Book Bits: Celebrity Memoirs and Z-Library

Show Notes In this podcast, Lisa offers an analysis of beloved books. In today’s Book Bits episode, Lisa discusses three celebrity memoirs: One she loved, one she chose not to read and one she’s looking forward to next year. Lisa listened to the Celebrity Memoir Book...

Gone Girl

Show Notes Lisa and Pam Bice discuss Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Pam is a middle school teacher in Central Ohio. Gone Girl is a super popular book and received many accolades from The New York Times. It’s been ten years since the book was published and spawned the...

How Do You Keep Your Book Club Together?

Show Notes During the pandemic, many book clubs struggled to get together and even today many book clubs have had challenges to meet up again. Lisa offers strategies for new book clubs, and existing clubs on how to meet consistently.   Some tips Lisa suggests are...

The Alchemist

Show Notes Lisa and Tara Wine-Queen discuss The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. The book was published in 1988 and has sold more than 150 million copies internationally and received hundreds of awards, and is considered a classic. Coelho has a very interesting biography...

The Midnight Library

Show Notes Lisa and bookstore owner Laura Larson discuss The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. This is a book that addresses suicide and mental health issues. NPR wrote this article titled “It’s Not Quite Dark Enough in the Midnight Library.”   Laura opened Odyssey...