Click here to listen: Top Ten All Time Favorites
Beth's top ten:
1. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
2. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. The Giver - Lois Lowry
5. The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis
6. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
7. Romeo & Juliet (play) - William Shakespeare
8. Couplehood - Paul Reiser
9. The Five Love Languages - Gary Chapman
10. Boundaries - Henry Cloud
Cari's top ten:
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
2. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
3. The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon, I Mean Noel - Ellen Raskin
4. Anastasia Krupnik series - Lois Lowry
5. Good in Bed - Jennifer Weiner
6. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
7. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
8. 1984 - George Orwell
9. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
10. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Runners-Up
Plain Truth / The Pact - Jodi Picoult
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Dresden Files series - Jim Butcher
Other books mentioned
Anita Blake series - Laurell K. Hamilton
The Dexter series - Jeff Lindsay
Beth Hatch and Cari Dubiel, both reference librarians at Twinsburg Public Library, review books of different genres. Beth and Cari have Master degrees in Library Science and Bachelors in English. Although well-read in many different subject categories, they each have their special interests. Beth's favorites are young adult fiction and adult popular fiction; Cari enjoys chic lit and fantasy. Browse Beth and Cari's Shelfari Bookshelves at the bottom of this blog to see more titles!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Episode 49 - Humorous Books
Click here to listen: Humorous Books or "Talk about People Who Made a Comeback!"
SHOW NOTES:
Date Recorded: March 9, 2009
Beth and Cari crack themselves up talking about funny books and comedians!
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Beyond the Pale by Jim Gaffigan (audio CD)
Flight of the Conchords (audio CD and television show) - Bowie in Space
Are You There Vodka? Its Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler
Couplehood by Paul Reiser
Babyhood by Paul Reiser
Belly Laughs by Jenny McCarthy
more...
SHOW NOTES:
Date Recorded: March 9, 2009
Beth and Cari crack themselves up talking about funny books and comedians!
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Beyond the Pale by Jim Gaffigan (audio CD)
Flight of the Conchords (audio CD and television show) - Bowie in Space
Are You There Vodka? Its Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler
Couplehood by Paul Reiser
Babyhood by Paul Reiser
Belly Laughs by Jenny McCarthy
more...