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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 1, 2019

This month we’re discussing American Gothic! We discuss old creepy houses, weird families, cultural context, potential supernatural, the sense of unease, and media that makes you feel emotions. Plus: You’ve inherited a haunted decaying space station.

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In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Jessi F

Things We Read

Other Media We Mention

Links, Articles, and Things

New genres we made up

  • Latin American Gothic
  • Space Gothic

Suggest new genres!

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 15th we’ll be discussing suspending our disbelief when it comes to fiction plus we’ll talk about literary-themed Halloween costumes!

Then on Tuesday, November 5th we’ll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Psychology!