Reading with Libraries Podcast

Welcome back! We are so pleased you are joining us for our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! Check out our full shownotes page here. You can find all the resources we share, links to the books we discuss, and links to the beverages we enjoyed! This week we are discussing Business books. We are pleased to welcome returning Guest Host Rhonda Huisman, Dean of the Library at St Cloud State University. This is such a perennially popular genre of books; you can always new books with new ideas – and books that say the same things that were said 10, 20 or 50 years ago. Business classics are still around and popular, books by successful CEOs are always popular (for a while, at least), and books that try to show a new way to succeed in business and management skills will always be relevant to people working to build skills. You can find books on basic management skills, on starting a new business, on honing communication and creativity, and almost anything else that might help you to be successful in leadership and management. You can also tune in to our Linking Our Libraries podcast, where we talk about all kinds of library and leadership skills with suggestions for honing your own skills!

Welcome back to our podcast Reading with Libraries!! We are so excited to be back here chatting about books with you! Check out our full shownotes page here, for links to the resources we share, links to the genre-related beverages we are enjoying, and links to the books we are discussing. This week we are discussing the genre of Young Adult Literature, or YA. We have talked somewhat about this genre in the past (Episode 209, check it out!) but plan on getting more in-depth today! We'll have new titles and new book lists for you to visit to get more information. We are pleased to welcome returning Guest Host Bethany Kauffman from the Rogers High School in Minnesota! Bethany shared not only good book suggestions with us, and also some trends she sees across YA literature. Join us for an interesting discussion about YA books with a knowledgeable and fun guest!

Welcome back! We are so pleased you are joining us for our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! Check out our full shownotes page right here. All the books we discuss today, a bunch of resources to learn more about this genre, and recipes to our beverages are all located here. This week we are discussing Plain, Amish, and Mennonite Fiction. We are pleased to welcome returning Guest Host Lydia! Come discover the genre of "bonnet fiction" or plain fiction, including Amish, Mennonite, Shaker communities. If this is your first experience in this genre, you may be surprised at how popular (and lucrative!) this genre is for readers and publishers.

Welcome back! We are so pleased you are joining us for our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! This week we are discussing Metaphysical and Philosophical books. Check out our full shownotes page here, for all the info on the books we discuss and the material you can use to find all kinds of other books for yourself, friends, or patrons! (You can also find links to the beverages we are enjoying during this episode!) We are pleased to welcome returning Guest Host Amy Schrank, from the Great River Library System!

Welcome back! It's Season Three of our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! We hope you have enjoyed all of our short Book Bites, and now we are looking forward to settling in to read more books with you! This week we are discussing cooking and food books. Check out our full shownotes page here, with beverage recipes and links to the books we share. In our book group we have fun talking about books, and 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! Who is joining us this week? We are pleased to welcome Guest Host Connie Laing, from the Great River Library System. There are so many great cookbooks out there! This is a great time to be interested in food, and in food-related books. Of course, every celebrity has a cookbook – and some of them are even good! And there are lots of cookbooks by people who have really studied their food area, and spent a lot of time working to bring up books that not only give good information about the food you can prepare, but also look good. And there are also all kinds of other food books that are about food, preparing food, cooking food, and improving the way food gets from its starting point to our tables. So this week we are going to talk about a variety of books you may want to check out that will help you hone your cooking skills, help you to feel more confident in the kitchen, or just make you happy as you eat store-bought snacks while reading. No shame at all! Enjoying food is our goal, and as always want you to enjoy the books you are reading too.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today's book is from Amy: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach. Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats. We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: Linking Our Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today's book is: On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle, by Hampton Sides. Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats. We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: Linking Our Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today's book is: Island of the Mad: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, by Laurie R. King (This is the most recent in the series) Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats. We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: Linking Our Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

It's award season!! And we love books; there are so many to discuss!! We share book suggestions and ideas every single week on our podcasts, but we wanted to take some time to recognize a few that are special to us. The CMLE team of Angie, Lydia, and Mary all contributed to this episode. Get all the categories and books on our shownotes page! You have heard all of us talking about books across all of our podcasts, and we have some definite favorites. This year we are adapting the 30 book challenge from Overdrive's really good book podcast: Professional Book Nerds. They have suggestions you can use to read 30 different books, to build your own reading interests. We have a link to their material above, and you should check out their podcast and their website! Today we are going to use those ideas as the foundation for our award show. You should find some good suggestions for your own reading, and definitely take their challenge to find 30 of your own books! Every single book we share here today is on our shownotes page with titles, authors, and Amazon links. So do not worry about taking notes - we have it all available for you!

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today's book is from Lydia: Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners, by Therese O'Neill. Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats. We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: Linking Our Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.