Your Shelf or Mine

Where we talk about: The work of Susan Orlean: The Orchid Thief;  The Library Book;  Rin Tin Tin;  Dogs of War by Sheila Keenan; and more!

Where we talk about: RFID tagging;  These Precious Days by Ann Patchett;  Louise Erdrich;  Birchbark Books;  LaRose;  The Round House;  The Plague of Doves;  The Sentence;  The Birchbark House;  The Night Watchman;  Love Medicine;  The Beet Queen;  Tracks;  The Blue Jay's Dance;  Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country;  The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse;  Tales of Burning Love;  and...

Where we talk about: Armistead Maupin;  Tales of the City (1978 book);  Tales of the City (1993 TV miniseries);  More Tales of the City (1980 book);  The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (2017 documentary);  and more!

Where we talk about: Herman Melville;  Moby Dick;  Bartleby the Scrivener; Billy Budd;  Herman Melville at Home by Jill Lepore: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/herman-melville-at-home ;  The Beige Moth blog: https://beigemoth.blog/moby-dick/ ;  In the Heart of the Sea;  Drifting Dragons;  and more!

Where we talk about: Seed Library;  NW Voices: http://longviewlibrary.org/nwvoices.php ;  David Rakoff;  Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish;  Half Empty and more! Our Friend David: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/472/transcript ;  Invisible Made Visible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P7V0UKySaI ;  Lindsey Ellis on Rent: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q0qfFbtIj5w ;  Article from 2020:  ht...

with Joanne Dallas, Austin Brigden, and Jakob Collins where we talk about: Story Walks;  Fatima's Great Outdoors by Ambreen Tariq;  Oi Frog! by Kes Gray;  Beverly Cleary;  Drop Everything and Read Day;  Henry Huggins;  A Girl from Yamhill;  Ramona the Pest;  Ramona and her Mother;  Beezus and Ramona;  My Own Two Feet;  Dear Mr. Henshaw;  Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland by...

excerpt from "Long Way Down," by Jason Reynolds, published by Simon and Schuster. Where we talk about: the work of Jason Reynolds;  Long Way Down;  Ghost;  All American Boys;  Brendan Kiely;  Ain't Burned All the Bright;  Jason Griffin; Stuntboy, in the Meantime;  Raul the Third. His picture books are the "Vamos!" series: "Vamos! Let's Go to the Market," "Vamos! Let's Go Eat!" and "Vamos! Let's Cr...

Where we talk about: The 2022 Our Shelf Reading Challenge;  www.longviewlibrary.beanstack.org ;  The 2022 Printz Award;  https://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz-award#previous ;  Library building restoration;  The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang;  The Bride Test by Helen Hoang;  The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang;  and more!

with Jennifer Jensen! Where we talk about: Carrie by Stephen King;  Carrie directed by Brian de Palma;  Maneaters by Chelsea Cain;  and more!

where we talk about: library news;  new library staff;  Becky and Austin's road trip;  Glacier National Park;  Deep Creek by Pam Houston;  Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy;  Pine Creek Lodge and the Montana Gang of writers;  Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison;  The Traveling Feast by Rick Bass;  The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Erlich;  The Meadow by James Galvin;  Outlawed by Anna North;  Th...

with Austin Brigden where we talk about: Summer Reading 2021; East of Eden by John Steinbeck; other works by John Steinbeck; and more! Watch our Summer Reading Promotional Video here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZwyHlZ71-0  

With special guest Elizabeth Partridge! Recorded May 7, 2021 Where we talk about: Her work at Manatee County Libraries; Navigating the management of libraries during COVID; Audiobooks; Learning from the Germans by Susan Neiman; Radical Candor by Kim Scott; Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen; Devolution by Max Brooks; The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt; The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Dur...

With special guest Hiedi Bauer, poet & LCC professor, and Austin Brigden! Where we talk about: Hiedi’s background with poetry; the Salal Review; Hamilton; When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman; Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe; Kathleen Flenniken; Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats;   The Girl Who Goes Alone by Elizabeth Austen; Dolce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen; writing during the...

with Austin Brigden and Chris Skaugset! Where We Talk About:  Poetry! Including work by: Jim Harrison;  Richard Hugo;  Kathleen Flenniken;  William Stafford;  Elizabeth Bishop;  T.S. Eliot;  and more!

With Austin Brigden! Where we talk about: Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price; How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell; Work, rest, attention, time,  And mention: Having and Being Had by Eula Biss; Work Won’t Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe; Rescuing Mrs. Birdley by Aaron Reynolds and Emma Reynolds; And more!

With guest Shira Lile from Hello Life! Where we talk about: Hello Life, a Cowlitz County organization that provides peer support to people who struggle with eating disorders or negative body image; Contact: hellolifeservices@yahoo.com , helloliferecovery.org, or text or call 971.770.0680 Love Your Body by Jessica Sanders; The Self-Love Revolution by Virgie Tovar; Body Respect by Lindo Bacon and Lu...

with Austin Brigden and Hillary Strobel! Where we talk about: Reopening the library; Northwest Voices; Seed Library;  Comics Corner in the library; Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler; and more!

with Angela Stephenson! Where we talk about: Valentine craft; Wi-fi hotspots to checkout; Digitizing the historic survey and inventory of the Old West Side; Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert; Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert; You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle; Princess for Christmas by Jenny Holiday; A Christmas Movie Christmas (2019); Midnight at the Magnolia (2020); Holidate (...

With Austin Brigden and Daniel Tate where we talk about: Daniel’s departure; Mobile hotspots to checkout; Winter Reading; NW Voices Programs coming; Friends of the Library greeting card fundraiser; Becky’s Library Sampler challenge part 2; The Meadow by James Galvin; The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller; Gilead by Marilynne Robinson; John O’Hara; The Art of Burning Bridges by Geoffrey Wolff;  T...

with Jennifer King, Chris Skaugset, and Jakob Collins where we talk about: three of five books from Becky's Library Sampler!  Sampler commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncyj13avtng   Unboxing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmQ9NgN5xd0   Sampler request form: http://longviewlibrary.org/sampler.php   Winter Reading 2021;  A Map to the Sun by Sloane Leong;  Lord of Light by Roger Zel...

with Austin Brigden! Where we talk about: Drive-Thru Santa; Library updates; Winter Reading; Bulb Forcing Kit; Friends Meeting January 11; 2020 Reflections; The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (HBO Documentary); McCartney III, Paul McCartney; Evermore & Folklore, Taylor Swift; Leon Bridges; Charlie Crockett; Dolly Parton’s America (podcast); Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics; D...

with guest John C. Hughes, Chief Historian with Legacy Washington, Washington Secretary of State where we talk about:  his new book "Julia Butler Hansen: a trailblazing Washington politician"  this book and others can purchased here: https://www.sos.wa.gov/store Julia Butler Hansen was from Cathlamet, Washington and served 21 years in the Washington State House of Representatives (1939-1960) and 1...

with Lisa Hedgpeth!  Where we talk about:  Dresden Files by Jim Butcher; Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman; Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman; Practical Magic (1998) directed by Griffin Dunne; Blacklisted!: Hollywood, the Cold War, and the First Amendment by Larry Dane Brimner; Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier by Jim Ottaviani, art by Maris Wicks; Jane Against the World: Roe v Wade and the figh...

with Chris Skaugset and Austin Brigden! Where we talk about: Expanded Library Drive-Thru Hours; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys; Jane Slayer by Sherri Browning Erwin; Jane by April Linder; The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey; Charlotte Bronte Before Jane Eyre by Glynnis Fawkes; Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg; Jane by Aline Brosh McKenna; Agnes Grey by Anne Bro...

with MaryAlice Wallis, Mayor of Longview and Hillary Strobel, Longview City Council Member Where we talk about: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer; Foundations of Leadership;  Mount Vernon Love Story by Mary Higgins Clark;  Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh;  Eva Luna by Isabel Allende;  Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac;  Equality’s Ca...