Reading with Libraries Podcast

Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We are so glad you are here to join our book group podcast! This week we're embracing the season and talking about books to enjoy during spring. Thank you so much to frequent Guest Host Ariel for joining us! Each week we like to connect the theme of our books with our beverages. Today we have drinks that channel the excitement of springtime! All the recipes for beverages are on our show notes page. We're excited to share books with spring themes like flowers and gardens, or simply books that are even more enjoyable in the spring. Spring is such a relief after long Minnesota winters so we hope we've shared some books that can make your enjoyment of the season even better!

Welcome back to Reading With Libraries Season Five! This week we're welcoming Returning Guest Host Leah Larson from State Library Services! Thank you for joining us to chat about YA Fantasy with a Latinx focus! You can find our full show notes page here. We have all the links to the beverages we enjoy, the background materials, and the books we have to share. Thanks so much to you for joining us this week for the book group! It's always better when you are here with us. Join us on Patreon, to get some behind-the scenes secrets after every episode. Official Office Dog Lady Grey appreciates your support. (She's paid in treats, and a portion of your support goes directly to rewarding her for being such a good doggo!). Be sure you are subscribed to this podcast to get every episode, genre, and book suggestions dropped right into your favorite app. And if you prefer to stream them, every episode we have created is on our website.

Welcome back to the show. We are so glad you are here, joining us for the book group discussion! You can find our full show notes page here. All the links we share are there, to the beverages we enjoyed, the books we discussed, and the resources we discussed. This week we are celebrating libraries! We like libraries, and there are so many interesting books out there about them! So we are going to admire books about libraries, specifically history and mysteries. (More library genres will follow.) This week our returning Guest Host is Violet Fox, a Dewey Editor. Thanks so much to you for joining us this week for the book group! It's always better when you are here with us. Join us on Patreon, to get some behind-the scenes secrets after every episode. Official Office Dog Lady Grey appreciates your support. (She's paid in treats, and a portion of your support goes directly to rewarding her for being such a good doggo!).

Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We are so glad you are here to join our book group podcast! This week we're discussing environmental books for kids and are so excited to welcome a new Guest Host to the podcast: Beth Russell from the Rockford Middle School-Center for Environmental Studies. Thanks for joining us, Beth! We will be talking about environmental books that are both fiction and nonfiction, with a specific focus on titles for young readers. Check out our full show notes page. We have links to the books we discuss this week, and the beverages we shared!

Welcome back to the show. We are so glad you are here, joining us for the book group discussion! This week we look at books on microhistory.In this genre, we look at small pieces of history on a focused subject. You can find our full show notes page here, with links to the beverages we enjoyed and the books we shared. Our returning Guest Host is Annie Larson from the College of St Benedict library. Join us on Patron to get some behind-the scenes secrets after every episode. Official Office Dog Lady Grey appreciates your support. (She's paid in treats, and a portion of your support goes directly to rewarding her for being such a good doggo!).

Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We are so glad you are here to join our book group podcast! You can find our full show notes page here. We give you links to all the beverages we enjoyed, and the books we share here. We started this podcast to provide useful information for library people doing Reader's Advisory work. There are so many books out there that it's tough to be an expert on all of them. So we pick a new genre each week to chat about and hopefully provide you with some insight into what may be an unfamiliar genre! This week we're talking about a very popular genre: chick lit! Thank you to our returning Guest Host Ariel for coming to share books with us!

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We're so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. You can find our full shownotes page here, with links to all our resources and books discussed. This week we're discussing YA books that help teen boys to develop a love of reading. We'll share book titles and ideas to encourage them to form strong reading habits while still in school. We are so pleased to welcome back a Guest Host with firsthand experience with this issue - Bethany Kauffman, media specialist from Rogers High School!

Welcome to our first episode of Reading With Libraries Season Five! We are so happy to be back, and it's great to have you continue to enjoy our book group podcast! You can get our complete show notes page here. This week we're discussing a topic we covered in our very first season of Reading With Libraries: Horror! Go back and listen to Episode 103 to catch up on all the good books we suggested. It seems like this genre has gotten more popular recently and we're excited to discuss it again, this time with the help of a returning guest host! Welcome back to Kelly Kraemer from the St. Ben's/St. John's Libraries!

We like books; we like parks - and Minnesota is lucky to have both of them! Join our Goodreads book challenge: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a link to each state park, a short fact, and a prompt for you to find a book. You find it, and read a book, and then tell us all about it. In this podcast, we give you a few suggestions for books to fit a prompt for each park. Try one of these books, or find one of your own to enjoy! The John A. Latsch State Park was founded in 1925. (First established as Scenic Highway State Park, it was officially designated as a State Park in 1997.) https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_par... Steamboat captains used to travel along this park, so enjoy a book with a boat of any sort on the cover or in the plot.

We like books; we like parks - and Minnesota is lucky to have both of them! Join our Goodreads book challenge: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a link to each state park, a short fact, and a prompt for you to find a book. You find it, and read a book, and then tell us all about it. In this podcast, we give you a few suggestions for books to fit a prompt for each park. Try one of these books, or find one of your own to enjoy! Jay Cooke State Park is a beautiful park, famous for the sights and for their swinging suspension bridge! https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_par... Enjoy this park by reading a book featuring a bridge, either on the cover or as a plot point.