Three Books

Three Books
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Three Books is a podcast about books produced by the Ela Area Public Library in Lake Zurich, IL. Hosted by librarians Christen and Becca.

  1. 12/22/2019

    Episode 25: BooksGiving 2019! (Part 1)

    Three Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. This month, Becca and Christen chat with Ela Staff for gift/giving ideas for this holiday season.  Sorry this guy is so late! Hopefully it will help with some last minute gift ideas or give you ideas of things to get yourself.  00:00:09                   Welcome to Booksgiving 00:02:44                   CHRISTEN'S BOOK 1: Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (First Folio edition) 00:08:30                   CHRISTEN'S BOOK 2: First Folio Theatre / American Writers Museum 00:12:07                   CHRISTEN'S BOOK 3: Good Society - A Jane Austen Roleplaying Game 00:14:58                   BECCA'S BOOK 1: Lovely War by Julie Berry 00:17:49                   BECCA'S BOOK 1a: Love From A To Z by S.K. Ali 00:18:27                   BECCA'S BOOK 1b: With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo 00:19:08                   BECCA'S BOOK 2: Effin' Birds: A Field Guide to Identification by Aaron Reynolds 00:22:41                  BECCA'S BOOK 2a: Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht 00:25:49                   BECCA'S BOOK 3: Booked: A Traveler's Guide to Literary Locations Around the World by Richard Kreitner 00:28:52                   Meet Katie 00:29:21                   KATIE'S BOOK 1: 101 Things To Do Before You Grow Up and 101 Things to Do Outside 00:31:28                   KATIE'S BOOK 2: Cook In A Book illustrated by Lotta Nieminen 00:35:15                   KATIE'S BOOK 3: Dory Fantasmagory: Tiny Tough by Abby Hanlon 00:40:50                   Meet Natalie 00:41:16                   NATALIE'S BOOK 1: Sea Bear: A Journey for Survival by Lindsay Moore 00:44:51                   NATALIE'S BOOK 2: Sweet Dreamers by Isabelle Simler 00:50:20                   NATALIE'S BOOK 3: Our Castle By The Sea by Lucy Strange 00:55:18                   Three Ya Later!

    57 min

  2. 12/22/2019

    Episode 25: BooksGiving 2019! (Part 2)

    Three Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. This month, Becca and Christen chat with Ela Staff for gift/giving ideas for this holiday season.  Sorry this guy is so late! Hopefully it will help with some last minute gift ideas or give you ideas of things to get yourself.  00:00:09                   Meet Anne 00:01:22                   ANNE'S BOOK 1: The Legendary Harry Caray: Baseball's Greatest Salesman by Don Zminda 00:03:04                   ANNE'S BOOK 2: Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers 00:05:35                   ANNE'S BOOK 3: The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration by Roger D. Launius 00:08:31                   Meet Erica 00:09:25                   ERICA'S BOOK 1: The Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death by Corinne May Botz 00:15:46                   ERICA'S BOOK 2: The Driver by Hart Hanson 00:19:31                   ERICA'S BOOK 3: Essential Oils For A Clean and Healthy Home by Kasey Schwartz 00:22:16                   Meet Amanda 00:23:36                   AMANDA'S BOOK 1: Live Green: 52 Steps For A More Sustainable Life by Jen Chillingsworth 00:29:02                   AMANDA'S BOOK 2: Dear Girls by Ali Wong 00:30:33                   AMANDA'S BOOK 3: Good Talk: A Memoir In Conversations by Mira Jacob 00:32:11                   AMANDA'S BONUS BOOK 4: Get A Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert 00:38:26                   Meet Gus 00:39:04                   GUS'S BOOK 1: Acid For The Children: A Memoir by Flea 00:41:36                   GUS'S BOOK 2: My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor by Keith Morris 00:44:06                   GUS'S BOOK 3: The NES Encyclopedia: Every Game Released For The Nintendo Entertainment System by Chris Scullion 00:49:04                   Meet Brenda 00:49:47                   BRENDA'S BOOK 1: Middlewest Book Two by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona, illustrated by Mike Huddleston 00:51:15                   BRENDA'S BOOK 2: Up, Down All-Around Stitch Dictionary by Wendy Bernard 00:54:23                   BRENDA'S BOOK 3: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder  00:57:25                   Three Ya Later!

    59 min

  3. 11/21/2019

    Episode 24: Three Books at the 2019 Illinois Library Association Conference

    Three Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. This month, Becca and Christen put a call out to all attendees of the 2019 Illinois Library Association Conference and they delivered with favorites from across the state!  00:04:09                   Meet Amanda Kendall 00:06:56                   Meet Carey Gibbons 00:13:25                   Meet Donna Block 00:16:58                   Meet Elizabeth Elsbree 00:19:12                   Meet Jez Layman 00:25:05                   Meet Joe Marcantonio 00:31:50                   Meet Kathy Caudill 00:34:44                   Meet Magan Szwarek 00:39:26                   Meet Nancy McKay 00:40:35                   Meet Emily Porter 00:48:26                   Meet Nanette Donahue 00:51:49                   Meet Quinn Stitt 00:57:09                   Three Ya Later! Email: threebookspodcast@gmail.com Shownotes: eapl.org/threebooks

    59 min

  4. 10/21/2019

    Episode 23: What is time? with Cyndi Robinson

    Three Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. This month, we talk with Cyndi Robinson, the Deputy Director of the Illinois Library Association, about time, history, and what a library association is and what it does for libraries and their patrons. 00:00:59                   Meet Cyndi Robinson                00:03:34                   BOOK 1: Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman 00:14:14                   BOOK 2: Little Stranger by Sarah Waters 00:22:50                   BOOK 3: Broken Places by Tracy Clark 00:27:57                   What is a library association anyway? 00:40:43                   First library memory 00:42:36                   How do you find your next great read? 00:45:51                   What post-Civil War historical fiction book comes to mind? 00:46:56                   Bookish Quote 00:51:23                   What post-Civil War historical fiction book comes to mind? (postscript) Shownotes: eapl.org/threebooks Email: threebookspodcast@gmail.com

    52 min

  5. 09/26/2019

    Episode 22: Short & Sweet

    Three Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. We had so much fun talking about Children’s Book Buzz with Katie that we invited her back for an entire episode filled with sweet reads.  2:45 Book 1:  Pie in the Sky by Remi Lai 9:45 Book 2:  Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal 15:25 Book 3:  The Pastry Queen by Rebecca Rather 34:52 Bookish Quote Show notes can be found at: eapl.org/threebooks Three Books Social Media: Email: threebookspodcast@gmail.com Twitter - @threebookspod

    41 min

  6. 08/08/2019

    Episode 21: Children's Book Buzz!

    Three Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. The Children’s Department held their own Book Buzz program in June. Becca, Christen and Ela Staff chat about their selections for Book Buzz and all of the program fun!   0:00:39                        Meet Katie 0:01:59                        What is Children’s Book Buzz 0:10:17                        Katie’s Books 0:10:27                        My Toothbrush is Missing by Jan Thomas 0:14;46                        Nature Anatomy    0:17:52                        Stephanie W’s Books 0:18:01                        Never Let You Go by Patricia Storms  0:19:46                        That’s Not My Bee and Are You There Little Fox? 0:20:17                        Anna’s Books 0:20:22                        The Lost Books:  The Scroll of Kings by Sarah Prineas  0:21:19                        Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed  0:22:16                        Carol’s Books 022:23                         Alpaca Lunch and Brave Little Finn by John and Jennifer Churchman 0:24:26                        Jillian’s Books 0:24:34                        You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P! by Alex Gino  0:25:34                        The Epic Adventures of Huggie & Stick by Drew Daywalt 0:26:53                        Anne’s Books 0:27:03                        Hello Kitty Presents:  The  Fairytale Collection 0:28:27                        Brenda’s books as read by Becca 0:28:58                        Star Wars:  Are You Scared, Darth Vader? By Adam Rex 0:29:37                        Curiosity:  The Story of a Mars Roverby Markus Motum 0:30:25                        Karie B’s Books 0:30:37                        Hilo Series Book 1 0:31:36                        Hilo Series Book 5-  Everything went Wrong 0:32:13                        Lorraine’s Books 0:32;17                        Pick a Pup by Marsha Wilson Chall  0:33:26                        When Green Becomes Tomatoes by Julie Fogliano 0:34:43                        Michelle B. Books 0:34:46

    59 min

  7. 06/24/2019

    Episode 20: In Appreciation of Audiobooks

    Three Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. Booklist’s Audiobook Editor and all around amazing librarian Heather Booth talks about book creation as an ecosystem, being read to and how that has fed into her experience and passion for audiobooks, and more.  00:00:34                   Meet Heather Booth                00:03:57                   Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia 00:11:06                   Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas by Lillian and Russell Hoban 00:19:11                   Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett (narrated by John Lee) 00:32:03                   Heather’s reviews for Booklist 00:36:17                   Favorite Audiobook Narrators 00:38:41                   Recommending Audiobooks 00:54:52                   Bookish Quote Show notes can be found at: eapl.org/threebooks Three Books Social Media: Email: threebookspodcast@gmail.com Twitter - @threebookspod

    1h 4m

  8. 05/13/2019

    Episode 19: Just Us and the Ghost

    Three Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. This month, it's just Christen and Becca . . . and possibly a ghost?  00:03:39                   The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by  Mackenzie Lee 00:07:31                   The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzie Lee 00:13:28                   Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik  00:21:35                   The ILA YASF Tournament of Books 00:23:22                   Dread Nation by Justina Ireland  00:26:40                   The Cruel Prince by Holly Black 00:35:53                   C2E2  00:41:32                   What’s wrong with Jane Austen adaptations? 00:44:41                   Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal  00:51:54                   Pride by Ibi Zoboi 00:54:32                   Every Day by David Levithan  00:59:57                   Good Riddance by Eleanor Lippman 01:05:11                   Recap of books 01:05:37                   The Tolkien Exhibit in New York 01:12:25                   Bookish Quote Show notes and additional information: eapl.org/threebooks

    1h 15m
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Three Books is a podcast about books produced by the Ela Area Public Library in Lake Zurich, IL. Hosted by librarians Christen and Becca.

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    Three Books
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    2017 - 2019
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