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
55. UFOs are Real!
This week on The Book Drop we discuss the existence of UFOs, accidentally pitch a Jersey Shore in space TV series and share our favorite books about aliens and outer space. We also get into our horos…
54. Reading Challenge: Book about Animals
This week on The Book Drop we talk about bathtub reads, laser scarecrows and title suggestions for the Read a Book about Animals category from the OPL Reading Challenge. We also share our favorite f…
53. Pride Month
This week on The Book Drop we celebrate Pride Month with a short history of Drag Queen Story Hour and a fresh round of book picks. We also share personal pump up jams for query of the week.
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52. Reading Challenge: Refugee and Immigrant Experiences
This week on The Book Drop we dip back into the OPL Reading Challenge with recommendations for books about Refugee and Immigrant Experiences. We also imagine ridiculous ways to die in literature and …
51. Curious Collections
This week on The Book Drop we talk about OPL's famous human scalp and other weird and interesting things you can find in library collections. We learn about the etymology of the ding ding man and ta…
50. Summer '21 Book Preview
This week on The Book Drop we mourn the loss of Yahoo Answers, offer up picks for this year's summer book preview and once again take a stab at predicting the song of the summer for query of the week…
49. More Nonfiction!
This week on The Book Drop we announce our next book club title, Michelle has exciting personal news and we share more of our favorite nonfiction reads. We also share the coolest things we've seen in…
48. Books That Made Us Laugh
This week on The Book Drop we talk about books that made us laugh, celebrate one year of recording the podcast and tell some really bad jokes for query of the week.
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47. Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason
This week on The Book Drop, Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason stops by for National Poetry Month. We offer up recommendations for the OPL Reading Challenge and share our favorite weird history stories f…
46. Library Week
On this episode of The Book Drop we celebrate National Library Week with tales of the heroes and villains of library world. We also share our librarian origin stories and talk about everyone’s favori…
45. Nebraska Books with Author Theodore Wheeler
This week on The Book Drop we welcome local author Theodore Wheeler to talk about Nebraska literature, writing about the Midwest and building a community of books lovers with a single book cart. We a…
44. What We're Reading
This week we share what we’ve been reading lately, David makes a play for the most out there reading recommendation and we talk about our favorite spring activities for query of the week.
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43. Book Club: Leave the World Behind
This week it's our longest episode yet as we discuss Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam for our first Book Club episode of The Book Drop. We’ve got anxieties, predictions and casting ideas as well…
42. Bookish News Vol. 2
This week on The Book Drop we share some of the latest and greatest news stories from the book world, offer up dramatic readings of Nora Roberts’ blog and write the titles of our memoirs for query of…
41. Friends in Fiction
This week we go looking for friends in fiction, discuss the overuse of trauma bonding in adult literature and question if we might possibly be your parasocial friends. We also give Anna unfair grief …
40. To All the Books We've Loved on Screen
This week we talk about weirdest movies to see on Valentine’s day, share some of our favorite romance and relationship adaptations, and although absent, Elly drops her spicy take on Barry Jenkins mov…
39. Staying on Top of New Books
This week we share all the newsletters, email blasts, social media accounts, websites and publications we follow to stay up-to-date on new books and publishing news. We also talk about the ultimate …
38. Reading Challenge: Book with Illustrations
This week we kick off the 2021 OPL Reading Challenge with the Read a Book with Illustrations category. OPL Arts & Culture Librarian Mark Sorensen also shares his knowledge about visual storytelling a…
37. New Season, Who This?
The Book Drop is back for Season 2! This week we share our plans for the new season, offer an update on curated bookshelves and make educated and wildly speculative predictions for the book world in …
36. Goodbye 2020
On the final episode of season one of The Book Drop we talk about winter reading aesthetics, share our plans for next season and talk about our favorite season one episodes for query of the week.
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