Comics are go! Podcast 26

Hello and welcome to the Library Love podcast from beautiful Falkirk with Gavin, Grant and Allan. Today’s episode is all about graphic novels, we will be recommending our favourite titles. If you’re tempted by any of the books we suggest, then have a look on our library catalogue where you can request it – or simply have a rummage on our shelves for some fabulous books.

What we have been reading and listening to:
Gavin has been reading:
• The Dragon’s Legacy, Deborah Wolf

Allan has been listening to:
• Podcast: You Must Remember This

Grant has been listening to:
• Mark Kermode podcasts

New and forthcoming adult books:
• Let Me Be Like Water by S K Perry
• The Boy At The Door by Alex Dahl
• You Were Made For This by Michelle Sacks.
• Wild Hunger by Chloe Neill
• Baptism of Fire: life, death and Piper Alpha by Geoff Bollands

New and forthcoming children’s titles:
• Who’s afraid of the big bad bogey? Timothy Knapman (0-3 years)
• Beano Ultimate Joke Book (6-9 years)
• Minecraft STEM Challenge: Build a Theme Park (9-12 years)
• It’s only the end of the world, JR Henderson (teen)

DVD recommendations:
• I feel pretty (15)
• Deadpool 2 (15)
• Showdogs (PG)

Our Reading Agony this week: Help, my kid is better at video games than I am! We have a great range of game guides to help you navigate your way through tricky levels. Read up on them and then impress your kids with your mad skills!

Staff quote of the day: “I can see the pub from here!”

Our discussion:  Our Favourite Graphic Novel titles
• Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman and Charles Adlard
• Judge Dredd, any author/artist
• Sweet Tooth, Jeff Lemire
• Saga by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• Kill Or Be Killed by Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips
• Rebellion Fleetway reprints particularly Charley’s War by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun
• Dungeon Fun by Colin Bell and Neil Slorence
• Watchmen, Alan Grant
• Preacher, Garth Ennis
• Halo Graphic novels

Did you know? Libraries have print magazines to read and back issues to borrow

Thank you for listening to the Library Love podcast, we hope you’ve enjoyed yourself and if you did, then join us on rate and review us on Apple so that more people can find out about us. We love to hear from you and if you’d like to get in touch with us, or if you’ve got a Reader Agony of your very own then go to www.librarylovefalkirk.com, Falkirk Libraries on Facebook or @LibFalkirk on Twitter

We’re Hat-tastic

In Falkirk Libraries’ YouTube, Librarian Naomi shares some of the 1081 wee hats that  our wonderful library users from the Home Library Service and craft groups across our area made for the Innocent big knit.

Innocent smoothies pop a wee hat onto some of their smoothie bottles and give 25p to Age UK  / Age Scotland for every hatted bottle sold.

Enjoy the video (filmed at lovely Callendar House) and keep your eyes peeled for some of the Innocent hats

Forever Books – Podcast 25

Hello and welcome to Falkirk Libraries’ Library Love podcast with Gavin, Grant and Allan. Today’s episode is all about books we never tire of recommending. If you’re tempted by any of the books we suggest, then have a look on our library catalogue where you can request them – or simply have a rummage on our shelves for some fabulous books.

What we have been reading and listening to:
Gavin has been reading:
• The Witcher 3 Game Guide

Allan has been listening to:
• Podcast: In The Dark

Grant has been reading:
• Inside the Wickerman by Alan Brown
• The Stand by Stephen King

New and forthcoming adult books:
• The Polish Girl, Hania Allen
• The Rules Of Seeing, Joe Heap
• Ordinary People, Diana Evans
• Kill For Me, Tom Wood
• He Is Mine And I Have No Other, Rebecca O’Connor

New and forthcoming children’s titles:
• Cock-a-doodle-poo! by Steve Smallman (0 – 3 years)
• Go Popplio (3 – 6 years)
• Dogman: Lord of the Fleas, Dav Pilkey (6 – 9 years)
• The Heart, Richard Spilsbury (9-12 years)
• Kick, Mitch Johnson (Teen)

DVD recommendations:
• Solo: A Star Wars Story (12)
• Walking Dead, Series 8 (15)

Our Reading Agony this week:  My new partner likes to eat out, but I can’t afford to keep doing it. – The library has a fantastic range of cook books; why not borrow one that has recipes for their favourite types of food. It’ll save you a fortune and you can dress it up as being romantic.

Staff quote of the day: ‘I must be a clock watcher because I keep looking for the clock!’

Our discussion:  Books we never tire of recommending
• Football leaks : the dirty deals behind the beautiful game, Rafael Buschmann
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Homicide: a year on the killing streets by David Simon
• Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by HG Bissinger
• Killers Of The Moon by David Grann
• Lost City of Z by David Grann
• The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann
• My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes by Gary Imlach
• The Shining by Stephen King
• Rendezvous with Rana by Arthur C Clarke
• Death of Salesman by Arthur Miller

Did you know? That in the libraries we have a selection of Local History publications for sale? Some of these were even written by current and former members of staff.

Thank you for listening to the Library Love podcast, we hope you’ve enjoyed yourself and if you did, then join us on rate and review us on Apple so that more people can find out about us. We love to hear from you and if you’d like to get in touch with us, or if you’ve got a Reader Agony of your very own then go to www.librarylovefalkirk.com, Falkirk Libraries on Facebook or @LibFalkirk on Twitter