Reading With Libraries Podcast

Welcome back! We are so pleased you are joining us for our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! Check out our . You can find all the resources we share, links to the books we discuss, and links to the beverages we enjoyed! This week we are discussing Business books. We are pleased to welcome returning Guest Host Rhonda Huisman, Dean of the Library at St Cloud State University. This is such a perennially popular genre of books; you can always new books with new ideas – and books that say the same things that were said 10, 20 or 50 years ago. Business classics are still around and popular, books by successful CEOs are always popular (for a while, at least), and books that try to show a new way to succeed in business and management skills will always be relevant to people working to build skills. You can find books on basic management skills, on starting a new business, on honing communication and creativity, and almost anything else that might help you to be successful in leadership and management. You c

Welcome back to our podcast Reading with Libraries!! We are so excited to be back here chatting about books with you! Check out our , for links to the resources we share, links to the genre-related beverages we are enjoying, and links to the books we are discussing. This week we are discussing the genre of Young Adult Literature, or YA. We have talked somewhat about this genre in the past (!) but plan on getting more in-depth today! We’ll have new titles and new book lists for you to visit to get more information. We are pleased to welcome returning Guest Host Bethany Kauffman from the Rogers High School in Minnesota! Bethany shared not only good book suggestions with us, and also some trends she sees across YA literature. Join us for an interesting discussion about YA books with a knowledgeable and fun guest!

Welcome back! We are so pleased you are joining us for our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! Check out our . All the books we discuss today, a bunch of resources to learn more about this genre, and recipes to our beverages are all located here. This week we are discussing Plain, Amish, and Mennonite Fiction. We are pleased to welcome returning Guest Host Lydia! Come discover the genre of "bonnet fiction" or plain fiction, including Amish, Mennonite, Shaker communities. If this is your first experience in this genre, you may be surprised at how popular (and lucrative!) this genre is for readers and publishers.

Welcome back! We are so pleased you are joining us for our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! This week we are discussing Metaphysical and Philosophical 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 Amy Schrank, from the Great River Library System!  

Welcome back! It’s Season Three of our podcast book group: Reading with Libraries! We hope you have enjoyed all of our short Book Bites, and now we are looking forward to settling in to read more books with you! This week we are discussing cooking and food books. Check out our , with beverage recipes and links to the books we share. 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 pleased to welcome Guest Host Connie Laing, from the Great River Library System. There are so many great cookbooks out there! This is a great time to be interested in food, and in food-related books. Of course, every celebrity has a cookbook – and some of them are even good! And there are lots of cookbooks by

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is from Amy: , by Richard Bach.   Want to be a full book group member? ! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is: : The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle, by Hampton Sides.   Want to be a full book group member? ! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.  

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is: : A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, by Laurie R. King (This is the most recent in the series)   Want to be a full book group member? ! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

It's award season!! And we love books; there are so many to discuss!! We share book suggestions and ideas every single week on our podcasts, but we wanted to take some time to recognize a few that are special to us. The CMLE team of Angie, Lydia, and Mary all contributed to this episode.  Get all the categories and books on our ! You have heard all of us talking about books across all of our podcasts, and we have some definite favorites. This year we are adapting from Overdrive’s really good book podcast: . They have suggestions you can use to read 30 different books, to build your own reading interests. We have a link to their material above, and you should check out their podcast and their website! Today we are going to use those ideas as the foundation for our award show. You should find some good suggestions for your own reading, and definitely take their challenge to find 30 of your own books! Every single book we share here today is with titles, authors, and Amazon links. So do not worry about taking

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is from Lydia: , by Therese O'Neill.   Want to be a full book group member? ! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Stay right here to start Season Three of Reading With Libraries! The first episode drops Thurs, Jan. 3. We are so happy to be back exploring new genres, drinking new beverages, and chatting about books with all new Guest Hosts each week. Join us!! You can keep getting a weekly Book Bite, for a quick look at a book. Subscribe to our library skills podcast: Linking Our Libraries by putting this RSS feed into your favorite podcast app: Get every single Book Bite, and be the first to get Season Five, where we will be using pop culture to explore new library skills. You won't want to miss it!   And if you want to look at all of our Book Bites (so many of them already!), you can always browse our by clicking onto .   Thanks for listening!

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is from Mitchell: : Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, by Robert Zubrin. This is one of our series recorded LIVE at the Great River library in St. Cloud! Want to be a full book group member? ! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is from Justine: , by Margaret Mitchell.  Want to be a full book group member? ! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is from Connie: , by .  Want to be a full book group member? ! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is from Beth:, by Robert Galbraith.  Want to be a full book group member? ! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is from Denise: , by Joanna Cannon.  Want to be a full book group member? ! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is from Rhonda:, by Stephen King.  Want to be a full book group member? ! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is from Angie: , by Gail Honeyman.  Want to be a full book group member? ! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is from Lydia:: I Miss it So, by Anthony Loyd .  Want to be a full book group member? ! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today’s book is from Mary: , by James Tynion.  Want to be a full book group member? ! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.