SSJCPL Podcast Network

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe. As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she’d have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior college, even though she can’t imagine how she’ll ever make a living. She’s still figuring things out and...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Fangs by Sarah Andersen. Elsie the vampire is three hundred years old, but in all that time, she has never met her match. This all changes one night in a bar when she meets Jimmy, a charming werewolf with a wry sense of humor and a fondness for running wild during the full moon. Together they enjoy horro...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Babel by R.F. Kuang. 1828 . Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—a...

We're back! Welcome to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. "Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vani...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel by Amy Price. The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a decade and star of the controversial Netflix documentary series Crime The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. When Amy Price t...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Yellowface by R.F. Kuang. Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. White lies When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. Dark humour But as evidence threatens June’s stolen s...

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 Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll which is focused on infamous serial killer Ted Bundy and the Chi Omega Sorority House murders. You can check out your own copy of Bright Young Women here https://stks.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/ssjcpl/search/resul...

Welcome back to Book with a View/the Goodreads Virtual Book Club. This month we read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and...

Welcome back to Book with a View/the Goodreads Virtual Book Club. This month we read My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies… especially  the ones whe...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren. It’s the most wonderful time of the year…but not for Maelyn Jones. She’s living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions. But perhaps worst of all, this is the last Christmas Mae will be at her favorite place...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner. 1873.  At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D’Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identities of the people...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes Berlin 1933 . Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation from Joseph Goebbels himself to participate in a culture exchange program in Germany. For a girl from a small town in Maine, 1933 Berlin seems to b...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. A memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. Michelle Zauner tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of...

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 Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman which is based on the infamous urban legend Cropsey as well as the Willowbrook State School. You can check out your own copy of The Lost Girls of Willowbrook https://stks.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_U...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Book Lovers by Emily Henry. One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming.... Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a hero...

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 In the Garden of Spite by Camilla Bruce which is based on the infamous black widow of LaPorte Belle Gunness. You can check out your own copy of In the Garden of Spite https://stks.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/ssjcpl/search/results?qu=in+the+garden+of+...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan. In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness… In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Severance by Ling Ma. Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. So she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies halt operations. The subways squeak to a halt. Soon en...

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 I'll Be You by Janelle Brown that is based on a few infamous cults including NXIVM and Synanon. You can check out your own copy of I'll Be You here https://stks.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/ssjcpl/search/results?qu=i%27ll+be+you&te=ILS! Fo...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Circe by Madeline Miller. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--neither powerful like her father nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess p...

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 A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly and the true story of the infamous murder of Grace Brown in upstate New York. You can check out your own copy of A Northern Light here https://stks.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/ssjcpl/?dt=list! For more library ne...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who understands her. She thinks she understands him too. He's...

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 Harriet Said by Beryl Bainbridge and the true story of the infamous Parker-Hulme case in New Zealand. You can check out your own copy of Harriet Said exclusively on the Hoopla App! For more library news visit ssjcpl.org. #ssjcpl #ssjcplreading...

Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Cultish by Amanda Montell. What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes...