The Book Drop
The Book Drop is a weekly podcast from Omaha Public Library about books, our community and the joy of reading.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 257
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
72. Publishing Predictions
On this Season 2 finale of The Book Drop we take a look back at the year in books and publishing, check in on our 2021 predictions and look ahead to 2022.
All the books, movies, TV and resources we t…
71. Our Year in Reading
This week on The Book Drop we talk about with our year in reading, give out the 2021 Book Drop awards (to ourselves) and talk about the best things that happened this year for query of the week.
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70. All in the Fam
This week on The Book Drop we're back from our hiatus with stories about families of all kinds, a twitter live read and a query on family traditions and inside jokes.
Save the date for The Book Drop'…
Mini Episode: Books & Bones
On this special mini episode of The Book Drop, Michelle and Elly tap into the internet's favorite new oracle to offer up book recommendations for your bones and no bones days.
All of the books and re…
69. Reading Challenge: Native, First Nations and Indigenous Authors
This week on The Book Drop we share our recommendations for books by Native, First Nations and Indigenous Authors for the latest 2021 OPL Reading Challenge category. We also work out our potential pe…
68. Spooky Season Grab Bag
This week on The Book Drop we celebrate our happiest time of the year with books, movies and TV recommendations for your spooky season. We also share the most haunted places we've ever visited for qu…
67. Dark Academia
This week on The Book Drop we touch on Nebraska books news, the horrors of Halloween themed foods and explore the world of dark academia in fiction and true life. This is The Book Drop.
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66. Reading Challenge: Multiple Points of View
This week on The Book Drop we talk about reading ruts, explore books told from multiple points of view for the latest category from OPL's 2021 Reading Challenge and share who we'd host on our very ow…
65. Book Club: Klara and the Sun
This week on The Book Drop we talk about Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun for our latest book club episode. We also warn against transferring your loved ones' consciousness to an AI and share every…
64. Banned Books Week
This week on The Book Drop we're celebrating Banned Books Week and the freedom to read. We talk about notable and recent book challenges and revisit our childhoods and all the controversial things we…
63. Literary Horoscopes
This week on The Book Drop we try our hand as astrologers and offer up some literary horoscopes. We also puzzle the meaning of the newest emojis, learn about the existence of Shoestrology and share i…
62. Bookish News Vol. 3
This week on The Book Drop it's the latest in Bookish News. Elly, David and Michelle take the reins to talk about another uproar over book weeding, a literary April Fool's joke gone awry and the pro…
Mini Episode: Reading for Empathy
On this special mini episode of The Book Drop, David Dick welcomes OPL Civic Health Librarian, Jeff Pospisil to talk about reading for empathy and to share a few local resources around food and housi…
61. Fall '21 Book Preview
This week on The Book Drop it's our Fall Book Preview. We've got monsters, both real and imagined, the singing of book titles and favorite fall drinks.
Check out the OPL events calendar for these upc…
60. All About Comic Books
This week on The Book Drop we imagine the dangerous world of library Olympics, talk about the world of comics and offer up a dramatic reading of the 1954 Comic Book Hearings. We also share our favor…
59. Blockbuster Books
This week on The Book Drop we guess movie titles made out of emojis, talk about our favorite blockbusters along with books that read like them and share our favorite shows and movies to rewatch for q…
Mini Episode: Author Timothy Schaffert
On this special mini episode of The Book Drop we welcome local author Timothy Schaffert and OPL's Adult Services Manager Amy Mather to talk about Timothy's latest book, The Perfume Thief. We also cha…
58. Reading Challenge Help Desk
This week on The Book Drop it's our Reading Challenge Help Desk! We've got book recommendations for listener requests, updates on our own challenges and a rapid fire round of kids' book titles for ou…
57. What We're Reading
This week on The Book Drop we share what we've been reading lately, examine our obsession with cults and true crime, and talk about the book scenes that live rent free in our minds for query of the w…
56. Book Club: The Underground Railroad
This week on The Book Drop we're talking about The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead for the second meeting of The Book Drop Book Club. We also share the books and experiences that changed th…