Book Squad Podcast

Reading and discussing books with others deepens your reading experience. If you want to start a book club, or are having issues with an existing club, this episode is all for you. Kate and Polli have reading suggestions, anecdotes, suggestions for drama-free meetings, and more!  Show Notes: https://lplks.org/blogs/post/ep-023-the-book-club-episode/ ---- Twice a month, the librarians are in, with...

Polli and Kate explore Magic (both Big and Darker), plus books to help you talk about race and books to help you sublimate your righteous anger. This month we discuss From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler through the eyes of two mixed-up adults who missed it as kids. Two Book Minimum: So You Want To Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo  Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert The Red Word by Sarah...

We had SUCH a blast chatting with novelist Dara Horn about fancy forks, trying to be Harriet the Spy, editing biblical texts, and her childhood fear of time slipping away. We also ask some not-too-spoilery questions about her gorgeous new novel, Eternal Life.  From Publisher's Weekly: At the heart of Horn’s funny and compassionate novel is a 2,000-year-old Jewish mother seeking reasons for living,...

Our 20th Episode! Jam-packed with Dolly Parton, mythology retellings, Afrofuturism, and a sweet, donut filled romance. All that plus chatting up each other on the Read Across Lawrence book, Wonder which really is, well, wonder-ful! Show notes here: https://lawrence.bibliocms.com/blogs/post/020-a-wonder-ful-podcast-episode/ Bookish News: Nebula Award finalists announced! Carnegie Award WINNERS!  Do...

Polli and Kate had the great pleasure of interviewing Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi, about her collection of micro-memoirs, Heating & Cooling, as well as the intersections between poetry, memoir, and fiction. They also name her an honorary Scorpio and get an audio tour of Oxford, MS. Book Recs: The Childfinder by Rene Denfeld The Eternal Life by Dara Horn (soon-to-be interviewed!...

Twice a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, and beyond. See show notes here: http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/2018/01/book-squad-podcast-018-we-got-the-powah TWO BOOK MINIMUM: Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon Lovecraft Country by...

We took a break from our usual format to bring you this special episode FULL of ideas for bookish/reading New Year resolutions, and books to help you with your non-book-related resolutions! Books to help you accomplish your goals: Fitness The Unapologetic Fat Girl’s Guide to Exercise The RBG Workout Every Body Yoga (on hoopla) Organization -Dot Journaling (hoopla ebook) -UnF*ck Your Habitat -Organ...

TWICE a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, and beyond. Listen to the latest episode: Bookish News: The LPL staff Best of 2017 list is here! Check it out! Book Riot’s 2018 Read Harder Challenge is live! Book Squad Goals 2018 is co...

This episode has SO MANY BOOKS that we really recommend just going to the show-notes and perusing there: http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/2017/11/book-squad-podcast-015-holiday-gift-giving-cornucopia-extravaganza --------- This episode was produced by Jim Barnes in the Sound & Vision studio. Our theme song is by Heidi Lynne Gluck. You can find the Book Squad Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or SoundCloud...

TWICE a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, and beyond. TWO BOOK MINIMUM: Unwind by Neal Shusterman When She Woke by Hillary Jordan (and Mudbound by the same) One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul...

TWICE a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, and beyond. TWO BOOK MINIMUM: I’ll Have What She’s Having: How Nora Ephron's Three Iconic Films Saved the Romantic Comedy by Erin Carlson (2017) Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence (2017...

TWICE a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, and beyond. Bookish News: The 2017 National Book Award shortlist for Fiction Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman The Leavers by Lisa Ko (eBook on Hoopla!) Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Her...

TWICE a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, and beyond. Two Book Minimum: Hunger: A Memoir of (my) Body by Roxane Gay (2017) My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent (2017) Dying by Cory Taylor (2017) The Dinner by Herman Koch (2009...

Two Book Minimum: AUTUMN BY KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD (2017) ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE BY BENJAMIN ALIRE SÁENZ (2012) STRANGE PRACTICE BY VIVIAN SHAW (2017) UPTOWN THIEF BY AYA DE LEON (2016) She Said/She Said: THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston (in honor of the upcoming Black Love Symposium -- http://bls.ku.edu ) This episode was produced by Jim Barnes in...

Note: This episode was recorded in the Sound & Vision studio at LPL! This will be the new home for Book Squad Podcast and we want to give a huuuuuge shout out to Nick Carswell of AudioReader for getting the podcast launched and teaching us how to actually organize things. Thanks, Nick! Two Book Minimum: Public Relations by Katie Heaney (2017) Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (2017) Dating You...

Once a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic in She Said/She Said, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, Audio Reader programs and beyond. This month's episode is focused on YA Crossovers! Two Book Minimum: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor American Street by Ibi Zoboi The D...

Once a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic in She Said/She Said, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, Audio Reader programs and beyond. This month's episode features... Two Book Minimum: - The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison - The Castle Cross the Magnet Car...

Once a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic in She Said/She Said, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, Audio Reader programs and beyond. This month's episode is "bonus length!" (aka a lil longer than usual) Two Book Minimum: The Cutting Season by Attica Locke Bestiary...

Full episode details available at reader.ku.edu/booksquadpodcast/ January 2017 episode of Audio-Reader's Book Podcast program, with Book Squad librarians from Lawrence Public Library, Polli Kenn and Kate Gramlich. Two Book Minimum: In The Woods by Tana French Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward The Color Purple by Alice Walker Vern Yip’s Design Wise: Your Smart Guide to a Beautiful Home by Vern Yi...

Two Book Minimum: Oreo by Fran Ross Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays By Women by Marcia Aldrich (editor, contributor) Why Won’t You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals And Everyday Hurts by Harriet Lerner (coming to Lawrence Public Library in 2017) Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide To Sex, Marriage And Manners by Therese Oneill She Said / She Said: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Mad...

Once a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic, as well as news from the book world and bookish-Lawrence. Episode 03 features... Two Book Minimum: The Thunder Beneath Us by Nicole Blades Into The Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl Game of Crows by Christopher Anderson She Said / She S...

November 2016 episode of Audio Reader's Book Podcast program, with Book Squad librarians from Lawrence Public Library, Polli Kenn and Kate Gramlich. Once a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic in She Said/She Said, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, Audio Reader prog...

Introducing Audio Reader's new Book Podcast program, with the wonderful Book Squad librarians from Lawrence Public Library, Polli Kenn and Kate Gramlich. Once a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic in She Said/She Said, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, Audio Reader...