Check This Out

Check This Out

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Check This Out episodes

  • 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


    Music provided by Pixabay

    18 min
  • "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


    Music provided by Pixabay

    51 min
  • "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


    Music provided by Pixabay.

    28 min
  • "That Feels Like a Big Secret!"

    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


    Music provided by Pixabay

    22 min
  • "Kind of Gritty, but with a Lot of Heart"

    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


    Music provided by Pixabay

    25 min
  • "The First One Ended Up Being Like a Prequel for Me"

    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


    Music provided by Pixabay

    35 min
  • "I'm Gonna Be Booked for Awhile"

    Join Danae, and special co-host Whitney, as they sit down with Whitney Sunderman, member of our Library Foundation, and her 10-year-old daughter Daphne.

    Titles mentioned in this episode:

    The Heroes of Olympus series

    Eragon series

    The Land of Stories series

    Roswell Johnson Saves the World!

    After Annie

    The Glassmaker

    Ordinary Monsters

    *The Isle of the Lost Desendants series

    Alex and Eliza series

    *The Secret History

    *Wrath of the Rain God Legendarios series

    *All the Colors of the Dark

    *Uprising

    The Devil's Arithmetic

    *American Dirt

    *The Fight for the Hidden Realm Paper Dragons series

    Percy Jackson series

    *The Amateur Marriage

    *Impossible Creatures

    *Once Upon a River

    The Snow Child

    *The Dearly Beloved

    *The Trials of Morrigan Crow Nevermoor series

    Wings of Fire series

    The Chronicles of Narnia


    *denotes Custom Reads recommendations


    Danae misspoke in this episode. The Amateur Marriage did not win the Pulitzer Prize. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler, was the title that won the Pulitzer.


    Music provided by Pixabay

    50 min
  • "Why Would I Do a Half, if There's a Full?"

    Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Gina Lindsay, the treasurer for the Library Foundation.


    Titles mentioned in this episode:

    *Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter

    The Greatest Generation

    *The Last Bookshop in London

    *Just Another Love Song

    *26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career

    *The Holiday Swap

    *Me and Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: my friendship with Patsy Cline


    *denotes Custom Reads recommendations


    Music provided by Pixabay

    26 min
  • "When You Go into a Library, You're Elevating Yourself"

    Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Kurt Bogner, the president of the Library Board.


    Titles mentioned in this episode:

    *Sharpe's Tiger

    *The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero

    *The Blue Zones

    *12 Rules for Life

    *Destiny of the Republic

    The Heart Mender

    *2034


    *denotes Custom Reads recommendations


    Music provided by Pixabay

    32 min
  • "Don't Do the Math"

    Join Danae and Jessica Chamberlain as they sit down and chat with Susan Warneke about serving on the Library Foundation and reading books from the bottom shelf.

    Titles mentioned in this episode:

    The Great Halifax Explosion

    Tall Grass

    The Women

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Wish You Well

    *The American Queen

    *Absolution

    *The Great Passion

    *Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

    *The Curse of Pietro Houdini

    The Heist

    *The Mitford Series


    *denotes Custom Reads recommendations


    Music provided by Pixabay


    38 min

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