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
126. What We're Reading
This week on The Book Drop we share what we've been reading lately, ponder death and imagine beloved video game characters made out of food.
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New Title Drop | June 2023
On the latest New Title Drop we talk about summer reading habits and Angela and Melanie share their picks for titles to watch out for this month.
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125. Reading Challenge: Book by a Latine Author
This week on The Book Drop, Michelle, Anna and Angela talk about the feeling of home, books by Latine Authors for the latest OPL Reading Challenge category and favorite podcasts for query of the week…
124. Summer '23 Book Preview
This week in The Book Drop we talk about our favorite summer activities as kids, share our Summer Book Preview and make increasingly bad guesses at song of the summer for query of the week.
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123. What's a Trope, Anyway?
This week on The Book Drop we share current favorite form of escapism, have a collective existential crisis over being born in the 1900s and explore our favorite tropes in fiction.
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122. Reading Challenge: Books about Movies or TV
This week on The Book Drop we talk about how we've been spending our screen time and share some titles about movies and TV for the latest OPL Reading Challenge category. We also imagine what reality …
New Title Drop | May 2023
On the latest episode of the New Title Drop Anna, Angela and Melanie talk about what genres they're into right now as well as their picks for titles to check out this month.
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121. Books for Your Enneagram
This week on The Book Drop we get into the fun and frustration of personality tests with books for your enneagram type. We also share our other favorite personality tests and indicators for query of …
120. We Rate Library Things
This week on The Book Drop we rate library things from the amazing, giving people their first library card, to the terrible, damaging a library book the minute you get it home. And we try to decide o…
119. Reading Challenge: Books about Plants
This week on The Book Drop it's all things plant related. We share titles for the latest OPL Reading Challenge category and talk about our biggest plant struggles for query of the week.
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New Title Drop | April 2023
On the latest episode of the New Title Drop Michelle, Melanie and Angela share what gets a book to the top of their TBR pile as well as their picks for titles to look for this month.
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118. Book Club: The Song of Achilles
This week on The Book Drop it's The Book Drop Book Club LIVE. Listen in on our discussion around Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles, the results of which tragic Greek characters we are and which …
117. What We're Reading
This week on The Book Drop we talk about our female heroes, share what we've been reading lately and learn about a menagerie of mythological creatures for query of the week.
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116. Oscar Watchalikes
This week on The Book Drop we celebrate award season with Oscar drama predictions, share some watch-a-likes for nominated films and talk about our celebrity doppelgängers for query of the week.
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New Title Drop | March 2023
On this month's New Title Drop Anna, Angela and Melanie talk about what they're reading and share new titles to be excited about for March 2023.
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115. Reading Challenge: LGBTQIA+ History
This week on The Book Drop we talk about seeing our selves in pop culture, share titles about or featuring LGBTQIA+ history for the latest OPL Reading Challenge category and talk about our favorite h…
114. Bookish News Vol. 6
This week on The Book Drop we talk about internet on the moon, Hilderbabes and A.I. in publishing with our latest in Bookish News.
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113. Political Fiction
This week on The Book Drop we dream up own Groundhog Days, share some political fiction and decide on what public offices we'd like to hold for query of the week.
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New Title Drop | February 2023
On the first episode of our new monthly mini series, Collection Development librarians Angela and Melanie stop by to share new titles to get excited about this month.
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112. True Crime
This week on The Book Drop, we dive into the collection obsession of true crime, offer up some recommendations from the genre and make guesses for where we'd land if we got sucked into a true crime n…