ABC Book Reviews Podcast

Beth and Cari talk about how staff who feel undervalued in their organization or are feeling burned out to take control of their own worth and value to their organizations. It isn't about changing the organization to fit your needs but how you can maximize your worth and potential and becoming someone the organization holds as valuable. Continue Reading

We talk about a lot of books we've been reading and discuss how our portrayal of women in fiction, specifically love stories, has changed over the years. Cari read an interesting book on the algorithms developed in the Bestseller Code has an answer for why Fifty Shades of Grey was so popular. Continue Reading

On Digital Content, Audiobooks, and What We’re Reading, including the new Harry Potter!

What We’re Reading: YA Fantasy, Memoir, Thrillers, Birth and More

Beth and Cari dip their toes into some science fiction, history, true crime, and some meditation and mindfulness books. WARNING: About 40 minutes in to 47 minutes, we go into a giggle-fit about our odd obsessive tendencies and buying clothes online. Continue Reading

Books We Talk About: Trigger Warning – Neil Gaiman Barbara the Slut and Other People – Lauren Holmes This Angel on My Chest – Leslie Pietrzyk Pears on the Willow … Continue Reading

We talk about a lot of things from the digital divide and cultural sensitivity and a lots of books from science fiction to humorous biographies. Continue Reading

Cari and guest host Crystal Feyerchak were excited to speak with Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of How to Raise an Adult. We talk about helicopter parents, how to make your child … Continue Reading

Daring Greatly Brene Brown Click Here       All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses–And How We Can Fix It Together Josh Levs Click Here   … Continue Reading

  Cari and Beth muse about the nature of good and bad guys in literature and TV.   Unabrow: Misadventures of a Late Bloomer Una LaMarche Click Here     … Continue Reading

  Beth and Cari spoke with Krish V. Krishnan, author of Rambles into Sacred Realms. We talk about travel, art, and inspiration.   Rambles into Sacred Realms: Journeys in Pen … Continue Reading

Cari had the privilege of speaking with Jessica Knoll, author of Luckiest Girl Alive, which has been optioned for film by Reese Witherspoon and compared to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. … Continue Reading

Cari, Beth, and guest host Sarah Granville talk about the Buckeye Book Award and graphic novels, and we finally get to talk about The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by … Continue Reading

Did you miss the Twinsburg Library program with audiobook narrator Susie Berneis? Never fear, it is archived here! Since this podcast is recorded live, the two main speakers (Cari and … Continue Reading

Cari chatted with Sara Paretsky, President of the Mystery Writers of America, and Donna Andrews, Executive Vice-President. MWA celebrates its 70th anniversary this year. Editor’s note: I had a hard … Continue Reading

Check out our latest hodgepodge podcast! Some highlights:

It’s here! Beth and Cari’s recap of the year, complete with management tips and self-help.     Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel  Click Here           … Continue Reading

Beth and Cari talk about books that have been made into movies and tv shows and what to look forward to in 2014/2015.

Guest host Sarah Granville from the Barberton Library joins Cari for this podcast.  Hear about Sarah’s picks for teen books you should read, why everyone in Northeast Ohio knows each … Continue Reading

Cari and Beth extol the virtues of Liane Moriarty’s latest releases and sing the praises of various audiobooks and narrators.