Love Your Shelf

May 10 2024 81 ep. 39 mins 54

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Deep East Texas may not be renowned for its culture, but libraries are where it’s at. Librarians are asked for recommendations all day long, and they love connecting people to media they love. Crystal the Librarian from the Nacogdoches Public Library in Nacogdoches, TX takes you behind the scenes of the library world, with book and media recommendations and more. Crystal and co-worker Emily give you the rundown on fiction, nonfiction, movies, streaming, and podcasts in an irreverent, conversational discussion each week.

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Final Girls in a Delicate Condition

May 10 2024 34 mins

Crystal and Emily discuss Delicate Condition, The Last House on Needless Street, The Angel of Indian Lake, The Unmaking of June Farrow, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians, Dust Tracks on a Road, and The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, plus podcast recommendations.

Remembrance of Books Past

May 03 2024 42 mins

Crystal and Emily discuss the passing of favorite author, Paul Auster, as well as Brooklyn Crime Novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Nightwatching, The Sleepwalkers, The Premonition, The Leftover Woman, and This Exquisite Loneliness. Plus, enjoy some series and movie recommendations.

Have We Lost the Plot?

Apr 24 2024 53 mins

Crystal and Emily discuss The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson, Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Baumann, What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher, Home Before Dark by Riley Sager, Look Closer by David Ellis, Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian, and Orbital by Samantha Harvey. Plus, get the lowdown on the latest on Kanopy streaming, as well as other ne

Interior East Texas

Jan 08 2024 50 mins

Crystal and Emily talk about this year’s Big Read, Interior Chinatown, as well as the usual book and media recommendations.

Unhinged

Dec 09 2023 56 mins

Crystal and Emily are finally back with picks and pans of the latest books, movies, and shows.

And We’re Back

Aug 11 2023 51 mins

Crystal and Emily of the Nacogdoches Public Library return with a new episode full of book, movie, and show recommendations.

Hi, Strange

May 11 2023 52 mins

Crystal and Emily discuss recent releases of books, shows, and podcasts.

Smelling of Rum and Raspberries

Apr 14 2023 53 mins

Crystal and Emily discuss books by Oliver Sacks, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Leguin, Jeanette Winterson, Jill Soloway, Paul Auster, the Dalai Lama, Solzhenitsyn, and The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries by Jillian Scudder. Also, recent movies and streaming series.

Walk On the Wilder Side

Apr 05 2023 54 mins

Crystal and Emily discuss The Wilder Women and Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang, The Wilder Girls and Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power, A Message From Ukraine, Number One is Walking: My Life in Movies and Other Diversions by Steve Martin, Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice by Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow, and Building

One More Mention of Pedro Pascal, We Promise

Mar 22 2023 44 mins

Crystal and Emily discuss books (Once There Were Wolves, Bridge, The Twilight World, There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness, All Good People Here, The House Across the Lake, and The Eyes and the Impossible), as well as new tv series and movies.