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Three Books is a podcast about books produced by the Ela Area Public Library in Lake Zurich, IL. Hosted by librarians Christen and Becca.
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Episode 25: BooksGiving 2019! (Part 2)
Dec 22, 201900:58:50Tap to summarizeThree Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. This month, Becca and Christen chat with Ela Staff for gift/giving ideas for this holiday season. Sorry this guy is so late! Hopefully it will help with some last minute gift ideas or give you ideas of things to get yourself. 00:00:09 Meet Anne00:01:22 ANNE'S BOOK 1: The Legendary Harry Caray: Baseball's Greatest Salesman by Don Zminda00:03:04 ANNE'S BOOK 2: Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers00:05:35 ANNE'S BOOK 3: The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration by Roger D. Launius00:08:31 Meet Erica00:09:25 ERICA'S BOOK 1: The Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death by Corinne May Botz00:15:46 ERICA'S BOOK 2: The Driver by Hart Hanson00:19:31 ERICA'S BOOK 3: Essential Oils For A Clean and Healthy Home by Kasey Schwartz00:22:16 Meet Amanda00:23:36 AMANDA'S BOOK 1: Live Green: 52 Steps For A More Sustainable Life by Jen Chillingsworth00:29:02 AMANDA'S BOOK 2: Dear Girls by Ali Wong00:30:33 AMANDA'S BOOK 3: Good Talk: A Memoir In Conversations by Mira Jacob00:32:11 AMANDA'S BONUS BOOK 4: Get A Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert00:38:26 Meet Gus00:39:04 GUS'S BOOK 1: Acid For The Children: A Memoir by Flea00:41:36 GUS'S BOOK 2: My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor by Keith Morris00:44:06 GUS'S BOOK 3: The NES Encyclopedia: Every Game Released For The Nintendo Entertainment System by Chris Scullion00:49:04 Meet Brenda00:49:47 BRENDA'S BOOK 1: Middlewest Book Two by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona, illustrated by Mike Huddleston00:51:15 BRENDA'S BOOK 2: Up, Down All-Around Stitch Dictionary by Wendy Bernard00:54:23 BRENDA'S BOOK 3: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder 00:57:25 Three Ya Later!
Transcribe →Episode 25: BooksGiving 2019! (Part 1)
Dec 22, 201900:56:43Tap to summarizeThree Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. This month, Becca and Christen chat with Ela Staff for gift/giving ideas for this holiday season. Sorry this guy is so late! Hopefully it will help with some last minute gift ideas or give you ideas of things to get yourself. 00:00:09 Welcome to Booksgiving00:02:44 CHRISTEN'S BOOK 1: Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (First Folio edition)00:08:30 CHRISTEN'S BOOK 2: First Folio Theatre / American Writers Museum00:12:07 CHRISTEN'S BOOK 3: Good Society - A Jane Austen Roleplaying Game00:14:58 BECCA'S BOOK 1: Lovely War by Julie Berry00:17:49 BECCA'S BOOK 1a: Love From A To Z by S.K. Ali00:18:27 BECCA'S BOOK 1b: With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo00:19:08 BECCA'S BOOK 2: Effin' Birds: A Field Guide to Identification by Aaron Reynolds00:22:41 BECCA'S BOOK 2a: Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht00:25:49 BECCA'S BOOK 3: Booked: A Traveler's Guide to Literary Locations Around the World by Richard Kreitner00:28:52 Meet Katie00:29:21 KATIE'S BOOK 1: 101 Things To Do Before You Grow Up and 101 Things to Do Outside00:31:28 KATIE'S BOOK 2: Cook In A Book illustrated by Lotta Nieminen00:35:15 KATIE'S BOOK 3: Dory Fantasmagory: Tiny Tough by Abby Hanlon00:40:50 Meet Natalie00:41:16 NATALIE'S BOOK 1: Sea Bear: A Journey for Survival by Lindsay Moore00:44:51 NATALIE'S BOOK 2: Sweet Dreamers by Isabelle Simler00:50:20 NATALIE'S BOOK 3: Our Castle By The Sea by Lucy Strange00:55:18 Three Ya Later!
Transcribe →Episode 24: Three Books at the 2019 Illinois Library Association Conference
Nov 21, 201900:58:34Tap to summarizeThree Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. This month, Becca and Christen put a call out to all attendees of the 2019 Illinois Library Association Conference and they delivered with favorites from across the state! 00:04:09 Meet Amanda Kendall00:06:56 Meet Carey Gibbons00:13:25 Meet Donna Block00:16:58 Meet Elizabeth Elsbree00:19:12 Meet Jez Layman00:25:05 Meet Joe Marcantonio00:31:50 Meet Kathy Caudill00:34:44 Meet Magan Szwarek00:39:26 Meet Nancy McKay00:40:35 Meet Emily Porter00:48:26 Meet Nanette Donahue00:51:49 Meet Quinn Stitt00:57:09 Three Ya Later!Email: threebookspodcast@gmail.comShownotes: eapl.org/threebooks
Transcribe →Episode 23: What is time? with Cyndi Robinson
Oct 21, 201900:52:16Tap to summarizeThree Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. This month, we talk with Cyndi Robinson, the Deputy Director of the Illinois Library Association, about time, history, and what a library association is and what it does for libraries and their patrons. 00:00:59 Meet Cyndi Robinson 00:03:34 BOOK 1: Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman00:14:14 BOOK 2: Little Stranger by Sarah Waters00:22:50 BOOK 3: Broken Places by Tracy Clark00:27:57 What is a library association anyway?00:40:43 First library memory00:42:36 How do you find your next great read?00:45:51 What post-Civil War historical fiction book comes to mind?00:46:56 Bookish Quote00:51:23 What post-Civil War historical fiction book comes to mind? (postscript)Shownotes: eapl.org/threebooksEmail: threebookspodcast@gmail.com
Transcribe →Episode 22: Short & Sweet
Sep 26, 201900:41:16Tap to summarizeThree Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. We had so much fun talking about Children’s Book Buzz with Katie that we invited her back for an entire episode filled with sweet reads. 2:45 Book 1: Pie in the Sky by Remi Lai9:45 Book 2: Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal15:25 Book 3: The Pastry Queen by Rebecca Rather34:52 Bookish QuoteShow notes can be found at: eapl.org/threebooksThree Books Social Media:Email: threebookspodcast@gmail.comTwitter - @threebookspod
Transcribe →Episode 21: Children's Book Buzz!
Aug 8, 201900:59:09Tap to summarizeThree Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. The Children’s Department held their own Book Buzz program in June. Becca, Christen and Ela Staff chat about their selections for Book Buzz and all of the program fun! 0:00:39 Meet Katie0:01:59 What is Children’s Book Buzz0:10:17 Katie’s Books0:10:27 My Toothbrush is Missing by Jan Thomas0:14;46 Nature Anatomy 0:17:52 Stephanie W’s Books0:18:01 Never Let You Go by Patricia Storms 0:19:46 That’s Not My Bee and Are You There Little Fox?0:20:17 Anna’s Books0:20:22 The Lost Books: The Scroll of Kings by Sarah Prineas 0:21:19 Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed 0:22:16 Carol’s Books022:23 Alpaca Lunch and Brave Little Finn by John and Jennifer Churchman0:24:26 Jillian’s Books0:24:34 You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P! by Alex Gino 0:25:34 The Epic Adventures of Huggie & Stick by Drew Daywalt0:26:53 Anne’s Books0:27:03 Hello Kitty Presents: The Fairytale Collection0:28:27 Brenda’s books as read by Becca0:28:58 Star Wars: Are You Scared, Darth Vader? By Adam Rex0:29:37 Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Roverby Markus Motum0:30:25 Karie B’s Books0:30:37 Hilo Series Book 10:31:36 Hilo Series Book 5- Everything went Wrong0:32:13 Lorraine’s Books0:32;17 Pick a Pup by Marsha Wilson Chall 0:33:26 When Green Becomes Tomatoes by Julie Fogliano0:34:43 Michelle B. Books0:34:46
Transcribe →Episode 20: In Appreciation of Audiobooks
Jun 24, 201901:03:34Tap to summarizeThree Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. Booklist’s Audiobook Editor and all around amazing librarian Heather Booth talks about book creation as an ecosystem, being read to and how that has fed into her experience and passion for audiobooks, and more. 00:00:34 Meet Heather Booth 00:03:57 Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia00:11:06 Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas by Lillian and Russell Hoban00:19:11 Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett (narrated by John Lee)00:32:03 Heather’s reviews for Booklist00:36:17 Favorite Audiobook Narrators00:38:41 Recommending Audiobooks00:54:52 Bookish QuoteShow notes can be found at: eapl.org/threebooksThree Books Social Media:Email: threebookspodcast@gmail.comTwitter - @threebookspod
Transcribe →Episode 19: Just Us and the Ghost
May 13, 201901:14:34Tap to summarizeThree Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. This month, it's just Christen and Becca . . . and possibly a ghost? 00:03:39 The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee00:07:31 The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzie Lee00:13:28 Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik 00:21:35 The ILA YASF Tournament of Books00:23:22 Dread Nation by Justina Ireland 00:26:40 The Cruel Prince by Holly Black00:35:53 C2E2 00:41:32 What’s wrong with Jane Austen adaptations?00:44:41 Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal 00:51:54 Pride by Ibi Zoboi00:54:32 Every Day by David Levithan 00:59:57 Good Riddance by Eleanor Lippman01:05:11 Recap of books01:05:37 The Tolkien Exhibit in New York01:12:25 Bookish QuoteShow notes and additional information: eapl.org/threebooks
Transcribe →Episode 18: Tres Libros
Apr 2, 201901:00:41Tap to summarizeThree Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. Ela staff member Monica Perez talks about growing up in Spain, learning to make Illinois her home, and more. 0:00:27 Introducing Monica Perez0:08:22 Stowaway on the Ulysses by Ana María Matute 0:12:09 About Ana María Matute0:15:27 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez0:27:34 The Time in Between by María Dueñas0:38:36 The Time In Between on Netflix0:42:35 Buying Books in Other Languages0:44:28 America’s Multilingual culture0:47:16 Growing up in Spain0:56:41 Bookish QuoteTitles Discussed: Stowaway on the Ulysses by Ana María Matute One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Time in Between by María DueñasThe Neverending Story by Michael EndeThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie BarrowsShow notes and additional information: eapl.org/threebooks
Transcribe →Episode 17: AJ Pine Writes Real Books
Mar 1, 201901:03:16Tap to summarizeThree Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. AJ Pine aka Amy Pine talks about being a former English teacher, current librarian, and published author of REAL BOOKS. 0:00:46 Meet Amy/AJ Pine0:02:58 Jandy Nelson – The Sky is Everywhere, I’ll Give You the Sun0:09:13 Landy Taylor- Daughter of Smoke and Bone0:14:44 Rainbow Rowell- Fangirl0:25:13 Book Clubs 0:29:23 Reading as a writer0:33:47 Writing as AJ Pine0:37:23 Her first romance - If Only0:41:05 Getting Romance published0:43:04 So what’s up with those books covers (dem abz tho)0:46:54 Her third series (romantic cowboys!)0:53:28 Other writing interests0:57:48 Misconceptions about Romance Show Notes: eapl.org/threebooksContact Us:Email: threebookspodcast@gmail.comTwitter - @threebookspod
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