Check This Out

By Norfolk Public LibraryArts Books

Check This Out episodes

May 27, 2024 "It's Like a Cupcake"
Join Danae and Anneka as they chat with Jessica Chamberlain, the director of the Norfolk Public Library, and learn more about her reading life.
Titles mentioned in this episode:
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Book of Two Ways
Joyfull
Parks and Recreation
Monk
Murder She Wrote
Columbo
The Princess Bride
Frankenstein
The Lincoln Highway
Table for Two

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming
https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/digital-library-collections/check-this-out-podcast.html

Music provided by Pixabay.
41 min
May 20, 2024 Bonus Episode: Summer Reading Challenge for Adults
Join Danae as she sits down with Anneka Ramirez and Emily Hilkemann from the Patron Services department as they talk about "The Adventure Begins" 2024 Summer Reading Program and recommend a lot of titles to get you excited about reading!
Titles mentioned in this episode:
Everyone on This Train is a Suspect
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
The Guncle Abroad
The Guncle
Just For the Summer
Part of Your World
Yours Truly
The Surviving Sky
Sun of Blood and Ruin
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Black Sun
The Conjuring of Zoth-Avarex: the self-proclaimed greatest dragon in the multiverse
The Magicians
The Middling Affliction
The River
The Covenant of Water
Cutting for Stone
The Poisonwood Bible
Tom Lake
The Ministry of Time
You Are Here
Long Island

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/library-news/summer-reading-challenge-sign-ups-now-open!.html

33 min
May 20, 2024 Bonus Episode: Summer Reading Challenge for Youth
Join Danae as she sits down with Whitney Porn and Jessie Roberts from the Youth Services department as they talk about "The Adventure Begins" 2024 Summer Reading Program and recommend a lot of titles to get you excited about reading!
Titles mentioned in this episode:
More Than Peach
A Rover's Story
Roxie Loves Adventure
Book's Big Adventure
Zelda's Big Adventure
Adventure Annie Goes to Kindergarten
CeCe Loves Science and Adventure
Daddy's Back-to-School Shopping Adventure
Brightstorm: a sky-ship adventure
Billy and the Giant Adventure
The Adventure is Now
The Series of Unfortunate Events
Peak
Stormbreaker series
Percy Jackson series
The Hunger Games series
Partly Cloudy
Ahoy
The Wrong Book
And Then, Boom!
Max in the House of Spies
The One and Only Family
Invisible
Snowglobe
Beach Cute
Such Charming Liars
Kill Her Twice

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/library-news/summer-reading-challenge-sign-ups-now-open!.html

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/library-news/golden-sower-kid-fest-is-may-31!.html

29 min
May 13, 2024 "I Think It's Called Jail"
Welcome to Season One, Episode One of Check This Out! Danae Henkel and Anneka Ramirez will be chatting with full time Youth Services supervisor, Whitney Porn and getting to know all about her reading life.
Titles mentioned in this episode:
The Circle
The Snowy Day
The Warehouse
Digital Minimalism
Slow Productivity
The Witches
Walden
Slow Down: the Degrowth Manifesto
The Murderbot Diaries series
The Blue Castle
The Grapes of Wrath
Game of Thrones
The Office
Seinfeld
The Pout Pout Fish
Pillars of the Earth
The Locked Tomb Series

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/773930-a-library-is-many-things-it-s-a-place-to-go
https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/digital-library-collections/check-this-out-podcast.html
Music provided by Pixabay.
40 min