A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST

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The Berkley Public Library, with support from the Friends of the Berkley Library, have been hard at work reimagining their media room to not only refresh the space, but also to show patrons who are more interested in television and movies than books that the library is a place for them, too. Lisabeth Posthuma, from Berkley's circulation department, is here on the podcast to discuss the vision of: Berkbuster Video! Your neighborhood video store is back, celebrating the glories, the nostalgia, and the bonds-forged around the experiences offered by physical media--particularly when you can rent it for free! The Berkley Library having a launch party for their new Berkbuster Video space on Friday, November 14, at 6:00 pm (3155 Coolidge Hwy, Berkley). Posthuma will be there for the ribbon cutting, and delivers all the details in this episode of our podcast, including some background on her life, working in video stores during her youth, and her YA novel, Baby & Solo, which is set in a video store!     

A conversation on the horror genre in literature, with a rundown of recent reads and top recommendations! The List:    The Reformatory by Tananarive Due You Weren't Meant to Be Human - Andrew Joseph White The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones Episode Thirteen - Craig DiLouie (Audiobook!)  From Below, Ghost Camera, the Gravekeeper Series - Darcy Coates The Twisted Ones, What Moves the Dead - T Kingfisher  Ballad of Black Tom, The Changeling - Victor LaValle  The September House - Carissa Orlando Diavola - Jennifer Marie Thorne House of Hunger, The Year of the Witching - Alexis Henderson  Helm of Midnight - Marina J Lostetter  Any and everything written by Junji Ito   More Gothic than Horror: Mexican Gothic, Silver Nitrate, the Bewitching - Silvia Moreno Garcia Dowry of Blood - S. T. Gibson   Hungerstone - Kat Dunn

We've got another podcast episode with our panel of romance readers diving into a nuanced topic around the popular genre: this time, we're running through our wishlists of things, tropes, devices, and twists that we'd like to see more of (or less of?) when it comes to romance novels! And, p.s., our next ROMANCE BOOK CLUB meets on Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 6:30 pm at Urbanrest! P.p.s.: We now have our own Romance Section! All romance titles in adult fiction have their own location/shelf/section!

This week, Becca from the Royal Oak Public Library joins Jeff & Mary Grahame, here at Ferndale, to chat about some deeply held appreciations for historical fiction, particularly from the late 90's and into the early 00's, with a focus on the American Girl book series, along with Dear America, and others! This inevitably leads into discussions of Banned Books Week, which, by the way, we're in the middle of, right now!  Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and raises awareness about attempts to censor/remove books from the shelves of public libraries, school libraries, and bookstores.