danae, Emily Hilkemann, and Allie Zuberbier as they discuss Part One of My Antonia for the Winter Reading Challenge. (We had some trouble with crackling in the audio towards the beginning and end of the podcast, just FYI.) Let us know if you have any comments or questions about Part One.

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47min
December 30, 2024 Bonus Episode: Our Top Five Reads of 2024
Join Danae, Jessica, Emily H., Whitney, and Allie as we talk about our favorite reads of 2024!
*edited to add that Huck Finn is NOT by Tom Sawyer. (Insert eye roll!)

Music provided by Pixabay.

Books mentioned:
Verity
Black River Orchard
The Boys
Lanny
The Road
The Midnight Feast
The Book of Ichigo Ichie
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Comfort Crisis
Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
The Third Wife of Faraday House
Down with the System: a memoir (of sorts)
The Age of Magical Overthinking
Less
James
We Used to Live Here
The Sentence
The Guncle Abroad
How to be Perfect
Time of the Child
Sharp Objects
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
Etta and Otto and Russell and James
Sandwich
Loved and Missed
The Three-Body Problem
Barbara Isn't Dying
All the Colors of the Dark
I Cheerfully Refuse
Author Chloe Liese
Well Met series by Jen DeLuca
Heartstopper graphic novel series
Miss Benson's Beetle
Invisible
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57min
December 16, 2024 Season Three Trailer
Get a preview of what is coming to Season Three beginning on January 6th, 2025. If you love reading and discussing books, you won't want to miss out on what is next!
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November 25, 2024 Bonus Episode: "I Get to Be a Patron"
Join Danae and Anneka as they talk about how their recommendations were received and also make an announcement about the podcast going forward.
Titles mentioned in this episode:
Ordinary Monsters
Once There Were Wolves
Want
Migrations
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
An Immense World
Immune

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18min
November 18, 2024 "This is Really Awful but I'm Still Laughing"
Join us for the last regular episode of the season as Danae and Anneka do Custom Reads picks for each other with the help of Emily Hilkemann.
Titles mentioned in this episode:
Song of Achilles
The Disenchantment
The Heart of Winter
The Night Boat to Tangier
Mirrored Heavens
*The Family Fang
*The Survivalists
*Faebound
*The Priory of the Orange Tree
*The Final Revival of Opal and Nev
*The Water Dancer
*The Girl who Drank the Moon
Piranesi
*Migrations
*Malas
*The Master Butcher Singing Club
The Round House
*The Morningside
*The Jetsetters
*Want
*Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Blue Sisters

*denotes Custom Reads recommendations

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51min
November 11, 2024 "I Like it When a Character Surprises Me"
Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Sue Burns, a member of our Library Foundation, to talk about books and give her some new title suggestions.

Titles mentioned in this episode:
The House of Doors
*The Lion Women of Tehran
The Stationery Shop
*The Children's Crusade
*The Paris Wife
A Moveable Feast
*The Great Believers
*Braiding Sweetgrass
A Man Called Ove
*Barbara Isn't Dying
Commonwealth
The God of the Woods

*denotes Custom Reads recommendations

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28min

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The podcast currently has 61 episodes available.

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