Love Your Shelf

Crystal and Emily discuss Delicate Condition, The Last House on Needless Street, The Angel of Indian Lake, The Unmaking of June Farrow, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians, Dust Tracks on a Road, and The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, plus podcast recommendations.

Crystal and Emily discuss the passing of favorite author, Paul Auster, as well as Brooklyn Crime Novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Nightwatching, The Sleepwalkers, The Premonition, The Leftover Woman, and This Exquisite Loneliness. Plus, enjoy some series and movie recommendations.

Crystal and Emily discuss The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson, Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Baumann, What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher, Home Before Dark by Riley Sager, Look Closer by David Ellis, Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian, and Orbital by Samantha Harvey. Plus, get the lowdown on the latest on Kanopy streaming, as well as other new shows and movies...

Crystal and Emily talk about this year’s Big Read, Interior Chinatown, as well as the usual book and media recommendations.

Crystal and Emily are finally back with picks and pans of the latest books, movies, and shows.

Crystal and Emily of the Nacogdoches Public Library return with a new episode full of book, movie, and show recommendations.

Crystal and Emily discuss recent releases of books, shows, and podcasts.

Crystal and Emily discuss books by Oliver Sacks, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Leguin, Jeanette Winterson, Jill Soloway, Paul Auster, the Dalai Lama, Solzhenitsyn, and The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries by Jillian Scudder. Also, recent movies and streaming series.

Crystal and Emily discuss The Wilder Women and Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang, The Wilder Girls and Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power, A Message From Ukraine, Number One is Walking: My Life in Movies and Other Diversions by Steve Martin, Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice by Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow, and Building a Second Brain:...

Crystal and Emily discuss books (Once There Were Wolves, Bridge, The Twilight World, There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness, All Good People Here, The House Across the Lake, and The Eyes and the Impossible), as well as new tv series and movies.

Crystal and Emily discuss books, movies, and shows, including: Demon Copperhead, Dickens & Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius, Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It, Sentimental Economy, None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive, the Monk and Robot series, A Heart That Works, Catherine Called Birdy, Women Talking, and the oeuvre of Pedro Pascal.

Crystal and Emily recap the year’s best fiction, nonfiction, movies, and series. The good, the bad, and the ugly of 2022.

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson is the NEA Big Read book selection of the year for Nacogdoches, and Crystal and Emily talk about the book, along with all of the events that will take place to celebrate the community-wide reading program.

Crystal and Emily of the Nacogdoches Public Library talk new fiction and nonfiction, including Tracy Flick Can’t Win, Bewilderment, The Last White Man, and Gory Details. Plus, reviews of streaming shows and movies.

Crystal and Emily of the Nacogdoches Public Library are back with a new season with plenty of recommendations to stack your shelves (and your streaming queue). Plus, the NEA Big Read is coming soon to Nacogdoches, and they’ll tell you how to get involved.

Crystal and Emily discuss the best nonfiction and fiction books about libraries, along with reviews of Book of Night by Holly Black and The Bookwoman’s Daughter by Kim Michelle Richardson. Also discussed are the following shows: Outer Range, Made for Love, Russian Doll, The Wilds, and Abbott Elementary and the Radio Rental podcast.

Amy joins Crystal for discussions of the best new nonfiction and the most mind-bending movies and shows.

Crystal and Emily discuss books about women, witches, monsters, and more.

Crystal and Emily are back with a discussion of new books, movies, and shows.

Crystal and Emily review fiction and nonfiction that examines meaning, consciousness, and the self, along with the latest Netflix binge-watches.

Crystal and Emily review books and shows that are coming soon.

Crystal and Emily talk about the new human history, Yellowjackets readalikes, and more.

Crystal and Emily talk about the latest in horror, the nineties, “self help”, and more

Crystal and Emily list everything they can’t wait to read and watch in 2022.

Crystal and Emily highlight their favorites from this year.