Banned Books Week 2019 is from Sept. 22nd – 28th, 2019 and there are so many ways to participate in this week of fighting against censorship and embracing intellectual freedom!
CMLE’s Executive Director shared this article last month, all about the different types of censorship and activities for educators working with students.
Hello and welcome to Reading With Libraries! Thank you so much for being here! We’re so glad you’re able to join our podcast book group.
And we’re especially excited this week because we’re discussing a very popular and well-loved topic: Harry Potter! Maybe you listened to our teaser episode back on July 31st and are just as excited as we are to jump into things!
Why are we doing this today? Easy! It’s Hermione’s Birthday!!! (The real hero of the series!)
So the format of today’s episode is going to be a little different than usual, but our goal is the same: to chat about books and share information for our library community doing Reader’s Advisory work.
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Each week we assemble a collection – a bouquet, if you will – of books you can read for yourself, or use to build into a display in your library. As always, the books we link to have info from Amazon.com. If you click a link and then buy anything at all from Amazon, we get a small percent of their profits from your sale. Yay!!! Thanks!!! We really appreciate the assistance! 💕😊
This week, we are investigating unusual jobs. Learning about what other people do for work every day is something I’m always interested in learning about, and these books let us take a look into some unique worlds! If you want more, check out this list on Goodreads: Interesting Jobs Nonfiction
Odd Jobs: Portraits of Unusual Occupations by Nancy Rica Schiff Who blows the bugle at the Kentucky Derby? Who dusts the dinosaur bones at the Smithsonian? Who sniffs dog breath for a living? Who measures the breasts of live models? ‘Odd Jobs’ introduces you to the real people who perform these and other truly peculiar jobs. In sixty-five intimate portraits, photo essayist Nancy Rica Schiff captures the personalities and occupations of these oddball professionals, providing a short profile of each. A photograper for twenty years, Schiff has spent a good portion of that time discovering the behind-the-scenes people who do what others can’t (or won’t) do.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre—took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life’s work. Thrown into a profession of gallows humor and vivid characters (both living and very dead), Doughty learned to navigate the secretive culture of those who care for the deceased.
Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930’s English Kitchen Maid by Millie Moran Born in 1916 in Norfolk, Mollie Moran is one of the few people still alive today who can recall working “downstairs” in the golden years of the early 1930’s before the outbreak of WWII. She provides a rare and fascinating insight into a world that has long since vanished. Mollie left school at age fourteen and became a scullery maid for a wealthy gentleman with a mansion house in London’s Knighsbridge and a Tudor manor in Norfolk.
Call the Vet: Farmers, Dramas, and Disasters – My First Year as a Country Vet by Anna Birch When fresh-faced, newly qualified vet Anna arrives in the seemingly sleepy Dorset village of Ebbourne, little does she know that this tiny rural community is about to change her life … Straight in at the deep end, Anna faces two tricky calvings, an emergency call-out to a frightened mare, lots of mad cats (and mad cat women) and one enormous dog with an injured leg and a threatening bark. Spirited and determined, Anna quickly finds her feet and falls in love with rural life, including Ebbourne’s eccentric characters and their animals.
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain’s Journey by Linda Greenlaw Known to millions of readers of The Perfect Storm as the captain of the Hannah Boden, sister ship to the Andrea Gail, Linda Greenlaw is also known as one of the best sea captains on the East Coast. Here she offers an adventure-soaked tale of her own, complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they seem to have been ripped from the pages of Moby Dick.
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Each week we share a new genre
We have a Guest Host
We provide information about the genre
We give you resources to find more books or info on the genre.
And we have beverages! Themed beverages! (I mean, sure – the books are great, but you need a beverage go really make it feel like a book group.)
When we are taking a break to produce our Linking Our Libraries skills training podcast, we keep putting up short Book Bites episodes here.
We provide these podcasts to you at no cost to you. But of course, there are expenses on our end! Each episode we create takes several hours of work. It’s a lot more than just chatting with cool book people.
Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week!
Today’s book is Beach Town, by Mary Kay Andrews. “Between an ambitious director and his entourage―including a spoiled “It Boy” lead actor―who parachute into town, a conniving local ex-socialite, and a cast of local fangirls and opportunists who catch the movie bug, nothing is going to be the same in Cypress Key. Now Greer is forced to make some hard choices: about the people and the town she’s come to care about, and about her own life. True love is only for the movies, right? Can Greer find a way to be the heroine in her own life story? Told with inimitable heart and humor, Mary Kay Andrews’ Beach Town is the perfect summer destination.”
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