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Barb welcomes Alyssa, Amber and Creola, three staff from our Circulation Department, to talk about what they’re reading and loving now. And it’s mostly nonfiction, with a Contemporary Southern Gothic novel thrown in for spice!

LPL Resources mentioned:

AllData Repair and Auto Repair Source https://www.longmontcolorado.gov/departments/departments-e-m/library/digital-collections/research-and-learn

Discovery Passes https://www.longmontcolorado.gov/departments/departments-e-m/library/discovery-passes

Library of Things https://www.longmontcolorado.gov/departments/departments-e-m/library/library-of-things

Titles discussed:

But First, Coffee: a guide to brewing from the kitchen to the bar, by Jordan Michelman and Zachary Carlsen

Prague Winter: a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948, by Madeleine Albright

Somebody’s Daughter: a memoir, by Ashley C. Ford

Starling House, by Alix E. Harrow

I am Bunny: how a “talking” dog taught me everything I need to know about being human, by Alexis Devine

The Last Ride of the Pony Express: my 2,000 mile horseback journey into the Old West, by Will Grant

Cultish: the language of fanaticism, by Amanda Montell

Tell My Horse: life and voodoo in Haiti and Jamaica, by Zora Neale Hurston

(all but the last title are available from the library; we can borrow that last one through interlibrary loan)

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Library staff discuss and recommend what they're reading and chat about what the Longmont Public Library has to offer. Books recommended and discussed in this episode:

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer, by Christian Wiman; The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff; Watership Down: the Graphic Novel adapted from Richard Adams' novel by James Sturm and Joe Stutphin; Whalefall: a Novel by Daniel Kraus; The Book of Joy with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Self-Therapy by Jay Earley; Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin;18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern, Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb.

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