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Positive mental health – pod 39

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Wee sound quality warning here, folks. We’re so sorry for this and have had a bit of editing to improve things, but a few bits aren’t quite as clear as usual.

Hello lovely people, we recorded this some time ago and reference Mental Health Week – life got in the way and we’re quite late, but it’s still a great chat, with lots of good suggestions for books to read and ways to stay mentally tip top.

Hello and welcome to the Library Love podcast with Tanya and Vikki. Today’s episode is all about Mental Well-being. The books we mention are on the Falkirk Libraries catalogue

What we have been reading and listening to:

Tanya has been reading and listening to:

  • The Weighing of the Heart, Paul Tudor Owen
  • In our time (BBC) Podcast

Vikki has been reading:

  • The Story Keeper Anna Mazzola, (Also available to listen to on audio)
  • Paper Ghosts, Julia Heaberlin
  • Pilot TV Podcast

New and forthcoming adult books:

  • The October Man,  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Those People,  Louise Candlish
  • Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A …. Gill Sims
  • After the End, Claire MacKintosh
  • A Dangerous Man, Robert Crais (Book 7 in the Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Series)

New and forthcoming children’s titles:

  • Tooth Fairy In Training,  Michelle Robinson | Illustrator, Briony May Smith (0-5)
  • Double Dragons,  Enid Richemont, Ayesha Lopez  (5-7)
  • The Dragon In the Library, Louis Stowell Illustrator Davide Ortu  (7-9)
  • Evie and the Animals, Matt Haig Illustrator Emily Gravett  (9-11)
  • The paper & hearts society. Book 1 , Lucie Powrie  (Teen)

DVD recommendations:

  • Mary Poppins Returns (PG)
  • Wreck It Ralph- Ralph Breaks the Internet (PG)

Our Reading Agony this week:

Can you recommend some books for a family member suffering with anxiety and depression?

Some suggested titles in stock are:

  • Overcoming social anxiety and shyness, Gillian Butler
  • Overcoming depression, Paul Gilbert
  • Overcoming low self ssteem, Melanie Fennell
  • How to stop worrying, Frank Tallis
  • Living with a black dog, Matthew Johnstone
  • Mindfulness a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world, Mark Williams
  • Self-compassion stop beating yourself up, Kristen Neff

Staff quote of the day “These VR headsets play havoc with an updo”

Our Discussion was all about the different ways we try and keep ourselves mentally well

But we aren’t experts so please do get some professional help if you feel low.

Tanya recommended Saved by Cake by Marian Keyes

Below are some online sources of information:

NHS Inform https://www.nhsinform.scot/healthy-living/mental-wellbeing

FDAMH https://www.fdamh.org.uk/resources/

Breathing Space https://breathingspace.scot/ Telephone  0800 85 83 87

Samaritans https://www.samaritans.org/ Telephone  08457 90 90 90

Did You Know?

There are NHS Mental Health and Wellbeing self-help guides available online, they can be downloaded, listened to as an audio file or they can be forwarded to friends and family

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

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2018 Favourites – podcast 30

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Hello and welcome to the Falkirk Libraries podcast with Tanya and Vikki.
Today’s episode is all about Library staff and customers favourite reads of 2018.  All the books mentioned are in stock in our libraries and can be found at our library catalogue
What we have been reading and listening to:
Vikki has been reading:
• Only the Dead Can Tell, Alex Gray
• Nine Perfect Strangers, Liane Moriarty
Tanya has been reading:
The Rose Garden, Marita Conlon-McKenna

New and forthcoming adult books:
• The Lost Man, Jane Harper
• Cold as the Grave, James Oswald
• Dirty Little Secrets, Jo Spain
• The Problem with Susan and Other Stories, Neil Gaiman
• The Secretary, Renee Knight

New and forthcoming children’s titles:
• When a Dragon comes to stay , Caryl Hart| Illustrator Rosalind Beardshaw (0-5)
• The Aliens are coming , Tracey Corderoy , illustrated Steven Lenton (5-7)
• Spider, Alan MacDonald | Illustrator Roberts, David (7-9)
• Rise of the Dragons, Angie Sage (9-11)
• Fated , Teri Terry (Teen)

DVD recommendations:
• Mamma Mia- Here we go again (12)
• Skyscraper (12)

Our Reading Agony this week:
My daughter’s just turned vegan and I haven’t a clue what to cook.
Don’t worry we have a whole range of Vegan cookbooks in stock.
Below is a sample selection:

• The Ultimate Book of Vegan Cooking :Everything you need to know about going Vegan, Tony Bishop Weston
• 15 Minute Vegan on a Budget, Katy Beskow
• Vegan Christmas: over 70 amazing recipes for the festive season, Avant-Garde Vegan
• Feed Me Vegan, Lucy Watson

Staff quote of the day: “When will it be spring?”

Our discussion was all about staff and customers favourite reads of 2018
This list is still being added to, but will be available as a book river on our catalogue by the end of January.
Below is a selection of the titles we discussed:

• History of Bees, Maja Lunde
• Let Go My Hand, Edward Docx
• Falcon of Sparta, Conn Iggulden
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris
• Circe, Madeline Miller
• 21 Escapes of Alastair Cram, David Guss
• The White Darkness, David Grann
• Poverty Safari, Darren McGarvey
• The Queen of Bloody Everything Joanna Nadin
• While I was Sleeping, Dani Atkin
• Still Me, JoJo Moyes
• The Story Keeper , Anna Mazzola
• Bridge of Clay, Markus Zusak
• Warlight, Michael Ondaajte
• Deadmen’s Trousers, Irvine Welsh
• Paper Ghosts, Julia Heaberlin
• The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle, Victoria Williamson

Did you know?
Thanks to some Scottish Government funding we are currently working with the Scottish Book Trust on a Digital Storytelling project. Our project is one of 5 across Scotland and is called The Peoples Story Project.
We have our very own Digital storyteller Sabine working with us and with groups and organisations across the district until June 2019.
What is Digital Storytelling, well in a nutshell a digital story is just a short story (usually spoken by the author) which also includes images, film footage or animation.
We’ve asked Sabine to write us a blog all about the project which will be posted soon.
However in the meantime if you are in a group that might be interested in taking part in a series of workshops please do get in touch.

Thank you for listening to the Library Love podcast, we hope you’ve enjoyed yourself and if you did, then 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

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Delicious Cookbooks – podcast 3

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Hello and welcome, we enjoyed ourselves talking about food on this third Library Love Podcast, with loads of excellent cookbooks suggestions.  Margo, Laura and I (Tanya) shared what we had recently been reading and listening to:
• Tanya read The Witch at Wayside Cross by Lisa Tuttle
• Tanya has been listening to the BBC’s In our time podcast
• Margo has been listening to an audiobook of Chris Brookmyre’s Black Widow
• Laura read David Lagercrantz The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

New and forthcoming adult books:
• The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch
• Death in the Stars by Frances Brody
• The House of Unexpected Sisters by Alexander McCall Smith
• A Legacy of Spies by John le Carre
• In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende

New and forthcoming children’s books:
• Pumpkin competition (0 – 5 year olds)
• Ellie Featherbill by Daisy Meadows (5-7 year olds)
• Krypto: the origin of Superman’s dog by Michael Dahl (7-9 year olds)
• Tom Gates: DogZombies rule (for now) by Liz Pichon (9-11 year olds)
• The cost of living by Rachel Ward (Teen)

DVD recommendations:
• Wonder Woman (12)
• Fate of the Furious (12)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Salaza’s Revenge (12)
• Churchill (PG)
• The Mummy (15)
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid (U)
• Captain Underpants

Our Reading Agony this week is to help a lady who has just been diagnosed with diabetes – she wants to eat healthily but is really bored of what she’s been eating. We recommended some great cookbooks for her:
• Healthy Eating for Diabetes by Antony Worrall Thompson
• Phil Vickery’s Ultimate Diabetes Cookbook
• The Everything You Need to Know About Diabetes Cookbook by Karin M Hehenberger
• Quick Cooking for Diabetes by Louise Blair
• The complete book of diabetic cooking by Bridget Jones

We discuss delicious cookbooks today and Margo, Laura and I had a great time talking about some of the tempting recipes books on our shelves. Cookbooks (or authors) mentioned :
• Goodhousekeeping One Pot Cookery
• Delia Smith
• Jamie Oliver’s Save with Jamie
• Rick Stein, especially his From Venice to Istanbul
• Cooking up a storm and Get Cooking by Sam Stern
• River Cottage Gluten Free by Naomi Devlin
• Madhur Jaffrey’s Eastern Vegetarian Cookery (or anything by her)
• Rose Elliot
• Cooking Without by Barbara Cousins
• Sabor by Nieves Barragán Mohacho
• Diana Henry, particularly Crazy water, pickled lemons : enchanting dishes from the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa
• The Hairy Bikers, particularly The Hairy Dieters. Book 1, How to Love Food and Lose Weight

Staff quote of the day is more dragons

Did you know? Laura tells us about the joy of Reading Groups (for all ages)

Thanks very much for listening and if you want to get in touch with us, then please come and chat with us on Facebook (Falkirk Libraries), Twitter (@LibFalkirk) or here on our website www.librarylovefalkirk.com

 

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Psychological thrillers and more – podcast 1

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Hello lovely people, we had a great chat today on the first Library Love podcast, with loads of excellent reading suggestions (with links here so you can request them with a Falkirk Library card). Vikki, Kevin and I (Tanya) shared what we had recently been reading and listening to:
• Tanya read The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
• Tanya has been listening to No Such Thing as a Fish podcast (sweary warning)
• Vikki read Dear Amy by Helen Callaghan and Black Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin
• Kevin read Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton

New and forthcoming adult books:
• Munich by Robert Harris
• The Seagull by Anne Cleeves
• The Break by Marian Keyes
• Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King
• The Growing Season by Helen Sedgewick
• Moonshine vol.1  by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso

New and forthcoming children’s books:
• The Ugly Five by Julia Donaldson and Illustrator Axel Scheffler (picture book)
• Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz by Michael Morpurgo and Illustrator Emma Chichester Clark (picture book)
• Birthday Boy by David Baddiel (for roughly 8 – 12 year olds)
• No Shame by Anne Cassidy (for teenagers)

DVD recommendations:
• Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (12)
• Alien Covenant (18)
• Beauty and the Beast – Live action (PG)
• Smurfs – The Lost Village (U)

Our Reading Agony this week is to help a mum whose 8 year old son is having trouble reading and who is becoming really turned off books. We suggest some excellent tactics to help this boy learn to love books again.

We discuss Psychological Thrillers today and Vikki and Kevin try and persuade me to give them a go. Psychological thrillers recommended :
• I Let You Go by Claire Macintosh
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewel
• The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
• Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant
• Girl On a Train by Paula Hawkins

Staff quote of the day is from Vikki “I want a dragon for my birthday”

Did you know?  Kevin tells us all about the fantastic emagazines that are available for free on your mobile device with a Falkirk library card.

Thanks very much for listening and don’t forget to get in touch with us