JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.
In honor of this year's summer learning theme, Dig In, we're digging into some authors we already know with the Books and Bites Bingo prompt, read another book by an author you love.
JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.
On this episode, we discuss books by LGBTQIA+ authors, one of the prompts for Books & Bites Bingo. We've got a diverse group of characters and settings for you, including a Splatterpunk novel set in 1990s New Orleans, a Booker Prize-winning novel set in the United Kingdom, and a YA novel set in 1987 El Paso, Texas.
One of the prompts in the Books & Bites Bingo reading challenge is to read a book you found on NoveList.
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JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.
On this episode, we discuss books set in or about a place you want to visit, one of the prompts for Books & Bites Bingo. Join us as we travel to Mexico City, Paris, and the English countryside--all with the help of some good books!
JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.
On this episode, we discuss books set in or about Appalachia, one of the prompts for Books & Bites Bingo. Collection Access Associate John David Hurley, who is from Mount Vernon, Kentucky, joins Michael, Carrie, and Jacqueline to share some favorite books about Appalachia.
JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.
On this episode, we discuss epistolary books, one of the prompts for Books & Bites Bingo. According to Dictionary.com, epistolary means "contained in or carried on by letters." In epistolary novels, the stories are told primarily through letters. However, that definition has expanded to include diaries, emails, instant messages, transcripts, and even post-it notes.
Prefer to read nonfiction? Collections of letters count for this prompt, too. Carrie shares some of her favorites.
JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.
This month, we discuss the Afrofuturism/Afrofantasy square from Books & Bites Bingo. As Michael pointed out on the podcast, "Afrofuturism and Afrofantasy are sub-genres of science fiction and fantasy that are rooted in African cultures, myth, folklore, and the overall Black experience."
JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.
We're starting the New Year with a new Books and Bites reading challenge, Books and Bites Bingo! You'll have more prompts to choose from, and more chances to win prizes. Plus, every time you get a bingo, you'll earn a fun, book-themed sticker. Complete a blackout of all the squares, and you'll earn your very own enamel Books and Bites pin!
JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.
If you're participating in the Books and Bites 2022 Reading Challenge, it's time to wrap up your reading! On this episode of the podcast, we discuss the books we read for the twelfth and final prompt, read whatever you want.
If you've completed ten of the reading challenge prompts, turn your entry forms in at the library or online for a chance to win a Kindle Paperwhite or a $100 gift card to Joseph-Beth Booksellers.
JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.
On this episode, we discuss the eleventh prompt in the Books and Bites 2022 Reading Challenge, a nonfiction book about something you're curious about. We hope we can pique your interest with books about octopuses, Sherlock Holmes, and cults!