Category Archives: Books

Episode 301 Cooking and Food Books

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 full shownotes page here, 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 people who have really studied their food area, and spent a lot of time working to bring up books that not only give good information about the food you can prepare, but also look good. And there are also all kinds of other food books that are about food, preparing food, cooking food, and improving the way food gets from its starting point to our tables.

So this week we are going to talk about a variety of books you may want to check out that will help you hone your cooking skills, help you to feel more confident in the kitchen, or just make you happy as you eat store-bought snacks while reading. No shame at all! Enjoying food is our goal, and as always want you to enjoy the books you are reading too.

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Book Bites: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week!

Today’s book is from Amy: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach.

 

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We Heart MN: Minnesota Bees

In this series, we’ll pick some of our favorite things about Minnesota and share some related book suggestions. (We’re open to your suggestions! Comment below or email us and tell us some of your favorite MN things!)

Favorite topic this week? Minnesota bees! Minnesota has nearly 400 species of native bees. Learn more from the Minnesota DNR’s website.

If Bees Are Few: A Hive of Bee Poems from the University of Minnesota Press
“An anthology of 2,500 years of poetry, from Sappho to Sherman Alexie, humming with bees, at a moment when the beloved honey makers and pollinators are in danger of disappearing.

Virgil wrote of bees, as did Shakespeare, Burns, Coleridge, Emerson, and Whitman, among many others. Amid the crisis befalling bees—hives collapsing, wild species disappearing—the poems collected here speak with a quiet urgency of a world lost if bees were to fall silent.”

The Winter Bees by Jill Kalz
“Behind each door of each small place in this collection of ten short stories, people mind their duties to keep a small town humming. The Winter Bees: Fiction introduces seemingly mundane lives lived in a rural Minnesota town and reveals journeys of personal discovery, meaning, love, and hope.”

 

A Photographic Guide to Some Common Wasps and Bees of Minnesota by Scott King
“A photographic guide to some common wasps and bees of Minnesota. Includes color photos and descriptions for over 125 species of wasps and bees observed in Minnesota. An excellent introductory reference to this interesting order of insects.”

Winter Bees and Other Poems of the Cold by Joyce Sidman
“In this outstanding picture book collection of poems by Newbery Honor-winning poet, Joyce Sidman (Song of the Water Boatman,Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night)discover how animals stay alive in the wintertime and learn about their secret lives happening under the snow. Paired with stunning linoleum print illustrations by Rick Allen, that celebrate nature’s beauty and power.”

 

CMLE 2018 Reading With Libraries Book Awards

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 shownotes page!

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 the 30 book challenge from Overdrive’s really good book podcast: Professional Book Nerds. 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 on our shownotes page with titles, authors, and Amazon links. So do not worry about taking notes – we have it all available for you!

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Breakfast with Books Event

This event coming up in February sounds really fun and would be perfectly suited to our members! You will get to chat with authors and illustrators, play trivia, hear some Book Talks, win door prizes, plus enjoy a sit-down breakfast!

Tickets to the event do include 4 CEU hours. As a reminder, if you need a scholarship to attend an event like this, apply now!

Check out their website and take a look at all the authors and illustrators that will be in attendance!

Are you a Minnesota educator, librarian, bookseller, or publishing professional? You’re invited to join us at Books for Breakfast, celebrating its 25th anniversary!

On Saturday, February 2, 2019, from 8:00 am to 12:30 pm, at the Rush Creek Golf Club in Maple Grove, Minnesota, we’ll gather to learn, greet old and new friends, and enjoy a morning of books, books, books!

Our theme this year is “My Reading Community, Our Reading Community,” based on the six books writen by Lisa Bullard and illustrated by Christine M. Schneider, Renée Kurilla, Paula Becker, and Holli Conger (Lerner Publishing Group).

Red Wagon Books will be selling books. Authors and illustrators will be available to sign your books from 12:00 to 12:30 pm. Please support the Breakfast by purchasing your books at the event.

You may buy as many tickets as you like: bring your colleagues! Seating capacity is limited, so we suggest you buy your tickets soon.