Episodios

  • The Reality of Life And Some Fiction

    The Reality of Life And Some Fiction
    Aug 26 2024
    Join your host Z with special guests Heidi and Michelle as we cover a special selection of books.

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    1 h y 6 m
  • 6. Etymologies, Apologetics and OCD

    6. Etymologies, Apologetics and OCD
    Jul 12 2024

    Barb, Donne and Tracey bring an eclectic mix to the table-- from vampire hunters to mini-habits, romance to suspense, and books exploring the origins of words, foods, and video games.

    Tasting history: explore the past through 4000 years of recipes, by Max Miller; When in Rome, by Liam Callanan

    Atomic Habits by James Clear (audio); Puzzled by Pan Cooke (graphic novel); Bullet by Laurel K Hamilton (Kindle)

    Little Book of Video Games by Melissa Brinks;The Cross Examination of Oliver Finney by Randy Singer; Once Upon a Word for Kids by Jess Zafarris.


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    28 m
  • Fantasies and What it Means to be "Home."

    Fantasies and What it Means to be "Home."
    Jun 14 2024
    In this episode we discuss the following books: A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace both by Arkady Martine; Mangle Street Murders and Curse of the House of Foskett both by M.R.C. Kasasian; Index, a History of The: A bookish adventure from medieval manuscripts to the digital age by Dennis Duncan; Eragon by Christopher Paolini; Fabelhaven by Brandon Mull; Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein; The Victorian House, The Invention of Murder, The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London, Consuming Passions: Leisure and pleasure in Victorian England, The Making of Home, A Murder of Magpies, A Bed of Scorpions, A Cast of Vultures, and A Cast of Vultures all by Judith Flanders.



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    19 m
  • Books on Being Human

    Books on Being Human
    May 10 2024
    In this episode we discuss the following books: The Last Ranger: a novel by Peter Heller; Soul Craft: crossing into the mysteries of nature and psyche by Bill Plotkin; Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, literary heartthrobs and the monsters they taught us to love; Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange; Ariel Crashes a Train by Olivia A. Cole; There's Always Next Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib; Sapiens: a brief history of humankind by Yuval N. Harari; Sapiens: a graphic history. Volume one, The birth of humankind by Yuval N. Harari, Light Bringer by Pierce Brown (a Red Rising novel).

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    40 m
  • Books of science and grandmas

    Books of science and grandmas
    Apr 12 2024
    Join your host Z and a crew of other librarians as they talk about books they are reading!

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    31 m
  • Mostly Nonfiction, Mostly Circulation

    Mostly Nonfiction, Mostly Circulation
    Mar 8 2024

    Barb welcomes Alyssa, Amber and Creola, three staff from our Circulation Department, to talk about what they’re reading and loving now. And it’s mostly nonfiction, with a Contemporary Southern Gothic novel thrown in for spice!

    LPL Resources mentioned:

    AllData Repair and Auto Repair Source https://www.longmontcolorado.gov/departments/departments-e-m/library/digital-collections/research-and-learn

    Discovery Passes https://www.longmontcolorado.gov/departments/departments-e-m/library/discovery-passes

    Library of Things https://www.longmontcolorado.gov/departments/departments-e-m/library/library-of-things

    Titles discussed:

    But First, Coffee: a guide to brewing from the kitchen to the bar, by Jordan Michelman and Zachary Carlsen

    Prague Winter: a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948, by Madeleine Albright

    Somebody’s Daughter: a memoir, by Ashley C. Ford

    Starling House, by Alix E. Harrow

    I am Bunny: how a “talking” dog taught me everything I need to know about being human, by Alexis Devine

    The Last Ride of the Pony Express: my 2,000 mile horseback journey into the Old West, by Will Grant

    Cultish: the language of fanaticism, by Amanda Montell

    Tell My Horse: life and voodoo in Haiti and Jamaica, by Zora Neale Hurston

    (all but the last title are available from the library; we can borrow that last one through interlibrary loan)


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    24 m
  • Books That Teach Us How To Live. . . and Die

    Books That Teach Us How To Live. . . and Die
    Feb 9 2024

    Library staff discuss and recommend what they're reading and chat about what the Longmont Public Library has to offer. Books recommended and discussed in this episode:


    My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer, by Christian Wiman; The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff; Watership Down: the Graphic Novel adapted from Richard Adams' novel by James Sturm and Joe Stutphin; Whalefall: a Novel by Daniel Kraus; The Book of Joy with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Self-Therapy by Jay Earley; Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin;18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern, Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb.


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    29 m
  • Book Chatter - What's Next

    Book Chatter - What's Next
    Jan 18 2024

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    2 m