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A Readers’ Advisory Podcast about becoming better library staff by reading every genre, whether we like them or not! 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.

Oct 15, 2024

It’s episode 202 and that means it’s time for our One Book One Podcast Battle of the Books episode where we discuss A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher!

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Jun 18, 2024

This episode we’re giving our book pitches for our Battle of the Books 2023! Each of us has picked one title that we think we should all read and discuss and you get to vote for which one it is! Will we read Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by carla joy bergman, The Seep by...


Jan 18, 2022

This episode we’re talking about 2022: The Year of Book Two! (And sequels!) We discuss why we read (or don’t read) sequels, favourite book twos, reading series out of order, and more! Plus: Shocking reveals that don’t leave an impact because we’ve forgotten who the character is...

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Aug 18, 2020

This episode we talk about Pet by Akwaeke Emezi! There are lots of spoilers, plus discussions of ambiguity, language and communication, names, family, community, trust, and more!

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Jun 16, 2020

Battle of the Books 2020! It’s the one time a year that we all read the same book! We each pitch a title and our listeners vote and decide on which it will be. Our possibilities include Pet by Akwaeke Emezi, Best of all Possible Worlds by Karen Lord, My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by...