BookLovers: A Podcast from Spartanburg County Public Libraries Podcast
1) Oscars and Birnam Wood
What is Booklovers without Rea? Jess & Joseph find out on this episode, as they're left to their own devices to discuss both the 96th Academy Awards and Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton. To start with ...Show More
2) Romance Redux
We've talked about romance novels before on the podcast, but this episode takes a different approach, because Joseph has a lot of questions about the genre. Why do we read romance? What are the implic...Show More
3) Yellowface
Who gets to tell what stories? It’s a question authors—and all of us—have grappled with for years now, and R. F. Kuang’s novel Yellowface digs into that question and pulls out a very sloppy and diffic...Show More
4) 2023 Year-End Roundup
Here’s to you, 2023. A year of reading and watching (mostly reading for Rea, a LOT of watching for Jess, and the usual extensive amount of both for Joseph). We’re recapping our goals for 2023, how the...Show More
5) Patricia Wants to Cuddle
We found the intersection of Joseph’s conspiracy theory-addled brain and Rea & Jess’s obsession with pop culture: Patricia Wants to Cuddle. Our titular queen just wants what we all want: to love and b...Show More
6) True Biz
In America, only 8% of parents had deaf children wish to learn American Sign Language. A statistic like that seems unfathomable, doesn’t it? But in True Biz, Sara Nović deftly and realistically explo...Show More
7) Catch-22
Here in 2023, everyone knows the general meaning of a catch-22. It’s a situation where you can’t win no matter what you do. You’re trapped, you’re stuck, and there’s no other option. But in 1961, when...Show More
8) The Silence of the Girls
Mythological retellings seem to be everywhere these days. Since Madeline Miller’s novel The Song of Achilles was released in 2011, many authors—mostly women—have taken up the effort to share the untol...Show More
9) Western, western, west
What is a Western? What is western? What is the west? All fair questions, and all hard to really define, especially when it comes to reading tastes. Thankfully, we’re getting an idea of what the new w...Show More
10) How to Sell a Haunted House
Hello, we’re back! After an extended holiday break, Joseph and Jess have returned to discuss the latest Grady Hendrix novel, How to Sell a Haunted House, which throws generational trauma, grief, puppe...Show More