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Season 3
- Episode 1: I Would, at Least, like, Rock Paper Scissors
- Join Danae, Emily Hilkemann, and Allie Zuberbier as they discuss Part One of My Antonia for the Winter Reading Challenge.
- Episode 2: A Little Friend Zoned
- Join Danae, Emily H. and Allie as they discuss Part Two of My Antonia for the Norfolk Public Library Winter Reading Challenge. Rachel Olsen, the Director of Education and Engagement at the National Willa Cather Center, sent us this link where you can go and take a virtual tour of the Institute and see the native prairie as it was in Willa Cather's time: https://www.willacather.org/visit/willa-cather-memorial-prairie
- Episode 3: Willa Cather is where we intersect on our Venn Diagram
- Join Danae, Emily Hilkemann, and Allie Zuberbier as they discuss Part Three of My Antonia for the Winter Reading Challenge.
- Episode 4: No offense to people who are named Larry
- Join Danae, Emily Hilkemann, and Allie Zuberbier as they discuss Part Four of My Antonia for the Winter Reading Challenge.
- Episode 5: I Think More was Happening on the Prairie than We Realized!
- Join Danae, Emily H., and Allie as they discuss Part 5 and the wrap up of My Antonia.
Bonus Episode: Our Top Five Reads of 2024
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- Join Danae, Jessica, Emily H., Whitney, and Allie as we talk about our favorite reads of 2024!
- Titles mentioned in this episode
- Verity
- Black River Orchard
- The Boys
- Lanny
- The Road
- The Midnight Feast
- The Book of Ichigo Ichie
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- The Comfort Crisis
- Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
- The Third Wife of Faraday House
- Down with the System: a memoir (of sorts)
- The Age of Magical Overthinking
- Less
- James
- We Used to Live Here
- The Sentence
- The Guncle Abroad
- How to be Perfect
- Time of the Child
- the boy
- The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
- Etta and Otto and Russell and James
- Sandwich
- Loved and Missed
- The Three-Body Problem
- Barbara Isn't Dying
- All the Colors of the Dark
- I Cheerfully Refuse
- Author Chloe Liese
- Well Met series by Jen DeLuca
- Heartstopper graphic novel series
- Miss Benson's Beetle
- Invisible
Season 2
- Episode 1: "I'm Just Going to Go Make Dinner and Cry"
- Join us for the first episode of Season Two as we sit down with Library Board member, Libby McKay, and choose some books for her to read.
- Titles mentioned in this episode (*denotes Custom Reads recommendations):
- The Cemetery Club
- Sherlock Holmes series
- Interview with a Vampire
- Twilight series
- Harry Potter series
- Percy Jackson series
- *The Thursday Murder Club
- *Dearborn
- *Hamnet
- *The Art Thief
- *Thirst
- *Loved and Missed
- Episode 2: "Don't Do the Math"
- Join Danae and Jessica Chamberlain as they sit down and chat with Susan Warneke about serving on the Library Foundation and reading books from the bottom shelf.
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- Episode 3: "When You Go into a Library, You're Elevating Yourself"
- Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Kurt Bogner, the president of the Library Board.
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- Episode 4: "Why Would I Do a Half, if There's a Full?"
- Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Gina Lindsay, the treasurer for the Library Foundation.
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- Episode 5: "I'm Gonna Be Booked for Awhile"
- Join Danae, and special co-host Whitney, as they sit down with Whitney Sunderman, member of our Library Foundation, and her 10-year-old daughter Daphne.
- Titles mentioned in this episode (*denotes Custom Reads recommendations)
- The Heroes of Olympus series
- Eragon series
- The Land of Stories series
- Roswell Johnson Saves the World!
- After Annie
- The Glassmaker
- Ordinary Monsters
- *The Isle of the Lost Descendants series
- Alex and Eliza series
- *The Secret History
- *Wrath of the Rain God Legendarios series
- *All the Colors of the Dark
- *Uprising
- The Devil's Arithmetic
- *American Dirt
- *The Fight for the Hidden Realm Paper Dragons series
- Percy Jackson series
- *The Amateur Marriage
- *Impossible Creatures
- *Once Upon a River
- The Snow Child
- *The Dearly Beloved
- *The Trials of Morrigan Crow Nevermoor series
- Wings of Fire series
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Episode 6: The First One Ended Up Being Like a Prequel for Me"
- Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Jazmin Goeden, a new member of the Library Foundation.
- Titles mentioned in this episode (*denotes Custom Reads recommendations)
- Episode 7 - Kind of Gritty, but with a Lot of Heart
- Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Brian P., member of the Library Board, to give him some new book recommendations.
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- Episode 8 - That Feels Like a Big Secret!
- Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Don Polodna, member of the Library Foundation, and his wife Nancy.
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- Episode 9 - I Like It When a Character Surprises Me
- Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Sue Burns, a member of our Library Foundation, to talk about books and give her some new title suggestions.
- Titles mentioned in this episode (*denotes Custom Reads recommendations)
- Episode 10 - This is Really Awful but I'm Still Laughing
- Join us for the last regular episode of the season as Danae and Anneka do Custom Reads picks for each other with the help of Emily Hilkemann.
- Titles mentioned in this episode (*denotes Custom Reads recommendations)
- Song of Achilles
- The Disenchantment
- The Heart of Winter
- The Night Boat to Tangier
- Mirrored Heavens
- *The Family Fang
- *The Survivalists
- *Faebound
- *The Priory of the Orange Tree
- *The Final Revival of Opal and Nev
- *The Water Dancer
- *The Girl who Drank the Moon
- Piranesi
- *Migrations
- *Malas
- *The Master Butcher Singing Club
- The Round House
- *The Morningside
- *The Jetsetters
- *Want
- *Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- Blue Sisters
- Bonus Episode: I Get to Be a Patron
- Join Danae and Anneka as they talk about how their recommendations were received and also make an announcement about the podcast going forward.
- Titles mentioned in this episode (*denotes Custom Reads recommendations)
- Ordinary Monsters
- Once There Were Wolves
- Want
- Migrations
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon
- An Immense World
- Immune
Season 1
- Episode 1 - I Think It's Called Jail
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Welcome to Season One, Episode One of Check This Out! Danae Henkel and Anneka Ramirez will be chatting with full time Youth Services supervisor, Whitney Porn and getting to know all about her reading life.
- Show Quote by E. B. White: “A library is many things. It’s a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It’s a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books — the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go. Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together — just the two of you. A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people — people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”
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Episode 2 - It's Like a Cupcake
- Join Danae and Anneka as they chat with Jessica Chamberlain, the director of the Norfolk Public Library, and learn more about her reading life.
- Show Quote by Neil Gaiman: "But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information." (from October 15, 2013 lecture - find the full transcript here)
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- Episode 3 - Come to My House and Give My Butler Your Card
- Join Danae and Anneka as we have a conversation with Allie Zuberbier, who works part-time in our circulation department, and get to know more about her reading life.
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- Episode 4 - It's a Huge Book Brain
- Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Emily Hilkemann, who works full-time in our patron services department, and get to know about her reading life.
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith TV series
- Episode 5 - We're Creating an Unstable Body
- Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Amy Okamoto, our full time marketing director, and get to know about her reading life. *Disclaimer: Danae misspoke in this episode. The marketing position was not created for Amy, she just applied for the advertised position and is the first to hold it!
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The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
- Episode 6 - What Even is a Book?
- Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Emily Edmisten, who works part-time in our youth services department, and get to know more about her reading life.
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- Episode 7 - If We All Knew About the Same Thing, We'd Be in Trouble
- Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down and chat with Lynn Hans, our library's full-time Administrative Assistant.
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- Episode 8 - If There's Some Action, I'd Like to Know It
- Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Amy Fuxa, who works full time in our Patron Services department, and learn about her reading life.
- Titles mentioned in this episode:
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The Walk series
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Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the Mud
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Dateline
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The Bear
- Episode 9 - I Like My iPad!
- Join Danae and Anneka as they unbox Mike Dittmer, the full time Tech Services Supervisor for our library.
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Green Lantern comic series
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Iron Man comic series
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Marvel movies
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- Episode 10 - "I Call It My Graveyard."
- Join Danae and Anneka as they unbox Lisa Peters, our full-time Circulation Supervisor, and get to know more about her reading life.
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- Bonus Episode - "I Do, Daily, Try to Assess if I Have a Problem."
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Join us for a special Bonus Episode where Danae talks to Anneka about their reading lives. This is the last episode for Season One.
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New Girl tv series
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The Village movie
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