In our final episode, Christina and Jen share what they’ve read recently, and what they’re going to read next.Pirate Enlightment by David Graeber, Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David WengrowThe Relevant Library: Essays on Adapting

Timeless and New

Jul 11th, 2023 41m 12s

The ladies of the RBL Podcast dip into the magical with what they're reading lately.Christina's shares work from one of her favorite authors: Get In Trouble by Kelly Link, and White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link. Plus, check out this amazing fe

Your Imagination Needs To Get There First

Jun 27th, 2023 40m 40s

This week Jen's reading Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein and The Trend Forecaster's Handbook by Martin Raymond. Christina's working through Stanford's Human-centered AI Reading List (view the full list her

Bonus

Special Announcement

Jun 20th, 2023 1m 6s

The RBL team has some bittersweet news.

The Effort Was There

Jun 6th, 2023 51m 19s

Connect with your inner sleuth with Kat’s take on Long Bright River by Liz Moore, Transcription by Kate Atkinson, The Witch Elm by Tana French, Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Recursion by Blake Crouch. The mystery continues wi

What of the Dirigibles?!

May 17th, 2023 43m 18s

Christina is on a film roll with Sarah Polley’s memoir Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory. Discover a magical mixture of magazines and gothic mystery with Kat’s talk on Orion Magazine and Paraic O’Donnell’s The House o

It’s Always Camus with You

May 2nd, 2023 34m 35s

Christina explores the weight of social expectations and gender dynamics with My Nemesis by Charmaine Craig before taking an introspective stroll through The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler. Jen continues t

Charles “Mark Twain” Dickens

Apr 18th, 2023 39m 9s

Season Five is here and we have great expectations. Christina walks the halls of dark academia with Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, continues her foray into the world of Alex Stern with Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo and signs off with runaway b

Curator of Your Own Life

Dec 13th, 2022 53m 4s

Yearly reading goals: do we set them? Do we accomplish them? We also share what’s up next on our TBR piles.Christina picked up Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabriele Zevin again, and liked it better this time around. She

Spoiler Alert!

Nov 29th, 2022 52m 53s

This week we tackle books from all the fun genres we pulled out of a hat in our episode "You Have My Full Attention" (Nov 1st, 2022.)Jen didn't like Fake Memoir; she tried Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill & A Hell Called Ohio by John M. Ha

Book Cleanse

Nov 15th, 2022 42m 58s

In this episode, the library ladies of Richfield cover a range of topics from art and academia, disorder and design, fancy juices and the vastness of space.Christina cleans her palate with Graphic Novels, especially those from Canadian publish

You Have My Full Attention

Nov 1st, 2022 43m 35s

We kick of the episode with something fun: we picked fun genres out of a hat to review in Episode 7! So look for that in the coming weeks.Christina's enjoying Everyday Information Architecture by Lisa Maria Martin, and one of the books she re

A Little Bit of Ambiguity

Oct 18th, 2022 38m 27s

Christina examines the line between beauty and terror in When We Cease To Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut.Jen's looking for insights in Navigating Ambiguity Andrea Small and Kelly Schmutte, and The Library as Playground by Dale Leorke

Aspirational Elderliness

Oct 4th, 2022 35m 50s

Christina discusses two memoirs: Crying In H-Mart by Michelle Zauner, and The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras.Jen shares The Third Teacher by Cannon Design, VS Furniture, and Bruce Mau Design (Check out their website thethi

TBR 2: You Can't Save What You Don't Love

Sep 20th, 2022 51m 50s

Our To Be Read piles have gotten unwieldy again, so we thought we'd share the wealth of great-sounding titles we're hoping to get to... someday.Christina's interested in How To Be Perfect by Michael Schur, How To Fail Successfully: Finding You

Where Are They Now?

Sep 6th, 2022 45m 45s

Former student shelvers Rachel & Megan return to tell us all about how college is going, what amazing things they're up to, and of course, what they're reading!Rachel's reading Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson, and The Dilemma by B. A. Par

Sniffing Magazines

Jun 28th, 2022 56m 22s

You can tell it’s our last episode of Season 3, because we have a small tangent festival discussing art critiques and browsing discarded magazines in public places. This really is what it’s like to pull up a chair behind the desk! (PS - The boo

Secretly Recommended By You

Jun 14th, 2022 47m 57s

This week, we realized all our books were ones that we saw (or saw again and were reminded that we wanted to read them) when they were returned! Our patrons find the best stuff!Jen's reading and recommending MANY books this week: Storytelling

Well Loved: Book Sale Gems and Bargain Bin Finds

May 31st, 2022 50m 14s

In this episode, we mine the book sale for hidden treasures! Join us this weekend, June 4th 2022, at the Richfield Library for the Friends of the Library Book Sale.Christina shares books that have collected meaningful ephemera before she foun

Consciously Naïve

May 17th, 2022 43m 31s

In this episode, we discuss the healing, charming, and classic books we're reading, as well as our favorite books from our childhood. (Why are adults in children’s books always so apathetic?) (**Please note: In this episode we discuss Women Tal

Where You Belong

May 3rd, 2022 44m 43s

Jen, Kat, and Christina talk about the books they're reading this week, about moving, staying, and the meaning of place.Christina shares insights from Tarot For Change by Jessica Dore.Kat explores Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz, and why p

National Poetry Month: A Bunch of Suckers In The Woods

Apr 19th, 2022 54m 43s

April is National Poetry Month (Check out Poets.org for 30 ways to celebrate at home!) and we've been having so many discussions about what poetry means to us, what is and isn't poetry, and what is and isn't meaningful. (**Please note: in this

National Library Week II: Going Back In For The Books

Apr 5th, 2022 50m 24s

It's our favorite week here in Richfield: National Library Week!Kat discusses 10,000 Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow, The Card Catalog by The Library of Congress and Carla Hayden, The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, and, of course, The Gu

Hello, Kat!

Mar 22nd, 2022 38m 38s

Jen and Christina welcome new co-host and Adult Librarian Kat to the show!Christina read so many great books over the break. But she also read Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen.Kat makes the case for letter writing with To The Letter: A Celebrat

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We're Back With Season 3!

Mar 8th, 2022 9m 2s

Meet our new co-host and Adult Librarian, Kat, and hear what Jen and Christina are looking forward to in Season 3. We'll be back in 2 weeks with full episodes, so start looking for us again wherever you listen to podcasts!