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Send us Fan Mail Don't worry, it'll make sense soon enough. We discuss The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, which was Ariel's Deep Dive pick. Tune in for a thought-provoking and philosophical tale, according to Ariel, Carla, and myself anyway. Zac thinks it was just okayyy. Weirdo. Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you've list...

Send us Fan Mail He ain't Appalachian because he's appaLACKIN'. We have recorded one scathing review of JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, from the POV of some *actual* Appalachian natives. We have issues with folks that think they can put us all in one neat little hillbilly box and call it a day. So this one's for you, JD - g'on, git! Make sure to check out our social media...

Send us Fan Mail Join the Ruffians on this interesting and somewhat musical break down of the Mandela Effect. We discuss some of the most popular ones (which are all lies) and the reasonings discussed as to why these false memories happen. Spoiler alert Zac is still a bum and refuses to believe in altered timelines. Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you'v...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss Ariel's deep dive pick Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. Achievement Unlocked! This book was fantastic! Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you've listened and rated our podcast, we will put your name in for a drawing for one of our Reading Room Ruffian shirts! Wooo, merch! Check out our Facebook group h...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we have a general book chat and discuss some pertinent book news for the time, including the Hugo Awards and the WV Senate trying to prosecute librarians for giving out books. Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you've listened and rated our podcast, we will put your name in for a drawing for one of our Reading Room Ruffian...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Everyone, this is our 52nd episode so we've been at this for one whole year! Very exciting! In this episode we have an excellent discussion about Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer. It get's intense in this episode so have sit back and enjoy. Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you've listened and rated our pod...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome back one of our favorite local authors this time as we discuss his second book Feysworn. According to Carla this one is even better than the first, so make sure you check it out! Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you've listened and rated our podcast, we will put your name in for a drawing for one of our Reading Room Ruffian sh...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome on Garth Stein, who is a New York Times Number 1 Bestselling author, producer, and former racecar driver, to discuss his brand new graphic novels, The Cloven books 1 and 2. Garth gives some great advice about writing and discussing all that he is doing to keep people interested in literacy.  Make sure to go check him out at garthstein.com and check out theclovenproject....

Send us Fan Mail ... Respectfully, though. 👀In this episode, Zac and Carla unearth just how big a bite they tried to take out of Indian culture, and found the spice* count to be super high. Lol, but really, we hope we've done adequate justice to what is a vivid, complex, and ever-growing religion/mythos.  This episode should be seen as a lil nugget, a sort of starting point for those who wis...

Send us Fan Mail I know, right? We never imagined we'd be here. It's like a book chat wasteland. Just kidding. We did have a surprisingly low book count though. Do you still love us? 🥹We love you, and not only because we're from West Virginia. 🩶 Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you've listened and rated our podcast, we will put your name...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss Carla's deep dive pick, Born in Fire by Nora Roberts. This episode gets a bit off the rail at times so hang in there folks, and see if you can pick out the secret message in all the beeps. Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you've listened and rated our podcast, we will put your name in for a drawing for one...

Send us Fan Mail Snuggling sea creatures, or suffocating them? With octopuses, you never know! While discussing The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery, we cover quite a lot, including how their intelligence equals that of a cat. Every chaos cat you ever knew.  Also,  Ariel still wants that conveyor belt arm. I mean, who wouldn't, am I right? Make sure to check out our social medias, and if y...

Send us Fan Mail We bring Nick from the You Tried Dat??  podcast in to join the chaos with a book chat and snacks. There will be crunchies and bag crinkling, in case you don't like eating sounds. Mallory here editing, and let me just say, I gave the pepperoni roll chips an immediate Hate Dat rating upon my return from under all of the snow. Guh-ROSS! And I love pepperoni rolls. -10 stars. I a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Ariel and Mallory dive deep into dreams in this curiosity. Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you've listened and rated our podcast, we will put your name in for a drawing for one of our Reading Room Ruffian shirts! Wooo, merch! Check out our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/readingroomruffianspodcast/?ref=sha...

Send us Fan Mail This is a reintroduction for the new year and a general book talk. 43 Episodes in and we are still truckin' and happy to be talking to you all. Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you've listened and rated our podcast, we will put your name in for a drawing for one of our Reading Room Ruffian shirts! Wooo, merch! Check out our Facebook...

Send us Fan Mail Join us on part 2 of our deep dive into This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar. We do apologize ahead of time for all the unraveling we do in this time line, things get a little crazy during this episode, everything from AI Furby's to Star Trek and then back on track to being time traveling assassins.  Make sure to check out our social medias, a...

Send us Fan Mail We open part 1 of 2 for our discussion of This Is How You Lose the Time War and only slightly wander completely off the path maybe once. Be nice to us, none of us had a working brain this day. We blame time travelling. Being all timey-wimey like that had us all mixed up!  An announcement: Our library's Facebook page was lost, and so we created a new one! Pretty please do us a...

Send us Fan Mail Hello everyone, this is out New Years Eve special with Suzy as our special guest. It's an extra long rant without any editing. Have a Happy New Year! Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you've listened and rated our podcast, we will put your name in for a drawing for one of our Reading Room Ruffian shirts! Wooo, merch! Check out our Fa...

Send us Fan Mail Get in Ruffians we're going sleighing... for traditions. We hope you brought your hot choccy because this episode is all about fuzzy memories and really weird moldy bread stories.  Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you've listened and rated our podcast, we will put your name in for a drawing for one of our Reading Room Ruffian shirts...

Send us Fan Mail Chaos reigned alongside Carla in our last General Book Chat of 2023, and we have our beloved Library Board of Trustees President Suzy back on to join the fun. Want the outtakes? I saved them, and am holding them ransom to the tune of a cool million dollars. Just kidding, I'll put them up on our socials, so you only gotta find us to find them. I mean, I won't turn down th...

Send us Fan Mail Bet you were expecting something like fiction, yeah? Well, you're getting Out of Place Artifacts (OOPArts) instead! Today's Curiosity & Conspiracy covers some interesting finds, so hop in and buckle up for what is probably the quietest episode Mallory & Ariel have been part of so far. Because I love you, I'll just let you know when we do speak up, it's...

Send us Fan Mail Join us on another fun, and slightly quieter because Ariel wasn't there, podcast where we discuss Letter from Father Christmas, and Resting Scrooge Face. Also see how a mother and brother throw the missing person under the bus. Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you've listened and rated our podcast, we will put your name in for a dra...

Send us Fan Mail Hello everyone, this is another one of our general book chats where we discuss what we are currently reading and what we've finished recently/ Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you've listened and rated our podcast, we will put your name in for a drawing for one of our Reading Room Ruffian shirts! Wooo, merch! Check out our Facebook...

Send us Fan Mail Here we discuss Mallory's nonfiction book Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale. Zac is off at Disneyland which is probably where these kids should have gone. Make sure to check out our social medias, and if you share with us that you've listened and rated our podcast, we will put your name in for a drawing for one of our Reading Room Ruffian shirts! Wooo, merch! Check out our...

Send us Fan Mail Don't worry, there's only 2 spots of sound effects, and we'll challenge you to guess who made them. Ariel and Mallory dig up some good old fashioned Christmastime horrors to make the transition from Halloween to Christmas (don't worry Thanksgiving, we love you) a little easier for all of the other grinches like me. P.S.  I totally did make sure I edited this ep...