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Hello and welcome to the Falkirk Libraries podcast with Vikki and Margo.
With World Book Night on the horizon we chatted about book gifting and which titles we would give to a stranger. All the books mentioned can be found at our library catalogue for requesting.
What we have been reading and listening to:
Vikki has been reading:
• Naomi Alderman, The Power
Margo has been reading:
• Anthony Horowitz, Magpie murders
• David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
New and forthcoming adult books:
• Julia Heaberlin, Paper ghosts
• Philip Kerr, Greeks bearing gifts
• Elizabeth Noble, Letters to Iris
• Matthew Richardson, The Insider
• Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Hyena and the Hawk
New and forthcoming children’s books:
• Elizabeth McKay, Wee Granny’s magic bag and the pirates (0-5)
• Nadine Brun-Cosme, Daddy Long legs (0-5)
• Pippa Goodhart, illustrated by Sarah Jennings, Three waggy tales (5-7)
• Jenny Oldfield, Survival (Dolphin Island series) (9-11)
• Chris Bradford, Fugitive (body guard series 6) (Teen)
DVD recommendations:
• Murder on the Orient Express (12)
• Justice League (12)
• Wonder (PG)
Our Reading Agony this week: “The Library is closed, where can I find book reviews and recommendations”
• The Fantastic Fiction website (I use this a lot if customers want to read a series in order)
• The Good Reads website often has reviews of often very newly published items that people have received from publishers, ahead of publication in return for an honest review.
• The Scottish Book Trust website has a section of booklists for Adults, Teens and Children as well as a Scottish section on a range of different themes.
• The Reading Agency webpage Reading Groups for everyone has book reviews and recommendations.
• If you like a specific genre e.g. Crime, The Crime Writers Association have a crime readers section you can search by genre e.g. police procedural etc.
• Many authors have a website or blog.
• Social media is full of authors and book bloggers.
• Well known book purchasing sites such as Amazon have customer reviews
Staff quotes of the day: “That’s the second time I’ve had to build a snow tunnel for the cat!” Or “Pass the Snow Shovel!!” (As we recorded the podcast we were recovering from the Beast from the East).
Our discussion was all about which books would you gift to a stranger and why?
World Book Night is a national celebration of reading and books which takes place on 23 April every year. Books are given out across the UK with a focus on reaching those who don’t read regularly within communities. Tell us which books you would like to give to a new reader and or stranger on World Book Night!
Below are some of the titles we would like to give as a gift, plus some titles other family members would like to give to us.
• Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
• Louisa May Alcott, Little women
• Jane Austen, Persuasion
• Maya Angelou Still I Rise (poetry collection)
• Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes were Watching God (being reprinted by Virago)
• Maggie O’Farrell, The Hand that first held mine
• EL Stedman, The light between Oceans
• Anything by Marian Keyes
• Anthony Doerr, All the light we cannot see
• Marcus Zusak, The Book thief
• Patrick Rothfuss, The name of the wind
• Neil Gaiman, American gods
Young adults/older children:
• Patrick Ness, Knife of never letting go (Chaos Series)
• Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy
• Kate Hannigan, The Detective’s assistant
• Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons
• Johanna Spyri, Heidi
Did you Know? That many of our titles are available to borrow in Large Print or as an Audio book on CD or MP3 format.
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