016: Hope in the Dark

TWICE a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, and beyond. Listen to the latest episode:

Bookish News:

The LPL staff Best of 2017 list is here! Check it out!
Book Riot’s 2018 Read Harder Challenge is live!
Book Squad Goals 2018 is coming soon! If you need any recommendations for any challenge items in ANY challenge, let us know! :D
LibraryReads Best of the Best list and January lists are out

Two Book Minimum:

-- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
-- Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
-- The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
-- Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong (Packs a buncha feels into fewer than 200pgs! Sweet, charming, awkward, sad, feels.)

She Said / She Said: Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit (2004, repub 2016)

Hope in the Dark was written (in 2004) to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them--and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable.

What we're up to // Library news:
LPL is closed 12/24, 12/25, 12/31, 1/1 -- stock up, and/or use our digital resources!
Read the show notes here: http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/2017/12/book-squad-podcast-016-hope-in-the-dark/
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