HPLD Podcasts

In this episode, we discuss books that are perfect for gifting! We’ve linked to them in the library catalog when possible, but all are available wherever books are sold.

Peter’s top five:

The Complete Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Alan Moore’s Writing for Comics by Alan Moore & Jacen Burrows

The Internet Is a Playground by David Thorne

Ed Emberley’s Make a World by Ed Emberley

Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society by John Law, Kevin Evans, & Carrie Galbraith

Meagan’s top five:

Creature: Paintings, Drawings and Reflections by Shaun Tan

City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs 1912-1948 by Peter Doyle

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff https://bit.ly/3B3sGAu

(Bonus suggestion: Swansong, 1945by Walter Kempowski https://bit.ly/3B421U8)

Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide by Cecily Wong https://bit.ly/3B3rayp

A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson https://bit.ly/3Vto4fb

In this episode, we discuss:

Audience-ology by Kevin Goetz https://bit.ly/3EfPj5K

Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories by Jeff Kinney https://bit.ly/3GpTONt

Hide by Kiersten White https://bit.ly/3OeZFHo

Resident Alien by Peter Hogan https://bit.ly/3EfQ9zq

We didn’t quite get to:

The Night Eaters by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda https://bit.ly/3GqgoWh

Bird Planet by Tim Laman https://bit.ly/3EhfwRh

The Day My Butt Went Psycho by Andy Griffiths https://bit.ly/3AoHNnR

Your Pal Fred by Michael Rex https://bit.ly/3AoldMi

In this episode, we discuss:

Swamp Thing by Alan Moore https://bit.ly/3TFUbqE

The Queen of the Cicadas by V. Castro https://bit.ly/3MQn557

Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom (Prospector or ILL)

Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Lisa Sterle https://bit.ly/3TAqRC0

We didn’t quite get to:

The Bad Breath Vampire by Charles Hinton (Prospector or ILL)

Dead Men Scare Me Stupid by John Swartzwelder (Prospector or ILL)

Cackle by Rachel Harrison https://bit.ly/3yXYsxH

Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth https://bit.ly/3sa8qse

In 2001, the Farr Regional Library was being built, but it didn't have a name! The Weld Library District decided to hold a naming contest.

We uncovered the entries to this contest, plus a little story about how the name ended up being in honor of WD and Judy Farr.

This time we cover:

A Man & His Cat by Umi Sakurai: https://hpldencore.mylibrary.us/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2287396

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin by Eastman and Laird: https://hpldencore.mylibrary.us/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2303981

Octopus, Seahorse, Jellyfish by David Liittschwager: https://hpldencore.mylibrary.us/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2297653

Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12356380

We didn't fully cover:

The Scoundrel Falls Hard by Sophie Jordan: https://hpldencore.mylibrary.us/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2301229

The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik: https://hpldencore.mylibrary.us/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2301204

The Writing Life by Jeff Strand (you'll have to rock an interlibrary loan for this one): https://www.mylibrary.us/prospector-and-ill/

The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynoin IV: https://hpldencore.mylibrary.us/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2300633

In this episode, we discuss:

The Wonder Trail by Steve Hely https://bit.ly/3QskAqm

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey https://bit.ly/3p5EM5J

Tender Wings of Desire by Harland Sanders (Prospector or ILL)

The Way of the House Husband by Kousuke Oono https://hpldencore.mylibrary.us/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2247828

We didn’t quite get to:

The Department of Truth by James Tynion IV https://bit.ly/3SQKRRt

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Cartoonish by Adrian Tomine https://bit.ly/3BS5iai

Rebecca Ringquist’s Emboidery Workshops by Rebecca Ringquist https://bit.ly/3Qh8dho

Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt (Prospector or ILL)

In this episode, we discuss:

The Ghosts of Sherwood by Carrie Vaughn https://bit.ly/3IerpJh

Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs (Prospector or ILL)

Intensity by Dean Koontz (Prospector or ILL)

Wikireader by Pan Digital https://bit.ly/3ugOKnX

We didn’t quite get to:

Faithful by Alice Hoffman https://bit.ly/3nuFwAL

The Life of Guy by Allan Metcalf https://bit.ly/3ydl10t

Curse Words by Charles Soule https://bit.ly/3bLev9i

Jedi Summer by John Boden (Out of print)

In this episode, we discuss:

A Place of My Own by Michael Pollan https://bit.ly/3tb3QKX

The Beast in Aisle 34 by Darrin Doyle https://bit.ly/3Q2CfFC

Dreadstar by Jim Starlin https://bit.ly/3m9MQ46

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone https://bit.ly/3mevwuK

We didn’t quite get to:

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander (Prospector or ILL)

Command and Control by Eric Schlosser https://bit.ly/3ar9lyA

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood https://bit.ly/3GP2RGf

Crushing by Sophie Burrows https://bit.ly/3Q2AmsM

In this episode, we discuss:

Ghosted, v. 1: Haunted Heist by Joshua Williamson https://bit.ly/3yk30za

The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman https://bit.ly/3KLCgtL

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher https://bit.ly/3w8uchp

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon https://bit.ly/3kNxNME

We didn’t quite get to:

Isla to Island by Alexis Castellanos https://bit.ly/3LSVVcN

Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe https://bit.ly/39IhKO1

Steeple by John Allison https://bit.ly/3P32Y4A

The Cape by Joe Hill https://bit.ly/3KNcaGR

In this episode, we discuss:

The Light at the Edge of Everything by Lisa Zimmerman https://bit.ly/3NWIGZT

Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by Robert David Rakoff https://bit.ly/3xc7fMA

The Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser https://bit.ly/3rg5qdQ

Working on a Song by Anaïs Mitchell (Request through Prospector or ILL)

We didn’t quite get to:

Old Man Laughing by Robert King https://bit.ly/3KwyQvJ

Poetry 180 by Billy Collins, ed. (Request through Prospector or ILL)

Love Poems for the Office by John Kenney https://bit.ly/3jnFjgE

Devotions by Mary Oliver https://bit.ly/3KtSRTD