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Episode 22 - The Memory Police Sep 01, 2020

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Jayne has some terrific insights into this month's book which, though written in 1994, is surprisingly relevant today. Paula is super excited for next month's scary selection. Books they discuss: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa 1984 by George Orwell Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Nodding Off by Alice Gregory From Boys to Men by Maggie Dent How I Built This by Guy Raz Happiness by Turia Pitt Just Like You by Nick Hornby All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton Honeybee by Craig Silvey The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu Movies they mention: The Babadook It Follows Our book for October is I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid. There are copies in the library and on Libby so grab yours and read along! Don't forget to subscribe and join our Literary Anything Facebook group. Happy reading!

Library Through the Lens - Imbi Neeme Aug 15, 2020

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In case you haven't heard, we have a series of webinars happening with our library service called Library Through the Lens. Find out more about it and book in here: https://www.marion.sa.gov.au/library-through-the-lens If you miss out or can't make the webinars, we will be recording some sessions and making them available for you here on the podcast! Listen to debut novelist and winner of the 2019 Penguin Literary Prize Imbi Neeme as she discusses her book The Spill, an exploration of the moments - small and large - upon which our lives can pivot. In 1982, a car overturns on a remote West Australian road. Nobody is hurt, but the impact is felt for decades. For sisters Nicole and Samantha this moment will echo through their lives and continually affect their responses to individual experiences and to each other. The Spill is a captivating depiction of the bond between sisters and a family that find its way back to one another.

Episode 21 - Too Much Lip Aug 03, 2020

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Jayne and Paula were not prepared for the enormity of the themes tackled in this month's pick, winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Award, Too Much Lip. *Trigger warning. Themes of physical and sexual abuse discussed. Please skip to the 30 minute mark if you would rather avoid these topics. What Jayne had last month anticipated as a fun read the ladies find out is a complicated, fast paced, unflinching look at an Aboriginal family plagued by inter-generational trauma and abuse. There is lots to discuss and learn. Books discussed: Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko The Yield by Tara June Winch Maybe the Horse Will Talk by Elliot Perlman Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder You by Caroline Kepnes Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand Our book for September is The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. Happy reading!

Library Through The Lens - Katherine Tamiko Arguile Jul 15, 2020

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Episode 20 - My Friend Anna Jun 29, 2020

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This month's book has been described as "Sex in the City" meets "Catch Me If You Can" with Instagram filters. Jayne and Paula could barely wait to record the podcast so they could talk about the unbelievable grifter who is Anna Delvey and her one time BFF who wrote about her in My Friend Anna. Later, they dish about yet two more Trump books due out (one of them they decide they might actually read), and more. Books they mention: My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens wow, no thank you by Samantha Irby The Things She Owned by Katherine Tamiko Arguile The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan Death by Shakespeare by Kathryn Harkup Movies they mention: Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Netflix) Inventing Anna (Netflix) Links to articles: The New York Times review of My Friend Anna: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/books/review/my-friend-anna-rachel-deloache-williams.html?smid=em-share The Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/31/anna-sorokin-delvey-new-york-socialite-scammer-criminal-case?CMP=share_btn_link Katherine Tamiko Arguile Library Through the Lens webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv-VGL0iNZE&list=PL2LeDvdThJyJYa4epr4REnNuVpqdq1iir&index=12 Next month they will be discussing Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko. Reserve your copy here: https://onecard.network/client/en_AU/marion/search/results?qu=too+much+lip+Melissa+lucashenko&te=&lm=LIB_MARION

Library Through The Lens - Pip Williams Jun 17, 2020

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In case you haven't heard, we have a series of webinars happening with our library service called Library Through the Lens. Find out more about it and book in here: https://www.marion.sa.gov.au/library-through-the-lens If you miss out or can't make the webinars, we will be recording some sessions and making them available for you here on the podcast! Join the author who became a global sensation even before her debut novel was published, following an international rights frenzy that has not been seen for an Australian book since Markus Zusak's, The Book Thief. Set when the women’s suffrage movement was at its height and the Great War loomed, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. It’s a delightful, lyrical and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words, and the power of language to shape our experience of the world.

Episode 19 - Year Of Wonders Jun 01, 2020

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You know Jayne's gotta be happy because this episode is jam packed with historical fiction! Paula breaks her habit of only reading books set in the modern era with not one, not two, but three of her reads this month. Find out how the ladies think the bubonic plague epidemic compares to our current COVID-19 situation when they discuss Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. As always, you'll get the goss on the books everyone's talking about this month. Books they mention: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks The Lost Jewels by Kirsty Manning Missing William Tyrell by Caroline Overington The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld The Spill by Imbi Neeme Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams The Ickabog by JK Rowling Normal People by Sally Rooney Stranger Country by Monica Tan The Weekend by Charlotte Wood The Testaments by Margaret Atwood The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel The Motion of Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver Bad Blood by John Carreyrou The Kennedy Curse by James Patterson Sorry For Your Trouble by Richard Ford Links: Register for our Library Through the Lens webinar with Imbi Neeme, author of The Spill: https://www.facebook.com/events/304094390584152/ Recording of our Library Through the Lens book talk with Pip Williams, author of Dictionary of Lost Words: https://tinyurl.com/yaqtq27s Sign up for our Library Loop eNewsletter to see other book reviews (including Suman's) and more: https://tinyurl.com/ydbnoar3 Our book for next month is My Friend Anna by Rachel Deloache Williams. Happy reading!

Episode 18 - Maggie's Going Nowhere Apr 29, 2020

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Jayne deems our May pick Bridget Jones's Diary meets Muriel's Wedding and Paula wholeheartedly agrees. Tune in to hear the trials of Maggie Cotton that actually did make the ladies laugh out loud in Adelaide author Rose Hartley's debut novel, Maggie's Going Nowhere. Books they mention: Maggie's Going Nowhere by Rose Hartley Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding Paris or Die by Jayne Tuttle Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid The Help by Katherine Stockett A Family Guide to Waste Free Living by Lauren and Oberon Carter Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaimen Missing William Tyrell by Caroline Overington The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams The Inner Self by Hugh Mackay The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy by Kathy Lette Puberty Blues by Kathy Lette TV & Movies they mention: Muriel's Wedding Good Omens Next month's book is Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks and you can place a hold on the ebook or eaudiobook here: https://tinyurl.com/yakgyxjr Hope you join us next month and happy reading!

Library Through The Lens - Annette Marner Apr 14, 2020

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In case you haven't heard, we have a series of webinars happening with our library service called Library Through the Lens. Find out more about it and book in here: https://www.marion.sa.gov.au/library-through-the-lens If you miss out or can't make the webinars, we will be recording some sessions and making them available for you here on the podcast! Here is award-winning poet, novelist and former ABC radio broadcaster Annette Marner in conversation with author Jo Case, as she talks about her stunning new literary crime novel. A New Name for the Colour Blue is influenced by Annette's decades of reporting on male violence towards women and girls as a former current affairs broadcaster. Set between Adelaide and the southern Flinders Ranges, it won the Adelaide Festival's Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2018. Imprints Booksellers is taking online, email and phone orders for A New Name for the Colour Blue and offers FREE home-delivery within Adelaide from the foothills to the beach, and from Bedford Park to Port Adelaide. They also deliver FREE all over SA for orders of $50 or more www.imprints.com.au books@imprints.com.au phone: 08 8231 4454

Episode 17 - My Dark Vanessa Apr 01, 2020

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Our world has turned upside down since last month and we know that every one of us is grappling, trying to adapt to all the changes. Jayne and Paula discuss what it's like to still be working at the library without borrowers! Most libraries are currently closed but don't worry, the ladies highlight a list of options for accessing the library online. Then they jump into this month's selection. TRIGGER WARNING! My Dark Vanessa contains themes of abuse, particularly sexual abuse of a minor. Those who wish not to hear this part can still listen to the beginning but then please skip to the 35 minute mark. Note: at one point Paula mentions Hachette "authors" walking out in protest of Woody Allen's book. She misspoke and should have said "employees." Find out about all of the online services they discuss via our Facebook post, here: https://www.facebook.com/CityofMarionLibraries/photos/a.1094125443938847/3972379079446788/?type=3 Books they discuss: My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell Excavation: A Memoir by Wendy Ortiz American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Half a Life by Jill Ciment Dear Girls by Ali Wong The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Educated by Tara Westover Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen Funny You Don't Look Autistic by Michael McCreary The Lost Jewels by Kirsty Manning Buried by Lynda La Plante Mum & Dad by Joanna Trollope More Myself by Alicia Keys Glide, Taking the panic out of modern living by Lisa Forrest Gathering Dark by Candice Fox Sharks in the Time of Saviours by Kawai Strong Washburn Links: Wendy Ortiz's article https://gay.medium.com/adventures-in-publishing-outside-the-gates-a06f089c372e Variety article about Oprah's book club ditching My Dark Vanessa https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/oprahs-book-club-my-dark-vanessa-american-dirt-controversy-1203525291/ This American Life podcast episode 689, Digging Up the Bones https://www.thisamericanlife.org/689/digging-up-the-bones Jayne and Paula announced the books for the next two months to give you lots to read! Both of these are accessible via the Libby app. May: Maggie's Going Nowhere by Rose Hartley June: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Stay safe out there everyone! There's never been a better time to stay home and READ.

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