Sometimes you just need a quickie podcast, to hear a short discussion on a book. We are here for you! Check us out each week for a five minute episode with a quick discussion of a book. You can add them to your own TBR pile, share them with friends, or recommend them to patrons!
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, by Michael Pollan
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, by Mariko Tamaki
Sex in the Museum: My Unlikely Career at New York’s Most Provocative Museum, by Sarah Forbes
All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything, by Sasha Chapin.
The Abominable: A Novel, by Dan Simmons
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
The Prodigy: A Biography of William James Sidis, America’s Greatest Child Prodigy, by Amy Wallace.
Food on the Move: Dining on the Legendary Railway Journeys of the World, by Sharon Hudgins
Influence: Science and Practice, by Robert B. Cialdini. @RobertCialdini
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, by Gretchen McCulloch. @GretchenAMcC
Population 485, by Michael Perry
The Silver Eyes (Five Nights At Freddy’s #1), by Scott Cawthon “Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie, whose father owned the restaurant, and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place which had been locked up and abandoned for years. After they discover a way inside, they realize that things are not as they used to be. The four adult-sized animatronic mascots that once entertained patrons have changed. They now have a dark secret . . . and a murderous agenda.”
Today’s book is Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. “Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves?
Here is our newest book, recorded live at Great River library’s Comic Con event: Crank, by Ellen Hopkins “Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high-school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, she meets a boy who introduces her to crank. At first she finds it freeing, but soon Kristina’s personality disappears inside the drug. What began as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul, and her life.”
Today’s book is The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. “Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing, and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby—young, handsome, and fabulously rich—always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.”
Today’s book is Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, by Mark Kurlansky.
“Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod, frozen and dried in the frosty air, then broken into pieces and eaten like hardtack. What was the staple of the medieval diet? Cod again, sold salted by the Basques, an enigmatic people with a mysterious, unlimited supply of cod. As we make our way through the centuries of cod history, we also find a delicious legacy of recipes, and the tragic story of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where once their numbers were legendary. In this lovely, thoughtful history, Mark Kurlansky ponders the question: Is the fish that changed the world forever changed by the world’s folly?”
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
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