Top Shelf Librarians

Top Shelf Librarians

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Top Shelf Librarians episodes

  • February 2021: Professional Boner Killer

    This month the Library Pros unravel the mysteries of Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Babies. Then we get lost in Obama's Political Sauce, Brittany admits she's a Horror wimp, and (spoiler alert) Laurel talks about some more bleak shit.

    Book Mentions:

    Matt:

    • Mind Body Baby: Chakras by Imprint Books
    • Blockchain for Babies by Chris Ferrie and Marco Tomamichel
    • Paying the Land by Joe Sacco
    • Double Awesome Chinese Food by Andrew, Irene, and Margaret Lee

      • Brittany: 

      • The Blade Between by Sam J. Miller
      • The Haunted by Danielle Vega
      • The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee

        • Heather: 

        • A Promised Land by Barack Obama
        • You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe
        • How Long 'til Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin

          • Laurel:

          • The Dark Dark: Stories by Samantha Hunt
          • Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
          • When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll


            • Thank you to Shane Ivers at Silvermansound.com for the use of "VHS Dreams" for our intro and outro music. Contact us at [email protected], or follow us on twitter @Liboozians.

            1 hr 7 min
          • January 2021: Horny But Terrible

            Meet the Library Pros and join us for the first Booze Roll Call! Then we talk Your Problematic Faves: Romance Edition, The Gang Gets Political (Reaganites be Warned), and Matt waxes poetic about Ethereal Hummus.

            Book Mentions:

            Heather: 

            • The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
            • J.R. Ward books in general
            • A Promised Land by Barack Obama
            • Daring to Lead by Brene Brown

              • Matt: 

              • Prince Valiant by Hal Foster
              • Reaganland by Rick Perlstein (NOT Ron Perlman)
              • Flavor by Yotam Ottolenghi
              • Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi 
              • Israeli Soul by Michael Solomonov
              • A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

                • Laurel:

                • George Bush, Dark Prince of Love: a Presidential Romance by Lydia Millet
                • Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

                  • Brittany:

                  • Monster, She Wrote: the Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson
                  • Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia
                  • Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
                  • The Changeling by Victor LaValle
                  • Witchmark by C.L. Polk
                  • Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You): a How-To Guide from the First Family of Podcasting by Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy
                  • The Blade Between by Sam J. Miller

                    • Thank you to Shane Ivers at silvermansound.com for the use of “VHS Dreams” for our intro and outro music. Contact us at [email protected], or follow us on twitter @Liboozians.

                    57 min

                  About Top Shelf Librarians

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                  Meet Brittany, Heather, Laurel, and Matt -- four Library Professionals talking all things booze and books.