2018 Favourites – podcast 30

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.

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Delicious Cookbooks – podcast 3

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)

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