This Podcast is Overdue

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This Podcast is Overdue

Hi we're April Mazza and Christi Showman Farrar and welcome to This Podcast is Overdue! We're friends and colleagues, librarians' librarians, and each episode we talk about books we're reading and things we're loving!
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11 March 2024

Episode 31 Legend Roast

Ghost Roast by Shawneé Gibbs, Shawnelle Gibbs, Illustrated by Emily Cannon

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn 

Oscar Nominated Short Films

Resident Alien

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19 February 2024

Episode 30 2024 Youth Media Awards

This episode is dedicated to sharing our thoughts about the 2024 Youth Media Awards presented by the American Library Association. April was fortunate enough to attend the awards live in Baltimore while poor Christi was unfortunate and had to watch the broadcast from bed!

2024 YMA Press release

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31 December 2023

Episode 28 The Lost Episode

Welcome to our last, lost episode of 2023! Well, not lost but a bit buried which seems sort of fitting for the year - anyone else feel that way about 2023? Speaking of lost, we talk about a lost album plus the humorous side of murder, and inclusivity in the books we’re loving.

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas https://www.aiden-thomas.com/the-sunbearer-trials

Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells https://www.marthawells.com/murderbot.htm 

The Afterparty https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12614214/ 

Leo Nocentelli’s album Another Side https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Nocentelli 

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30 December 2023

Episode 27 The Ninth Midnight Evergreen

Our episode with special guest librarian and comic artist Maya Escobar is finally here! We were so happy to chat with Maya who created our new and amazing artwork! We talked about that process as well as Maya’s studies at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont, what she’s working on now, and of course, books we’re loving!

Find Maya here: https://www.mayaescobar.art/

Boston Comics in Color https://www.comicsincolor.org/ 

MICE Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo https://www.micexpo.org/

Boston Comic Arts Foundation https://www.bostoncomicarts.org/ 

Books:

Evergreen by Matthew Cordell (Maya) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250317179/evergreen

Midnight Fair by Gideon Sterer (April)

https://www.candlewick.com/cat.asp?browse=title&mode=book&isbn=153621115X

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Christi) https://publishing.tor.com/gideontheninth-tamsynmuir/9781250313195/

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08 September 2023

Episode 26 Shelf Life of Tomorrow

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin https://gabriellezevin.com/tomorrowx3/

Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374600181/shelflife 

Sun Bikes https://sun.bike/ 

Hannah Gadsby https://hannahgadsby.com.au/ 

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