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Want to jump around? Use these time codes to visit different segments in today’s episode:

1:27 – EJ shares about Truly, Madly by Stephen Galloway

9:45 – Abby shares about The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

14:02 – Interview with Brianne Kirkpatrick, founder of Watershed DNA

21:49 – Interview with Iney Byfield, member of Cville TimeBank

29:40 – Interview with Carol Quigless, small business owner, Flourish Essential Oils 

32:30 – Podcast book club Overbooked, chapters 1-3

Your third clue for #SamePageObject: “Perhaps you have played a part in penning this object’s poesy.” Your previous two clues were: 

• Located near where new might meet you, and, 
• This object honors one of April’s monthly celebrations 

What’s your guess? Tag us on social media, or email us at podcast@jmrl.org. Join us in two weeks for the big reveal, and to begin our next round of guessing game fun!

Be sure to read chapters 4-6 of The Glass Ocean before our next episode on May 27. Don’t have time to listen to the whole podcast but still want to participate in Overbooked? Check out our Overbooked video, premiering Tuesday, May 17, for visuals and the audio from today’s discussion on JMRL’s YouTube!

As always, please email podcast@jmrl.org with comments, suggestions, ideas, or anything else. We’d love to hear from you. 

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website. 

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We started our episode by talking about reading: 

Abby read Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert 

EJ read To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn 

Mark your calendars for the 4th Annual How-To Festival at Central Library! The Festival takes place from 10-1 on Saturday, May 14. 

In this episode, we talked to:

Samyuktha Mahadevan, project manager of One Small Step

Kathy Kildea, co-vice chair of Cville Tool Library

Sarah Delgado, finance and operations manager of Community Climate Collaborative

Tune into our next episode on Friday, May 13 to hear from three other community members who will be presenting at the How-To Festival! 

Brianne Kirkpatrick, founder of Watershed DNA

Iney Byfield, member of Cville TimeBank

Carol Quigless, small business owner, Flourish Essential Oils 

Your second clue for #SamePageObject: “Located near where new might meet you.” What’s your guess? Tag us on social media, or email us at podcast@jmrl.org. 

Our podcast book club, Overbooked, has officially launched! Join us in reading The Glass Ocean by Williams, Willig, and White. The story follows three women Sarah, Caroline and Tess as they all wrestle with family secrets, mystery, and the unfortunate situation they find themselves in – on board the doomed Lusitania. Join us every episode through September for our “Overbooked” discussion! You can find the book at the library in traditional print, large print, as a book on CD, or as an eBook on Freading (no holds, no wait time – ever). Get involved in the conversation on social media using #Overbooked.

Our reading schedule is as follows: 

As always, please email podcast@jmrl.org with comments, suggestions, ideas, or anything else. We’d love to hear from you. 

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website. 

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Susan shares with our listeners about the book One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps by Kevin Griffin. Find out a ton more about Kevin’s work, and even connect with him directly through free Zoom classes, by visiting his website. 

We also talked about our own reading: 

Abby read Inferno: a Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine Cho 

EJ read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Your first clue for #SamePageObject: “This object honors one of April’s monthly celebrations.” What’s your guess? Tag us on social media, or email us at podcast@jmrl.org. 

Tune in on 4/29/22 for the start of a BRAND NEW SEASON! We will be discussing the 4th annual JMRL How-To Festival. 

 As always, please email podcast@jmrl.org with comments, suggestions, ideas, or anything else. We’d love to hear from you. 

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website. 

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In this episode, local parenting experts and advocates, and mental health professionals, joined forces to share warmth and wisdom for those of us parenting through the pandemic. Not a parent? No problem. You will still benefit from the discussions on self-care, recognizing ourselves as experts of our own experiences, and what it means for us as a community to be experiencing collective trauma. 

Want more of these amazing panelists? Register to join us for our upcoming virtual programming with these same presenters (and plenty of time for discussion, questions, and more): April 21, 7 pm, and May 26, 7 pm.

Jacquelyn Lazo, who spearheaded this event, invites you to check out her book, Comeback Kids, for more information on post-pandemic parenting. 

Sarah Lewis, one of our guests, is part of a great podcast: Podcast Therapists. 

We also talked about reading: 

Abby read Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

EJ read The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up by Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes

As always, please email podcast@jmrl.org with comments, suggestions, ideas, or anything else. We’d love to hear from you. 

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends, head to their website. 

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In this episode, I talked to YA author Traci Chee about her book We Are Not Free, JMRL’s Same Page selection for 2022. We talked about Traci’s personal connection to the novel and how it was to create, write, and imagine the 14 teens who serve as narrators and protagonists. If you haven’t already read We Are Not Free, make sure to do so before March 17th, when Traci will be joining us for our mainstage Same Page event. 

Read the books Traci mentioned in our interview: 

Citizen 11360 by Mine Okubo 

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei 

Displacement by Kiku Hughes

We Are Not Free read alikes compiled by JMRL staff.

Tune in next time to hear a conversation with Jacquelyn Lazo, local author of Comeback Kids. 

 As always, please email podcast@jmrl.org with comments, suggestions, ideas, or anything else. We’d love to hear from you. 

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends, please head to their website. 

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In this episode, we talked to Barbra about her life of reading, from her earliest days, to reading in the midst of our current pandemic and racial reckoning. She shared about a few of her favorite books, and taught us how to answer the age-old question, “what should I read next?”. Barbra’s solution? Networking. 

Barbra focused on two main books: Hell of a Book by Jason Mott and The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. She also mentioned Mott’s book The Returned, which has been adapted into the TV series “Resurrection.” For Barbra’s complete list of pandemic reading on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and black history, visit this list. 

Catherine and Abby also talked about reading:

Abby read Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Smith 

Catherine read The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker and The Art of Community by Charles Vogl 

Tune in next time to hear an interview with Traci Chee, author of JMRL Same Page title, We Are Not Free. 

 As always, please email podcast@jmrl.org with comments, suggestions, ideas, or anything else. We’d love to hear from you. 

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website. 

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In this episode, I talked to Proal, president of the JMRL Friends, about reading, writing, learning, and living – at the Village School, as a member of the JMRL Friends, and as a citizen of this vibrant community we call home.

We hope you’ll join us for the Friends’ very special trivia night. Prizes are up for grabs, and the cost to participate is just $15. Money raised will support library resources, services, collections, and programming. We love our Friends group! 

REGISTER HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VOatG7jSwKwbC91tntXb6sU9FX8oe0xmVpAldyV-d3o/viewform?edit_requested=true 

We also talked about reading:

Abby read The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Bailey 

Catherine read Untamed by Glennon Doyle 

Tune in next time to hear a library lover, just like you, talk about why books and reading are so important to her. She’ll also be sharing some of her favorite books. 

 As always, please email podcast@jmrl.org with comments, suggestions, ideas, or anything else. We’d love to hear from you. 

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website

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Thank you to JMRL staff members who agreed to be guest stars on today’s podcast!

In order of appearance, they are: 

David Plunkett

Jess Moore

Andrew Grimm

Kayla Payne

Heather Pehnec 

Tish Colvin

Jennifer MacAdam-Miller

We talked about the following titles: 

Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers

The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon Garrity 

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley 

My Monticello by Jocelyn Johnson 

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett 

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Milkman by Anna Burns

For Every One by Jason Reynolds

March by John Lewis (graphic memoir)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Across the Airless Wilds by Earl Swift

Consider these tips, discussed in today’s episode,  to read more in 2022! 

Visit the JMRL new books list for what’s new

Read along with the Virginia Festival of the Book

Challenge yourself to the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge

Make a conscious effort to read a genre you don’t normally read

It’s not free like your local library, but you might try the YA owl crate subscription service

Go down author rabbit holes….visit your favorite author’s website, blog, or Goodreads page. What are THEY reading? Try reading what they’re reading, or read a biography ABOUT them. 

And of course, do you use Goodreads? If not, maybe you should! 

Tune in next time for more support and encouragement for your reading journey! 

Follow JMRL’s progress through the tiers of the JMRL COVID-19 Response Plan. 

For branch details:

Central

Crozet

Gordon Avenue

Greene County

Louisa County

Nelson Memorial

Northside

Scottsville

If you have books you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website. 

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In this episode, we talked to Hayley about what it’s like to be in charge of an entire library location (spoiler alert: it sounds awesome). We also talked about what we’ve been reading.

In this episode, Abby and Catherine talked about reading:

The Listening Path by Julia Cameron 

My Accidental Jihad by Krista Bremer 

Hayley also talked about what she’s been reading:  

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay 

There’s no Such Thing as Bad Weather by Linda McGurk 

What Great Parents Do by Erica Reischer 

Tune in next time to hear a roundup of JMRL staff reading resolutions for 2022! 

Follow JMRL’s progress through the tiers of the JMRL COVID-19 Response Plan. 

For branch details:

Central

Crozet

Gordon Avenue

Greene County

Louisa County

Nelson Memorial

Northside

Scottsville

If you have books you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website. 

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In this episode, we talked to Tasha about life as a children’s librarian at the Central Library.

Abby and Abby also talked about reading:

• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

Tasha also shared what she’s been reading: 

• Ghost Patrol by Andres Miedoso
• Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
• A Rogue of One’s Own by Evie Dunmore

Tune in next time to hear from Hayley Tompkins, Branch Manager of the Crozet Library, to hear what she does, her “why,” and her latest passion projects! 

Follow JMRL’s progress through the tiers of the JMRL COVID-19 Response Plan. 

For branch details:

Central

Crozet

Gordon Avenue

Greene County

Louisa County

Nelson Memorial

Northside

Scottsville

If you have books you’d like to recommend we read and discuss please email us at podcast@jmrl.org.

This podcast is made possible through generous support from the Friends of the Library. If you’d like to learn more or join the friends please head to their website.