Two Librarians Walk Into A Shelf Episode 14 Show Notes

Posted on: 6 November 2020
By: Michelle Brightwell

November has a lot going on! There’s No Shave November, and there’s NaNoWriMo, which Rob I know is participating in. There’s Thanksgiving. And there’s also the very first meeting of the Two Librarians Walk Into A Shelf Book Club! Our first book is a Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean, and you can find it on Hoopla for free, no waiting, unlimited checkouts in both ebook and audiobook formats! It’s a Regency-era romance novel, full of scoundrels and scandals and also a very swoony love story.

Sarah MacLean is known for writing head-strong lead characters who aren’t afraid to go after what they want and who are unwilling to settle for less. She’s also a master at writing a bad boy lead character who’s not actually all that bad.

That brings us to this show’s topic – why we shouldn’t use the phrase “guilty pleasure” any more when describing books or media that we genuinely enjoy.

You can listen to Rob and Michelle discuss the different ways in which they’ve been tempted to use this phrase to couch their like of media that’s considered “low brow” or unworthy, and why they think it’s time to get rid of the phrase all together. It’s typically used to describe something you like in a way that begs other people to still take you seriously after they find out you like it. This podcast proposes that you stop doing that to things you really enjoy and don’t make people feel bad for liking the things that they like.

Materials Discussed in this episode:

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever—and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. 
Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. 
But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

<a href="https://dmz.overdrive.com/media/5243310">Ebook On Overdrive and Libby</a>

<a href="https://dmz.overdrive.com/media/5243411">Audiobook on Overdrive and Libby</a>

You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier

Informed by Lanier’s experience and expertise as a computer scientist, You Are Not a Gadget discusses the technical and cultural problems that have unwittingly risen from programming choices—such as the nature of user identity—that were “locked-in” at the birth of digital media and considers what a future based on current design philosophies will bring. With the proliferation of social networks, cloud-based data storage systems, and Web 2.0 designs that elevate the “wisdom” of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and wisdom of individuals, his message has never been more urgent.

Creepy Magazine Collection, Volume 1

<a href="https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11441593">Find it on hoopla!</a>

Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest depths of your closet, and prepare for a horrifying adventure into the darkest corners of comics history. Dark Horse Comics further corners the market on high quality horror storytelling with one of the most anticipated releases of the decade, an archive collection of legendary Creepy Magazine. This groundbreaking material turned the world of graphic storytelling on its head in the early 1960s, as phenomenal young artists like Bernie Wrightson and Neal Adams reached new artistic heights with their fascinating explorations of classic and modern horror stories. Brilliant, classic Creepy stories from 1964-1966 raised from the dead after twenty-five years. Featuring work by such comics luminaries as Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Alex Toth, and Frank Frazetta.

Marvel Westerns

Marvel's masked men ride again in all-new tales by a posse of today's most talented creators! It's the raucous return of Two-Gun Kid, Hurricane, Red Wolf, the Man From Fort Rango, Kid Colt, Arizona Annie, the Black Rider, Gunhawk and more! And introducing the Philadelphia Philly and Spender! Plus: re-presenting the origin of Rawhide Kid by Jack "King" Kirby and other classic Marvel Western tales! Collects Marvel Westerns: The Two-Gun Kid, Marvel Westerns: Western Legends, Marvel Westerns: Kid Colt and the Arizona Girl, Marvel Westerns: Strange Westerns Starring the Black Rider and the Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files handbook

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Two Librarians Walk Into A Shelf Episode 14 Show Notes