The Community Library

By Angourie RiceArts

The Community Library episodes

July 08, 20191.17 Visiting the Los Angeles Public Library
Welcome back to The Community Library! This week I’m talking about my trip to the Los Angeles Central Library. In this episode I talk about what inspired the visit, why I love libraries, and the library’s collection of patent listings. I hope you enjoy!
Join me next week for a discussion of A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf! You can listen to the audiobook for free on Spotify or YouTube.
Visit my website here for a full transcription of the episode.
Links!

The Los Angeles Central Public Library

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Mythos by Stephen Fry

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

Emma by Jane Austen

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Pulp by Robin Talley

My and Maija’s episode on Pulp by Robin Talley
My Instagram and Goodreads

The Community Library’s Instagram and Goodreads

Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning

Ashley’s Instagram, website, and printing studio website
19 min
July 01, 20191.16 What I Read in June
Welcome back to The Community Library! This week’s episode is short and sweet, and all about what I read in the month of June. It was quite a sad reading month for me with only six completed books, but nevertheless, I hope you enjoy this episode!
The next discussion pick is A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf. You can listen to the audiobook on Spotify here, or on YouTube here.
Visit my website here for a link to the full transcription of this episode.
Books I read in June:

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

First Class Murder by Robin Stevens
Other things I mentioned:

My Buzzwordathon episode

Spider-Man: Far From Home, in cinemas now!

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

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Jolly Foul Play by Robin Stevens
My Instagram and Goodreads

The Community Library’s Instagram and Goodreads

Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning

Ashley’s Instagram, website, and printing studio website
16 min
June 24, 20191.15 Read With Me: Buzzwordathon
Welcome back to another episode of The Community Library! Last week I participated in BooksandLala’s Buzzwordathon, and I decided to document the process and turn it into an episode for you all! I hope you enjoy this more casual, follow-me-around-style episode.
The next discussion pick is A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf.
Links!
Lala’s YouTube channel, Instagram, and Twitter

Lala’s Buzzwordathon Vlog

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My Instagram and Goodreads

The Community Library’s Instagram and Goodreads

Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning

Ashley’s Instagram, website, and printing studio website
55 min
June 17, 20191.14 Does Fiction Exist in the Wizarding World?
Welcome back to The Community Library! Last week I published an emergency episode because I wasn’t happy with the how the first draft of this episode turned out. Thank you so much for being patient! After putting more time and effort in, I’m really proud of the result of this episode. This week, I’m talking all about fiction, or rather the lack thereof, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. I had lots of fun making this one, and I hope you enjoy listening!
A full transcription of the episode is available on my website here.
The next discussion pick is A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf.
Links!

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)

My Instagram, Twitter, Blog, and Goodreads

The Community Library’s Instagram and Goodreads

Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning

Ashley’s Instagram, website, and printing studio website
39 min
June 10, 20191.13 Opinions on Austen, Harry Potter, and Shakespeare with Kalliope
Welcome to another episode! Though my Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone discussion episode was originally scheduled for today, it has been postponed to next week because I was unhappy with the final edit. Thank you for your patience, and I can promise that next week’s episode is going to be the best that it possibly can be! This week I had to assemble the emergency team (which consists of me and my sister) in order to deliver you an extra-special emergency episode. We talk about Jane Austen, Harry Potter, and our dear friend Billy Shakes. Hope you enjoy!
Tune in next week to listen to the episode on Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, by J. K. Rowling!
Visit my website here for a full transcription of the episode.
Things we mentioned:

Jane Austen’s works Pride and Prejudice and Emma

This meme

Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter by Astrid Lindgren

The Jonas Brothers’ ASMR version of Sucker

The Harry Potter franchise

Actors on Actors

Paper Towns by John Green, as well as the 2015 movie adaptation

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (it's set in the 1940s)

William Shakespeare’s works Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Twelfth Night

She's the Man (2006)

The cinematic masterpieces that are Gnomeo and Juliet, Sherlock Gnomes, and Gnome Alone
28 min
June 03, 20191.12 A Big Reading Month - What I Read in May
Welcome to this week’s minisode! This week I’m talking about all twelve books I read in the month of May. There’s a good mix of stuff in here; from middle-grade murder mysteries to feminist non-fiction.
Our next discussion pick is Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling. Be sure to read along so you can join in the discussion!
Books I read in May:

Claudine in Paris by Colette - ★★★★

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – ★★★

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling – ★★★★★

Circe by Madeline Miller – DNF, ★★

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke – ★★★1/2

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen – ★★★★1/2

Misogynation by Laura Bates – ★★★★

Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter – ★★★1/2

Black is the New White by Nakkiah Lui – ★★★★

Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens – ★★★★

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince – ★★★★

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde – ★★★1/2

Arsenic For Tea by Robin Stevens – ★★★★1/2
My Instagram and Goodreads

The Community Library’s Instagram and Goodreads

Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning

Ashley’s Instagram, website, and printing studio website
30 min
May 27, 20191.11 Just The Little Prince and Me
Welcome back to The Community Library! Unfortunately for this week’s episode I don’t have a guest! It’s just little ol’ me talking all by myself for a whole 44 minutes. I loved discussing The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and I hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you to everyone who sent in questions and suggestions of what to talk about – I included almost all of them in this episode!
Follow the link to my website here for a full transcription of this episode.
My Instagram, Twitter, Blog, and Goodreads

The Community Library’s Instagram and Goodreads

Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning

Ashley’s Instagram, website, and printing studio website
45 min
May 20, 20191.10 Books Featuring Plays
Happy 10th episode! This week, I’m discussing why I love books that feature plays, and recommending some of my favourite books that do so! I talk about Shakespeare and Jane Austen, but also a graphic novel and a middle-grade. Please let me know if you can think of any more books featuring plays that I might enjoy!

Next week, I’ll be discussing The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. There’s still time to read it! Here are some links to free audiobook versions:
The Katherine Woods translation

The Richard Howard translation
Books featuring plays:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Drama by Raina Telgemeier

The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

A full transcription of this episode, plus an extended list of resources and things I mentioned is available on my website here.
My Instagram, Twitter, Blog, and Goodreads

The Community Library’s Instagram and Goodreads

Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning

Ashley’s Instagram, website, and printing studio website
25 min
May 13, 20191.9 What Taylor Swift and Robert Browning Have in Common
Welcome back to The Community Library! I’m very excited to bring you this week’s episode, which is all about pop/country icon Taylor Swift and mid-19th-century poet Robert Browning. In this episode I discuss the parallels between Browning’s 1842 poem My Last Duchess and Swift’s 2014 hit Blank Space. I had lots of fun creating this episode, and I hope you enjoy!
Our next discussion pick is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry!
Here are links to free audiobook versions:

The Katherine Woods translation

The Richard Howard translation
Some links to things I talked about in the episode:

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

Blank Space by Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift talking about how and why she wrote Blank Space

Robert Browning’s Blank Space – British Literature 1700-1900, A Course Blog

“My Last Duchess” and “Blank Space” – Later English Literature

@antipodean.books on Instagram

Please visit my website here for a full list of links and notes on what I talked about in this episode, plus a full transcription!
My Instagram and Goodreads

The Community Library’s Instagram and Goodreads

Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning

Ashley’s Instagram, website, and printing studio website
39 min
May 06, 20191.8 Re-Reading Childhood Favourites
Welcome back to another minisode! This week my topic of discussion is re-reading books, specifically childhood favourites. I talk about what happens when a re-read is disappointing, and why I’m scared of re-reading my Jacqueline Wilson favourites. Let me know if you like re-reading, and what the experience is like for you!
A full transcription is available on my website here.
The next discussion pick is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Here are links to free audiobook versions:

The Katherine Woods translation

The Richard Howard translation
Books mentioned (in order of their mentioning):

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Jane Austen’s works

Flush by Virginia Woolf

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

I, Coriander by Sally Gardner

Jacqueline Wilson’s works

My Sister Jodie by Jacqueline Wilson

The Woodpecker Toy Fact and Other Stories by Carmel Bird
My Instagram and Goodreads

The Community Library’s Instagram and Goodreads

Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning

Ashley’s Instagram, website, and printing studio website
19 min