The Bookmark

There's always more than one way to tell a story. In this episode, our hosts discuss how there are ways other than blocks of text to tell a story explore a few examples of unique storytelling narratives.

The Bookmark Podcast is your place to find your next great book. Each week, join regular readers Miranda Ericsson, Chris Blocker and Autumn Friedli along with other librarians as they discuss all the books you’ll want to add to your reading list.

In this episode, our hosts discuss how they read. Audiobooks, ebooks, print, graphic novel and fiction and non -- there's no wrong way to read... even if that means the book is upside down.

At the end of Season 2, our hosts unboxed some advanced reader copies of new books and assigned one to each other. In this episode our hosts are back from hiatus with their homework.

It took the dark humor of a lesbian atheist with a penchant for death, but we finally got genuine laughs out of Chris.  After reading Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, he even did extra credit by looking up similar books in Novelist Plus. Chris shared a list of potential titles that might tickle his funny bone in the future. We also learned the death of pet rabbits is a lasting sorrow. Autumn speaks from personal experience that jokes on this matter are all “too soon.”

Miranda was psyched for some speculative fiction like The Handmaid’s Tale, but Girl One fell short. She said the book was a good attempt but she was sometimes pulled out of it by stilted dialogue. Our hosts want to know if the secrets a missing mom kept and references to Kansas are enough to have you give the book a good review.

Even Tanya Tucker references couldn’t save Autumn’s review of The Photographer. Delta Dawn’s desire to join the family she’s hired to take photos of reaches past Autumn’s cringe criteria. However, our coworker Trish, loved the book. So there is hope that you will end up liking this book.

It has come to the end of the season and the hosts of The Bookmark are celebrating with an unboxing! Chris, Miranda and Autumn unbox a delivery of Advanced Reader Copies (books scheduled to be released in the future) just in time for you to add them to your summer reading list! Tune in next season to see which of these books the hosts have read and hear their reviews.

Do you have a bingo yet on your Top City Reads Bingo Card? With our hosts' help, you should go for a blackout! This week, the square we're focusing on is "A book with your favorite color or an animal on the cover".  Tune in to hear about books with covers that have an animal, a color, or both.  Maybe your favorite part will be the tangents our hosts go off on.  You'll have to listen to find out what hummus has to do with this topic.

Chris' curiosity has him asking questions about books – 23 questions to be specific. Discover interesting things about our hosts such as what imaginary world from a book would each most want to live in to weird reading habits and favorite flawed characters. Tune in to find out the answers to these questions and 20 more! That's 69 answers and tons of books to add to your to-be-read list.

The Bookmark is back to helping you with your Top City Reads Bingo card and this week it's all about debut authors. Autumn says she specifically seeks debut authors out because it's fun to discover new authors and recommend them to other people. It's like having your own secret you can't wait to tell. Speaking of "telling", is it obvious that a debut author is new to the trade and their book is the first thing they've had published? Our hosts don't think so.

Our hosts spend this episode giving rave reviews to some of their favorite debut authors and discuss what exactly qualifies an author as "debut". They look forward to future works by these authors and think you should to. Check out these debut books.

Personalized Browsing for You is just one of the services we have launched this year. In this episode of the Bookmark, Miranda reads real browsing requests to Chris and Autumn; a flurry of book recommendations follow.

The Bookmark Podcast is your place to find your next great book. Each week, join regular readers Miranda Ericsson, Chris Blocker and Autumn Friedli along with other librarians as they discuss all the books you’ll want to add to your reading list.

So, what *is* a beach read?  Our hosts debate the definitions and give examples of what they think perfect beach reads would be.  Their best conclusion is that a beach read is anything that you would read at the beach (or a location you'd prefer to the beach).  More specifically, whatever type of book is relaxing to you.  Our hosts conclude with a robust list of books they are looking forward to reading as beach reads.

Movie and television adaptions of books are pretty popular.  In this episode, our hosts discuss what works and which ones just don't.  We discuss how adaptions that are too close to the book tend to bore us because they do not add anything.  There are also times when the adaptions are so different you feel like it is unfair to compare them.  This episode explores that place where books and movies intersect.