Reading With Libraries Podcast

This week we admire Norman County. To celebrate early Norwegian settlers, also known as Norman settlers, we’re reading books set in Norway or another Scandinavian country.  We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This week we admire Mower County. This county is the location of the Paramount Theater, a 1929 movie theater, the only atmospheric theater and commercial use of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. Let’s celebrate this historical theater by reading a book made into a movie! We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This week we admire Meeker County. This county was named for Bradley B. Meeker (1813–1873), Associate Justice of the Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court (1849–1853). To celebrate the county, we suggest that you read a book set in a courtroom. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This week we admire Martin County. This county contains contains Fairmont Opera House, theater built in 1901, it is  a well-preserved and longstanding venue for cultural and social events. To celebrate this, we suggest that you read a book about a cultural or social event. You can find all our book suggestions on our show notes page! We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This week we admire Lyon County. This county contains Lady Slipper Lake. To celebrate the fancy name of this lake, read a book with people on the cover or in the plot who wear fancy clothes. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we admire Lac qui Parle County. Lac qui parle is a French phrase meaning "lake which talks". To celebrate that meaning, read a book set in France or with a French character.

This week we admire Kittson County. This county contains contains the Smokey Bear State Forest; to celebrate that we suggest that you read a book about bears or Teddy Roosevelt.  We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This week we admire Kittson County. In this county is the town Pelan - officially a ghost town. To celebrate this county, we suggest that this week you read some scary stories, particularly if they have a ghost and especially if you stay up late and enjoy them or if you read them around a campfire while enjoying the outdoors. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This week we admire Itasca County. Our prompt comes from Lake Itasca, source of the Mississippi River. We suggest you celebrate by reading a book with someone who visits the Mississippi River! We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we admire Isanti County. Its county seat is Cambridge, so celebrate that fact by reading a book set in a college or university And since Isanti County is in CMLE’s geographic territory, that means all the libraries located there are our members! Hooray for CMLE libraries! 

his season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we admire Goodhue County. James Madison Goodhue was the first newspaper editor in Minnesota. To celebrate the value he brought to Minnesota, read a book with a journalist or involving a newspaper. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!  

This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge! This week we admire Faribault County. Two 1903 buildings are representative of the substantial railroad activity in Wells: a train station and a freestanding lunchroom that served crew and passengers. We suggest you celebrate these facts by reading a book about trains or train travel.  We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

This is our season finale! It’s been so great to read with you all season - thanks for sharing this journey with us. As we always do, we will be on hiatus for the summer. But don’t worry about being left with no book discussion! We will be dropping a short Browsing Books episode every Tuesday here, with a fun fact about a Minnesota county, and six book suggestions to go with the fact. And we’ll be back with another season of Reading With Libraries in September!   Usually our final episode of the season looks at Minnesota books and authors, and of course we are always fans and supporters of these books! This season we are taking a different direction, and taking a closer look at DEI books - books that discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion.    As library people, we of course recognize and celebrate the need and opportunity to add books to a collection to ensure everyone in the community will see themselves in a book. And books also give us a chance to reach beyond ourselves and our own experiences to learn m

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons and share more information with your library community. We are having fun with pop culture references in our genres, and looking at some different sources for book ideas. This week we are looking at the prompt from the 2022 PopSugar reading challenge: A book set in the 1980s. Check out our show notes page, to get all the links to the beverages we are enjoying, and to the books we are sharing today.

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons and share more information with your library community. And we’re adding an additional element this season: many of our topics are coming from the 2022 Pop Sugar Reading Challenge. We link to their challenge on our shownotes page.    Pop Sugar says the goal of the challenge is to “is just to have fun, diversify your reading, and accomplish whatever goals you have set for yourself. There are no "rules"!” So we’re incorporating some of their prompts into this season’s podcast topics. If you are participating in their challenge - great! And if you just want to get some fresh book ideas to share with your patrons/students/community, fantastic! You are in the right place!    This week we are looking at books about found family! You can find our show notes page here, with links to the beverages we share and the books we discuss today.

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons and share more information with your library community. We are having fun with pop culture references in our genres, and looking at some different sources for book ideas. This week we are getting ready for the movie DC League of Super-Pets! IMDB gives this description: “Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime side by side in Metropolis. However, Krypto must master his own powers for a rescue mission when Superman is kidnapped.   When the Justice League are captured by Lex Luthor, Superman's dog, Krypto, forms a team of shelter-pets who were given super-powers: A hound named Ace, who becomes super-strong, a pig named PB, who can grow to giant-size, a turtle named Merton, who becomes super-fast, and a squirrel named Chip, who gains electric-powers.”   And it comes out this weekend! Let’s celebrate this movie with a look at boo

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons and share more information with your library community. We are having fun with pop culture references in our genres, and looking at some different sources for book ideas. This week we are looking at the prompt from the 2022 PopSugar reading challenge: A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid. You can find our show notes page here, with links to all of our beverages and the books we share.

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons and share more information with your library community. We are having fun with pop culture references in our genres, and looking at some different sources for book ideas. This week we are getting ready for the movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Let’s celebrate this movie with a look at books that look at virtual reality worlds.  Check out our show notes page, with links to all the beverages we are enjoying and the books we share today. This is such an interesting area to read stories. We are hearing more about virtual and augmented reality in our daily lives, in all sorts of areas - reading about virtual worlds that are more advanced than our current technology gives us some perspectives on where we could be heading. 

Thank you for joining us on the 8th season of our book group and Reader’s advisory podcast!  Our organization is the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, and we work with all types of libraries. Schools, public, academic, history centers, and more! We are here to support you and to bring you new knowledge to inform your library work.    This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons and share more information with your library community.  This week we are continuing to look at the prompts from the PopSugar challenge. Check it out for yourself, so you can keep finding all kinds of new books for yourself and to share with your library community! And the prompt we’re fulfilling today is Social-Horror books.

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons and share more information with your library community. We are having fun with pop culture references in our genres, and looking at some different sources for book ideas. You can read all of our show notes right here, and find links to our beverages and the books we chat about today. This week we are getting ready for the movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Nicholas Cage stars in this. From IMDB “Nicolas Cage begrudgingly accepts a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a billionaire super fan. When things take a wild turn, Nic is forced to become a version of some of his most iconic and beloved characters in order to extricate his wife and daughter from the fan who is a notorious drug lord.” Let’s celebrate this movie with a look at books that are social satires.  Good social satires use some basic writing tools to make the story both entertaining and share their messa