This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons and share more information with your library community. This week we are continuing to look at the prompts from the PopSugar challenge. Check it out for yourself, so you can keep finding all kinds of new books for yourself and to share with your library community! Let's check out some books with two points of view. You can find our full show notes page here, with links to the books we discuss today and to the beverages we are enjoying!

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons and share more information with your library community. And we're adding an additional element this season: many of our topics are coming from the 2022 Pop Sugar Reading Challenge. We link to their challenge on our shownotes page. Pop Sugar says the goal of the challenge is to "is just to have fun, diversify your reading, and accomplish whatever goals you have set for yourself. There are no "rules"!" So we're incorporating some of their prompts into this season's podcast topics. If you are participating in their challenge - great! And if you just want to get some fresh book ideas to share with your patrons/students/community, fantastic! You are in the right place! This week we are looking at books about a band or music group. You can find the links to everything we discuss here - the books, the drinks, the suggested resources - on our show notes page.

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons and share more information with your library community. And this week we are focusing on romance novels written by BIPOC authors! We love to see the increase of romance books published by authors who are Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color. And we're excited to share all our suggestions! Special thanks to CMLE Podcast Correspondent and Literary Romance Expert Ariel Kirst for helping us learn about this genre! Check out our show notes page here, for links to all the beverages and books we share today.

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons and share more information with your library community. This week we are getting ready for the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, with Michelle Yeoh. From Rotten Tomatoes: Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can't seem to finish her taxes. And from IMDB: An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led. This week we are looking at books about parallel universes. As a bonus, this is also a prompt in the Pop Sugar book challenge for 2022. So you can read books to prep for this week's new movie, and also knock off another step in the challenge. You can find our full show notes page here. We give you links to the books we discuss, and the beverages we are enjoying!

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons and share more information with your library community. And we're adding an additional element this season: many of our topics are coming from the 2022 Pop Sugar Reading Challenge. We link to their challenge on our shownotes page. Pop Sugar says the goal of the challenge is to "is just to have fun, diversify your reading, and accomplish whatever goals you have set for yourself. There are no "rules"!" So we're incorporating some of their prompts into this season's podcast topics. If you are participating in their challenge - great! And if you just want to get some fresh book ideas to share with your patrons/students/community, fantastic! You are in the right place! This week we are looking at books that are becoming a TV series or a movie this year. You can find our full show notes page here, where we give you links to the books we shared, the beverages we enjoyed, and the resources we found.

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons and share more information with your library community. And we're adding an additional element this season: many of our topics are coming from the 2022 Pop Sugar Reading Challenge. We link to their challenge on our shownotes page. Pop Sugar says the goal of the challenge is to "is just to have fun, diversify your reading, and accomplish whatever goals you have set for yourself. There are no "rules"!" So we're incorporating some of their prompts into this season's podcast topics. If you are participating in their challenge - great! And if you just want to get some fresh book ideas to share with your patrons/students/community, fantastic! You are in the right place! This week we look at #BookTok recommendations!

Welcome to Reading With Libraries! (I'm Angie/I'm Mary) We're so happy to have you join us on the Eighth Season of our book group and Reader's advisory podcast! You can find our full show notes page here, with information about all the books we discuss this week. We have more genres to discuss and new books to recommend. We always enjoy our book group podcast, and we hope you do, too! Our organization is the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange. At CMLE, we work with all types of libraries. We are starting our new season off with a special pop culture episode! The historical romance Outlander begins its 6th season on the Starz network and we're sharing some books that you might enjoy along with the show!

This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. FINAL EPISODE OF SEASON 3! We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we are celebrating Hennepin County. Barges and boats now pass through locks to move between the parts of the river above and below the dams; read a book with any type of boat or ship We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we are celebrating Pope County. One of the cities in this county is named Starbuck; celebrate this tenuous connection to the TV show Battlestar Galactica by reading a sci-fi book We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we are celebrating Stevens County. It contains the Everglade State Wildlife Management Area - a lovely area. To enjoy this county, we suggest you read a book about Florida. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!