The Messy Bookshelf Podcast
by David, Jade and Sarah
We're three thirty-something library workers who love talking in movie quotes and discussing books! David could read and watch horror all day and he especially loves weird fiction. Jade lives for scifi/fantasy. And Sarah, well she loves all things YA/Middle Grade Literature, especially her 80s/90s teen lit! We will be discussing pop culture, library shenanigans, 80s/90s nostalgia and of course all things books.
Episodes
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Dua Lipa on Repeat
In this month's Read, Watch and Listen episode our reading recs are a little bit on the dark side, Jade shares Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge, David reads a collection of short horror stories originally published in 1895, The King of Yellow by Robert Chambers and Sarah listens to Let's Pretend...
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10 Things I Hate About You
In today's episode we dish on 10 Things I Hate About You. This week we deep dive into the classic teen rom-com retelling of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and get nostalgic over cast members, Sarah and Jade love Joseph Gordon Levitt and David has the hots for Larisa Oleynik. We share our...
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Juno
In today's episode we go back to 2007 to Elk River, Minnesota where we find out a young sixteen year old Juno MacGuff is pregnant. Jade shares why she picks this movie as her teen choice, we talk about what it was like watching this movie as a teen and then again as thirty-somethings, Diablo…
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Out Cold
Remember the teen comedy, Out Cold? David's teen choice this week is the 2001 snowboarding flick starring Jason London, the late Willie Garson and Zack Galifianakis. A parody of Casablanca, this teen movie has an eight percent on Rotten Tomatoes, a killer soundtrack and castmates that include Lee...
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Scream
We're dedicating an entire month to 90s and early 2000s teen movies and to kick start April, we're talking about the 1996 teen slasher, Scream. Sarah seems generally confused about the plot of the movie, Billy's motive to kill Sidney and Rose McGowan's death. She has a thing for Matt Lillard and...
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It Came From the Multiplex
Each month, David, Jade and Sarah share what they are reading, watching and listening too. Things that are making us happy this week include horror (specifically 80s horror) and slasher fiction, free romcom e-books, our shower playlists that include nostalgic pop songs and trendy Tik-Tok music,...
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In the Stacks
In today's episode we talk about the things we wish our patrons knew. Let's face it, people who go into public libraries, they're overwhelmed, they need to print something, they are in a hurry, they're not sure what they are looking for or maybe even a little embarrassed because they haven't been…
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FANGIRL
Sorry but not sorry, we're going to name drop a few authors we've gotten to meet over the years while working in libraries. From book festivals, library conferences, panel discussions and author events, Jade fangirls over Crystal Hana Kim, Aminder Dhaliwal and Jill Alexander Essbaum while Sarah...
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Libraries in the Time of Covid
Coming back from a two month hiatus we dish on what it's been like working in libraries in the time of Covid. Most people probably didn't think about public libraries when the world shut down when Covid hit in March of 2020. Tune in as Sarah, David and Jade check in on each other, discuss mental...
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Our Top Books of 2021
Between the three of us we read almost three hundred books in 2021, so it was really hard to come up with our top five reads of the year. A combination of 2021 releases and older books, we discuss some of our favorite reads, reading diversely and what that means and our reading goals for 2022. We...
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Christmas is All Around
Join us for a Christmas movie pop quiz and all the holiday movies we loved growing up with. David's favorite Christmas movie is Scrooged and Christmas Vacation, Jade lives for White Christmas and Sarah is devastated over the news that Kate Winslet's cozy cottage in Surrey, England is just a set.…
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Mixtape
Each month, David, Jade and Sarah share what they are reading, watching and listening too. Things that are making us happy this week include YA pandemic books, some of our favorite fictional podcasts and tv shows you should be watching like The Sex Lives of College Girls, Ted Lasso, Insecure and...
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Casserole and Murder
Due to technical issues with the original episode that was supposed to be released today, David and Sarah recorded a short episode full of casserole and soup recipes, books we're reading, holiday movie memories and recommendations for the long weekend and music and podcasts we're listening too.
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Eat Your Heart Out
It's our very first 'Book Recs' episodes and we couldn't let you go into the holidays without a list of reading recommendations. Make sure to stop by the library (or bookstore) and stock up on at least one bag of books for the long weekend. We're talking Teen Vampire literature, Cinderella...
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Miss Nelson is Missing
Picture LaVar Burton singing the theme song of Reading Rainbow and go down the rabbit hole of picture books with us! We talk about our favorite picture books from childhood (Sarah will never tire of Make Way for Ducklings or Stellaluna, Jade has a soft spot for Corduroy and Ping from The Story...
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Behind You
In our last segment of horror fiction, (don't worry we will definitely revisit this topic), we barely touch the surface of the Adult Horror Genre. From Australian author Darcy Coates to Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paul Tremblay, we share our favorite authors and why we love scary stories so much....
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There's Someone Inside Your House
David tortures Sarah and Jade with creepy clown stories and all Sarah wants to talk about is The Babysitter quartet by RL Stine. In this episode, we discuss 70s and 80s Teen Horror like RL Stine, Richie Tankersley Cusick and Christopher Pike. Then we dive down the rabbit hole of modern Teen…
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Don't Turn Out the Lights
In today's episode we're going back in time to the golden age of 80s and 90s Children Horror. Cue the Are You Afraid of the Dark opening song, grab a blanket and get cozy as we'll be discussing Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and why it's still the best children's horror fiction. Hear us out…
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Library Origin Stories
When you're a 30 year old librarian and people say, "Wait, people still do that? But you're so young!" Welcome to the Messy Bookshelf, your hosts are three millennial library workers who love talking about pop culture, nostalgia and of course books! Get cozy and join us for our premiere episode…
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The Messy Bookshelf Podcast Trailer
Hey, we're three thirty-something library workers who love talking about books. In this podcast we'll be discussing pop culture, 80s and 90s nostalgia and of course all things books. Welcome to The Messy Bookshelf.
About this show
We're three thirty-something library workers who love talking in movie quotes and discussing books! David could read and watch horror all day and he especially loves weird fiction. Jade lives for scifi/fantasy. And Sarah, well she loves all things YA/Middle Grade Literature, especially her 80s/90s teen lit! We will be discussing pop culture, library shenanigans, 80s/90s nostalgia and of course all things books.
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David, Jade and Sarah