Blanket Fort Broadcasts 4: Books That Changed Our Lives 2
Episode 13, Aug 29, 2020, 08:48 PM
Part 2/2. Portsmouth Public Library staff talk books that shaped their perspectives, connected them to others, and influenced their literary tastes.
Welcome back to Blanket Fort Broadcasts, recorded in our homes during quarantine! This conversation follows from part one of Books That Changed Our Lives.
Featuring: Andrew (Youth Services Library Assistant), Katharine (Youth Services Librarian), Laura (Public Programming and Community Relations Librarian), and Poleena (Reference and Special Collections Library Assistant).
Titles discussed in this recording:
- Howl by Alan Ginsberg (Hoopla)
- Eunoia by Christian Bök
- Matilda by Roald Dahl (Overdrive/Libby)
- The Magic Tree House series
- Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary (Hoopla and Overdrive/Libby)
- Ms. Marvel (Hoopla)
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell (Hoopla and Overdrive/Libby)
- The Wild Trees by Richard Preston (Overdrive/Libby)
- The Overstory by Richard Powers (Overdrive/Libby)
- The Stand by Stephen King (Overdrive/Libby)
- Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce (Hoopla and Overdrive/Libby)
- The Secret of Platform 13 (Hoopla)
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Overdrive/Libby)
- The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- The Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert
- First We Make the Beast Beautiful by Sarah Wilson
- Lanark by Alasdair Gray
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Overdrive/Libby)