Welcome to our podcast!
This biweekly show will feature conversations and interviews all about your public libraries and the people who populate them. Tune in to laugh a little and learn a little about the communities, the staff, the events, the backrooms, the happenings, and much more.
It’s a half hour of happiness delivered to your earbuds every two weeks!
Open your eyes to all the ways your local libraries matter.
Listen to the podcast here or subscribe on your favorite Podcast platform.
Let us know what you would like to hear. Email the host at neil.mckay@wcls.org
You can also listen to the show on Mondays at 6:00 pm and Fridays at 10:00 am on KVAX 102.5 FM in east Whatcom County
Episode 11 Notes
- Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
- The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
- Sitka Alaska Community Radio Station KCAW
- Contact Tracing information from the CDC
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
– J.M. Barrie
- Nancy Pearl Action Figure at Archie McPhee’s Store
- National Book Foundation LIterarian Award
- Books by Nancy Pearl
- The Seattle Channel – Book Lust podcast
- Nancy Pearl interviews Tom Hanks (Video)
- Nancy Pearl interviews Melinda French Gates (Video)
- Seattle Reads program (formerly called “If All Seattle Read the Same Book”)
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stenger
- New Yorker article on Walker Percy’s novel, The Moviegoer
Episode 10 Notes
Book Recommendations
- Ladybug Girl
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
- The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
Book Recommendations
- Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor by Paul Beatty (Village Books)
- Ringshout, Or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times by P. Djèlí Clark
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri
Episode 9 Notes
Library of Things
Authors that Emma and Mary K. have met
Audio books with a good narrator
Ozymandias of Egypt
“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Reading Recommendations
Children’s books
Funny books
- The 2000s Made Me Gay
- Hench by Natalie Zena Walschots
(Nancy Pearl interviews Natalie Zena Walschots on her Book Lust podcast)
Scary Books
Hopeful Books
Episode 8 Notes
Episode 7 Notes
- I Found a Baby Duck, What Do I Do? by Dale Bick Carlson
- Watch the PBS live action feature film Wind in the Willows on Kanopy
- Grow your own garden with The Edible Backyard by Ivette Soler
- Katrina’s Book Recommendation: Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel Lieberman
- YouTube Video: Abbe Rolnick talks about how the community of Deming raised money and built their library
Episode 6 Notes
- Watch a video of the new Missoula MT library
- Read the latest Cascadia Weekly book reviews by Christine Perkins and Lisa Gresham
- Read about the surprise gift to the Everson Library which helped fund their remodel
- Watch the Nookchats, oral local histories filmed at the Everson Library
- Check out A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising by Raymond Villareal
- Check out Legends of the North Cascades by Jonathan Evison
Episode 5 Notes
Episode 4 Notes
Episode 3 Notes
- Say hello to Liz Andre on the South Whatcom Facebook page
- Read The Tubman Command by Elizabeth Cobbs
- Read Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
- Search our collection for Playaway reads
- Read the Britannica Library article about Shrewsbury, UK (log in with your library card)
- Here’s a graphic novel about Charles Darwin!
- New Teen Fiction and Nonfiction
- Find A Forest of Words and Whatcomics on our Teen page
- Newest Mysteries in our collection!
Episode 2 Notes
- Visit our Summer Reading page here
- See photos and images from past Summer Reading seasons including Tammy LaPlante’s reading lists from when she was a child.
- Watch our 2019 History Harvest interview with Tammy LaPlante on the Washington Rural Heritage website here
- Welcome North Fork Manager Katrina Buckman on the North Fork Facebook page here
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