A Readers’ Advisory Podcast about becoming better library staff by reading books we hate!
Every month we read books from a new, randomly picked genre; then on the podcast we discuss our reading choices, experiences, opinions, appeal factors, and other related topics as friends and library workers.
This month our genre is Military Non-Fiction! We talk about defining war, sword fighting, genocide, and conscription. Plus: Trebuchets! You can download the podcast , find it on , or get it through , , , , or your favourite podcast delivery system. In…
This episode we’re talking about how we ended up working in libraries, literary inspirations for our careers, and what you should think about before you decide you want a to work in a library. Plus: The Library Fairy! Excel exams! Catalogue cards!…
Our genre this episode is Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy. We talk about anachronisms, comedy in sci fi/fantasy and sci fi/fantasy in comedy, “laugh out loud” funny vs. “clever” funny, and more! You can download the podcast , find it on ,…
A potentially controversial episode as we discuss Separating the Art from the Artist. We bring up #MeToo, library neutrality, problematic faves, and firing people out of cannons. What are your thoughts? Can you separate the art from the artist?…
In this 80 minute episode we talk about Essay Collections! We get into some deep topics this time, talking about precarity, race relations, and cultural differences between Canada and the USA. We also wonder if it’s possible to find books about…
Our Fiftieth Episode Extravaganza is our longest episode ever! We answer your questions! We answer our questions! We talk about library fines, reading parties, stats, and much more. You can download the podcast , find it on , or get it through , , , ,…
This episode we discuss the genre of Southern Gothic! We talk about the “key elements” of Southern Gothic fiction (plantations, swamps, secrets, and racism), gothic vs goth fiction, vampires, rural fiction, pessimism, the fantastic, and space…
This episode we catch you up on what books and comics we’ve been reading and shows we’ve been watching. We discuss guitar-playing ghost talkers, being haunted by a goldfish, and Anna learns why she should never tell Matthew to “go for it” when…
In last week’s episode () Matthew threatened to read some of the fiction he’d written for exercises from Ursula K. LeGuin’s . For better for worse he’s recorded some, so here you go. (He didn’t even do some of them properly!) If for some reason…
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