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On The Same Page is a podcast from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to keep you in the loop and on the same page about what’s happening at your library.

In this episode we hear from Nelson County Supervisor Ernie Reed and check our progress toward our reading resolutions.

For this episode of book chat we checked in our on Reading Resolutions from January, just a couple weeks over the six month point. Erica is over halfway to her (admittedly outlandish) goal of reading 200 books and has finished the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan like she planned. Abby wanted to read five romance novels, westerns, and historical fiction (each), and dive more deeply into the work of Octavia Butler – her progress is below. She also wanted to read more books set outside the US, and finish 175 books.

Book chat titles mentioned were:

Erica –

The Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan

• The Lightning Thief  
• The Sea of Monsters
• The Titan’s Curse
• The Battle of the Labyrinth
• The Last Olympian

Abby –

• Romances
  • The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer
  • Cowboy Heaven by Sheryl Brooks
  • Almost Perfect by Susan Mallery
  • The Corner of Forever and Always by Lia Riley
  • A Gift of Grace by Amy Clipston
• Westerns
  • Louis L’amour
  • The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt
• Historical Fiction
  • Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
  • At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen (author of Water for Elephants and Ape House)
• Outside the US
  • Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander
  • Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin
• No Octavia Butler yet, but we did discuss the Kindred graphic novel.

If you need help with your reading resolutions ask us for suggestions through our What Do I Read Next? form.

It was great to talk to supervisor Ernie Reed, from Nelson County. When talking about reading when younger, he remembered reading:

• Hardy Boys stories by Franklin Dixon
• Tom Swift Jr books by Victor Appleton
• Nancy Drew stories by Carolyn Keene
• Arthur C Clarke books
• Ray Bradbury books
• Robert Heinlein books
• Theodore Sturgeon books
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien

Currently reading:

• The Art of Loading Brush by Wendell Berry
• Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition by Jeff Biggers
• Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change by Mary Beth Pfeiffer
• How Music Works by David Byrne
• The Hour of Land by Terry Tempest Williams
• Devotions by Mary Oliver
• Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast by Mark Wojtech  

If you have an idea for podcast guests or topics or titles you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible with generous support from the Friends of Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Find out more about the Friends, what they do, and how to support them at the following link.

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On The Same Page is a podcast from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to keep you in the loop and on the same page about what’s happening at your library.

In this episode we hear from local author Elizabeth Meade Howard about her book Aging Famously and her process of interviews and writing to complete it. She visited Northside Library on June 15 to give the talk.

Book chat titles mentioned were:

Erica 

• I’m Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi
• From Twinkle, With Love by Sandhya Menon (author of When Dimple Met Rishi)

Abby 

• I am, I am, I am by Maggie O’Farrell
• The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton

The Third Fridays summer program at Northside Library featured the title Aging Famously by Elizabeth Meade Howard. Upcoming programs require no registration and will feature:

• Join the Slow Art Movement
  • Friday, July 20, 2018, 12 – 12:30PM
  • Experience the joy of deep looking with Lauren Patton, art educator from The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA. Patton engages participants in lively conversation and thoughtful observation as she leads a 30-minute conversation on one work of art.
• Lauralee Bliss: 4,000 Miles of Appalachian Trail Stories
  • Friday, August 17, 2018, 12 – 1PM
  • Local author, long distance hiker, and former ridgerunner for Shenandoah National Park, Lauralee Bliss will share inspiring stories and pictures from her 4,000 mile journey along the Appalachian Trail, hiking north with her son and then south as a solo hiker. Her powerful memoir, Mountains, Madness, and Miracles: 4000 Miles Along the Appalachian Trail will be available for purchase and signing.

If you have an idea for podcast guests or topics or titles you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible with generous support from the Friends of Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Find out more about the Friends, what they do, and how to support them at the following link.

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On The Same Page is a podcast from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to keep you in the loop and on the same page about what’s happening at your library.

In this episode, we hear from MIT Spokes about their Louisa STEM program and get some book recommendations from City Councilor Kathy Galvin. And as always we discuss what we’re reading.

Abby read:

• Brazen by Pénélope Bagieu (reminded us of Little Leaders by Vashti Harrison)
• Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman (A Morris Award finalist)

Erica read:

• Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed (who is a co-founded of We Need Diverse Books. This title reminded us of I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai)
• Summerlost by Ally Condie (who previously wrote the Matched trilogy)

We talked to Charlottesville City Councilor Kathy Galvin about the importance of summer reading. She talked about her home library as a child the public library in Brockton, MA as well as the following books:

• The Giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies by Jane Werner Watson (not owned by the library)
• Joan of Arc books
• The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• The Sailor Dog by Margaret Wise Brown
• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Currently she’s reading:

• The New Localism by Bruce Katz
• The March by E.L. Doctorow
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Friends Divided by Gordon S. Wood

MIT Spokes, a group of university students traveling cross country on bike this summer, stopped at Louisa County Library on June 1 to present a STEM outreach event. (Follow their journey on Instagram) We had the opportunity to ask them what they were reading.

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
• The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
• Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi (not owned by the library)
• A Higher Loyalty by James Comey
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• Consider Phlebas (book #1 in the Culture series) by Iain Banks
• The Circle by Dave Eggers
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• Peter Pan by JM Barrie
• The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
• The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (because it is similar to The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson essays
• A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

If you have an idea for podcast guests or topics or titles you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible with generous support from the Friends of Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Find out more about the Friends, what they do, and how to support them at the following link.

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On The Same Page is a podcast from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to keep you in the loop and on the same page about what’s happening at your library.

In this episode we talk about some books recommended to us by a young reader. Thanks, Benji! You’ll get an introduction to the upcoming Summer Reading Challenge and related programs. We also had the opportunity to chat with Albemarle County Supervisor Rick Randolph about the importance of reading for leisure and his own reading journey.

Benji’s reading suggestions were:

• Frindle by Andrew Clements (illustrated by Brian Selznick, who also did The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Wonderstruck, and  The Marvels, which we mentioned in Episode 5)
• The Great Library Race by Chris Grabenstein (part of the Mr Lemoncello’s Library series)
• The Bell Bandit by Jacqueline Davies (part of the Lemonade War series)
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (in a variety of formats and for different ages)
• Music was IT by Susan Goldman Rubin

Sarah discussed:

• Summer Reading: Find more information on our website.
• Get personalized reading recommendations from What Do I Read Next?
• Summer Reading Kickoff dates:
  • Central Library – Summer Reading Kickoff Hullabaloo: Saturday, June 9 at 10am-12pm
    
  • Crozet Library – Summer Kickoff Celebration: Monday, June 11 at 5:30-6:30pm
    
  • Gordon Avenue Library – Ice Cream Social: Wednesday, June 13 at 6:30-8pm
    
  • Greene County Library – Summer Reading Kickoff Party: Monday, June 4 at 6-8pm
    
  • Nelson Memorial Library – Reading Takes You Everywhere: Monday, June 4 at 4-6pm
    
  • Northside Library – School’s Out Block Party: Tuesday, June 12 at 5:30-7pm
    
  • Scottsville Library – Summer Reading Kickoff Party: Thursday, June 7 at 5-7pm
• She is reading:
  • Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
  • I’m So Fine: A list of famous men and what I had on by Queen Kadijah
  • Defiance: The extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard by Stephen Taylor (which reminded her a bit of Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian)

Albemarle County Supervisor Rick Randolph is reading:

• Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
• Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

If you have an idea for podcast guests or topics or titles you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible with generous support from the Friends of Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Find out more about the Friends, what they do, and how to support them at the following link.

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On The Same Page is a podcast from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to keep you in the loop and on the same page about what’s happening at your library.

In this episode we hear from participants from our second annual How-To Festival.

What we read:

Erica Read:

• Bolivar by Sean Rubin
• Sunny by Jason Reynolds (It follows Ghost and Patina in the Track series)
• Rebound by Kwame Alexander (a prequel to The Crossover)

Abby Read:

• All Out: The no-longer-secret stories of queer teens throughout the ages
• When She Woke by Hillary Jordan (Which is reminiscent of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Scarlet Letter, and even The Panopticon)

Abby and Erica both read:

• For Every One by Jason Reynolds
• When by Daniel Pink (which our guest Lin Hill mentioned in an earlier episode)

Presenters:

The Radiant Leaf owner Christina read The Same Different by Hannah Sanghee Park.

Cross Stitch instructor Miranda mentioned:

• Cross stitch books catalog
• The Half That Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist
• Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin
• The Fiery Cross (Outlander book 5) by Diana Gabaldon

Charlottesville Albemarle SPCA volunteer Brittany read Only a Promise by Mary Balogh.

If you have an idea for podcast guests or topics please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible with generous support from the Friends of Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Find out more about the Friends, what they do, and how to support them at the following link.

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On The Same Page is a podcast from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to keep you in the loop and on the same page about what’s happening at your library.

In this episode, we finally hear the recording of JMRL Same Page author Nathan Englander, recorded in March at Northside Library.

In book chat we talked about the following –

Erica read

• Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
• Islandborn by Junot Díaz

Abby read

• Feed by Mira Grant (the zombie one)
• Feed by M.T. Anderson (the computer in your brain one)

We mention Northside’s YA Book Club for Adults (featured on Episode 12).

The Nathan Englander visit was made possible in conjunction with the Virginia Festival of the Book. Special thanks to moderator Linda Kobert. Englander was here to discuss his 2012 book What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.

After listening you may want to sample Nathan Englander’s other works or read his NYT op ed about Aug. 11 & 12.
The titular story in Englander’s collection was inspired byWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver.
Englander mentions the Israeli writerEtgar Keret as well as Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint.

If you have an idea for podcast guests or topics please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast (along with the Same Page community read) is made possible with generous support from the Friends of Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Don’t forget the Friends of the Library is open even while the Gordon Avenue Library is closed for renovations. Find out more about the Friends, what they do, and how to support them at the following link.

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On The Same Page is a podcast from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to keep you in the loop and on the same page about what’s happening at your library.

In this episode we talk about some poetry collections we are reading and hear a recording of a panel from March that took place at Northside Library to discuss leadership and nonviolent conflict resolution.

Turns out Abby was wrong and Erica was correct about Tax Day. It is April 17 this year, just in case you were curious.

Erica and Abby are both reading (even more) poetry for National Poetry Month.

Erica read

• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Into the Cyclorama by local poet Annie Kim

Abby read

• The Princess Saves Herself In This One and The Witch Doesn’t Burn In This One by Amanda Lovelace
• Solo by Kwame Alexander (LEAP, Alexander’s literacy nonprofit in Ghana. Also, his other works Rebound and The Crossover.)

Panelists from the Northside panel included:

• Marie Bette Bakery owners Patrick Evans and Jason Becton
• Rev. Dr. Susan A. Minasian from Sojourner’s Church of Christ
• Grace Aheron Showing Up for Racial Justice – Charlottesville
• Jordan Leahy from ReadyKids

The panel mentioned Equal Justice Initiative (discussed in the book Just Mercy)

This podcast is made possible with generous support from the Friends of Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Find out more about the Friends, what they do, and how to support them at the following link.

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On The Same Page is a podcast from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to keep you in the loop and on the same page about what’s happening at your library.

In this episode we learn more about the upcoming renovations at the Gordon Avenue Library beginning April 10 and we hear from Dr. Addison Hobbs about his life and experiences playing minor league baseball in the Negro Leagues during the 1940s-1950s.

Erica and Abby are both reading poetry for National Poetry Month.

Erica read

• Work and Days by Tess Taylor (who appeared at the Virginia Festival of the Book in March)
• The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur (and her earlier collection Milk and Honey)
• Bull by David Elliot

Abby read

• Reconnaissance by Carl Phillips
• In Full Velvet by Jenny Johnson (mentions CLAW and The Blue Moon Diner)

Gail talked about the Gordon Avenue Library renovations beginning April 10. See this page for the latest details. Here are some of the big points to know:

• The library will be closed, but beginning Friday, April 13 it will be staffed from 10am-noon and 3-6pm Monday through Friday and from 10am-noon on Saturday for patrons to pick up holds and return items. The drive-through bookdrop will be closed.
• The Friends of the Library will still be open during renovations Monday-Saturday 9-4:30.
• The Friends of the Library are not currently accepting donations due to the Spring Book Sale. They will begin accepting book donations again April 14.
• The Gordon Avenue Library’s annual Ice Cream Social Summer Reading Kick-off will be Wednesday June 13th.

Gail read:

• Still Me by Jojo Moyes (following Me Before You and After You)
• Wallis in Love by Andrew Morton (about the British Royal Family)
• Sargent’s Women by Donna Lucy (on audio)

Dr. Addison Hobbs spoke at the Northside Library on February 20th.
His talk preceded a screening of42: The Jackie Robinson Story.
He referenced A Complete History of the Negro Leagues, 1884-1955 by Mark Ribowski
He attended Hampton University for undergrad and Rutgers University for his PhD

This podcast (along with the Same Page community read) is made possible with generous support from the Friends of Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Find out more about the Friends, what they do, and how to support them at the following link.

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On The Same Page is a podcast from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to keep you in the loop and on the same page about what’s happening at your library.

In this episode we learn more about JMRL Same Page and the Virginia Festival of the Book.

Abby talked about Annhilation by Jeff VanderMeer (and the new movie based on it) and Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi.

Erica talked about Fake ID by L.R. Giles (and his festival event with Nic Stone and Jason Reynolds)

Co-chair of JMRL Same Page Heather Pehnec talked about:

• Same Page Community Read focused on What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
• Nathan Englander will be at the Northside Library on Thursday, March 22, at 6pm.
• NEA Big Read
• Friends of the Library Book Sale (upcoming March 31- April 8)
• She’s reading:
  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (about Savannah, Georgia)
  • Theft By Finding by David Sedaris (on audio from OverDrive)

Sarah from the Virginia Center for the Book and the Virginia Festival of the Book mentions:

• SJ Sindu – Marriage of a Thousand Lies (her Festival events)
• Poet Tess Taylor – Work and Days (her Festival events)
• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor – How We Get Free (her Festival events)
• JMRL Same Page author Nathan Englander and his books What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank and Dinner at the Center of the Earth (his Festival events) with moderator Linda Kobert
• Virginia Humanities (formerly the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities – they rolled out a name change between recording and releasing this episode!)
• The Library of Congress Center for the Book and state affiliates.
• Letters about Literature program and the associated celebratory Festival event.
• Virginia Arts of the Book Center (a program of Virginia Humanities)
• She is reading:
  • Ursula Le Guin
  • What You’re Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte (her Festival events)

We gave a special shoutout to An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (also appearing at Festival of the Book), the latest release by the author of last year’s NEA Big Read selection – Silver Sparrow.

This podcast (along with the Same Page community read) is made possible with generous support from the Friends of Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Find out more about the Friends, what they do, and how to support them at the following link.

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On The Same Page is a podcast from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to keep you in the loop and on the same page about what’s happening at your library.

In this episode we learn about the Living Judaism class project created by second year UVA student Chad Kamen.

Chad is currently reading:

• How Music Works by David Byrne
• Joni Mitchell song lyrics as poetry

(We also mention Joan Didion and Jason Reynolds)

Learn more about the JMRL Same Page community read programming.

Books we read:

• What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank and Dinner At The Center of The Earth by Nathan Englander (see him at Same Page/Festival of the Book programs)
• It’s All Relative by A.J. Jacobs
• Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics by Dan Harris
• Shaking Things Up by Susan Hood

This podcast is made possible with generous support from the Friends of Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Find out more about the Friends, what they do, and how to support them at the following link.

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