Youth Services Librarian Amanda joins us to promote the 'Color Our World' Summer Reading Challenge which opened on June 14th and goes through August 9th. Learn more and register by visiting oakcreeklibrary.org/src. Or, visit our events calendar to stay up to date on all of the fun activities that will keep you and your family busy this summer: oakcreeklibrary.org/events.

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Books mentioned:

Instructional drawing books by Ed Emberley and Ralph Masiello. "In Search of Van Gogh: Capturing the Life of the Artist Through Photographs and Paintings" by Gloria Fossi with readalike "Monet: the Restless Vision" by Jackie Wullschläger. "10 Cats: A Chaotic Colourful Counting Book" by Emily Gravett with readalike "Where’s My Cat?" by Seymour Chwast. "Painting Tools & Materials: A Practical Guide to Paints, Brushes, Palettes and More" by Elizabeth T. Gilbert with readalike "The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature" by Cathy Johnson. "Art Club" by Rashad Doucet with readalike series "Cat Kid Comic Club" by Dav Pilkey.

Websites mentioned:

The Met Collection – https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection

Art Collecting Information and Gallery Guides – https://art-collecting.com/index.htm

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"Radio Martini" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Somewhere Sunny (ver 2)" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Malt Shop Bop" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Super Friendly" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Porch Swing Days - faster" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Life of Riley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Learn about a new fantasy book club and dive headfirst into worlds of magic.

Check out what we talked about:

"One Dark Window" by Rachel Gillig with readalike "The Serpent and the Wings of Night" by Carissa Broadbent. "Return of the Thief" by Megan Whalen-Turner with readalike series "The Song of the Lioness" by Tamora Pierce. "Powerless" by Lauren Roberts with readalike "Lightlark" by Alex Aster. "The Inheritance Cycle" by Christopher Paolini. "When the Moon Hatched" by Sarah A. Parker with readalike "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros. "The Goblin Wood" by Hilari Bell.

Register for "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Book Club" @ oakcreeklibrary.org/events

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Straddle the horse's saddle and lasso some great westerns!

Check out what we talked about:

"Bad Country" by C.B. McKenzie with watchalike "Sicario" directed by Denis Villeneuve. "Inland" by Téa Obreht with readalike "The Woman Who Built a Bridge" by C.K. Crigger. The movie “City Slickers” directed by Ron Underwood and its sequel "The Legend of Curly's Gold." The movie "Home on the Range" directed by John Sanford with watchalike "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron” directed by Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook. "Westward the Women" by Nancy Wilson Ross with a watchalike of the same name directed by William A. Wellman. "Wyoming Winter" by Diana Palmer with readalike "Where Coyotes Howl" by Sandra Dallas.

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With Easter *break* on the horizon, we discuss books that are perfect to read when you have a few days off.

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"The Twilight Garden" by Sara Nisha Adams with readalike "The Last Garden in England" by Julia Kelly. "A First Time for Everything" by Dan Santat with readalike "Merry-Go-Round" by Sergio Rossi. "The Suite Spot" by Trish Doller” with readalike "One Night on the Island" by Josie Silver. "This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America" by Navied Mahdavian with readalike "Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam" by Thien Pham. "Organized Living: Solutions and Inspiration for Your Home" by Shira Gill with readalike "Call It Home: The Details that Matter" by Amber Lewis. “The Human Target" series by Tom King with readalike series "Powers" by Brian Michael Bendis.

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Following "I Love My Library!" Month, we discuss some books we *love* to continue the trend.

Check out what we talked about:

The "Griffin & Sabine" series by Nick Bantock with readalikes including the "Cathy Vickers Trilogy" by Sean Stewart and the "Ologies" series by various authors. "The Hunger Games" series by Suzanne Collins with readalike series "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld, "City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau, and "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. Tanith Lee’s "Tales from the Flat Earth" series with Tamora Pierce's "Tortall" universe and "The Queen’s Thief" series by Megan Whalen Turner as readalikes. "Henry VIII: The King and His Court" by Allison Weir with readalike "On This Day in Tudor History" by Claire Ridgeway. "The Way of the Househusband" by Kousuke Oono with readalike "Spy x Family" by Tatsuya Endo. "A Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sarah J. Maas

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Our librarians suggest some 'easy' reads to 'ease' you into the new year.

Check out what we talked about:

"Undertow: A Short Story" by Marlena Frank with readalike "The Deep" by Nick Cutter. "Everything Is OK" by Debbie Tung as well as "Happily Ever After and Everything In Between," "Book Love," and "Quiet Girl in a Noisy World" by the same author. "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman with readalike "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. "Rabbits" by Terry Miles and its sequel "The Quiet Room" by the same author. "What Moves the Dead" by T. Kingfisher with watchalike series "The Fall of the House of Usher" from Netflix. "The Raw Shark Texts" by Steven Hall, likened to the series "Doctor Who" from BBC and the film "Memento" directed by Christopher Nolan.

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The Return of the King. Rise of the Machines. The Last Crusade. Good things come in threes, and our end-of-year blooper reels are no exception.

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Your local pumpkin patch might be closed for the season, but you can still enjoy crisp, cool evenings and the crunch of fallen leaves with these autumnal reading recommendations.

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"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen with readalike "Pride and Premeditation: A Jane Austen Murder Mystery" by Tirzah Price. "The Night Country" by Stewart O’Nan with readalike "Dark Tides" by Chris Ewan. "The Chandler Legacies" by Abdi Nazemian with readalike "The Maidens" by Alex Michaelides. "Nine Liars" from the "Truly Devious" series by Maureen Johnson. "Sweetbitter" by Stephanie Danler with readalike "This Tender Land" by William Kent Krueger. "The October Country" by Ray Bradbury with watchalike cartoon miniseries "Over the Garden Wall" from Cartoon Network.

Briefly mentioned were the television series "Inspector Morse," "Midsomer Murders," "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour," and "The Twilight Zone."

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It's October, and you know what that means... 👻

Check out what we talked about:

The podcasts "Scare You To Sleep," "A Darker Tale," "Caledonian Gothic," "The Lurking Transmission," "The Secret of St. Kilda," and "Don't Mind Cruxmont." The book "Crimson Peak" by Nancy Holder with readalikes "A House of Bells" by J.T. Croft, "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, and "The Woman in Black" by Susan Hill. The graphic novels "Harrow County" and "Tales of Harrow County" by Cullen Bunn, "Something is Killing the Children," "The House of Slaughter," and "Book of Butcher" by James Tynion IV, and "The Silver Coin' by Chip Zdarsky. The book "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson with the Netflix series of the same name, as well as the movies "Malum" and "Last Shift" directed by Anthony DiBlasi.

To access complete transcripts for all episodes of Not Your Mother's Library, please visit: oakcreeklibrary.org/podcast

Music:

"Quinn's Song: The Dance Begins" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Gathering Darkness" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Dark Walk" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Dark Fog" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Night of Chaos" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"SCP-x7x (6th Floor)" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Classic Horror 3" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Get in the spirit for the City of Oak Creek's upcoming cultural festival with these great reading recommendations featuring books by authors from all over the world.

Learn more about C.A.F.E. - A Celebration of Culture: https://www.oakcreekwi.gov/visitor/events/farmers-market/cafe-a-cultural-event

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Books mentioned:

"The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" by Shehan Karunatilaka with readalike "Someone Else’s Bucket List" by Amy T. Matthews. "A Wild Sheep Chase" by Haruki Murakami with readalike "The Elephant Vanishes" by the same author. "Prophet Song" by Paul Lynch with readalike "The Bee Sting" by Paul Murray. "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy with readalike "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" by the same author. "Between Shades of Grey" AKA "Ashes in the Snow" by Ruta Sepetys with readalike "Only the Beautiful" by Susan Meissner. "The Sound of Things Falling" by Juan Gabriel Vásquez with readalikes "Retrospective" and "The Shape of the Ruins" by the same author.

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