Month: August 2018

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Hello and welcome to Series 2 of the Falkirk Libraries podcast with Vikki and Tanya.  This episode we were pondering the question “Which book do you believe everyone should read?”  All books mentioned in the podcast can be found on our Library Catalogue for you to request.

What we have been reading and listening to:
Vikki has been reading:
• Runaway wife Rowan Coleman
• Let me Lie, Clare Mackintosh
• The Zig Zag Girl, Elly Griffiths
Tanya has been reading and listening to:
• The Corpse at the Crystal Palace, Carola Dunn
• The Infinite Monkey Cage Podcast

New and forthcoming adult books:
• The Runaway, Hollie Overton
• Stygian, Sherrilyn, Kenyon
• Hammer of Rome, Douglas Jackson
• Katharina Code, Jorn Lier Horst
• Treachery of Spies, Manda Scott

New and forthcoming children’s titles:
• Mrs Blackhat by Mike Inkpen, Chloe Inkpen (0-5)
• I don’t want to play nicely!: a book about being kind by Sue Graves (5-7)
• The Boy Who Lived With Dragons by Andy Shepherd (7-9)
• The Creeping Clown A Tale of Terror by Jessica, Gunderson (9-11)
• The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgewick (Teen)

DVD recommendations:
• I Tonya (15)
• The Shape of Water (15)
• The Black Panther (12)

Our Reading Agony this week: “I need to find a new job and I don’t know where to start”
Here’s a small sample of possible titles we have to borrow:
• How to Succeed at Job Interviews, Jeanette Benisti
• What Color is Your parachute Guide to Rethinking Interviews, Richard N Bolles
• How to Get That Job, Malcolm Hornby
• Strengths Finder, Tom Rath
• Career Change in a Week, Patricia Scudamore & Hilton Catt
• The Straightforward CV, Pauline Rogers

Staff quotes of the day: Tanya – reading the astrology section in a book from the 1950s called the Citizen Housewife – ‘this says I’m a coquette’ – Naomi – ‘is that a potato croquet?’

Our discussion: Which book do you believe everyone should read? We asked a selection of Scottish Librarians at our professional conference and discuss their choices

Below are the titles suggested by our sample of librarians and just to carry on dispelling those myths about librarians they aren’t listed in alphabetical order!!!

• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Stormdancer, Jay Kristoff
• The Aeronauts’ Windlass Jim Butcher
• The Secret History, Donna Tartt
• Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
• The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
• Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
• The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
• Pompeii, Robert Harris
• The Stand, Stephen King
• JPod, Douglas Coupland
• Lord of the Rings, J R R Tolkien
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Kelly Barnhill
• Man is Wolf to Man, Janusz Bardach
• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
• Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut
• The Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West, Nate Blakeslee
• Rachel’s Holiday, Marian Keyes
• Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery

Coming Soon: “Crime Capers at Falkirk Library” we have Crime authors Ann Cleeves and Helen Fields with us in September for author events, please see our website for details.

Did you know? Library staff are amazing – they have all sorts of skills in research and if one of them doesn’t know where to find something, then they can find someone who does.

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