I Blame My Shelf

Dec 02 2024 43 ep. 40 mins 50
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A monthly podcast brought to you by staff at the Hillsboro Public Library. We talk about about books, comics, gaming, TV, movies, and pop culture. We are committed to helping you find your next thing to read, watch, or play.

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Holiday Movie Madness 🎄🎅❄️

Dec 02 2024 86 mins  
Get your sleigh bells and airhorns ready, its time for the holiday movie showdown! In this episode repost, Jen and Brendan browse the holiday collection at the library and put together a 32-movie bracket, March Madness-style. Only one movie can take it all, but which will it be? Tune in to find out! Check out our holiday movie collection here: https://tinyurl.com/2wyarzmr

Hillsboro Public Library vs. The Evil Dead 💀💀💀

Oct 23 2024 84 mins  
On this week's episode, Jen, Rob, and Brendan watch the 1987 film Evil Dead 2 on Kanopy, the library's streaming video service. Tune in to listen to their review, and find out if Evil Dead 2 really is the best horror-comedy of all time!

Kanopy Watch Party - Spooky Edition! 👻😱🧛

Oct 14 2024 36 mins  
Jenny and Brendan return to the pod to explore more of Kanopy, the steaming video service you have access to with your WCCLS library card. This time around, they pick out some horror movie selections, discuss which ones they think would work well for a group watch, and land on a flick you'll (hopefully) love. So go on over to Kanopy, spend a credit to watch Evil Dead 2, and tune in

Find Your Next Read: Fall Releases and Cozy Fantasy

Sep 30 2024 26 mins  
Get ready for low stakes and tea puns! Find Your Next hosts Julie and Karen are back to share the October and November releases they’re most excited about, and to give you a run down some of the best cozy fantasy titles to curl up on the couch with. Here's a list of the books mentioned in this month’s episode: https://tinyurl.com/nhf733b8

Find Your Next Read: The Books of Summer☀️📚⛱️

Jun 20 2024 29 mins  
Find Your Next host Julie is back, bringing in librarians Chris and Rob to recommed some of the summer's hottest new releases and trends for both kids and adults! Enjoy! Here's a list of the books mentioned in this episode: https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/list/share/1297716497_hillsboro_recommends/2560868829

BiblioBirders: Spring Birding at the Brookwood Library 🐦‍⬛🦆🪿

Apr 24 2024 20 mins  
Katherine and Jay, also known as the BiblioBirders, join the podcast to talk about all the birds you can find on the trails and in the ponds behind the Hillsboro Brookwood Library this spring. Here are the birds identified in this episode: Canada goose Cackling goose Wood duck Bufflehead American wigeon Mallard Hooded merganser Common merganser Northern shoveler Ring-necked duck G

TV FOMO: The First And Last Episodes Of Supernatural

Mar 21 2024 112 mins  
There will never be enough time in the day to watch all those television shows that people are always talking about, or to catch up on the ones you may have missed. But on today's podcast episode we experiment with a new way to alleviate TV FOMO, by only watching the first and last episode of a show. Does it do the trick? Can you go to parties and pretend you've seen the whole show

Hillsboro Reads 2024 - An Interview with Author Thien Pham

Mar 06 2024 35 mins  
Thien Pham is a graphic novelist, comic artist, and educator based in Oakland, CA. He is the author and illustrator of the graphic novels Family Style and Sumo and did the art for the middle-grade graphic novel Level Up, written by Gene Luen Yang, and is an ongoing comic contributor to Eater SF. Currently Pham is working on his next graphic novel, teaching, and eating. A lot. His g

Hillsboro Reads 2024 - An Interview with Author Cindy Baldwin

Mar 04 2024 27 mins  
Cindy Baldwin is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Where the Watermelons Grow, Beginners Welcome, The Stars of Whistling Ridge, and No Matter the Distance (a Junior Library Guild selection). Her book Where the Watermelons Grow is the Hillsboro Reads 2024 selection for young readers. Find Where the Watermelons Grow in the catalog here: https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/

Find Your Next Read: HPL Staff Picks the Best Books of 2023

Jan 03 2024 16 mins  
Looking for some great reads from 2023? Hillsboro Public Library staff share some of their favorites of the last year. Here's the list of titles from the podcast episode: https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/list/share/1297716497/2450904359