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Hello and welcome to the Library Love podcast where we share our love of books and reading from Falkirk Libraries. I’m Tanya recording from home. Today I’ll be recommending comfort reads for times of change. This podcast was recorded during lockdown from my garden shed.
What I have been reading and listening to:
James Herriott – All creatures great and small
Dana Stabenow – re-reading the Kate Shugak mysteries the first one is A Cold Day for Murder
Podcasts: No such thing as a fish. The Magnus Archives. Guided Sleep Meditations
New and forthcoming adult books:
• Rules for Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
• The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde
• Mum and Dad, Joanna Trollope
New and forthcoming children’s titles:
• (2-6 years) I’m Sticking with You by Smriti Halls and illustrated by Steve Small
• (6 – 10 years) Wigglesbottom Primary: Break-Time Bunnies by Pamela Butchart and illustrated by Becka Moor
• (9 – 13 yrs) The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke and illustrated by Ayesha L. Rubio
• (Teen) One for Sorrow by Zoe Sugg and Amy McCulloch
Viewing Recommendations:
• Primeval (Amazon Prime)
• Good Omens (Amazon Prime)
• Crash course (You Tube)
Our Reading Agony this week:
‘I’m doing more cooking at the moment – any suggestions to help me out as I’m not very good’
Jack Munro – books and blog
Mary Berry (ebook)
Nadiya Hussein (ebook)
BBC Good Food magazine (emagazine)
Staff quote of the day: On a work conference call, “Did you get a good view up my nose?”
Our Discussion: Comfort reads – there is a lot of research about the positive impact that reading has on your mental health, which is great, but I would go one further and say that when things are quite stressful, we need comfort reads. These are my / my colleagues and family’s comfort reads:
- Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Anything by P G Wodehouse
- Persuasion or Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
- Mary Poppins series by P L Travers
- Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
- Whisky Galore by Compton MacKenzie
- Knitting books – any and all
- James Herriott books
- Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook
- Pokemon Handbook
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Guernset Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
- Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis
- Harry Potter series by J K Rowling
- The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
- Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery
- Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Did you know?
We have lots of free online resources for you – our ebooks, emagazines and eaudiobooks are brilliant and you can download them easily onto your device – go to our website for information about how to sign up.
You can join our library online – it’s free and easy to get set up and you can use lots of our online resources
Our Falkirk Libraries Youtube channel has videos of storytimes for small people (BSL and spoken) and videos about the history of the Falkirk area too.
Our blog www.librarylovefalkirk.com has lots more information, including fun info about our staff and some ideas for things to do indoors
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