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Hello and welcome to the Falkirk Libraries
podcast with Tanya and Lynne
Today’s episode is all about science in fiction. All of the books mentioned can be found on our library catalogue
What we have been reading and listening to:
Tanya
has been reading and listening to:
- The Lean and Happy Home: More time less stress by Eva Jarlsdotter
Lynne has
been reading:
- The Detainee by
Peter Liney – Listening to it on RB Digital audiobook
- Shaun Keaveny’s Show and Tell podcast
New
and forthcoming adult books:
- The Giver of
Stars by Jojo Moyes
- The Ankh-Morpork
Archives: Volume One by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby
- Twisted
Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich
- The Siberian
Dilemma by Martin Cruz Smith
- Spy by Danielle
Steel
New and forthcoming children’s titles:
- The House Full of Stuff by Emily Rand (0 – 4 yrs)
- Yasmin the Builder and Yasmin the Explorer by Saadia Faruqui (5 – 7 yrs)
- Max the Detective Cat in the Catnap Caper by Sarah Todd Taylor (Author), Nicola Kinnear (Illustrator) (7 – 9 yrs)
- The Velvet Fox (The Clockwork Crow Book 2) by Catherine Fisher (9 – 11 yrs)
- The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton (Teen)
- The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two by Philip Pullman (Teen)
DVD
recommendations
Our Reading Agony this week: ‘A friend
has to go into hospital, any books that you’d recommend for him?’
Anything and everything – maybe a great new book that he won’t
have read – maybe the new John Le Carre, Agent running in the field; and perhaps
something comforting that they might have read before like an Agatha Christie
or PG Wodehouse. Sometimes if you’re
feeling rough, you might be too tired to read, so it might be good to download
our RB digital app onto their phone so they can check out some eaudiobooks to
listen to or they could choose their own books or magazines to read. Sometimes the wifi in hospital can be a bit
dodgy (depending on where you are in the building, often) so it could be good
to help him download some stuff before he goes in.
Staff
quote of the day ‘Don’t injure yourself, I can’t face
the paperwork’
Our Discussion was Science in Fiction. Not Science fiction,
but the books that have science in them as part of the plot. So, a lot of it certainly seems to form something
of a cautionary tale – of experiments gone wrong or being used to the detriment
of others. Here are a few of the ones we mentioned (all are adult unless
stated):
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- Scott Westerfield “Uglies” series
- His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman (Teen / older children)
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
- My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffeneger
- Forensic scientists in Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, for example
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Children of Men by P D James.
- Underdogs by Chris Bonnello (new UK based dystopian novel for older kids / teens with a cast of neurodiverse teens battling the military takeover)
- Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert O’Brien (9 – 13yrs)
Did
you Know? We
have a wonderful Home Library Service that delivers books and audiobooks to
people who cannot make it into a library (usually through chronic ill health or
mobility issues). A staff member comes
out for a chat about what sort of books the person likes, the format that works
best and how many they need. Then every
3 weeks, a staff member delivers a bag of specially chosen books to the
person’s house and takes away the old books.
If this sounds like something you, or someone you care about, would like
to access, then please phone 01324 506800 and ask for more information
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