In our nerdiest episode yet, Michael and Steve from IT discover an interesting common link and discuss video games, comic books, wrestling, voice actors, Lex Luthors and more!

Carmen, Michael, Jason, and Ian discuss travel, music, and famous people they'd like to meet.

The second part with more of Michelle's book loving friend's from the Friends and Fiction group. We discuss more books we loved in the recent months. Here are some of the books we discussed:

Call Her Freedom by Tara Dorabji

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman

Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown

More or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova

Between You and Me by Susan Wiggs

The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis

Roll the Sun Across the Sky by Barbara Linn Probst

The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop

Also recommended:

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis

The Spectacular by Fiona Davis

Lost and Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs

Newcomer Tuesday joins regulars Michael and Jason, and old friend Tigs returns as well.

Michelle interviews debut author Tara Dorabji about her book, Call Her Freedom and learns about what it is like to be a winner of the Books Like Us Award from Simon and Schuster. She also shared some great book recommendations including:

The Things We Didn't Know by Elba Iris Perez

The Sons of El Rey by Alex Espinoza

Martyr by Kaveh Akbar

Michael and Jason talk about opportunities for skills development and independence with Melody, one of the Library’s social work interns. Michael also performs more of his voice characterizations.

Michelle interviews author Rachel Linden about her latest book, The Recipe for a Charmed Life.

She also shared two books she read recently she really enjoyed. These include:

The Starlets by Jennifer Thorne and Lee Kelly

The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay

Jason and Michael return to discuss movies and voice acting with Ian, aka ‘Sham Rockwell’.

Ian and Carmen discuss popular podcasts and video games with newcomers Jason and Michael.

Michelle, reference librarian has a discussion with three of her book loving friends, Maria, Marilyn and Debby. She met them through Friends and Fiction, an author group that promotes their book and other authors.

Here are the books that they shared that they enjoyed and the other related books that were mentioned:

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (Michelle)

When We Meet Again by Kristin Harmel (Maria)

The Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene (Maria)

The Book of Everlasting Things by Aanchal Malhotra (Marilyn)

The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani (Michelle)

Maria's Scarf by Zoro (Debby)

The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang (Michelle)

The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner (Michelle)

The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor (Maria)

Christmas with The Queen by Heather Webb and Hazel Gaynor (Maria)

The Last Beekeeper by Julia Carrick Dalton (Marilyn)

No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister (Debby)

Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner (Michelle)