A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST

Favorite Books of 2023

Looking for some year-end reading recommendations? Tune in for our latest episode where we hear from several members of our staff, providing a wide variety of selections from various genres. 

 

Titles & Staff include: 
Rodi - Every Rising Sun by Jamila Ahmed
Kricket - Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Julia Wertz
Damon - Dear Mothman by Robin Gow
Mary Grahame - When The Angels Left the Old Country by  Sacha  Lamb
Julia - Chlorine by Jade Song
Erin -  Witch King by Martha Wells 
Jeff - Everyone in this Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
Pietro - The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Drew - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Sam - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke 

Jacqueline Suskin - A Year In Practice

Jacqueline Suskin is a Detroit-based author of eight books. Along with her writing and poetry, she is also an educator who has been teaching workshops, hosting retreats, and creating spontaneous poetry around the world since 2009. With her project Poem Store, she has composed over forty thousand improvisational poems for patrons who chose a topic in exchange for a unique verse. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, T Magazine, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and various other publications.

Her new book, A Year In Practice, is out on December 5, 2024: A Seasonal Guide of holistic practices that offer clarity, activate hope, honor nature, and inspire the creative seeker all year long.

https://www.jacquelinesuskin.com/a-year-in-practice 

She'll be at Book Suey in Hamtramck on December 7: https://www.booksuey.com/events/jacqueline-suskin-a-year-in-practice 

Seasonal Baking

We're talking about our favorite things to bake (and, specifically, which recipes we enjoy during certain seasons of the year). We also talk a lot about our extensive cookbook collection!

 

Snacking Cakes
Snaking Bakes 
Snackable Bakes
Still We Rise 
Home Cooking
Taste of Home's Fall Baking
Everyday Bread by America's Test Kitchen
The Brownie Diaries
Sister Pie

Gothic Weirdos with SAVE ME FROM MY SHELF

Abby and Daniel, the hosts of Save Me From My Shelf, joined us via Zoom (from England!) for another literary discussion of weirdo protagonists. This time, we've got a gothic round-up that includes John Thorpe (from Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey'), Count Dracula, Macbeth, and a special shoutout to Edgar Allen Poe!

 

https://www.savemefrommyshelf.com/ 

Information Literacy

Today, we're returning to a tried-and-true topic for us, Information Literacy! The American Library Association would describe Information Literacy as a set of abilities requiring individuals to “recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information... We first hosted a series of panel discussions on this topic back in 2018, then revisited it in 2020. Now, with A.I. on the rise.... (remember deep fakes?) we're revisiting it as part of our ongoing series on just what it is we do all day... 

https://literacy.ala.org/information-literacy/ 

https://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework 

Books...that everyone else seemed to love...

This week on the podcast, we're sharing potentially unpopular opinions! We're talking about books that everyone else seemed to love, but that we....weren't very impressed with... 💔📚 Fair warning, we brought a "buzzer" to the table for anyone who wanted to dispute the titles that were being criticized. But, it should be noted that no matter what books you love or what books you're interested in reading, your local librarian will always be more than happy to find them, 100% free of any judgment.