Check This Out

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Check This Out episodes

February 24, 2025 "This is When I Fell in Love with the Dog"
Join Danae, Emily H, and Jessica as they discuss parts 7-9 of "The Friend" by Sigrid Nunez.

Music provided by Pixabay.
54 min
February 17, 2025 "I Just Flâneured All Over the Place"
Join Danae, Emily H., and Jessica as they discuss parts 4-6 of "The Friend" by Sigrid Nunez.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJh4qrynJH8
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50465/thanatopsis

Music provided by Pixabay.

50 min
February 10, 2025 "Do You Feel Like What You're Doing Would Be Missed?"
Join Danae, Emily H, and Jessica as they sit down and discuss parts 1-3 of "The Friend" by Sigrid Nunez. Trigger warning: there are many sensitive topics that are in this book and that we will be discussing throughout the rest of this series.

Music provided by Pixabay.
50 min
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".

Music provided by Pixabay.
35 min
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.

Music provided by Pixabay.
26 min
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.

Music provided by Pixabay.
26 min
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!
43 min
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.

Music provided by Pixabay.
47 min
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
57 min
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!
2 min