Hosted by Mt. Lebanon Public Library · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 32 episodes
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Shelf Motivated is a library book chat podcast. Join librarians Sharon, Sarah, and Eric as they discuss books and reading, what they're currently reading and what they want to read next, book recommendations, and all things library related.
Mt. Lebanon Public Library hosts Shelf Motivated, a arts show with 32 episodes published.
'Tis the season! It's time for another Shelf Motivated end of year holiday extravaganza! Come for the time-tested classics… stick around for the Victorian Ghost Stories and Folk Horror adjacent seasonal reads. Sarah disc
Happy Spooky Season! This year on the Shelf Motivated Spooky Season Spectacular Special we get into a few classics of American horror from the 1970s, some folk horror, some horror anthologies, and a few British books tha
Even if you aren't a comics reader, come for the graphic novel chat, stay for the dive into a hyper-local figure who changed the face of comics and publishing forever! This time on the pod we sit down with MLPL Clerk Chr
Come for the Summer Reads, stay for a chat about college kids and if they've ever actually read books, and more talk of The Meg! This time on the podcast the crew tackles "The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books,
It's Summer Reading season! You know what that means…beach reads, sunshine, and good times! So of course, on this episode of Shelf Motivated you'll hear about: Late capitalism and the Potemkin City Limits of the Ikea apa
Summer 2025: KEEP READING FUN! This episode, join us as we talk reading with MLPL Children's Librarian Elizabeth! We talk about what we read as kids and discuss our childhood public libraries. We also chat about current,
Come for the second-ever GUEST on Shelf Motivated and stay for the poetry! In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Shelf Motivated crew invited local poet and force behind Mt Lebanon Public Library's own poetry writ
Celebrate Small Press Month with us on Shelf Motivated! Come for the strange coming of age stories, stay for the 500-page Icelandic translation that features a gravestone with a Kierkegard quote, and a playlist! Sarah ta
Come for the discussion of romance as a genre, stick around for our first ever guest of the podcast, Flannery! We discuss romance, whatever it was that Sharon read that is arguably romance adjacent, hockey romance, jobs
Come for the 2024 reading review, stay for what we're looking forward to in 2025! We navigate the vicissitudes of Good Reads vs a paper journal vs some kind of voice recorder that Sharon wants to utilize. Hear what Sarah
Come for the comfort reads, stay for uncomfortable to-be-reads! This time on the podcast Sarah dives into a kids' book from the 1930s, and a book about bookshops, Eric slows down with a local writer, and a master of 20th
Come for the local color, stay for the HORROR! It's our annual spooky season episode, and this time around we discuss everything from classics of American lit that have a horror/gothic angle, to contemporary horror in tr
Come for memories via Istanbul, stay for satire via Norway! This time around on the show we get into the subject of re-reading, Sharon's inability to picture anyone other than David Mitchell as Proust, Eric reading a pro
Come for the contemporary thrillers, stay for the Marcel Proust and the Teapot Dome Scandal! This time around on the podcast Sharon digs deep into Proust's Swann's Way, while Eric gets into more Dad books on the Teapot D
Come for the discussion of the Jason Statham shark movie The Meg, stay for Dad Book Watch 2024! Join us this time on the podcast for Summer Reading goals (Sarah as a Book Tube judge [again!], Sharon takes on Proust, and
This time on the podcast we span the globe! From wading into the folk tales and literary essays of Appalachia, to swimming in the waters of the Booker International Prize, books on classic American cinema, poetry in tran
Come for the Crested Grebes, stay for the conspiracy theories! This time around on the podcast we check in with our own book-prize judge Sarah as her current Book Tube judging comes to an end, we get into the difficulty
You know what they say… "Genre, genre, genre!" Well, OK, maybe nobody is saying that, but on this episode, we discuss genre, A LOT! Come for the genre, but stick around for a check-in on Sarah's Book Tube judging, multip
This time around on the podcast we venture from 1800s Lowell Mass., to 2093 Hawaii, discuss books that feature reading the diaries of the Regency Era, books about people who want to save the old things, books that are na
Our End of the Year Reading Extravaganza! We talk about our 2023 reading goals (ones we met, and some that weren't meant to be), and what we're looking forward to in terms of reading (and shelf design and organization!)
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Shelf Motivated is hosted by Mt. Lebanon Public Library. The show is categorised under arts (books) and has published 32 episodes.
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