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In our final episode, Christina and Jen share what they’ve read recently, and what they’re going to read next.



Pirate Enlightment by David Graeber, Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

The Relevant Library: Essays on Adapting to Changing Needs by Vera Gubnitskaia

Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces by Spencer Acadia

How To Think Like A UX Researcher by David Travis and Philip Hodgson

Brookings Institute Webinar “Innovations in Hyperlocal Governance”

Co-cities: Innovative Transitions Toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities by Sheila Foster and Christian Iaione

Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy by Josh O’Kane

You’re Invited by Amanda Jayatissa

We’ll Never Tell by Wendy Heard

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

Singer Distance by Ethan Chatagnier

Pure Colour by Sheila Heti

How The World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini

The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction by Jaime Kreiner

Look: How to Pay Attention in a Distracted World by Christian Madsbjerg

Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas, and Predict the Future by Rohit Bhargava

Luxury Retail and Digital Management: Developing Customer Experience in a Digital World by Michel Chevalier and Michel Gutsatz

Buildings for Books: Contemporary Library Architecture by Chris van Uffelen

Interaction Design: From Concept to Completion by Jamie Steane and Joyce Yee

Making Dinosaurs Dance: A Toolkit for Digital Design in Museums by Barry Joseph

Family Spaces in Art Museums: Creating Curiosity, Wonder, and Play by Julia Forbes

The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, 4) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

A Tiny Upward Shove by Melissa Chadburn


Thank you all so much for listening!

The ladies of the RBL Podcast dip into the magical with what they're reading lately.

Christina's shares work from one of her favorite authors: Get In Trouble by Kelly Link, and White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link. Plus, check out this amazing feature in Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/kelly-link-white-cat-black-dog-profile.html

Jen recommends Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen, and Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. For her professional reading, she explores Working in Style by Chris van Uffelen, and Inspired & Inspiring: Labs, Studios and Workshops for Creative Minds by Markus Sebastian Braun.

And in Kat's final episode, she shares Feed by M. T. Anderson, and The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox.


*Note: At time of posting, our online catalog is down. So all links to materials are from bookshop.org or each book's website (when available.) Ask us to order these titles for you next time you visit!

This week Jen's reading Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein and The Trend Forecaster's Handbook by Martin Raymond. 

Christina's working through Stanford's Human-centered AI Reading List (view the full list here!) starting with Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith, and she's enjoying Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee.

Kat shares adventures closer to home from Little Ohio: Small-Town Destinations by Jane Simon Ammeson and Ohio Magazine. Plus, a cameo from Jackie, the manager at our Springfield-Lakemore branch!

*Note: At time of posting, our online catalog is down. So all links to materials are from bookshop.org or each book's website (when available.) Ask us to order these titles for you next time you visit!

The RBL team has some bittersweet news.

Connect with your inner sleuth with Kat’s take on Long Bright River by Liz Moore, Transcription by Kate Atkinson, The Witch Elm by Tana French, Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Recursion by Blake Crouch. The mystery continues with Jen’s take on Mary Kubica’s Just the Nicest Couple, which sends her running to “In the Hall with the Knife” by Diana Peterfreund, the first the Teen book series based on Clue. She winds down with Philippa Stanton’s Conscious Creativity: Look, Connect, Create. Christina considers new possibilities with John Lorinc’s Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias, Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond and Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz.

Christina is on a film roll with Sarah Polley’s memoir Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory. Discover a magical mixture of magazines and gothic mystery with Kat’s talk on Orion Magazine and Paraic O’Donnell’s The House on Vesper Sands. Jen talks workplace philosophy with The Burnout Challenge: Managing People’s Relationships with Their Jobs by Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter and The Strategy Book by Max Mckeown.