Beth and Cari talk about various books they're reading and their criteria for giving up on a book. They also rate different Jodi Picoult books.
Tournament of Books for 2010! Check out the website http://www.themorningnews.org/tob/.
Click here to listen: More Recent Reads
SHOW NOTES:
Date Recorded: March 26, 2010
Lowboy by John Wray
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Under the Dome by Stephen King
The Ultimate Sandman, Volume 1 by Neil Gaiman
The Art of Eating In by Cathy Erway
House Rules by Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Mirrormask by Neil Gaiman
Aqua Yoga by Francoise Barbira Freedman
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
The Giver by Lois Lowery
Want to read:
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Starcrossed (YA Mythology Trilogy) by Josephine Angelini
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!
Friday, March 26, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Episode 69: Book Tournament
Beth and Cari talk about the Tournament of Books for 2010! Check out the website http://www.themorningnews.org/tob/.
Click here to listen: Book Tournment
SHOW NOTES:
Date Recorded: February 8, 2010
Books from the 2009 Tournament
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
This is Where I leave you by Johnathon Tropper
Halfbroke Horses by Jeanette Walls
Chronic City by Johnathan Lethem
The Year of the Flood by Margarat Atwood
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
Fever Chart by Bill Cotter
Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Big Machine by Victor LaValle
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
Burnt Shadows by by Kamila Shamsie
The Help by Kathrine Stockett
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
Lowboy by John Wray
Click here to listen: Book Tournment
SHOW NOTES:
Date Recorded: February 8, 2010
Books from the 2009 Tournament
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
This is Where I leave you by Johnathon Tropper
Halfbroke Horses by Jeanette Walls
Chronic City by Johnathan Lethem
The Year of the Flood by Margarat Atwood
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
Fever Chart by Bill Cotter
Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Big Machine by Victor LaValle
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
Burnt Shadows by by Kamila Shamsie
The Help by Kathrine Stockett
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
Lowboy by John Wray