Shelf Motivated

By: Mt. Lebanon Public Library
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  • Shelf Motivated is a library book chat podcast from Mt. Lebanon Public Library. Join librarians Sharon, Sarah, and Eric as they discuss books and reading - what they're currently reading and what they want to read next - book recommendations, and all things library related.
    2022
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Episodes
  • Episode 22

    Episode 22
    Nov 21 2024
    Come for the comfort reads, stay for uncomfortable to-be-reads! This time on the podcast Sarah dives into a kids’ book from the 1930s, and a book about bookshops, Eric slows down with a local writer, and a master of 20th century literary fiction, and Sharon continues her love of Laurie Lee, and books about trips, among other things. Books about libraries, a 15th century mystery, and more! Books discussed this episode: The Children Who Lived in a Barn by Eleanor Graham Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee The Bookshop by Evan Friss The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey A Thousand Feasts by Nigel Slater Emily, Alone by Stewart O’Nan Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor Summer Hours at the Robbers Library by Sue Halpern TBR:
    Sneaker Wars by Barbara Smit The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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    58 mins
  • Episode 21

    Episode 21
    Oct 16 2024

    Come for the local color, stay for the HORROR! It’s our annual spooky season episode, and this time around we discuss everything from classics of American lit that have a horror/gothic angle, to contemporary horror in translation, to pulp horror from the 80s care of the Paperbacks from Hell! We have a basic fall cozy, Sarah’s take on one of the most anticipated books of the year (our one non-horror diversion), and plenty of to-be-reads (some horror and some not!). Break out a bag of candy and dig in! Happy Halloween!

    Books discussed:
    We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
    Katie by Michale McDowell
    The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorn
    The Reaping by Bernard Taylor
    Four by Four by Sara Mesa translated by Katie Whittemore
    Help the Witch by Tom Cox
    The Villager by Tom Cox
    (non-spooky season brief discussion) Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
    Cozy: Pumpkin Spice Peril by Jenn McKinlay

    TBR
    The Cunning Folk by Tabitha Stanmore
    Hadriana in All My Dreams by Rene Depestre translated by Kaiama L. Glover
    The Vegetarian by Han Kang
    The Auctioneer by Joan Samson
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    55 mins
  • Episode 20

    Episode 20
    Sep 26 2024

    Come for memories via Istanbul, stay for satire via Norway! This time around on the show we get into the subject of re-reading, Sharon’s inability to picture anyone other than David Mitchell as Proust, Eric reading a proto-cozy-thriller (and a weird book about Shakespeare for good measure), and Sarah’s dawning realization that satire in 2024 reads more like… well, a regular novel. All this, the cozy corner, our ever-growing pile of To-Be-Reads, and more on Episode 20!

    Books discussed:

    Ghostwriter: Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron’s Royal Obsession by Lawrence Wells
    The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
    Cozy: The Big Chili by Julia Buckley
    TBR: The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser

    Within a Budding Grove: In Seach of Lost Time Vol. II by Marcel Proust Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff
    Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk Translated by Maureen Freely
    The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund De Waal
    Europe in Sepia by Dubravka Ugresic Translated by David Williams
    TBR: James by Percival Everett

    The Goodby People by Gavin Lambert
    Natural Causes by Nina Lykke
    TBR: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
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    54 mins

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