Reading With Libraries Podcast

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is , by Deborah Fallows .   our newsletter, our social media, and our podcasts to stay up to date on all kinds of great stuff! We serve 300+ libraries of all types, and are always ready to talk about libraries and books.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is , by Tessa Gratton.   our newsletter, our social media, and our podcasts to stay up to date on all kinds of great stuff! We serve 300+ libraries of all types, and are always ready to talk about libraries and books.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is , by Pat Barker.   our newsletter, our social media, and our podcasts to stay up to date on all kinds of great stuff! We serve 300+ libraries of all types, and are always ready to talk about libraries and books.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is , by Fredrik Backman.   our newsletter, our social media, and our podcasts to stay up to date on all kinds of great stuff! We serve 300+ libraries of all types, and are always ready to talk about libraries and books.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Cave on Earth, by James M. Tabor.   our newsletter, our social media, and our podcasts to stay up to date on all kinds of great stuff! We serve 300+ libraries of all types, and are always ready to talk about libraries and books.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is The Terror, by Dan Simmons.   our newsletter, our social media, and our podcasts to stay up to date on all kinds of great stuff! We serve 300+ libraries of all types, and are always ready to talk about libraries and books.  

Thanks so much for listening with us all season, and for being part of this podcast book group! It has been great to read with you, talk about books, and share our beverages. If you have missed any of our genres, or Guest Hosts, or you just want to enjoy them again – our archive of three seasons of book group is available to you any time.   But we don’t want leave you without book ideas – that would be terrible! So each week we will drop a Book Bite in this feed. These are quickie looks at a book our Guest Hosts are reading, have read, or even ones they loved as a child. We have a wide range of books for you to explore each week. And we have an archive of episodes already shared on our website for you to check out any time.  

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is , by Neil Gaiman.   our newsletter, our social media, and our podcasts to stay up to date on all kinds of great stuff! We serve 300+ libraries of all types, and are always ready to talk about libraries and books.

Welcome back everyone! We are so pleased you are joining us for the special, bonus episode of our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! Check out our here! Who is joining us this week? We are happy to welcome returning Guest Host Ariel Kirst, from the Great River Regional Library System! If you have not tried a book challenge, we want to give you a gentle push in that direction. It’s a great way to stretch yourself outside your usual reading, and to find all kinds of books you never considered reading. Some you will love, some will not be winners to you – it’s an opportunity to explore! We have links on our to all the challenges we discuss here; and we encourage you to browse around to find others you would enjoy.

Welcome, everyone, to our final episode of Season Three of Reading With Libraries! It has been so great to read with you for these fifteen weeks – we just can’t bear for our book fun to end. So while we are on hiatus you will get a Book Bite each week. This is a quickie five-minute sharing of a book by one of our Guests. We have been producing these for a while now, so you can browse our entire . You can also check out our other podcast, ! Each week we will look at a new skill to use in a library, or other places. Follow us there! As a bonus for all the time we have spent together here, next week we have a special episode on book challenges. We want to help you explore even more great books, and challenges can be good tools to make that happen. This week we are discussing a favorite topic: Minnesota books! We will look at book set in Minnesota, and books by Minnesota authors. This is always our season finale topic, because we know there are 10,000 lakes here and at least as many good stories! Check out he

Welcome back! We are so pleased you are joining us for our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! This week we will be talking about a very interesting genre: Weird Fiction. Not sure what weird fiction means, exactly? Don’t worry, we’ll break it down for you! Check out our , to get all the links to books and beverages we share today. We are very pleased to to welcome returning Guest Host Kelly Kraemer! Suggested Reading Resources:

Welcome back! Thanks for joining us for our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! Check out our , with links to all the books we discussed, to many other resources you can explore, and of course to the beverages we are enjoying. In our book group we have fun talking about books, and provide useful information for library people doing Reader’s Advisory work. There are so many books out there that it’s tough to be an expert on all of them. So we pick a new genre each week to chat about and hopefully provide you with some insight into what may be an unfamiliar genre! Who is joining us this week? We are very pleased to welcome Guest Host Kitt Godfrey. Today we are talking about books that look at different groups of people, and books that will help us to learn about the ways people live. It’s going to be all over the place, but all the books have one thing in common: people are endlessly fascinating, and you can never know enough about all the different ways people are. As always, the images and links on ou

Welcome back! We are so pleased you are joining us for our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! This week we will be talking about books about advocacy and activism! This week we are so pleased to promote a local author, Habso Mohamud! Habso has written an excellent children’s book and we have three copies to give away to the first three people that comment on this . Our books today will include the experiences of activists as well as suggestions for how to be more effective in your own advocacy work! Side note: We really encourage you to advocate for libraries! If you don’t know why this is important or just need help getting started, send us an email: or visit and we’d be happy to help you!

Welcome back! We are so pleased you are joining us for our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! Who is joining us this week? We are pleased to welcome returning Guest Host Leah Larson from State Library Services! Literary mysteries combine the excitement of a mystery, with all its twists and turns and puzzles to solve, with the careful thought given to word choices and ideas. a snarky way to describe it would be “a book people have heard of, but haven’t read.” Umberto Eco is the example here: many people have heard of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum – but many of those people have never made it to the end of the books. But literary fiction can be very broad, and encompasses many of the best-selling mysteries people are definitely reading right now. Words and characters matter, and subverting the reader’s expectations is part of the fun. You know a literary fiction story when you read it; you can tell that you are enjoying the way the story is put together as much as you are enjoying follo

Welcome back! We are so pleased you are joining us for our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! This week we will be talking about Women in Science Fiction! We’ve talked about this genre before (check out or ) but this week we’re focusing specifically on women authors in the genre! You can check out our . We are very happy to welcome returning Guest Host Amy Schrank! We have lots of links to different information, links to the nice beverages we are drinking, and links to all the books we discuss. (Buckle up, folks - it's a lot!)  

Welcome back! We are so pleased you are joining us for our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! Check out our , and get all the links to beverages we enjoyed and books we discussed today. Who is joining us this week? We are excited to welcome returning Guest Host Emily Kissaine from State Library Services! These are fun genres to read when you know you have a short amount of time, are traveling, or have other reasons for just wanting to take a bit of reading – not a big commitment. These can be perfectly little jewels of stories, fiction or nonfiction; or they have been interesting but not enough content to be sustained for an entire book. They are short and just right for that length.

Welcome back! We are so pleased you are joining us for our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! This week we are discussing Cyberpunk books. Check out our , for all the info on the books we discuss and the material you can use to find all kinds of other books for yourself, friends, or patrons! (You can also find links to the beverages we are enjoying during this episode!) We are pleased to welcome returning Guest Host Kelly Kraemer from St. Bens/St Johns libraries!

Welcome back! We are so pleased you are joining us for our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! This week we are celebrating Valentine’s Day with not only our constant love of books, our podcast book group, and all of you – but also with a look at some Regency romances. Check out our , to get links to great resources, all the books we discuss, and the beverages we enjoyed. We are excited to welcome returning Guest Hosts Annie and Ariel! Let’s start with a quick definition of our genre. Regency romances are a subgenre of historical romance novels set during the period of the English Regency or early 19th century. There is a lot of overlap between Regency and historical romance, but purists break them into different groups. Thank you so much for joining us for this discussion with our Reading with Libraries podcast book group! A special thank you to our Guest Hosts Ariel and Annie! And of course, as we celebrate on Valentine’s Day, remember that we love you guys for being part of our book group each week

Welcome to a special bonus podcast episode! You can find our , with links and all of our information in one place. This week we want to get you ready for Minnesota Library Legislative Week! It runs from Feb. 25 through March 1 – so you have plenty of time to be a part of this important work. If you are not in Minnesota, stay with us; these issues will likely be similar to those in your state, and we would love for you to be part of your state’s Legislative Day or Week activities!   If you are new to advocacy, that’s fine! Advocacy is best done as a team sport – we are stronger when we all work together, so you will not be left alone in your advocacy for libraries.   All of us, as a library community, need the support of our state legislators to provide funding to libraries. It comes in a variety of ways, goes to different groups, and is aimed at solving assorted library needs. It’s all important, and we literally need every dime we can get so that we can keep moving forward in serving our communities.   But w

Welcome back to our podcast Reading with Libraries! We are so happy to be here chatting about books with you. You can find our . There we have links to all the resources you can use to find more books, links to the beverages we enjoyed, and links to all the books we discussed! Today we are talking about books in which weather plays a main role. These books can be fiction or nonfiction, and can deal with things like natural disasters, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, or simply weather patterns and the climate of a particular area. Whether in fiction or reality, dealing with weather is always a part of life. As Minnesotans in the middle of winter, we know this all too well!