Bookslingers Podcast
By Corene Brown and Arien Crossby
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Podcast Description
The voice of Bookslingers.com: reviews search engine for Tween and Young Adult books, graphic novels, and more!
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The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #8: The book that made me want to bicycle through Ireland in a cape | This week: did you hear that FOX 2000 has has already optioned John Green's The Fault in Our Stars? (Yeah, our brains hurt, too.) In happier news, February 6th marks Charles Dickens' 200th birthday! If he were any other author, and had indeed lived to 200, he still would not have been able to write that many words. This week's book was a joint life-long favourite: O.R. Melling's The Hunter's Moon. If you have not read this book, go and read it immediately. Then come back and listen to the podcast. No, seriously. We'll wait. Books from this week's podcast: The Hunter's Moon by O.R. Melling The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo The Grey King by Susan Cooper Entwined by Heather Dixon The Thorn of Lion City by Lucy Lum A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea Download the Bookslingers Podcast #8! (Right-click and Save As...) | 2/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #7: In which there are mixed feelings (and our first special guest!) | This week we talked about how e-books are definitely not destroying literature, no matter what Jonathan Franzen says; that some Canadians made it onto YALSA's Best Books for Young Adults list this year, and Maureen Johnson's The Name of the Star, on the subject of which we had... mixed feelings. But fear not! Guest speaker and fellow blogger Pippa was here to balance things out. Books from this week's podcast: The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce Download the Bookslingers Podcast #7! (Right-click and Save As...) | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #6: We would never ACTUALLY want dogs to talk | It's that time again - ALA Book & Media Awards season! Namely, we talk about the Newbery, the Caldecott, and the 1,567,834 other awards that the American Library Association likes to give out at this time of year. Books from this week's podcast: Plain Kate by Erin Bow (Three thumbs up! Six between us! Wait...) Maphead by Ken Jennings The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzales A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce Download the Bookslingers Podcast #6! (Right-click and Save As...) | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #5: For those of you who like spelunking | This week, we talk about a lot of very deep books. By which I mean that a lot of them take place underground, in creepy dark caves, both literally and figuratively (two words we also talk about rather a lot). Book news! Chris Columbus, of Harry Potter directing fame, is writing a children's book series. We're really not sure what to think about this. The ALSC Notable Children’s Books – 2012 Discussion List - Some of these will probably be Newbery finalists, if you want a heads-up! Books from this week's podcast: Specials by Scott Westerfeld The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder Tam Lin by Pamela Dean Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope Download the Bookslingers Podcast #5! (Right-click and Save As...) | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #4: Best Books of 2011 | On this week's Bookslinging podcast, we tell you about our best books of 2011: five books in both Tween and Young Adult categories. Tween/Middle School 5. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Book 2: The Hidden Gallery by Maryrose Wood 4. Amulet, Book 4: The Last Council by Kazu Kabuishi 3. Fatty Legs: A True Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton 2. Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu 1. Zita The Spacegirl by Ben Hatke Young Adult 5. Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol 4. Chime by Franny Billingsley 3. A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley 2. Twin Spica by Kou Yaginuma 1. The False Princess by Eilis O'Neal Admittedly, there was a bit of a gap, there, between podcast #3 and podcast #4. We were... on holiday. We totally planned it that way! Absolutely. Download the Bookslingers Podcast #4! (Right-click and Save As...) | 1/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #3: We Only Like READING About Murder | On this week's Bookslinging podcast, we talk about: The upcoming Tintin movie P.D. James' new Pride and Prejudice murder mystery The western world's weird fascination with (fictional) murder (we swear we're not terrible people, really) The magnificence of Flavia De Luce! This marks podcast number three! Statistically we are ON A ROLL. Download the Bookslingers Podcast #3! (Right-click and Save As...) | 12/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #2: A Bookslinging Miracle! | Bookslingers, it's a miracle: we're back! More or less. After more than a year's hiatus (that's what we call it when we're too bogged down with school and work to even think about doing anything fun), your favourite book-slinging heroines have returned, with a brand new podcast for your enjoyment. This Week In Books we talk about Scholastic's One Million Books for One Million Bookprints campaign, and Rob Lowe's new book, Love Life. We don't have a theme this week, but we talk about Megan Whalen Turner's surprisingly, confusingly amazing The Thief, and fail to talk about Alan Bradley's Flavia De Luce series. Ah, well. There's still time. Download the Bookslingers Podcast #2! (Right-click and Save As...) | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #1 | Patient readers, it seems we have actually managed to do it. We have recorded a podcast. Rest assured that either of us accomplishing anything of significance that is neither school nor work-related is a big deal. Anyway. Hopefully I've set this up properly and you can actually listen to it. Please let us know either way, either so that I can fix it or we can delight in your company. Welcome to the inaugural Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast. This involves mainly Corene and myself rambling aimlessly with some occasional actual content. This Week In Books we talk about the CNIB's Right to Read campaign and the CLA's book of the year winners. This week's theme is Girls Who Kick Butt, and the podcast features (and will probably continue to feature) mini-reviews of our Top Six books in the theme. This week's books are: #6: Podkayne of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein #5: Faery Rebels by R.J. Anderson #4: Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede #3: Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale #2: The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett And this week's #1 Girls Who Kick Butt Book is Graceling, by Kristin Cashore. The #1 books get twice as much aimless rambling as the other books, because their greatness demands it. This book? Definitely demands it. Download the Bookslingers Podcast #1! (Right-click and Save As...) | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 8 Episodes |
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