A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST

Nov 22 2024 217 ep. 39 mins 62
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Despite its title, this podcast will feature hosts and interview subjects speaking at very audible levels. We’re excited to start up a full season of podcast episodes brought to you by the Friends of the Ferndale Library, produced in house at the Ferndale Area District Library. Libraries aren’t as quiet as they used to be… A podcast for library lovers and the library curious. Book chatter with librarians, community perspectives and author interviews.

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Baking Season! Quiz & Recommendations

Nov 22 2024 52 mins  
On this week's episode, we have a panel discussion focusing on BAKING SEASON! Staff are talking about their favorite (and sometimes least favorite) things to bake, as well as playing a fun True-False-structured quiz to dispel myths and spread knowledge! We ALSO have some fun recommendations of books to check out from the library!

Cool Library People: Madison Heights Public Library

Nov 15 2024 51 mins  
This week, we're interviewing Rae Stoloff, the community engagement librarian at the Madison Heights Public Library. We're also joined by a special guest cohost, Becca Russell (former guest, as well), from the Royal Oak Public Library! We're talking about makerspaces, third places, libraries of things, and so much more! https://www.madison-heights.org/library https://ropl.org/1532

Eccentric Recs: Odd Books We Loved!

Nov 09 2024 57 mins  
Every once in a while, our staff will pick up a book that has a bit of a strange premise, something that might be a little difficult to describe... Today, we're providing a roundup of odd books that we loved, weird books that we'd still recommend, eccentric reads that we found appealing!

Library Spotlight: Center Line Library

Nov 01 2024 35 mins  
Part of our ongoing series of chats with "cool library people," we're interviewing Sean Peacock from the Center Line Public Library! Sean is a library clerk at Center Line Library and has generated some amazing content for social media, but he's also an illustrator and comic artist! Find "A Little Too Quiet" wherever you get your podcasts! https://www.centerline.gov/202/Library

Scary Books

Oct 26 2024 36 mins  
Our staff provide you with a round-up of scary book recommendations!

Library Spotlight: Northville District Library

Oct 18 2024 37 mins  
This week, Jeff and Mary Grahame are chatting with Katie Rothley from the Northville District Library. Katie is the Marketing & Public Relations Librarian at Northville! She has a lot of energy and ideas and plenty of interesting things to share about her library and the resources it offers to the community of Northville! https://northvillelibrary.org/

Books We Did Not Finish (DNF)

Oct 11 2024 57 mins  
What's a book you Did Not Finish? This week, our staff confess to some of their unfinished reads that still haunt them to this day! Sometimes it's just because we couldn't stand the book, but often it "just wasn't the right time..."

Library Spotlight: The Royal Oak Public Library

Oct 04 2024 42 mins  
This week, we're starting a new series where we invite librarians and staff from other libraries to chat with us about a number of different library-adjacent topics, particularly giving our guests a chance to talk about the specific libraries where they work. This week, Becca Russell, Youth/Teen Librarian at ROPL, joined us to talk about her passion for connecting with teen patrons

Banned Books Week

Sep 28 2024 55 mins  
We're back, after a brief hiatus, here on the last day of 2024's Banned Books Week. Hosts Jeff & Mary Grahame talk about the importance of observing Banned Books Week and why they prefer a bit of a cuter phrase for it, such as "Freedom to Read 'Em." This ongoing podcast is hosted and produced from inside the Ferndale Area District Library, just one mile north of Detroit, Michi

Josh Malerman - Incidents Around The House

May 31 2024 41 mins  
This week, we're chatting with Metro Detroit's own Josh Malerman, the NY Times Bestselling author of Bird Box, as he looks ahead to the forthcoming release of his latest work of suspenseful (and supernatural) horror, Incidents Around The House (out on June 25, via Del Rey). Malerman talks about his deep dive into the literary tradition of "haunted house" tales with this new story a