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February Is Library Lovers Month

September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month and April has National Library Week but, this month is dedicated to YOU, our fiction fanatics, biblio buffs, and DVD devotees!  February is National Library Lovers Month where we celebrate those who are passionate about libraries and all they do for them.  Whether your favorite library is a public building, a school room, an overflowing shelf, or a stack of media that also serves as your coffee table, libraries play a fulfilling part in your life, and you are proud to say “I <3 my library”!

With the Lackawanna County Library System’s Winter Challenge also happening this month, February is the perfect time to meet other library lovers through a variety of programs offered at each of our nine libraries.  Whether it is Oreo-tasting, BINGO, Valenslime, movie nights, or an (un)romantic book club, each library offers programs for all ages and needs.  To see what’s happening this month, check out the events page on the Library System’s website at https://busy-solomon.184-168-20-100.plesk.page/events/.

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Abington Community Library

Lexivore Podcast, Episode 22 – Literary Festivals

In this episode of Lexivore, Mary and Renee discuss literary festivals, awards and pilgrimages. We discuss our favorite awards and book lists, some of the biggest literary festivals in the world as well as those close to home, and our own personal literary (wish list) pilgrimages.  We enjoyed chatting about our favorite awards and which books we don’t think award worthy. 

We also briefly talk about library events and programs, including the county-wide Summer Quest program and which programs we are most excited for.  We also chat about what we have been doing and reading, our new plan for rotating podcast recording now that there’s three of us (Megha and Mary next, and we will go from there). And we include a brief teaser for our next episode, where we will be discussing spooky reads for fall with a Special Guest.  

We hope you enjoy our podcast!  You can listen to it Here!

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Lexivore Podcast, Episode 21 – The Midnight Library

In episode 21 of Lexivore, Renee and Megha are joined by a guest, Mary Graham, in discussing ‘The Midnight Library’, a New York Times Best Seller by Matt Haig.  It’s an exploration of the lives one could have lived, the things that shape us and the possibilities that open up or close behind us.  We discuss the book itself, including both the work as a whole and in depth look at several sections – including one section in the middle that included a polar bear (everyone’s favorite!), and the ending with a little bit about how we expected the story to go.  We had a lot of fun during that discussion!

We also briefly talk about library events and programs, including our new subscription boxes and kits like mental health, antiracism, and even baking, as well as discussing the possibility of in person programming this summer.  We also chat about what we have been doing and reading, and include a brief teaser for our next episode, where we will be discussing literary culture, including literary trips, festivals, and prizes.  We hope you will join us for that one, too!

We enjoyed making this podcast and hope you enjoy it as well!  You can listen to it Here!

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Lexivore Podcast, Episode 20 – All Things Digital

Welcome to Episode 20, All Things Digital, in which Renee and Megha explore and explain some of the digital resources available to us – including from our own lovely Abington Community Library, the Free Library of Philadelphia, Libby the library app and the digital collections available through that, and some that are just generally available online.

We also talk about digital reading in general, from ebooks to audiobooks, to reading newspaper or magazine articles online through their own websites, to some of the interesting options available with ebooks that may not be available in print books – like using a special font that helps readers with dyslexia or works that incorporate technology more deeply – like using links to cleverly present a “choose your own adventure” story, including pictures, playlists or videoclips for a multimedia approach to storytelling, or the fun little stories or discussions that can pop up in comments on a work between the readers and with the authors.

Also our next episode will be reading and discussing Matt Haig’s Midnight Library – Get excited, it sounds so interesting 🙂

We hope you enjoy our podcast. You can listen to it Here!

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Lexivore Podcast Episode 18 – Mystery

In the 18th episode of Lexivore, the last of this year, Megha and Renee cover the mystery genre, including talking about the books from authors from various styles of mystery like cozy mysteries, or suspense, intricately written ones and a few darker, crime-novel style mysteries.

We include some widely read authors, like Agatha Christie and Mary Higgins Clark, and some that are a bit less well known. We also cover some YA mystery series and even a few well read children’s mysteries like Boxcar Children and Encyclopedia Brown, stories that we read when we were younger and that are still read today,

We also briefly discuss what might draw us to the mystery genre, or related genres like true crime. And there is a brief teaser included, for the episode beginning our next season, which will be Romance – get excited!

 

We hope you enjoy our podcast!  You can listen to it Here!

 

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Lexivore Podcast Episode 17 – Music and Books

Episode seventeen of Lexivore, has Megha and Renee tackle music, and pairings of music with books. We discuss our own genre preferences for music, briefly touch on the music our library has to offer, and discuss a few authors who use music – either directly in their books like Mercedes Lackey or in the background processes of writing like Rainbow Rowell.

We also discuss some works that are paired by subject, like the Hamilton Soundtrack with a history book, “The Good Fight: Feuds of the Founding Fathers”, or mood, like Miles Davis’s “Birth of the Cool” with R.O. Kwon’s “The Incendiaries”, or by theme, Sharon Van Etten’s “Are We There” pairing with Sally Rooney’s “Normal People”, and add a few more suggestions and recommendations along the way.

We hope you enjoy our podcast! You can listen to it Here!

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Lexivore Podcast Episode 15 – Interlude for Current Events

In episode 15 of Lexivore Megha and Renee take a detour from our regular book discussions to chat about current events, how the library is continuing services during these times, how we personally are doing (and what we are doing nowadays as well).

We also have some suggestions for our listeners with books to read, mental health resources to look over, in honor of mental health month, and some ideas for projects that might help pass the time while we all are spending so much time at home.

We had a lot of fun making this podcast, it was helpful to talk some of these things through so we hope you will find it useful to hear as well – though please forgive us if the sound wavers in a few places, we were dealing with unfamiliar recording technology.

We hope you enjoy our podcast!  You can listen to it Here!

 

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Lexivore Podcast, Episode 14 – Movies and Book Adaptions

Episode 14 has Renee and Megha joined by a guest, Sheli Pratt-McHugh from Scranton university, to talk about movies and book adaptations. We touch on some interesting books and their movie adaptions, with Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the TV show Schitt’s Creek, to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Greta Gerwin’s adaptation, The Witcher tv series, Atonement by Ian McEwan, and Little Fires Everywhere by Celest Ng. and a few more. We also briefly talk about the movies, and the book pairings, we mentioned in our teaser – Marvel MCU, Harry Potter, and Star Wars.

We had a great episode and hope you enjoy it to! You can listen to it here!

 

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Lexivore Podcast Episode 13 Graphic Novels

The thirteenth episode of Lexivore, the first of season 3, has Renee and Megha starting the year with an episode about Graphic Novels!  We discuss the nonfiction graphic novel The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan With Doctors Without Borders by Lefevre, Guibert, and Lemercier, and touch on several other graphic novels, mentioning some for children, young adults, and adults, including both fiction and nonfiction.  We also talk about about graphic novels in general – starting with some of the reasons graphic novels should be considered real reading, who might like them (mostly, anyone) and some of the benefits that come from including graphic novels in collections in libraries and schools, in summer reading recommendations and book discussions, and on one’s own to-read lists.

We hope you enjoy our podcast!  You can listen to it here!

Transcript is Available Here!

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Lexivore Podcast Episode 11 Children’s Literature

In Episode 11 of Lexivore, Renee and Megha are joined by two guests, local authors – Becky Loescher who writes children’s picture books and poetry, and Cindy Noonan who writes historical fiction for children. We discuss writing, publishing, and the writer’s group they are both members of, and then a few of their works – Cindy Noonan’s book Dark Enough to See the Stars and a poem by Becky Loescher called To Be or Not To Be, which is about writing, grammar rules, and writing mentors, and we also talk some about children’s literature.  We also include a brief mention of the topics for next episode, which will include a holiday gift giving guide and some recommendations for interesting eclectic nonfiction.

We hope you enjoy our podcast!  You can listen to it here!