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Hello and welcome to the Falkirk Libraries podcast with Tanya, Vikki and Lynne.
Today’s episode is our Desert Island Books episode – probably our trickiest to decide on. The items mentioned here can be found on our library catalogue
What we have been reading and listening to:
Vikki has been reading:
The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson
Tanya has been listening to and reading:
Peace Out Podcast
The Third Nero by Lindsay Davis
Lynne has been reading:
Picturing Prince by Steve Parke
New and forthcoming adult books:
- A Gift for Dying, M J. Arlidge,
- Storm Cursed, Patricia Briggs
- Accidental Agent, Alan Judd
- The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica, Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- Scottish Highlands and Islands, Neil Wilson (Lonely Planet Series)
New and forthcoming children’s titles:
- Please, please save the bees! , Janey Jones, Illustrator Jennie Poh (0 – 5 yrs)
- Bumblebee the Boss (5-8 years)
- The Bolds go Wild, Julian Clary, Illustrator David Roberts (7 – 9 years)
- The Girl Who Thought her Mother was a Mermaid, Tania Unsworth, Helen Crawford- White (9 – 12 years)
- Peadar O Guilin, The invasion (Teen)
DVD recommendations:
- Blackclansman (15)
- Yardie (15)
- Christopher Robin (U)
Our Reading Agony this week: ‘Can you help me beat my Post Christmas slump?’
We have some brilliant books on healthy eating, goal setting, exercise and hobbies – get into your local library and get motivated. You might like:
- Spark Joy by Marie Kondo
- Get fit, get happy by Harry Judd
- The kindness method: changing habits for good by Shahroo Izadi
- Add one stitch knitting : build up your skills stitch by stitch by Alina Schneider
Or check out one of our groups in the library – maybe try a reading group or a knitting group (there’s a new one starting in Larbert Library called Chronicles of Yarnia, which is my favourite group name ever). Or maybe use one of our pcs for free to look up some local clubs, or to tidy up your cv and look for a new job.
Staff quotes of the day: “I’m at work for a rest”
Our discussion was all about our 4 books that we’d each take to a desert island (and there was a lot of complaints that 4 books was nowhere near enough):
- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
- Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert M Pirsig
- A book on how to build your own boat to escape the island
- Any collection of Jeeves novels by P G Wodehouse
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Lord of the Rings by JR Tolkein
- Collected works of Momintroll by Tove Jansson
- A book on raw food recipes…in case I can’t build a fire
- Collected Calvin and Hobbes
- A book by Ben Law
- Movie encyclopedia
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Did you know?
Book Rivers on our catalogue and our blog
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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