<p><span style="font-size:14px">Rob and Michelle recap some of their favorite books and media of 2020 in this episode! Check us out wherever you listen to your podcasts!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Michelle's Pics</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:11pt"><span><span>Southern Book Club’s guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix</span></span></span></strong></p>
More movies on Hoopla not available on Netflix
Here are ten more movies I found on Hoopla that are not currently available on Netflix. These titles came from Hoopla’s list of Popular Movies. Of the almost 14,000 selections, the following ten jumped out at me.
Rob and Michelle interview their coworker, Marquez McClinton. Marquez is an author, a motivational speaker, performer, and poet. He also works full time at the Madison Public Library. Marquez wrote his book “Becoming: The process of becoming you” to help people on their own journey to becoming their best selves. He shares a little of his message in this interview, as well as shares what he’s currently reading and listening to to help him realize his own goals. His advice for us in the New Year is to love yourself. When you love yourself, he says, you treat people differently, and you don’t react the same way to adversity. He gives some good ideas for how to love yourself in different ways to kick start your new year. Marquez also discusses his goals, and some projects that he’s working on for us to look out for in 2021.
New DVDs to the HMCPL Collection
We have recently added a dozen new movies on DVD and Blu-ray to the HMCPL Collection. They can be put on hold and picked up at any branch of your choosing. It is a mix of new to DVD titles and some more familiar titles that are perfect for when you want to enjoy an old favorite.
Two Librarians Walk Into a Shelf
Special Holiday Story Time
You know it’s that special time of year again when Santa is on the way and you hear the Nakatomi Plaza exploding in gales of holiday cheer.
This week, Rob and Michelle pick some materials from the library’s digital collections to share. Both of your hosts found old favorites to revisit on Hoopla, and then they close the episode with a discussion about grief and allowing yourself the stages of grief right now, even though it can be difficult to put a finger on what you’re grieving. 2020 was quite the ride, and your hosts would like to encourage you to take the time to acknowledge your feelings in whatever stage of grief you might be in and allow yourself the space to work through it.
Materials mentioned in this episode:
Open Book by Jessica Simpson
The Best of 2020
Ten of the Most Borrowed Movies on Hoopla for 2020
Holiday Romance on Hoopla
This collection of Holiday Romance films is available now on Hoopla for the month of December. All the following write-ups were provided by Hoopla.
The 13 Weird Days of Christmas
Okay, you got me. There’s really no such thing as the “13 Weird Days of Christmas.” I made it up so I could include thirteen of the craziest Christmas movies available from Hoopla on one list for your seasonal viewing pleasure. I watch these kind of wacky Christmas flicks every year. Some are new, some are old but all will add the right amount of strange to your holiday festivities. It goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway, not all of these movies are appropriate for all audiences.
Rob and Michelle discuss their Holiday book exchange picks for each other in this episode, as well as some criteria to judge whether a Holiday movie really is a Holiday movie. Your hosts discuss what makes a Holiday romance enjoyable, and their favorite movies of the season. Listen to see if your favorite holiday movie meets the criteria to be counted as an actual holiday movie!
Materials mentioned in this episode are:
A Very Merry Christmas by Lori Foster
