Overdueing It: The Rhode Island Library Podcast

Host Dave talks to Marta Martinez, Executive Director of RI Latino Arts, and Maria Cotto, bilingual children's librarian at Pawtucket Public Library, about Hispanic Heritage Month and the Rhode Island Latino Books Award. They also talk about their love of documentaries and how it feels to find a mirror to your own experiences in books. In the Last Chapter they discuss: what's a fictional world you would like to step into?

Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the Ocean State. We are proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers' own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing It to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing It podcast can not be reproduced without express written permission.

Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is by Neura-Flow.

Books So Easy, So Delicious by Kylie Sakaida Vegan Yack Attack's Plant-Based Meal Prep by Jackie Sobon Retablos by Octavio Solis Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona Browse graphic novel adaptations of Romeo and Juliet Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortiga

Media Chisholm '72 (2004) The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) Superman (2025)

Other Rhode Island Latino Arts RI Latino Books Award 2025 Rhode Island Festival of Children's Books and Authors

We're back! On this hostful episode, Lauren, Emily, and Dave dig into their approach to comfort reads. They also discuss engaging ideas in nonfiction and the need for intermissions in long movies and TV episodes. In the Last Chapter they spill some tea: What's a book you did not finish and what made you dump that book?

Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the Ocean State. We are proud to be a resident partner of theRhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers' own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing It to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing It podcast can not be reproduced without express written permission.

Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is by Neura-Flow.

Books My Friends by Fredrik Backman The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler I Want to Burn This Place Down by Maris Kreizman Democracy's Data by Dan Bouk The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi Browse books by Sarah Dessen The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Mi-ye Yi The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie All Systems Red by Martha Wells Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz East of Eden by John Steinbeck A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Media The Naked Gun (2025) Mickey 17 (2025) Anne with an E (2017-19) WondLa (2024- )

We're on a break for August, and taking this opportunity to share some encore episodes with you. Today we are revisiting episode 15 from the 17th of December 2024. In it, host Cheryl, library director at the Community Libraries of Providence, talks with her colleagues Dhana, Michelle, Lee, and Khamry about the variety of ways CLPVD is building library services that respond to the unique communities they serve. They also get into re-learning how to read for pleasure after school, book club titles, and Hot Frosty. In the Last Chapter, Cheryl asks: What books do you like to give as gifts?

Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the state. We are proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers' own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing It to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing It podcast can not be reproduced without express written permission.

Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is by Neura-Flow.

Books Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza Dominicana by Angie Cruz You Like It Darker by Stephen King The Mist by Stephen King The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris Are You Nobody Too? by Tina Cane The Wedding People by Alison Espach The Connected Community by Cormac Russell Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann and Elizabeth Kann The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss A Beginner's Guide to Rug Tufting by Kristen Pozorski Best of Both Worlds by Matt Price and Aaron Brown

Media It's What's Inside (2024) Oddity (2024) Lost In Space (2018-2021) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-2021) Hot Frosty (2024) The Trunk (2024) The Story of The Pearl Girl (2024- ) The Madness (2024)

Other

Community Libraries of Providence

We're on a break for August, and taking this opportunity to share some encore episodes with you. Today we are revisiting episode 6 from the 13th of August 2024. In it, host Tayla is joined by Fallon Masterson, producer and co-founder of Stranger Stories PVD, and Lauren LaBelle, writer and Stranger Stories participant, to talk about this free monthly lit night event taking place in Providence. Be sure to check out their next show, which will be in September at their new venue, the Culinary Hub of Providence. For more info go to strangerstoriespvd.com.

Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the state. We are proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers' own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing it to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing podcast can not be reproduced without express written permission.

Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is by Neura-Flow.

Books Prescription For Pain by Philip Eil The Best American Essays (series) The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss The White Bishop by Brandon Perras-Sanchez and Aron Beauregard Selene Shade: Resurrectionist For Hire by Victoria Dalpe Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros The Fallbacks: Bound For Ruin by Jaleigh Johnson

Media Fantasy Fangirls (Podcast) Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) Never Have I Ever (2020-2023) We Are Lady Parts (2021- ) Somebody Feed Phil (2018- ) House of the Dragon (2022- ) WWE Raw (1993- ) Survivor (2000- ) RuPaul's Drag Race (2009- ) The Acolyte (2024- )

Other Stranger Stories PVD

Host Emily chats with Jessica (@localreturnri), Andy (@capitalgoodfund) and Dominique (@one_neighborhoodbuilders) about investing in our local communities and economy. How, and why, do we ensure that our investments benefit our neighbors? Learn more about the ways these organizations are helping people put their money where their values are, and how recipients of that investment are able to thrive.

Visit our guests online at:

• localreturn.org / ricommunityinvestment.com
• capitalgoodfund.org
• oneneighborhoodbuilders.org

Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the Ocean State. We are proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers' own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing It to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing It podcast can not be reproduced without express written permission.

Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is by Neura-Flow.

Books

• You Didn't Hear This From Me by Kelsey McKinney
• James by Pecival Everett
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• American nations: a history of the eleven rival regional cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
• The Financial Activist Playbook by Jasmine Rashid
• The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein

Media

• The Americans
• Lovecraft Country
• Book: Loveraft Country by Matt Ruff
• The Good Place
• Elio
• How to Train Your Dragon (2010) & (2025)

Before we launched this show, our team collectively produced over three hundred episodes of both Down Time with Cranston Public Library and Rhody Radio podcasts. This week, we're bringing you an ITEM RENEWAL, where we share an excerpt from these archives. In this bonus episode, we're taking you back to the Nathanael Greene Homestead with an episode of Rhody Radio first published in December 2023. In it, host Lauren talks with Brian Zinszer from the Major General Nathanael Greene Homestead in Coventry, Rhode Island. If These Walls Could Talk is a series of podcast episodes that began on Rhody Radio, where we learn about the historic house museums of Rhode Island, and this was the second episode in that series. Lauren and Brian chat about the history of the Homestead, General Nathanael Greene, and what everyday life looked like for the General and his family.

Browse our team's full back catalog at overdueingit.org/archive.

Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the Ocean State. We are proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers' own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing It to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing It podcast cannot be reproduced without express written permission.

Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is by Neura-Flow.

Host Lauren chats with Dave Procaccini, President of the Gen. Nathanael Greene Homestead Association and Lauren Fogarty, Program Coordinator for the Rhode Island Semiquincentennial 250th Commission (RI250). They talk about Major General Nathanael Greene, Rhode Island's role in the American Revolution, and what Rhode Islanders can expect as the state ramps up to celebrate America's 250th birthday. In the Last Chapter they discuss their favorite books, films, and TV series' about the American Revolution.

Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the state. We are proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers' own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing it to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing podcast cannot be reproduced without express written permission.

Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is by Neura-Flow.

Books

The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

Foxfire ed. by Eliot Wigginton

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution by Gerald M. Carbone

Washington: Lessons in Leadership by Gerald M. Carbone

Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry: Making the Precision Machine Tools That Enabled Manufacturing, 1833-2001 by Gerald M. Carbone

From Slaves to Soldiers: The 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the American Revolution by Robert Geake

The Season: A Social History of the Debutante by Kristen Richardson

Media

Andor (TV series, 2022-2025)

Handmaid's Tale (TV series, 2017-2025)

TURN: Washington's Spies (TV series, 2014-2017)

Liberty's Kids (TV series, 2002-2003)

1776 (film, 1972)

Revolution (film, 1985)

It's another installment of our series on Cooperatives in Rhode Island! Host Emily sits down with Khiry Chivers of PVD Flowers (@pvdflowersri) to chat about the Cooperative Cannabis industry coming soon to Rhode Island. With the passing of legalization of cannabis in RI, the state set aside 6 licenses for cooperative businesses to be set up. PVD Flowers is manifesting to hold one of those licenses. Hear about their journey, the importance of cooperatives in the cannabis industry, and manifesting your future in this week's episode! Visit PVD Flowers online at pvd-flowers.com and learn more about Cooperative work in RI with Co-Op Rhody

Check out other episodes in the Cooperative series:

• Start here: RI's Growing Solidarity Economy
• Cooperative Bookstore, Heartleaf Books
• Cooperative Birthing, RI Birthworker's Cooperative

Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the Ocean State. We are proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers' own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing It to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing It podcast can not be reproduced without express written permission.

Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is by Neura-Flow.

Books

• The world is Yours: The Awakening by Thomas Lee Kurtis
• Financial Feminist by Tori Dunlap
• Artifice by Sharon Cameron

Media

• Power
• Bad Boys
• Matlock (2024)
• Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Other

• pvd-flowers.com - merchandise
• Co-Op Rhody

Host Lauren is joined by bestselling author, award-winning playwright, television writer/producer, and filmmaker Adriana Trigiani to discuss her latest book The View From Lake Como, along with her "book tour like no other," The Lake Como Show, coming to East Providence on Friday, July 11 at 7:30 PM. In the Last Chapter they discuss: If you could rewrite a book from another character's point of view, what character and book would you choose?

Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the Ocean State. We are proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers' own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing It to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing It podcast can not be reproduced without express written permission.

Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is by Neura-Flow.

Books The View From Lake Como by Adriana Trigiani Unraveling of Julia by Lisa Scottoline Full Bloom by Francesca Serritella The Violet Hour by Victoria Benton Frank Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen False Claims by Lisa Pratta What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally The Removed by Brandon Hobson Ladies In Waiting: Jane Austen's Unsung Characters by Nikki Payne, Diana Quincy, Audrey Bellezza, Emily Harding, Elinor Lipman, Adriana Trigiani, Sarah MacLean, Eloisa James and Karen Dukess East of Eden by John Steinbeck Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Media You Are What You Read (podcast) Big Stone Gap (2014) And Just Like That… (2021- ) Pee-wee as Himself (2025) Interior Chinatown (2024)

Other Adriana Trigiani The Lake Como Show in East Providence, RI (Friday, July 11 from 7:00-8:30 PM) Higher Ground Women's Recovery Residence

Host Tayla is joined by Alicia Vaandering from the University of Rhode Island, James Rosenzweig from Eastern Washington University, and Amanda Melilli from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to share their research project focusing on queer representation in picture books and the creation of the Rainbow Representation Rubric. They also talk about queer subtext in classic films and novels and finding comfort (or not!) in dystopian fiction. In the Last Chapter they discuss: would you rather have a personal library with unlimited space but only filled with books you've never read, or a small collection of books you've read and loved but no space for new books?

Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the Ocean State. We are proud to be a resident partner of theRhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers' own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing It to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing It podcast can not be reproduced without express written permission.

Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is byNeura-Flow.

Books

Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. LeGuin

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Sunrise On the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

It's a Love/Skate Relationship by Carli J. Corson

Bobby and the Big Valentine by Timmy Woitas & Addy Rivera Sonda

Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild & Charlene Chua

Apothecary Diaries by Natsu Hyūga

Blue Period by Tsubasa Yamaguchi

Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa

Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Zone One by Colson Whitehead

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff & Kaylani Juanita

Salma the Syrian Chef by Ahmad Danny Ramadan & Anna Bron

Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty & David Roberts

Mr Watson's Chickens by Jarrett Dapier & Andrea Tsurumi

I Am Jazz! by Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings & Shelagh McNicholas

My Rainbow by Trinity Neal, DeShanna Neal & Art Twink

Prince and Knight: Tale of the Shadow King by Daniel Haack & Stevie Lewis

Media

Taskmaster (2015- )

The Handmaid's Tale (2017-2025)

Station Eleven (2021-2022)

Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020-2024)

World of Warcraft (videogame)

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022- )

Blank Check (podcast)

Daredevil: Born Again (2025- )

Little Women (2019)

The Witcher (2019- )

Other

The Rainbow Representation Rubric

Rainbow Book List

Stonewall Book Awards