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

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*apologies for the intermittent crackling in the audio!

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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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!)

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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

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!

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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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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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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Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Don Polodna, member of the Library Foundation, and his wife Nancy.

Titles mentioned in this episode:

*How to Read a Book

*The Frozen River

*The Nature of Fragile Things

*Summer Romance

*Cape Refuge

*The Maid

The Housemaid

Remarkably Bright Creatures

*denotes Custom Reads recommendations

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Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Brian Porn, member of the Library Board, to give him some new book recommendations.

Titles mentioned in this episode:

The River We Remember

This Tender Land

Bird Box

*Gabriel's Story

No Country for Old Men

The Road

*The End of the World Running Club

*Sleepwalk

*The River

*The Passage

The Girl with All the Gifts

The Ferryman

*Plum Rains

The Murder Bot Diaries

*The Last Cuentista

*denotes Custom Reads selections

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Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Jazmin Goeden, a new member of the Library Foundation.

Titles mentioned in this episode:

Firefly Lane

True Colors

The Four Winds

The Nightingale

The Winter Garden

The Women

*The Story of Arthur Truluv

A Man Called Ove

*When Twilight Breaks

*Lizzy and Jane

The London House

The Berlin Letters

*The Edge of Belonging

*Stay With Me

*The Help

The Time Traveler's Wife

*denotes Custom Reads recommendations

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