Reading Room Ruffians
A podcast for the Jackson County Public Library in Ripley, WV. Keep up to date with the library events, librarian thoughts, and a splash of guests for taste.
Episodes
In this episode we discuss a ton of strange and interesting places around the world! Some resources below:
https://acousticalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/v5n3.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Naslaa
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/al-naslaa-rock/
https://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1468-the-zone-of-silence-of-nothern-mexico-scientific-marvel-or-just-fiction/
Hello Everyone, this is our bonus Minicon Episode. It's unedited, but still pretty fun!
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Join us again for another general book chat that is plagued with no one having read anything except for Dungeon Crawler Carl. I guess Mallory read a few.
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Don't worry, it'll make sense soon enough. We discuss The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, which was Ariel's Deep Dive pick. Tune in for a thought-provoking and philosophical tale, according to Ariel, Carla, and myself anyway. Zac thinks it was just okayyy. Weirdo.
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He ain't Appalachian because he's appaLACKIN'.
We have recorded one scathing review of JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, from the POV of some *actual* Appalachian natives. We have issues with folks that think they can put us all in one neat little hillbilly box and call it a day. So this one's for you, JD - g'on, git!
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Join the Ruffians on this interesting and somewhat musical break down of the Mandela Effect. We discuss some of the most popular ones (which are all lies) and the reasonings discussed as to why these false memories happen. Spoiler alert Zac is still a bum and refuses to believe in altered timelines.
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In this episode we discuss Ariel's deep dive pick Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. Achievement Unlocked! This book was fantastic!
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In this episode we have a general book chat and discuss some pertinent book news for the time, including the Hugo Awards and the WV Senate trying to prosecute librarians for giving out books.
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Hello Everyone, this is our 52nd episode so we've been at this for one whole year! Very exciting! In this episode we have an excellent discussion about Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer. It get's intense in this episode so have sit back and enjoy.
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We welcome back one of our favorite local authors this time as we discuss his second book Feysworn. According to Carla this one is even better than the first, so make sure you check it out!
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We welcome on Garth Stein, who is a New York Times Number 1 Bestselling author, producer, and former racecar driver, to discuss his brand new graphic novels, The Cloven books 1 and 2. Garth gives some great advice about writing and discussing all that he is doing to keep people interested in literacy.
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... Respectfully, though. 👀In this episode, Zac and Carla unearth just how big a bite they tried to take out of Indian culture, and found the spice* count to be super high. Lol, but really, we hope we've done adequate justice to what is a vivid, complex, and ever-growing religion/mythos.
This episode should be seen as a lil nugget, a sort of starting point for those who wish to learn more, and not ...
I know, right? We never imagined we'd be here. It's like a book chat wasteland. Just kidding. We did have a surprisingly low book count though. Do you still love us? 🥹We love you, and not only because we're from West Virginia. 🩶
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In this episode we discuss Carla's deep dive pick, Born in Fire by Nora Roberts. This episode gets a bit off the rail at times so hang in there folks, and see if you can pick out the secret message in all the beeps.
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Snuggling sea creatures, or suffocating them? With octopuses, you never know! While discussing The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery, we cover quite a lot, including how their intelligence equals that of a cat. Every chaos cat you ever knew.
Also, Ariel still wants that conveyor belt arm. I mean, who wouldn't, am I right?
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We bring Nick from the You Tried Dat?? podcast in to join the chaos with a book chat and snacks. There will be crunchies and bag crinkling, in case you don't like eating sounds.
Mallory here editing, and let me just say, I gave the pepperoni roll chips an immediate Hate Dat rating upon my return from under all of the snow. Guh-ROSS! And I love pepperoni rolls. -10 stars. I am sad I missed this ...
In this episode Ariel and Mallory dive deep into dreams in this curiosity.
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This is a reintroduction for the new year and a general book talk. 43 Episodes in and we are still truckin' and happy to be talking to you all.
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Join us on part 2 of our deep dive into This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar. We do apologize ahead of time for all the unraveling we do in this time line, things get a little crazy during this episode, everything from AI Furby's to Star Trek and then back on track to being time traveling assassins.
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We open part 1 of 2 for our discussion of This Is How You Lose the Time War and only slightly wander completely off the path maybe once. Be nice to us, none of us had a working brain this day. We blame time travelling. Being all timey-wimey like that had us all mixed up!
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