Episode 10: Summertime and the Readin’ is Easy (Unless You Work in a Public Library)

Three Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. They talk about what they’re reading this summer and get three book recommendations from Ela Staff.

0:2:28 Staff Picks Part 1
0:5:27 Becca is STILL reading Children of Blood & Bone
0:6:49 Staff Picks Part 2
0:9:23 Christen Book One- The Tin Man by Sarah Winman
0:13:31 Christen Book Two: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
0:22:53 Christen Book Three: The Murderbot Diaries (Series) by Martha Wells
0:33:22 Books to TV news- Sanditon by Jane Austen
0:34:55 Staff Picks Part 3
0:36:51 Becca doesn’t do summer reading
0:37:52 Becca Book One: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
0:48:24 Becca Book 2: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
0:52:13 Becca Book 3: The Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell with writing from ten other authors: Jay Fuller, David DeMeo, Katie Schenkel, Kris Moore, Molly Muldoon, Vid Alliger, Manuel Betancourt, Michael Cole, Cloud Jacobs, and Barbara Perez Marquez
1:02:38 Staff Picks Part 4
1:05:16 Closing Notes

Additional books mentioned by Christen and Becca -
I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman
The Martian by Andy Weir
Raina Telgemeier graphic novels
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
All's Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson
Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

Watching -
Mindhunter
“An Origin Story” by Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye

Other Info -
Project Voice - http://www.projectvoice.co
The Cardboard Kingdom Projects and Info - https://chadsellcomics.com/thecardboardkingdom/

STAFF PICKS
Staff Picks Part 1
The New books by Nora Roberts
Ghosted by Rosie Walsh
All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffen
A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Whahong
The Poppy War by RF Quang
The Swedish Art of Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson
The Long Haul by Finn Murphy
The Real Queen Elizabeth by Andrew Maher
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Mare
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard
Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl
The Fallen by David Baldacci
After Anna by Lisa Scottoline
The Neuroscientist That Lost her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska
Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Daves
Love and Other words by Christina (Hobbs) Lauren
Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel

Staff Picks Part 2
A Lullaby of Summer Things by Natalie Reif Ziarnik
The Penderwicks at Last by Jeanne Birdsall
The Secret Sisters of the Salty Sea by Lynne Rae Perkins

Staff Picks Part 3
Battle Bunny by Jon Scieszka Mac Bennett
Dory and the real true friend by Abby Hanlon
Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo

Staff Picks Part 4
Americanah- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
The House Girl by Tara Conklin
Summer in Orcus by T Kingfisher
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones
We Free Men by Terry Pratchett
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
Home of the Unwanted girls by Joanna Goodman
My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan

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