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From YouTube: WPL Book Drop Podcast - Episode 29
Description
WPL Book Drop Podcast - Episode 29
Haley & Holly Talk About Coffee & the Classics Book Club
In this episode Haley and Holly talk about their new book club, Coffee and the Classics, which meets on the third Wednesday of the month from 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Books discussed:
Emma by Jane Austin
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Candide or Optimism by Voltaire
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
A
Welcome
to
the
wpl
book
drop
podcast,
I'm
your
host,
becky
miller,
circulation
and
marketing
assistant
at
waterloo,
public
library.
I
am
so
excited
to
welcome
two
great
guests.
The
podcast
joining
us
today
is
haley
library
assistant
at
waterloo,
public
library,
haley
listens
to
instrumental
music
when
she
needs
to
calm
herself
down
or
relax.
A
B
A
A
A
C
Sure
I
mostly
work
in
circulation
helping
patrons
find
materials
check
out
recommending
titles.
I
also
help
switch
out
the
first
floor
displays
and
I
co-host
bookaholics
with
dusty,
where
we
read
a
variety
of
newer,
nonfiction
and
fiction
titles,
and
that
book
club
meets
virtually
on
the
second
monday
of
every
month.
A
B
B
A
C
C
You
know
it's
been
kind
of
fun
to
have
her
here
and
talk
about
some
of
those,
but
it
made
me
want
to
reread
a
lot
of
the
classics,
so
I
asked
her
if
she
was
interested
in
doing
a
book
club
focused
solely
on
the
classics,
and
she
said
yes,
so
you
know
we
thought
we'd
throw
in
coffee,
because
coffee
makes
everything
better
and
even
though
most
of
the
classics
we'll
choose
for
the
book
club
were
published
a
long
time
ago.
There's
a
lot
of
universal
themes
that
are
still
relevant
today.
C
B
We
have
it
posted
on
facebook,
we
have
it
posted
on
our
other
social
media
platforms.
We
have
it
on
our
library
calendar.
Now,
that's
our
website,
that's
our
website,
yes,
and
they
could
also
email
me,
which
my
email
address
is
posted
on
all
of
the
posts
that
are
out
there,
so
we
will
give
them
more.
A
A
B
So
the
first
one
I
have
is
the
power
by
naomi
alderman.
It's
a
science
fiction,
novel
and
it's
about
women
developing
this
rare
power
to
release
a
jolts
out
of
their
fingertips,
and
no
one
knows
where
the
power
is
coming
from.
It's
developing
in
like
the
teenage
years,
and
obviously
some
women
are
using
it
for
good
they're,
opening
up
schools
to
try
to
harness
the
power
and
help
these
young
girls,
and
some
of
them
are
using
it
for
evil.
B
A
B
B
There
is
a
character
from
the
original
book,
that's
one
of
the
point
points
of
view
and
then
there's
two
new
characters,
one
of
which
was
raised
in
gilead,
which
is
the
theocratic
regime
from
the
first
book
and
the
other
one
was
raised
in
canada
and
can,
if
you've
read
the
handmaid's
tale.
You
know
that
canada
is
one
of
the
main
people
trying
to
fight
gilead.
B
B
Overall,
I
loved
it.
I
think
it's
maybe
because
I
loved
the
handmaid's
tale
so
much
I
might
be
biased.
I
thought
that
the
use
of
multiple
points
of
view
worked
really
well
for
this
particular
story.
I'm
still
on
the
fence
about
how
different
the
portrayal
of
the
original
character
is
so
different
in
the
testaments
compared
to
the
handmaid's
tale-
and
I
know
a
lot
of
people
who
have
read
both
agree
with
me,
but.
A
B
A
A
C
Do
and
I'm
going
to
share
two
that
I
gave
five
stars
on
goodreads,
which
I
don't
give
those
very
easily,
but
the
first
one
is
the
island
of
missing
trees
by
elif
shafak,
and
it's
a
it's
a
multi-layered
novel.
It
can
be
kind
of
hard
to
follow,
just
because
it's
based
in
two
different
time
periods,
the
1970s
and
the
early
2000s
in
two
different
places.
C
Cyprus,
which
is
a
mediterranean
island
in
london
and
cyprus,
is
inhab
inhabited
by
greeks
and
turks
and
there's
a
lot
of
animosity
between
the
two
different
peoples
and
then
eventually,
the
island
is
torn
about
torn
apart
by
all
their
conflicts
and
specifically
focuses
on
two
people
who
who
fall
in
love
in
their
in
the
70s
when
they're
teenagers.
But
then
they
can't
be
together,
it's
kind
of
a
romeo
and
juliet
thing
they
can't
be
together
just
because
one's
a
turk
and
one's
a
greek.
C
A
C
A
C
A
woman
named
mary
has
married
a
much
older
man
like
older
than
her
father
and
he's
abusive
to
her
and
private,
but
you
know
very,
very
good
man
out
in
the
public's
eye.
She
tries
to
divorce
him
after
he
tests
to
see
if
she's
a
witch
by
sticking
a
fork
in
her
hand,
and
she
bleeds
so
he
determines
since
she
bled
she's,
not
a
witch.
But
you
know
as
she
goes
through
the
trial
like
the
trial
to
or
the
divorce
proceedings
are
not
you
know
not
like
they
are
now
so
she
at
some
point.
C
She
is
told
that
she's
a
witch
and
she's
put
on
trial.
For
that,
like
many
strong
women
were
back
then
so
I
don't
want
to
spoil
any
any
endings.
But
it's
it's
really
good
and
again
loosely
based
on
on
history,
and
I
love
this
book
because
it
has
a
lot
of
twists
and
it
goes
pretty
deeply
into
the
socially
sanctioned
brutalities
that
women
experience
back
then
when
they
were
trying
to
divorce
their
spouse,
but
anyway
yeah.
It
was
very
fascinating
and
disturbing.
At
the
same
time,.