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Love Your Shelf
by Crystal the Librarian
Deep East Texas may not be renowned for its culture, but libraries are where it’s at. Librarians are asked for recommendations all day long, and they love connecting people to media they love. Crystal the Librarian from the Nacogdoches Public Library in Nacogdoches, TX takes you behind the scenes of the library world, with book and media recommendations and more. Crystal and co-worker Emily give you the rundown on fiction, nonfiction, movies, streaming, and podcasts in an irreverent, conversational discussion each week.
Episodes
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Final Girls in a Delicate Condition
Crystal and Emily discuss Delicate Condition, The Last House on Needless Street, The Angel of Indian Lake, The Unmaking of June Farrow, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians, Dust Tracks on a Road, and The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, plus podcast recommendations.
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Remembrance of Books Past
Crystal and Emily discuss the passing of favorite author, Paul Auster, as well as Brooklyn Crime Novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Nightwatching, The Sleepwalkers, The Premonition, The Leftover Woman, and This Exquisite Loneliness. Plus, enjoy some series and movie recommendations.
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Have We Lost the Plot?
Crystal and Emily discuss The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson, Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Baumann, What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher, Home Before Dark by Riley Sager, Look Closer by David Ellis, Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian, and Orbital by Samantha...
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Interior East Texas
Crystal and Emily talk about this year’s Big Read, Interior Chinatown, as well as the usual book and media recommendations.
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Unhinged
Crystal and Emily are finally back with picks and pans of the latest books, movies, and shows.
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And We’re Back
Crystal and Emily of the Nacogdoches Public Library return with a new episode full of book, movie, and show recommendations.
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Hi, Strange
Crystal and Emily discuss recent releases of books, shows, and podcasts.
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Smelling of Rum and Raspberries
Crystal and Emily discuss books by Oliver Sacks, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Leguin, Jeanette Winterson, Jill Soloway, Paul Auster, the Dalai Lama, Solzhenitsyn, and The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries by Jillian Scudder. Also, recent movies and streaming series.
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Walk On the Wilder Side
Crystal and Emily discuss The Wilder Women and Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang, The Wilder Girls and Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power, A Message From Ukraine, Number One is Walking: My Life in Movies and Other Diversions by Steve Martin, Say the Right Thing: How to Talk...
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One More Mention of Pedro Pascal, We Promise
Crystal and Emily discuss books (Once There Were Wolves, Bridge, The Twilight World, There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness, All Good People Here, The House Across the Lake, and The Eyes and the Impossible), as well as new tv series and movies.
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The Good, the Bad, the Harrowing
Crystal and Emily discuss books, movies, and shows, including: Demon Copperhead, Dickens & Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius, Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It, Sentimental Economy, None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive, the Monk and Robot series, A...
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That’s a No For Me, Dawg
Crystal and Emily recap the year’s best fiction, nonfiction, movies, and series. The good, the bad, and the ugly of 2022.
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Something to See Here
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson is the NEA Big Read book selection of the year for Nacogdoches, and Crystal and Emily talk about the book, along with all of the events that will take place to celebrate the community-wide reading program.
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Uh, Eh, Meh, Yikes
Crystal and Emily of the Nacogdoches Public Library talk new fiction and nonfiction, including Tracy Flick Can’t Win, Bewilderment, The Last White Man, and Gory Details. Plus, reviews of streaming shows and movies.
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Snob or Not
Crystal and Emily of the Nacogdoches Public Library are back with a new season with plenty of recommendations to stack your shelves (and your streaming queue). Plus, the NEA Big Read is coming soon to Nacogdoches, and they’ll tell you how to get involved.
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Librarianing Extra Hard
Crystal and Emily discuss the best nonfiction and fiction books about libraries, along with reviews of Book of Night by Holly Black and The Bookwoman’s Daughter by Kim Michelle Richardson. Also discussed are the following shows: Outer Range, Made for Love, Russian Doll, The Wilds, and Abbott...
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6174 - What a Concept!
Amy joins Crystal for discussions of the best new nonfiction and the most mind-bending movies and shows.
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Your Personal Librarian Recommends (or Doesn’t)
Crystal and Emily discuss books about women, witches, monsters, and more.
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Corn, Cake, and Wonder Women
Crystal and Emily are back with a discussion of new books, movies, and shows.
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Snackery and the Self
Crystal and Emily review fiction and nonfiction that examines meaning, consciousness, and the self, along with the latest Netflix binge-watches.
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Yowza
Crystal and Emily review books and shows that are coming soon.
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The Wilds and Wilder
Crystal and Emily talk about the new human history, Yellowjackets readalikes, and more.
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Very Official Episode of Season Four
Crystal and Emily talk about the latest in horror, the nineties, “self help”, and more
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2020, Too!
Crystal and Emily list everything they can’t wait to read and watch in 2022.
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Best of 2021
Crystal and Emily highlight their favorites from this year.
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Go Tell the Bees About Tiger King
Crystal and Emily talk about their latest hits and misses with books, movies, shows, and podcasts.
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Onomatopoeia and Adaptations
Crystal and Emily talk about Mary Roach’s onomatopoeic nonfiction and graphic novel adaptations, plus more.
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Oh, The Horror
Crystal and Emily talk about the best scary movies and more.
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It’s Not Always Sunny in Squid Game
J Murray joins Crystal and Emily to talk about the latest recommendations in books, movies, TV, and podcasts.
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Lee Pace Fan Club
Crystal and Emily spotlight female authors and one of their fave actors, Lee Pace.
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Thrillers and Creepy Encounters
Crystal and Emily offer new and upcoming recommendations, along with classic favorites in a new segment.
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Secure. Contain. Protect
Crystal and Emily talk about the latest books, shows, and weird interests.
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A Little Punchy
Crystal and Emily wait until the end of the day to record, which always results in them being a little punchy. But there’s plenty of book and show and movie recommendations in here!
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The Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Librarians
Crystal and Emily talk picks and pans of some old and new book, film, and series recommendations.
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Jasper Fforde Writes Ffantastic Ffiction
Our friend and reader extraordinaire Amy Goodwin joins Crystal and Emily to talk mystery series and more.
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Wayward Glitches
Crystal and Emily talk about sci-fi, fantasy, and more in movies, shows, books, and podcasts.
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Southern Panic
Crystal and Emily discuss the latest in humor and horror, as well as the best food documentary of the year.
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Atoms and Stuff, Five Stars
Crystal invites her sister (book artist and professor) to chat about some of the latest nonfiction, streaming shows, and internet urban legends.
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Be the change you wish to see, I guess
Crystal and Emily talk about what we’ve lost to the internet, as well as other new books, shows, and great podcasts.
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Garbage Days and Empathy
Crystal and Emily talk about the latest in nonfiction and the best shows to watch now.
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Secret Societies and Sasquatch
Fellow librarian and co-conspirator, Sonja Schulz, joins Crystal and Emily for a book chat, along with a discussion of their collaborative efforts.
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A Dark Hug: Our Guilty Pleasures
Crystal and Emily expose their guilty pleasures in books and media.
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It’s Virtual Insanity...and Yes We Know That Reference Dates Us
Crystal and Emily talk about books, shows, and virtual reality.
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Keeping it Weird
Crystal and Emily discuss books and shows, as well as movie plots that would have fallen apart if the characters had cell phones.
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The Remains of the 90s: Love and Dark Truths
Crystal and Emily explore stories that range from true crime to tearjerker romances.
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Fragments, Goblins, Nomads, and Nostalgia
Crystal and Emily once again go all over the thematic map to recommend and review new and upcoming books, movies, shows, and podcasts.
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Crime, Comedy, and Moxie
Crystal and Emily have lots of recommendations on books coming soon, along with the best streaming shows and movies out now.
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#TrainLife
Crystal and Emily talk about favorite and noteworthy books and series.
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Putting the Goth in Southern Gothic
Crystal and Emily talk about favorite examples of the Southern Gothic in fiction, film, and more, plus some real life mysteries to explore.
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Love in the Snowpocalypse
Crystal and Emily have a lot to talk about after spending a week trapped inside during the Texas Snowpocalypse of 2021.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Deep East Texas may not be renowned for its culture, but libraries are where it’s at. Librarians are asked for recommendations all day long, and they love connecting people to media they love. Crystal the Librarian from the Nacogdoches Public Library in Nacogdoches, TX takes you behind the scenes of the library world, with book and media recommendations and more. Crystal and co-worker Emily give you the rundown on fiction, nonfiction, movies, streaming, and podcasts in an irreverent, conversational discussion each week.
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Deep East Texas may not be renowned for its culture, but libraries are where it’s at. Librarians are asked for recommendations all day long, and they love connecting people to media they love. Crystal the Librarian from the Nacogdoches Public Library in Nacogdoches, TX takes you behind the scenes...
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