Reading With Libraries Podcast

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! Let’s check out some books with two points of view. You can find our full show notes page here, with links to the books we discuss today and to the beverages we are enjoying!

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 a band or music group. You can find the links to everything we discuss here - the books, the drinks, the suggested resources - on our show notes page.

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 this week we are focusing on romance novels written by BIPOC authors! We love to see the increase of romance books published by authors who are Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color. And we’re excited to share all our suggestions! Special thanks to CMLE Podcast Correspondent and Literary Romance Expert Ariel Kirst for helping us learn about this genre!  Check out our show notes page here, for links to all the beverages and books we share 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. This week we are getting ready for the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, with Michelle Yeoh. From Rotten Tomatoes: Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can’t seem to finish her taxes. And from IMDB: An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led. This week we are looking at books about parallel universes. As a bonus, this is also a prompt in the Pop Sugar book challenge for 2022. So you can read books to prep for this week’s new movie, and also knock off another step in the challenge. You can find our full show notes page here. We give you links

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 that are becoming a TV series or a movie this year. You can find our full show notes page here, where we give you links to the books we shared, the beverages we enjoyed, and the resources we

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 look at #BookTok recommendations!

Welcome to Reading With Libraries! (I’m Angie/I’m Mary) We’re so happy to have you join us on the Eighth Season of our book group and Reader’s advisory podcast! You can find our full show notes page here, with information about all the books we discuss this week. We have more genres to discuss and new books to recommend. We always enjoy our book group podcast, and we hope you do, too!  Our organization is the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange. At CMLE, we work with all types of libraries. We are starting our new season off with a special pop culture episode! The historical romance Outlander begins its 6th season on the Starz network and we’re sharing some books that you might enjoy along with the show! 

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. FINAL EPISODE OF SEASON 3! 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 are celebrating Hennepin County. Barges and boats now pass through locks to move between the parts of the river above and below the dams; read a book with any type of boat or ship   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 are celebrating Pope County. One of the cities in this county is named Starbuck; celebrate this tenuous connection to the TV show Battlestar Galactica by reading a sci-fi book   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 are celebrating Stevens County. It contains the Everglade State Wildlife Management Area - a lovely area. To enjoy this county, we suggest you read a book about Florida.   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!   We celebrate yet another county in the CMLE library system: Todd County! All the libraries in this county are members, and we are so happy to have them here. This county is home to Guernsey Lake; celebrate this lovely place by reading a book with cows or farming 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 look at Pennington county. Its county seat is Thief River Falls - a beautiful area!. Celebrate this by reading a mystery, especially a story with a theft. 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!   Rice County contains the Whitney Island Scientific and Natural Area. This week: read a book with science of any sort, particularly natural science.   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!   Pipestone County is named for the deposits of red pipestone used by Native Americans to make pipes. It is a beautiful area, with some lovely parks. This week: read a book with any type of smoking   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!   Today our prompt is inspired by Brown County! Brown County residents have a 150-year long history of baseball; read a book about baseball.   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!   Today our prompt is inspired by Becker County! There is a time capsule in a park here, ready to be opened in 2065; read a book with a time capsule or historical monument   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!   Blue Earth county is named for deposits of blue-green clay once evident along the banks of the Blue Earth River. To celebrate this county, this week you can read a book with jewelry.   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!

It has been so great to read with you for this season – we just can’t bear for our book fun to end. So while we are on hiatus you will get a quick Browsing Books episode each week.  We give you a book prompt each week, we talk about six books to meet the prompt.   We have been producing these for a while now, so you can browse our entire archive on our website.   Check out our full show notes page here. We have links to the beverages we enjoy today, the bookstores we are suggesting, and the books we are sharing. Usually, for our season finale, we share Minnesota books: stories set in Minnesota and/or books written by MN authors. You can listen to all our past MN book episodes on our website: cmle.orgThis season though, we’re changing it up just a little!  This is actually our second episode highlighting some of the awesome independent bookstores in our state. (Listen to the episode from last season here) This week, we’re shouting out a few more favorites and talking about the books that the booksellers who

Thank you for joining us on this season of our Reader’s Advisory book group podcast! It’s always better when you are here with us to talk about books. We have more genres to discuss, new books to recommend, and we’re so glad you’re here to join us. We always enjoy our book group podcast, and we hope you do, too!  You can find our full show notes here, with links to everything we share with you today.   This week we are sharing a special pop culture episode with you! We are looking at the movie West Side Story. IMDB describes the plot: “An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.” The amazing Rita Moreno stars in this, and is an Executive Producer, along with Steven Spielberg. You may remember her from dozens of TV shows, movies, and more - she is an EGOT winner!   We have more to discuss, so let’s settle in and get to the fun part: the book discussion! This week we are taki

Thank you for joining us on the seventh season of our Reader’s Advisory podcast! We have more genres to discuss, new books to recommend, and we’re so glad you’re here to join us. We always enjoy our book group podcast, and we hope you do, too!  Our organization is the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange. At CMLE, we work with all types of libraries. This week on the show we’re learning more about Native American voices and recommending books to read all year round, but particularly around Thanksgiving. You can check out our show notes page here, for all the information we share today and links to the books we are discussion. And our returning Guest Host is Stephanie Todd! Steph works at the St Cloud Technical and Community College library. Welcome back to the book group! There’s more to the story of Thanksgiving than you may remember from elementary school. We’ll link to several resources if you want to explore more, but for today’s episode, we’re going to honor and share books from Native American