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Lexivore Podcast, Episode 20 – All Things Digital

Welcome to Episode 20, All Things Digital, in which Renee and Megha explore and explain some of the digital resources available to us – including from our own lovely Abington Community Library, the Free Library of Philadelphia, Libby the library app and the digital collections available through that, and some that are just generally available online.

We also talk about digital reading in general, from ebooks to audiobooks, to reading newspaper or magazine articles online through their own websites, to some of the interesting options available with ebooks that may not be available in print books – like using a special font that helps readers with dyslexia or works that incorporate technology more deeply – like using links to cleverly present a “choose your own adventure” story, including pictures, playlists or videoclips for a multimedia approach to storytelling, or the fun little stories or discussions that can pop up in comments on a work between the readers and with the authors.

Also our next episode will be reading and discussing Matt Haig’s Midnight Library – Get excited, it sounds so interesting 🙂

We hope you enjoy our podcast. You can listen to it Here!

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Lexivore Podcast Episode 18 – Mystery

In the 18th episode of Lexivore, the last of this year, Megha and Renee cover the mystery genre, including talking about the books from authors from various styles of mystery like cozy mysteries, or suspense, intricately written ones and a few darker, crime-novel style mysteries.

We include some widely read authors, like Agatha Christie and Mary Higgins Clark, and some that are a bit less well known. We also cover some YA mystery series and even a few well read children’s mysteries like Boxcar Children and Encyclopedia Brown, stories that we read when we were younger and that are still read today,

We also briefly discuss what might draw us to the mystery genre, or related genres like true crime. And there is a brief teaser included, for the episode beginning our next season, which will be Romance – get excited!

 

We hope you enjoy our podcast!  You can listen to it Here!

 

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Lexivore Podcast Episode 17 – Music and Books

Episode seventeen of Lexivore, has Megha and Renee tackle music, and pairings of music with books. We discuss our own genre preferences for music, briefly touch on the music our library has to offer, and discuss a few authors who use music – either directly in their books like Mercedes Lackey or in the background processes of writing like Rainbow Rowell.

We also discuss some works that are paired by subject, like the Hamilton Soundtrack with a history book, “The Good Fight: Feuds of the Founding Fathers”, or mood, like Miles Davis’s “Birth of the Cool” with R.O. Kwon’s “The Incendiaries”, or by theme, Sharon Van Etten’s “Are We There” pairing with Sally Rooney’s “Normal People”, and add a few more suggestions and recommendations along the way.

We hope you enjoy our podcast! You can listen to it Here!

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Lexivore Podcast Episode 16 – Where The Crawdads Sing

In this episode 16 of Lexivore Renee and Megha come back to the library and back to detailed book discussions with Delia Owen’s widely acclaimed novel, Where the Crawdads Sing. Our discussion includes our own reactions to the book, some of the author’s backgrounds and how that might influence our reading, and even some of the things we wish were addressed in the work.

Additionally, we chat a bit about current events, especially our library’s reopening and how that looks, as well as what we have been doing and reading, as well as a brief teaser for our next episode.

We honestly enjoyed making this podcast a lot and hope you enjoy listening to it just as much. You can listen to it Here!

 

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Lexivore Podcast Episode 15 – Interlude for Current Events

In episode 15 of Lexivore Megha and Renee take a detour from our regular book discussions to chat about current events, how the library is continuing services during these times, how we personally are doing (and what we are doing nowadays as well).

We also have some suggestions for our listeners with books to read, mental health resources to look over, in honor of mental health month, and some ideas for projects that might help pass the time while we all are spending so much time at home.

We had a lot of fun making this podcast, it was helpful to talk some of these things through so we hope you will find it useful to hear as well – though please forgive us if the sound wavers in a few places, we were dealing with unfamiliar recording technology.

We hope you enjoy our podcast!  You can listen to it Here!