Libraries aren’t as quiet as they used to be. A podcast for library lovers and the library curious. Book chatter with librarians, community perspectives and author interviews
Episodes
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Saturday Jan 07, 2023
Detroit-based painter/artist/musician Mike Ross currently has new/recent works up on display inside the Ferndale Library. Ten years ago, to the day, January 12, 2013, Mike's first-ever solo show was also hosted here in the library, and it was on that occasion that Mike initiated an interesting experiment. He passed out 60 small shreds of canvas, the cut-up remains of a recently-finished painting that had not been revealed or displayed to anyone/anywhere, and he instructed everyone who attained a piece of canvas to "come back to the library in 10 years to assemble the painting." Well, we talk about that, and we talk about a LOT of other artful topics, as well.
To see more of Mike's work, click here: www.mrossart.com
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
It's our last recap/rerun episode of the year, looking back to conversations we had with Lisa Scottoline (author of 'What Happened About The Bennetts') and Jonathan Evison (author of 'Small World').
We'll be back in the New Year with a new season of conversations and interviews!
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
This week, we're listening back to two of our favorite interviews from 2022: Brit Bennett (The Vanishing Half) and Mohsin Hamid (The Last White Man).
Stay tuned for more author interview in 2023, including chats with Grady Hendrix, C.J. Box and J. Ryan Stradal!
Saturday Dec 10, 2022
Saturday Dec 10, 2022
Today on the podcast, our librarians are back for MORE seasonally-inspired reading recommendations! Winter is coming!
Titles discussed include:
Bodies in Winter by Robert Knightly
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
The Innocents by Michael Crummey
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
This week, we're playing a game, and YOU can play along! Often, our librarians have to help someone find a book but are only provided scant or scattered details. ("I can't remember the title, but the cover was blue!") Our librarians will be given a few random descriptions, and we'll see if they can guess the book title & author!
Saturday Nov 26, 2022
Saturday Nov 26, 2022
This week, we're talking with author Laura E. Weymouth about her new YA novel, A Consuming Fire. https://lauraeweymouth.com/
Laura Weymouth is a Canadian living in America, and the sixth consecutive generation of her family to immigrate from one country to another. Born and raised in the Niagara region of Ontario, she now lives at the edge of the woods in western New York, along with her husband, two wild-hearted daughters, and an ever-expanding menagerie of animal friends.
More about her latest, A Consuming Fire:
Uprooted meets The Grace Year in this dark young adult fantasy of love and vengeance following a girl who vows to kill a god after her sister is unjustly slain by his hand.
Weatherell girls aren’t supposed to die.
Once every eighteen years, the isolated forest village of Weatherell is asked to send one girl to the god of the mountain to give a sacrifice before returning home. Twins Anya and Ilva Astraea are raised with this destiny in mind, and when their time comes, spirited Ilva volunteers to go. Her devoted sister Anya is left at home to pray for Ilva’s safe return. But Anya’s prayers are denied.
With her sister dead, Anya volunteers to make a journey of her own to visit the god of the mountain. But unlike her sister, sacrifice is the furthest thing from Anya’s mind. Anya has no intention of giving anything more to the god, or of letting any other girl do so ever again. Anya Astraea has not set out to placate a god. She’s set out to kill one.