Episode 714: West Side Story

12/02/21 • 14 min

Thank you for joining us on this season of our Reader’s Advisory book group podcast! It’s always better when you are here with us to talk about books. We have more genres to discuss, new books to recommend, and we’re so glad you’re here to join us. We always enjoy our book group podcast, and we hope you do, too! You can find our , with links to everything we share with you today. This week we are sharing a special pop culture episode with you! We are looking at the movie West Side Story. IMDB describes the plot: “An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.” The amazing Rita Moreno stars in this, and is an Executive Producer, along with Steven Spielberg. You may remember her from dozens of TV shows, movies, and more - she is an EGOT winner! We have more to discuss, so let’s settle in and get to the fun part: the book discussion! This week we are taking a quick look at some books about music, to celebrate this new movie. Sit back with a beverage you will enjoy, and let’s share some books you might enjoy. We always enjoy hosting these book groups with you, and want you to have everything you need for the best experience! And of course, if you are in a library, you can add these books to your collection, or use our suggestions as a place to start in setting up a display for your community members! Do you want to talk about some materials or programming ideas? Check out our Discord channel, talk to us on Twitter or Facebook, or just send us an email! We are here to share ideas across libraries.

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Episode 713: Native American / Thanksgiving alternatives

Thank you for joining us on the seventh season of our Reader’s Advisory podcast! We have more genres to discuss, new books to recommend, and we’re so glad you’re here to join us. We always enjoy our book group podcast, and we hope you do, too! Our organization is the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange. At CMLE, we work with all types of libraries. This week on the show we’re learning more about Native American voices and recommending books to read all year round, but particularly around Thanksgiving. You can check out , for all the information we share today and links to the books we are discussion. And our returning Guest Host is Stephanie Todd! Steph works at the St Cloud Technical and Community College library. Welcome back to the book group! There’s more to the story of Thanksgiving than you may remember from elementary school. We’ll link to several resources if you want to explore more, but for today’s episode, we’re going to honor and share books from Native American authors. Native Americans lived in North America long before the Pilgrims arrived and it’s important to recognize their voices and perspectives.

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Episode 715: MN Bookstores

It has been so great to read with you for this season – we just can’t bear for our book fun to end. So while we are on hiatus you will get a quick Browsing Books episode each week. We give you a book prompt each week, we talk about six books to meet the prompt. We have been producing these for a while now, so you can browse our entire . Check out our . We have links to the beverages we enjoy today, the bookstores we are suggesting, and the books we are sharing. Usually, for our season finale, we share Minnesota books: stories set in Minnesota and/or books written by MN authors. You can listen to all our past MN book episodes on our website: cmle.orgThis season though, we’re changing it up just a little! This is actually our second episode highlighting some of the awesome independent bookstores in our state. (Listen to the episode ) This week, we’re shouting out a few more favorites and talking about the books that the booksellers who work there recommend. Who is joining us today? Friend of our podcast and occasional Minnesotan, Violet Fox! Thanks for joining us again today!