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Episode Three - Who have two thumbs and love talking about books? Courtnei & Steve!

Join Courtnei and Steve, two very chatty librarians who can and will talk about anything and everything, especially books, as they try to stay on topic with some help from the mysterious Erin.

We apologize to your eardrums for the rockin’ start to this episode. In their third episode, Steve and Courtnei are back to yap about life and books, or is it Steve and Erin, who knows (certainly not Steve). Steve talks about his sourdough hustle and how we should bring back bartering. Courtnei is still living in her sports era and is ready for the WNBA playoffs to start (although they will be done by the time you listen to this). Once they finally get down to the books Steve shares some bummers, and Courtnei finally read the last Dungeon Crawler Carl book. But the best part (or at least the funniest part) is when Steve talks about his reading experience reading one of Courtnei’s favorite books, “Funny Story” by Emily Henry, a book that’s not not about Courtnei. Tune into the podcast for all of the yapping and laughing! And check out the next episode to see what book Steve picked for Courtnei to read.

Books:

• Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud by Erich Fromm
• Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
• The Dream (Le Rêve) by Émile Zola
• Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Crosby
• A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-young
• The Long Good-bye by Raymond Chandler
• Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
• A Parade of Horribles: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 8 by Matt Dinniman
• Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
• Funny Story by Emily Henry
• Snappsy the Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book) by Julie Falatko
• The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
• Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin
• People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
• Beach Read by Emily Henry

Magazines:

• Strange Matters
• The Anarchist Review of Books

Steve’s Book Club Books:

• November TBD
  • The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
• December 6th
  • The Overstory by Richard Powers

Notes & Corrections:

• The WNBA finals are best of 7, not of 5.
• San Antonio has Art Madness.
• Beach Read is being adapted to a movie.

Places We Talked About

• Coucou Bakehouse
• Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
• Fountain Street Church

Send us an email at itsnotnotabookclub@gmail.com!

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Episode Two - Courtnei Listens to a Man’s (Steve’s) Opinion for Once

Join Courtnei and Steve, two very chatty librarians who can and will talk about anything and everything, especially books, as they try to stay on topic with some help from the mysterious Erin.

In their second episode, Steve shares that competitive boxing just isn’t for him, and Courtnei is still deep in her women’s sports era. And of course Steve shares a few more bummer books, and Courtnei shares a few not-so-bummer books before they dive deep into the novel that almost everyone is reading or has read, Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Tune in to the next episode to see if Steve was able to get all of his thoughts out in one episode, or not.

Books:

• Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
• Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel Lieberman
• The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
• The Dream by Émile Zola
• Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel
• This Show Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum
• Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
• I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
• Hard Copy by Fien Veldman, translated by Hester Velmans
• Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
• Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
• Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America by Russell D. Moore
• For Common Things by Jedediah Purdy
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Steve’s Book Club [Bummers] Books:

• September 6th
  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
• October 4th
  • Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Crosby
• November TBD
  • The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
• December 6th
  • The Overstory by Richard Powers

Notes & Corrections:

You were almost right, Courtnei; the novel “Hard Copy: A Story of Girl Meets a Printer” was originally published in Dutch. Oh, and it’s Louis “Studs” Terkel. He got the nickname “Studs” (the name of the character he portrayed) when he was in a play with another actor named Louis.

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In their first episode, Courtnei and Steve chat about their summers so far, what they’ve been getting up to, and, of course, what they've read!

Books:

Yesteryear - Caro Claire Burke

The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett

Seeing Like a State - James C. Scott

Money - Zola

Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman

Chains of Command - Brian Callaci

Notes & Corrections:

Yes, Steve, you did get the author of Seeing Like a State wrong, and the film The Sound of Music was released 61 years ago.