Read them or weep in 2018 – podcast 10

Hello, fantastic pod folk, we (Vikki and Tanya) enjoyed ourselves today talking about all the books and DVDs we fancy reading and watching during 2018. As always we started with a look back at what we read over the festive period.
• Tanya read the first 4 Harry Potters , plus she’d been watching the dvds
• Tanya also really enjoying Witch Please!, a podcast series about Harry Potter by 2 female Canadian academics
• Vikki had read Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennet as well as Shakespeare’s Landlord & Shakespeare’s Champion (Lily Bard series) by Charlaine Harris

New and forthcoming adult books:
• Mackintosh Clare, Let me Lie
• MacManus James, Ike and Kay
• Sidebottom Harry, The Last Hour
• Tony Parsons, Girl on Fire
• Arnaldur Indridason, The Shadow Killer
• Keane Jessie, Fearless

New and forthcoming children’s books:

• (picture book) 15 Things Not To Do With A Puppy by Margaret McAllister, illustrated by Holly Sterling
• (5 – 7 years) Mummy Fairy and Me by Sophie Kinsella
• (7 – 9 years) Kid Normal and the Rogue Heroes by Greg James and Chris Smith
• (9 – 11 years) Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky
• (9 – 11 years) Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different by Ben Brooks
• (Teen) The Fandom by Anna Day

DVD recommendations:

• Dunkirk 12A
• Baby Driver (15)
• It (15)
• The Highway Rat (U)
• Goodbye Christopher Robin (PG)

Our Reading Agony this week: ‘I got a book token for Xmas – any recommendations for a good book you’ve read that I should buy?’ (this is from a woman in Falkirk who has liked Charlaine Harris, Girl on a Train and Gone Girl) Suggestions included:
• Black Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin
• The Other Mrs Walker by Mary Paulson-Ellis
• Black Widow by Chris Brookmyre
• I Let you Go & I See You Clare Mackintosh

Staff quote of the day ‘I have dragons in the house and we put them along the staircase when my nieces and nephews come’

Our Discussion was all about Books and DVDs we are looking forward to in 2018. Our eclectic wish list included:

• Blade Runner 2049, DVD out in February
• Teen Titans go to the movies , UK cinemas August, no date for dvd yet
• Paper Girls Volume 4 by Brian K Vaughan, published April
• An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris, published October
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Paperback out March, hardback already out
• A Country Escape by Katie Fforde, published February
• Pandora’s Boy (Flavia Albia 6 ,Falco: The New Generation) by
Lindsey Davis, published April
• Scourged (final in the Druid Chronicles series) by Kevin Hearne published April
• Competence (The Custard Protocol 3) by Gail Carriger published July

Did you know? All about our e audiobook service (picture above is of Tanya knitting and listening to an e audiobook in her shed)

Coming Soon: Harry Potter Night Thursday 1st February and
The Hurricane Book Thursday February 22nd 6pm Falkirk Library. For information see our website

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