SSJCPL Podcast Network

Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at The Wonder by Emma Donoghue and the true stories of Fasting Girls from the 14th-19th centuries. You can check out your own copy of The Wonder at ssjcpl.org! For more library news visit ssjcpl.org. #ssjcpl #ssjcplreading #thewonder #bookclub

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio for our December Found Family read. Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know...

Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott, based on the true crime case of Marie Robards. Article mentioned in the show: https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/poisoning-daddy/ You can check out your own copy of Give Me Your Hand at ssjcpl.org! For mo...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month we read The Guncle by Steven Rowley.     Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking a...

Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden and the long and fraught history of tribal and federal law. Here are a few links to get starting in your own research: https://www.lakotamall.com/history-and-ancestry/  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/am...

Welcome to A Book with a View, a Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month we read a short story collection by a local author from Stockton, CA; Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So. Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer...

Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix, based on the Satanic Panic that happened in the 1980s and 1990s. You can check out your own copy of My Best Friend's Exorcism here https://stks.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/ssjcpl/search/detailnonmodal/...

Welcome back to A Book with a View! This month we read a middle grade book called Ghost Squad by Claribel A Ortega. Coco meets Stranger Things with a hint of Ghostbusters in this action-packed supernatural fantasy. For Lucely Luna, ghosts are more than just the family business. Shortly before Halloween, Lucely and her best friend, Syd, cast a spell that accidentally awakens malicious spirits, wrea...

Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at All These Bodies by Kendare Blake based on the infamous murder spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate as well as the infamous Clutter Family Murders. You can check out your own copy of The Patient's Secret at an SSJCPL branch neares...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month we read a short story collection called Her Body and other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. Her Body and Other Parties is a debut collection of shorty stories with a variety of stories dealing with the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon...

Welcome to Dark Fascinations, previously Beyond the Book, the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at The Patient's Secret by Loreth Anne White, a book based on the Richardson Family murders in Alberta, Canada. You can check out your own copy of The Patient's Secret at an SSJCPL branch nearest you here: https://stks...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month we participated in the National African American Read-In and read Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead.     Harlem Shuffle’s ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It’s a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, a...

Welcome to Dark Fascinations, previously Beyond the Book, the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at Home Before Dark by Riley Sager, a book loosely based on the Amityville Horror. You can check out your own copy of Home Before Dark at an SSJCPL branch nearest you here: https://stks.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/ssjcp...

Welcome to A Book with a View, a Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month we discuss Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley. Firekeeper's Daughter is about eighteen year old Daunis Fontaine. Daunis has never quite fit in anywhere. She dreams of studying medicine but her plans are derailed when tragedy strikes and her mother becomes ill. This is a YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out...

Summer Reading and Spanglish

Welcome to Dark Fascinations, previously Beyond the Book, the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian, a book loosely based on the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy and the study of psychopathy. You can check out your own copy of Never Saw Me Coming at an SSJCPL branch nearest you h...

Welcome back to the A Book with a View, a Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month our book club theme was Winter Romance and the book we read was One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston. One Last Stop is about a young woman named August who meets the love of her life in the Q train in New York. The only foil is that Jane may be a time traveler. Join us next month as we read Firekeeper's Daughter by Angel...

Welcome back, campers! This episode, Michael and special guest Kathy Layfield discuss Lee Cronin’s 2017 supernatural horror film, The Hole in the Ground . To avoid spoilers, watch the film ahead of time for free with your library card at Kanopy. Don’t have a library card yet? Call us at 209-937-8221 and get one for free! Special thanks to Speaker Negotiations for our beautiful intro/outro music.

Welcome to Beyond the Book, the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips, a book based on the infamous Great Depression Lonely Hearts Killer. You can check out your own copy of Quiet Dell at an SSJCPL branch nearest you here: https://stks.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/ssjcpl/search/resu...

Welcome to A Book with a View, a Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month we read Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala. Arsenic and Adobo is a character driven cozy mystery set around food. Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup and is suddenly tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, while also dealing with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her wi...

Welcome back, friends! This episode, Michael and special guest Gissella Maltos discuss Yeon Sang-ho’s 2016 record setting zombie film, Train to Busan . To avoid spoilers, watch the film ahead of time for free with your library card at hoopladigital.com. Don’t have a library card yet? Call us at 209-937-8221 and get one for free! Special thanks to Speaker Negotiations for our beautiful intro/outro...

Welcome to Beyond the Book, the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood based on the killings of Nancy Montgomery and Thomas Kinnear in 1840s Canada. You can check out your own copy of Alias Grace at an SSJCPL branch nearest you here: https://stks.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/ssjcpl/sear...

Welcome to A Book with a View, a Goodreads Virtual Book Club! For the spookiest month of the year we read an equally spooky book, Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky. Imaginary Friend is a story about familial love and obligation, ghosts both real and imaginary, and an epic battle of good vs. evil. Go to goodreads.com and search SSJCPL to keep the conversation going. Visit SSJCPL.org for more libr...

Welcome back, friends! This episode, Michael and special guest Jodi Crawford discuss Ti West’s 2011 supernatural horror, The Innkeepers . To avoid spoilers, watch the film ahead of time for free with your library card at ssjcpl.kanopy.com or hoopladigital.com. Don’t have a library card yet? Call us at 209-937-8221 and get one for free! Want to get in on all the horror fun? Join Horror Club at ssjc...

Welcome to Beyond the Book, the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at The Long Drop by Denise Mina and the true crime story of serial killer Peter Manuel the Beast of Birkenshaw.  You can check out your own copy of The Long Drop at an SSJCPL branch nearest you here: https://stks.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/ssj...