Check This Out

Join Danae, Jen, and Emily as they discuss what they read in the month of June. Titles mentioned in this episode: London Falling Dog Affirmations The Burning Side The Librarians Yesteryear The Calamity Club Wolf Worm *music provided by Pixabay

Join Danae, Jessica, and Andy as they discuss some of the new titles at the library for the month of June. Titles mentioned in this episode: I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200 Salt, Sweat, and Steam The Impossible Factory Canon 50 States: The Ultimate Travel List The World's Wealthiest Women Hunger Whistler Land The Art Cure The Secret of Snow *music provided by Pixabay

Join Danae, Emily H., and Jen as they discuss the books that they read in May. Titles mentioned in this episode: Slayers of Old Judge Stone The Radiant Dark Wordslut These Heathens Enormous Wings We Burned So Bright Our Numbered Bones Strangers: a memoir of marriage And then, boom! https://catalog.norfolkne.gov//MyAccount/MyList/262?searchId=460519&recordIndex=4&page=1&searchSource=lis...

Join Danae, Jessica, and Andy as they highlight some of the new titles that have arrived at the library. Titles mentioned in this episode: Ghost town Inside the box The last letters of Sally and Walter Soviet land The lost empire of Emanuel Nobel Three bags full The girl with a thousand faces Honest motherhood You've been pooping all wrong This weekend doesn't end well for anyone Isles of...

Join Danae, Emily H, and Jen as they talk about some of the books that they read in April. Titles mentioned in this episode: Upward Bound You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom Before the Coffee Gets Cold The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion The Witch and Hunter duology The Mad Wife Yesteryear An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good *music provided by Pixabay

Welcome back to Check This Out 3.0! Join us for episode 1 as Danae, Jessica, and Andy look at some titles that are new to the library. Titles mentioned in this episode: Infected for Science The Beheading Game How to be a Rich Old Lady Well Endowed Parent Like a Millionaire (without being one) This Land is Your Land Travels with Charley The Lincoln Highway Dog Affirmations Wakara's America The...

Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they discuss "The Littlest Library" by Poppy Alexander and also learn what is in store for the podcast! *music provided by Pixabay

Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they discuss which books they read to complete the Winter Reading Challenge. Full booklist can be found on our library catalog: Check This Out Season Six | Norfolk Public Library *music provided by Pixabay

Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they finish their discussion of "Beloved" by Toni Morrison as part of the Modern Classics category in the Classics Campaign. *music provided by Pixabay

Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they discuss the first half of "Beloved" by Toni Morrison as part of the Modern Classics category in the Classics Campaign at the Norfolk Public Library. *music provided by Pixabay

Join Allie, Emily, and Danae as they discuss the second half of "The Sentence" by Louise Erdrich, to fulfill the Winter Reading Challenge category: "A Book by a Native American Author". *music provided by Pixabay

Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they talk about part one of "The Sentence" by Louise Erdrich, which fulfills the category "A Book by a Native American Author (in Awareness of 250 Years of the U.S.) for the Winter Reading Challenge. *music provided by Pixabay

Join Allie, Danae, and Emily as they discuss the second half of "The September House" by Carissa Orlando, which fulfills the Winter Reading Challenge category: a book with a month in the title. *music provided by Pixabay

Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they fulfill the Winter Reading Challenge category "a book with a month in the title" and discuss chapters 1-15 of "The September House" by Carissa Orlando. *music provided by Pixabay

Join Danae, Emily, and Allie as they finish up their discussion of "Hemlock and Silver" by T. Kingfisher to fulfill the "Classic Retelling" category for the Winter Reading Challenge at the library. *music provided by Pixabay

Welcome to Season Six of the podcast! This season we will be reading four books: three from the Winter Reading Challenge, and one from our Classics Campaign. In today's episode we will discuss part one of "Hemlock and Silver" by T. Kingfisher. This is Emily H's pick from the "Retelling of a Classic" category in the Winter Reading Challenge. Titles mentioned in this epis...

Join Danae as she talks with Jessica and Andy about their top five reads of the year! Titles mentioned in this episode: Everything is Tuberculosis Dungeon Crawler Carl Tress of the Emerald Sea A Short Stay in Hell The Husbands The End is Always Near Nuclear War James Berlin The Road to Tender Hearts The House of Leaves A Marriage at Sea music provided by Pixabay

Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they discuss their top five reads of 2025 and talk about what is ahead for Season 6 in the new year. Titles mentioned in this episode: Zip It: The Keep It Shut 40-Day Challenge All You Have to Do Is Call Theo of Golden One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns Duology When the Sea Came Alive Life & Death & Giants Eight Perfect Murders The Rose Code The Correspo...

Join Danae, Allie, and Emily for the last episode of Season 5 as they discuss Charlotte's Web by E.B. White and give their adult reading recommendations. Thank you for joining us this season and stay tuned for our best reads of the year episode! Titles mentioned in this episode: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Animal Farm by George Orwell The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott Timbuktu...

Join Danae, Allie, and Andy as they discuss the first book in the Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine and give their adult horror read alikes for this book. Enjoy this episode just in time for Halloween! Titles mentioned in this episode: Salem's Lot by Stephen King Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ra...

Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they discuss the very first Nancy Drew mystery by Carolyn Keene and give their adult mystery recommendations. Titles mentioned in this episode: The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke The Trespasser by Tana Fr...

Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they discuss the first book in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket and try to find adult recommendations with dark humor and absurdist plotlines! Also, how serendipitous that we are publishing this on the 13th of the month! Titles mentioned: Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury The Hitchhiker's Guide to...

Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they discuss the first book in the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder and talk about adult pioneer stories that are engrossing reads! Titles mentioned: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser Caroline: Little House, revisited by Sarah Miller A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert Giants in the Earth: a saga of the prairie...

Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they sit down and discuss "The Boxcar Children" by Gertrude Chandler Warner and recommend adult read alikes. Titles mentioned in this episode: The Dutch House Ann Patchett Fun For the Whole Family Jennifer E. Smith The Turner House Angela Flournoy The Orphan Collector Ellen Marie Wiseman A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers When in Rome Se...

Join Danae, Allie, and Emily H. as they sit down and discuss "Beezus and Ramona" by Beverly Cleary and talk about adult read alikes that feature sister relationships. Titles mentioned in this episode: Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen The Princess of Thornwood Drive Khalia Moreau Sisters First Jenna Bush Hager The Bookbinder Pip Williams My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult Home is Where...