Episode 3: Hot Summer Reads, June 2013

Suzanne Gunnerson interviews Denise Garvin about the "Hot Summer Reads" and other adult summer programs at the Duxbury Free Library

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Books discussed in this episode:

• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flinn
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Episode 2: Fiction changes lives, May 2013

Ellen and Jessica talk about the ways reading fiction can be an impetus for action or change a person's perspective on life.

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Books discussed:

• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, by Judith Viorst
• On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
• Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac
• Delirium, Lauren Oliver
• The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams
• Hitty: Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
• Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
• Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
• In Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson

Episode 1: Poetry, April 2013

Episode 1:

Introducing the new podcast from Ellen and Suzanne, librarians at the Duxbury Free Library in Duxbury, MA.

In this, our inaugural podcast, we talk about poetry, because April is National Poetry Month.

Podcast #1

If you are interested, here are links to the things we mentioned:

The poem Ellen read: "How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog" by Taylor Mali. Thank you to Taylor for the open permission for everyone to use his poem!

Suzanne found poetry "written" by computer algorithms:
 The Pentametron, inadvertent tweets in iambic pentameter and lines from New York Times articles that are in Haiku format.