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 Jul 02, 2022
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Rodi and Jeff welcome Aby back to the podcast to discuss anime & manga. We particularly talk a lot about our favorite anime shows, genre breakdowns, favorite narrative tropes, and how there really is "an anime for everyone."
Titles discussed include:
Demon Slayer
Attack on Titan
Gundam
Shinichirō Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Carole & Tuesday et. al.)
Jujutsu Kaisen
My Hero Academia
Gangsta
Dragonball Z
Films of Mamoru Hosoda
Saturday Jun 25, 2022
Saturday Jun 25, 2022
Jeff and Kelly discuss some of their favorite audiobooks, particularly their appreciation for each title's narrator! Then, in the second half of the episode, (at 25:44) we feature an interview with Dan John Miller, an award-winning Detroit-area audiobook narrator (as well as musician/actor), discussing the nuances of the profession and what he enjoys most about performing a book.
Dan has garnered multiple Audie Award nominations, winning for The Wrecking Crew by Kent Hartman; has twice been named a Best Voice by AudioFile magazine; and has received several AudioFile Golden Earphones Awards and a Listen-Up Award from Publishers Weekly.
Titles discussed include:
It by Stephen King read by Seven Weber
The Fireman by Joe Hill read by Kate Mulgrew
Marid Audran Trilogy by George Alec Effinger by Jonathan Davis
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson read by Scott Brick
Born Standing Up by & read by Steve Martin
1984 by George Orwell read by Simon Prebble
Stephanie Plum read by Lorelei King
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King read by Anne Heche
14 by Peter Clines narrated by Ray Porter
Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking by Leonard Mlodinow narrated by Dan John Miller
Saturday Jun 18, 2022
Saturday Jun 18, 2022
Tune in to hear sci-fi and fantasy recommendations from two librarians, specifically presenting books for readers who haven't tried either of these genres yet and are curious..., or perhaps you have and just haven't found the right book yet?
Titles discussed include:
Damon
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson (Skyward series)
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson (Reckoners series)
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod, illustrated by Jess Taylor
Saga by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Fiona Staples
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune (also shouted out The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door)
Jeff
We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Leviathan Wakes by James A. Corey
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Descender by Jeff Lemire
House of Rumour by Jason Arnott
Michelle
Saturday Jun 11, 2022
Saturday Jun 11, 2022
We're at it again! Rodi and Mary Grahame join Jeff to discuss why we are drawn (or repulsed) by certain antagonistic characters, or villains, in literature. The books we talk about the most include the Winternight Trilogy, the Murder of Mr. Wickham, and a classic: Les Miserables.
Saturday Jun 04, 2022
Saturday Jun 04, 2022
Librarians Sarah Bowman & Kricket Hoekstra join Jeff to discuss "beach reads," along with some of this summer's most anticipated books. We also delve into books that either evoke pure "summer vibes" or favorite books we've all read "during" the summer.
Books discussed include:
Domestic Thrillers by Lianne Moriarty
Maybe some Dostoevsky?
Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age
Judy Blume - Summer Sisters
Linda Holmes - Flying Solo
Claudia Gray - Murder of Mr. Wickham
Ruth Ware - The It Girl
Laura Hilderbrand - Seabiscuit
Jenny Han - The Summer I Turned Pretty
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Amor Towles - The Lincoln Highway
J. Courtney Sullivan - Maine
Beatrice Williams - 100 Days of Summer
Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
Patrick DeWitt - Sisters Brothers
Charles Portis - True Grit
Michael Chabon - Kavalier & Clay
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
Michael Crummey - Galore
Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine
Tove Janson - The Summer Book
Steven Rowley - Guncle
Kayle Rae Whitaker - Animators
Saturday May 28, 2022
Saturday May 28, 2022
In Far Company, we hear Cindy Hunter Morgan thinking about the many ways we carry the natural world inside of us as a kind of embedded cartography. Many of these poems commune not only with lost ancestors but also past poets. Morgan's previous book, Harborless, was a Michigan Notable Book of 2018. We spoke with Morgan about her new collection of poems, out this week via Wayne State University Press.
